Encounters
Encounters

Author: Cynthia Y. Ning

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-07-15

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 030016162X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

DIV Welcome to Encounters, a groundbreaking Chinese language program that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The program’s highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and culture through video episodes that directly correspond to units in the combination textbook-workbook. By combining a compelling story line with a wealth of educational materials, Encounters weaves a tapestry of Chinese language and culture rich in teaching and learning opportunities. Encounters follows a carefully structured and cumulative approach. Students progress from listening and speaking to the more difficult skills of reading and writing Chinese characters, building grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation skills along the way. The Encounters program includes: • Two Full-color Student Books for introductory Chinese study • Annotated Instructor’s Editions with answer keys and suggested class activities • Two Character Writing Workbooks linked directly to the Student Book • Ten hours of video materials, comprising dramatic episodes, cultural segments, and animations, all integrated with the Student Books • A total of 200 minutes of audio material, linked to the Student Books, for listening and speaking practice • A website, www.encounterschinese.com, providing a year’s free access to all audiovisual material of the program upon adoption /div

Trusting the Word and Nothing Else at All
Trusting the Word and Nothing Else at All

Author: Perry Toso

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1532660782

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Preaching is as dangerous and as exhilarating as careening down some class IV rapids. It is dangerous because in the Old Testament, God prescribed the death penalty for preaching one's own opinion when called to speak God's Word. The pulpit is no casual or safe place! But preaching is also exhilarating because God places his creative, life-giving word right into your mouth. And though you don't know what will happen next, something that God appointed will definitely happen when you, the preacher, say what God authorizes you to say. This book is the result of over thirty years of wrestling with God's word. It expresses some of my astonishment over how faithfully God acts through preaching that word. Preaching is God's business. Mostly the preacher needs to get out of the way and let God do the talking. When that is the case, your hearers will tell you about it, and you will be less likely to miscarry in some of the myriad ways listed in this book. Hopefully, Luther's design for the way preachers bring that life-giving word of promise will encourage and promote and, once again, bring the same world-changing power that was let loose in the Reformation.

Vocabulary
Vocabulary

Author: Michael McCarthy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1990-10-25

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780194371360

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How are words and idioms organized in a language? How are they learnt and stored? Vocabulary explains the ways in which the various theories relating to these questions have been applied in both teaching and reference materials. A wide range of examples illustrate the text, and will help readers to evaluate and adapt the vocabulary materials they use in their own classrooms.

Encounters with God
Encounters with God

Author: Henry Blackaby

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0310139953

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Experience God in a deeper way by developing how you read and study his Word. Renowned Bible teacher Henry Blackaby, and his sons Norman and Mel, believe that Bible study is far more than a study method—it's a way of life, a way of encountering our Creator and His voice in our lives. In this timeless classic of Bible study, the Blackabys will teach you how to read the Bible so that you receive the message, encounter truth, and become transformed by the Word. Studying the Bible is not just the pursuit of biblical and theological head knowledge. It is a journey for your soul into the heart of God. You'll discover: How to approach the Bible with a mindset of worship. How your encounters with Scripture can change your everyday life. How to study effectively on your own by walking through short passages from the seven types of literature in the Bible. How reading Scripture conforms you to the image of God. How to write His words on your heart so that you more fully hear His voice and walk in His ways all the days of your life. Encounter God is an invitation to approach God through His Living Word. Encounter God and make life changes because of it. Not just head knowledge, but heart change. Get ready for a brand new experience with your Bible.

Image Encounters
Image Encounters

Author: Lisa Trever

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1477324291

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of “archaeo art history” to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology. Trever argues that early coastal artistic traditions cannot be reduced uncritically to interpretations based in much later Inca histories of the Andean highlands. Instead, the author seeks the origins of Moche mural art, and its emphasis on figuration, in the deep past of the Pacific coast of South America. Image Encounters shows how formal transformations in Moche mural art, before and after the seventh century, were part of broader changes to the work that images were made to perform at Huacas de Moche, El Brujo, Pañamarca, and elsewhere in an increasingly complex social and political world. In doing so, this book reveals alternative evidentiary foundations for histories of art and visual experience.

Creating Robust Vocabulary
Creating Robust Vocabulary

Author: Isabel L. Beck

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2008-04-27

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1593857543

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The authors provide tools, tips, and examples for teaching vocabulary in this complementary companion to Bringing words to life.

Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary Development

Author: Timothy Rasinski

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 3038977349

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Knowledge of word meanings is critical to success in reading. A reader cannot fully understand a text in which the meaning to a significant number of words is unknown. Vocabulary knowledge has long been correlated with proficiency in reading. Yet, national surveys of student vocabulary knowledge have demonstrated that student growth in vocabulary has been stagnant at best. This volume offers new insights into vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary teaching. Articles range from a presentation of theories of vocabulary that guide instruction to innovative methods and approaches for teaching vocabulary. Special emphasis is placed on teaching academic and disciplinary vocabulary that is critical to success in content area learning. Our hope for this volume is that it may spark a renewed interest in research into vocabulary and vocabulary instruction and move toward making vocabulary instruction an even more integral part of all literacy and disciplinary instruction.

Vocabulary Learning in the Wild
Vocabulary Learning in the Wild

Author: Barry Lee Reynolds

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-05-11

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9819914906

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a timely and valuable resource to explore second language vocabulary learning outside the formal language learning classroom. Rapidly evolving technology and the increasing impact of the global village have resulted in dramatic changes to and increased occasions for second language vocabulary learning. This book offers new and valuable insights into the radically different opportunities both the physical and digital wild provide for language learners to increase their vocabulary knowledge. Practical advice is also given on how second language teachers can integrate vocabulary learning in the wild into their formal classroom instruction. This collection of cutting-edge studies by international experts working within the fields of second language teaching and learning, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, informal language learning, and technology enhanced learning offers an essential resource for language teachers and researchers. The internet is a powerful source of incidental language learning, but this is only part of language learning in the wild. This excellent book shows the range of opportunities available for learning another language outside the classroom in this much neglected research area. --Paul Nation, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University of Wellington

Learning Words from Reading
Learning Words from Reading

Author: Megumi Hamada

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1350153699

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An increasingly popular approach to second and foreign language education, this book focuses on incidental learning: how students learn words from reading. Despite its popularity, some researchers have questioned this theory that students can learn new words by inferring meanings based on a text they are reading. So, why does the incidental method not work for some students? What are the conditions for naturalistic learning to occur? What do students need to be able to do while reading in order to learn words successfully? Tackling these questions head-on, this book provides researchers and educators with a more specific account of the processes behind the seemingly naturalistic method. Clarifying the connection between reading and word learning processes, Megumi Hamada proposes a new model, the Cognitive Model of Word-Meaning Inference, to describe how we obtain and use word-form and contextual information for learning words and the pedagogical applications of this. A significant new contribution to research in the field, Learning Words from Reading provides a cognitive perspective on how students learn new words from reading in a second or foreign language.