Speaking and listening, along with reading and writing, are essential components of literacy and learning development within the National Primary Strategy. This best-selling introductory text updates teachers on national developments and best practice in speaking and listening in the classroom through: speaking and listening issues: a review story-telling and drama oral and popular culture and media planning for talk across the curriculum the impact of ICT: software, email, internet, computer games.

All Clear teaches students to recognize and produce the high-frequency idioms, phrases, and contemporary expressions needed in a range of conversational situations. Each lesson focuses initially on chunks of language in the form of idioms and other expressions (collocations) and then provides many structured and communicative activities for speaking, listening, grammar, writing, pronunciation, and public speaking practice.

Even the most able student in a traditional classroom can feel overwhelmed and unprepared in an academic lecture. Oxford's new series. Lecture Ready: Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion, prepares students to encounter academic lectures with skill and confidence. Students attend actual lectures via DVD after practicing with targeted lecture language. The lectures include elements of natural speech, such as false starts and digressions, to aid students in recognizing and deciphering language that might otherwise distract them from the meaningful content of a lecture.

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Ce dictionnaire encyclopédique, relatif à la linguistique et aux sciences du langage, réunit des articles consacrés à tous les termes utiles pour décrire la langue française (de ablatif à zézaiement, de abréviation à zeugma, en passant par barbarisme, psycholinguistique ou transformationnel), ainsi que des notices sur les grammairiens et les linguistes (de Vaugelas à Guillaume, Chomski ou Jakobson) qui ont joué un rôle déterminant dans l'évolution de la langue française et les conceptions du langage. Plus de cent dossiers de synthèse permettent la compréhension de notions fondamentales, de phénomènes particuliers et de courants : acquisition du langage, aphasie, signifiant et signifié, néologie, stylistique, structuralisme, verbe...

The Manuel de linguistique française provides a concise, critical overview of the historical foundations and the current situation of the French language and introduces its readers to the most important topics and questions of present-day linguistic research on French. Compared with other reference works currently available on the market, this manual provides a lot of additional and updated information. Le Manuel de linguistique française propose une vue d’ensemble concise et critique sur les fondements historiques et la situation actuelle du français ainsi que sur les priorités de la recherche. Par rapport aux autres manuels disponibles sur le marché, le Manuel de linguistique française apporte des informations supplémentaires et actualisées.

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