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  • Authors: Michael Duckworth (2008)

  • With its communicative syllabus, authentic business material, and expert tips from a leading management school, plus interactive multi-media, Business Result helps students learn the communication skills they need for work quickly and effectively.

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  • Authors: Care Claire Penn (2018)

  • This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts. It marks the culmination of two decades of research in South Africa, a context that has obvious application in a wider international climate given current globalization and migration trends. The authors draw from a large body of evidence based across different sites and illnesses, scrutinising both the language dynamics of intercultural health interactions and the perceptions and narratives of multiple participants. Including a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical considerations, the volume sheds light upon qualitative research methods and their application in the intercultural context. This book will be a valuable resource...

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  • Authors: - (1999)

  • This text gives clear explanations of English grammar with exercises on the facing page which provide practice in form and use. The revised edition provides additional grammar topics and expanded treatment of others, more exercises and progress tests at intervals throughout the book, and more illustrated dialogues and texts (the grammar presentations make frequent use of pictures and dialogues to establish contexts for use).

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  • Authors: Noam Chomsky (2006)

  • This is the third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (I-language). Over the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questions. The final...

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  • Authors: James Paul Gee (2005)

  • The second edition has been completely revised and updated and contains substantial new material and examples of oral and written language, ranging from group discussions with children, adults, students and teachers to conversations, interviews, academic texts and policy documents.

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  • Authors: W.S. Fowler (1989)

  • The aim of this book is to enable students to do any writing tasks required of them from intermediate to upper intermediate level, including Cambridge First Certicate. Models are provided to ensure students not only practice the necessary language but that they also develop an appreciation of how to organize ideas and information. * The graded syllabus covers the following writing activities: letters ( formal and informal), narrative, description, discussion, guided writing, speeches, descriptive narrative, summary, reports and reviews. * The writing activities are recycled,which allows individual tasks, such as letter writing, to be selected and practiced. * An appendix containing a unit-by-unit reference section provides information on particular writing conventions and highlights...

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  • Authors: Ann Baker (2008)

  • This new edition of a highly successful pronunciation text covers all of the speech sounds of North American English, as well as spelling, intonation, and stress. Pronunciation Pairs offers a variety of exercises and activities, from very controlled minimal pair and listening discrimination tasks to dialogs, games, puzzles, and guided conversations.

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  • Authors: Simon Haines (2010)

  • A four-level skills series for adults and young adults. Learners can develop the skills they need to read English confidently wherever they are - at home, at work, travelling, studying or just in social situations with English-speaking friends.