Each book in this series provides the classroom teacher with a guide to the practice of key aspects of language teaching, and considers some of the underlying concepts. Introductions presenting important current issues in key areas of language learning are followed by examples and discussions of actual classroom materials and techniques.

Grammar Dictation (Resource Books for Teachers)

Reference

Wajnryb, Ruth

Maley, Alan

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

Stories are a wonderful way of helping students learn and acquire language. This book is for teachers who want to use stories in class but need a place to start. Stories is packed full of fun activities using different genres: soap opera, urban myth and newspaper reporting as well as advice on using stories in the classroom.

Stories: Narrative Activities for the Language Classroom (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Cambridge University Press

Classroom Observation Tasks shows how to use observation to learn about language teaching. It does this by providing a range of tasks which guide the user through the process of observing, analysing and reflecting, and which develop the skills of observation. It contains a bank of 35 structured tasks which are grouped into seven areas of focus: the learner, the language, the learning process, the lesson, teaching skills and strategies, classroom management, and materials and resources. This book is suitable for teachers, trainee teachers, teacher trainers and others involved in school-based teacher support, teacher development and trainer training. It has a comprehensive introduction to the tasks and a rationale covering the theoretical issues involved and places the responsibility for professional growth in the hands of the teacher.

Classroom Observation Tasks: A Resource Book for Language Teachers and Trainers (Cambridge Teacher Training and Development)

Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes - but not always. Everyone thinks that meaning is contained within words - like sardines in a tin, or milk in a bottle. After all, words are nice stable things that you can look up in a dictionary aren't they? But dictionaries only take us so far... If you eavesdropped on a teenage conversation, rushing to a dictionary - with its definitions frozen in time - wouldn't help much. Who's using a word and to whom, in what context, for what purpose - all these influence the meaning of the language we use. The word's origins and history (its 'genetics') also help. Try teaching yourself another language from a phrasebook and you'll soon learn that you can be correct, in the formal sense, but still way behind the times in reality. In this book Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.

You Know what I Mean?: Words, Contexts and Communication

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes - but not always. Everyone thinks that meaning is contained within words - like sardines in a tin, or milk in a bottle. After all, words are nice stable things that you can look up in a dictionary aren't they? But dictionaries only take us so far... If you eavesdropped on a teenage conversation, rushing to a dictionary - with its definitions frozen in time - wouldn't help much. Who's using a word and to whom, in what context, for what purpose - all these influence the meaning of the language we use. The word's origins and history (its 'genetics') also help. Try teaching yourself another language from a phrasebook and you'll soon learn that you can be correct, in the formal sense, but still way behind the times in reality. In this book Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.

A humorous sojourn into the art and history of creative cursing offers insight into how dictionaries handle profane words, explores the use of foul language in pop culture, and challenges myths about the practice and condemnation of expletives. 35,000 first printing.

Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language

Free Press

Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century there seems to have been a dramatic escalation in the use and acceptance of offensive language in English, both verbally and in print. Today it seems almost commonplace to hear the "f" word in casual conversation, and even on television. Just how have we become such a bunch of cursers and what does it tell us about our language and ourselves? In Expletive Deleted, linguist Ruth Wajnryb offers an entertaining yet thoroughly researched, lighthearted look at this development, seeking to reveal the etymologies of various terms and discover how what was once considered unfit-for-company argot has become standard fare. Wajnryb steps outside the confines of English in her search for answers, exploring whether offensive words in English are mirrored in other languages and examining cultural differences in the usage of dirty words. For instance, why is it that in some languages you can get away with intimating that a person and his camel are more than just good friends, while pouring scorn on a mother's morals guarantees you a seat on the next flight out? An amusing and idiosyncratic look at the power of words to shock, offend, insult, amuse, exaggerate, let off steam, establish relationships, and communicate deep-felt emotions, Expletive Deleted is a must-read for anyone who loves language - or has ever stubbed a toe.

Expletive Deleted: PODA Good Look at Bad Language

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Have we always 'sworn like troopers'? Has creative cursing developed as a result of our not being able to just thump someone when they make us mad? And if such verbal aggression is universal why is it that some languages such as Japanese supposedly do not contain any offensive words? Throughout the 20th century there seems to have been a dramatic escalation in the use - and acceptance - of aggressive, offensive language in English, both verbally and in print. Today it seems almost commonplace to hear the 'f' word in general conversation, even on television. How has this come about and what does it tell us about ourselves and our language?

Language Most Foul

Allen& Unwin

Written with charm and quaint wit, this study embarks on a voyage of discovery among the words that once peppered the language of baby boomers and their parents to discover why they seem to be slipping from common use. Why is it that people don't say cheerio any more? Why did they in the first place? Do people still tinker with jalopies? And whatever happened to Tom, Dick, and Harry, not to mention all those other folk who provided such excellent conversational shorthand? Filled with entertaining vignettes and intriguing etymology, this collection is a hospice that offers a caring refuge for once-loved words that are in imminent danger of being dismissed as tom-foolery.

Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry: Despatches from the Hospice of Fading Words

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Grammar Dictation (Resource Books for Teachers)

Stories: Narrative Activities for the Language Classroom (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)

Classroom Observation Tasks: A Resource Book for Language Teachers and Trainers (Cambridge Teacher Training and Development)

Classroom Observation Tasks: A Resource Book for Language Teachers and Trainers (Cambridge Teacher Training and Development)

You Know what I Mean?: Words, Contexts and Communication

You Know what I Mean?: Words, Contexts and Communication

Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language

Expletive Deleted: PODA Good Look at Bad Language

Language Most Foul

Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry: Despatches from the Hospice of Fading Words