Deutsch, na klar!
Deutsch, na klar!

Author: Robert Di Donato

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1998-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780072288636

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This lively, beginning German text is the perfect choice for those who want to move in a more communicative direction without abandoning a focus on grammar. Deutsch: Na Klar! uses a solid four-skills approach with a difference: the vocabulary, grammar, and reading sections are integrated with authentic materials, allowing students to learn language and culture simultaneously. German materials (advertisements, menus, newspaper articles, etc.) are used to present new vocabulary, introduce grammar points, and launch communicative activities. A listening-comprehension tape is tied to the text-book to help students improve listening skills.

Career Express: Business English C1
Career Express: Business English C1

Author: Jane Maier-Fairclough

Publisher:

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9781907575723

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Career Express Level C1 Teacher's Book Career Express Business English C1 is the second part of a two-level multimedia course, for students on a Business English language course at university level. Reading -The texts focus on the most interesting topics from the world of business. They provide the springboard for a discussion of contemporary business issues. Listening -Realistic conversations, presentations and lectures expose you to a variety of native and non-native speaker accents and help you to develop core listening comprehension skills. Business Skills -This section introduces you to the skills most needed in business, such as taking part in meetings, using diplomacy at work, describing charts and presenting products. Discussion and Role-Play -These features give you the opportunity to pick up on issues raised in the reading and listening sections, and to practise functional language. Company Case -These task-based case studies have been inspired by real business scenarios. They require you to work in teams, find strategic solutions to real-life problems and present them to the class. Audio CDs -Complete recordings for all the listening activities in the Course Book. Career Express Self Study Online -This website offers an abundance of additional material: Electronic Workbook with interactive practice exercises to consolidate vocabulary, grammar, reading and skills Self-assessment tests for each unit Tailor-made videos with interactive exercises The complete Course Book listening material as MP3 downloads

Key
Key

Author: Jon Wright

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9783060201020

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Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges

Author: Anwei Feng

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-26

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9401793522

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This book examines language policies and practices in schools in regions of China populated by indigenous minority groups. It focuses on models of trilingual education, i.e. education in the home language, Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese, the national language), and English (the main foreign language). Special attention is given to the study of the vitality of the minority home language in each region and issues relating to and the effects of the teaching and learning of the minority home language on minority students’ acquisition of Mandarin Chinese and English and on their school performance in general. The book also examines the case of Cantonese in Guangdong, where the local Chinese ‘dialect’ is strong but distant from the mainstream language, Putonghua. It takes a new approach to researching sociolinguistic phenomena, and presents a new methodology that emerged from studies of bi/trilingualism in European societies and was then tailored to the trilingual context in China. The methodology encompasses policy analysis and community language profiles, as well as school-based fieldwork, and provides rich data that facilitate multilevel analysis of policy-in-context.

Culture and Foreign Language Education
Culture and Foreign Language Education

Author: Wai Meng Chan

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-07-31

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1501503022

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The teaching of culture and interculturality is today viewed as an integral part of foreign language education. This book presents insights from recent research on the role of culture in second/foreign and heritage language education. It contains 14 chapters including an introductory chapter that discusses diachronically the evolving notion of culture and how the sociocultural view of culture as a complex and dynamic concept informs language teaching and language learning research. The chapters following the introduction are organised in four parts focusing on: 1) the teacher's role in integrated language and culture learning; 2) the interrelationship between culture, identity, and language learning and use; 3) the effect of culture on learner characteristics which impact language learning processes and outcomes; and 4) curriculum development aimed at fostering language and culture learning. The chapters in Parts 1 to 3 present contributions from current research - either in the form of the authors' original studies or comprehensive reviews of relevant essential research - which bears important implications for curricular practice in foreign language and language teacher education. This close link between research, theory and practice is also maintained in the two chapters in Part 4, which present developmental projects based on well-grounded theoretical frameworks.

Learning Chinese
Learning Chinese

Author: Patricia Duff

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1934078778

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The acquisition of Mandarin Chinese, one of the most important and widely spoken languages in the world today, is the focus of this innovative study. It describes the rise of Chinese as a global language and the many challenges and opportunities associated with learning it. The collaborative, multiple-case study and cross-case analysis is presented from three distinct but complementary theoretical and analytic perspectives: linguistic, sociocultural, and narrative. The book reveals fascinating dimensions of Chinese language learning based on vivid first-person accounts (with autobiographical narratives included in the book) of adults negotiating not only their own and others' language and literacy learning, but also their identities, communities, and trajectories as users of Chinese.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis

Author: Chris Shei

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1351819399

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Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.