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If you are looking for that ESL PDF book and can’t find it anywhere, why don’t you give it a try with this list. I know it does not contain all ESL Teaching Books out there but it can give you the opportunity to find a similar book
PDF #67 – Robyn Ewing – What is a functional model of language
Over the last few years, a number of Australian states have adopted a functional model of language in their English syllabus documents. This PEN explains the term ‘functional model’ and explores the implications of a functional approach to the teaching of English across all key learning areas in the primary classroom.
PDF #66 – Christina Gitsaki – Second Language Acquisition Theories Overview and Evaluation
Over the past three decades a number of different theories of second language acquisition have been formed in an effort to provide explanations as to how language learning takes place, to identify the variables responsible for second language acquisition and to offer guidance to second language teachers. Each theory accounts for language acquisition from a different perspective so some criteria are needed in order to classify and evaluate each theory.
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PDF #65 – Brian Shetler – William Caxton The Merchant Printer
Had William Caxton done no more than introduce the art of printing to England, his place in history would still be solidly entrenched. Had he been just another book merchant, he would not have made the same prolonged impact on English culture as he did. It was the many roles that he served, and the visionary approach that he had, that made for a true and lasting effect on English culture. His dual nature, that of both merchant and printer, combined to create a man perfectly suited to influence, maybe even create, the reading public of 15th Century England.
PDF #64 – Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Myles – Second Language Learning Theories, 1998
Our general aim is to provide an up-to-date, introductory
overview of the current state of second language learning (SLL) studies.
Our intended audience is wide: undergraduates following first degrees in
language or linguistics; graduate students embarking on courses in foreign
language education/EFL/applied linguistics
PDF #63 – Howard Nicholas and Donna Starks – Language Education and Applied Linguistics, 2014
This book offers a framework for how Applied Linguistics, Language Education and Linguistics can each contribute to ways of knowing and doing in the respective other fields. This is no easy task since the definitions of these fields are themselves not universally agreed.
When we set out to write this book we envisaged a dialogue between Language Education and Applied Linguistics. This requires us to engage with a broad and diverse range of material from three distinct fields, Language Education, Applied Linguistics and Linguistics.
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PDF #62 – Kit Field – Issues in Modern Foreign Languagess Teaching, 2000
This book, Issues in Training, is one of a series of books entitled Issues in Subject Teaching. The series has been designed to engage with a wide range of issues relaed to subject teaching.
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“English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.”
― H. Beam Piper, Fuzzy Sapiens
This paper will present the American English that occurred in the eight editions A, B and C entries (the sixth edition could not be found) of the well-known Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionaries. More than 4300 entries were extracted from about 100,000 entries that were analyzed. The first edition (1948) set the tone of the research with forty-six entries taken from it, which six served as an example of the analyses conducted in all eight editions. All editions were compared using the copies obtained at the FAU library located in Bismarckstrasse 1, Erlangen during the period of March, April and May of 2019.
This paper investigates several word etymologies in order to present a strong connection between word origins and false friends linking two major languages of the world. It is important to show that some of the ways in which lexical meanings typically change over time, affect one or even more languages, in the case of this paper English and Brazilian Portuguese. Semantic change itself is rarely neat, and usually involves more than simply the shift from a single ‘old’ meaning to a single ‘new’ meaning. Much more often, one or more meanings declines or drops out of use over time, or additional new meanings emerge from existing senses, perhaps changing the prototypical use of the word.
PDF #60 – Joh Amos Comenii – Orbis Sensualium Pictus
Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Visible World in Pictures), is a textbook for children written by Czech educator John Amos Comenius and published in 1658. It was the first widely used children’s textbook with pictures, published first in Latin and German and later republished in many European languages. The revolutionary book quickly spread around Europe and became the defining children’s textbook for centuries.
Comenius introduced a number of educational concepts and innovations including pictorial textbooks written in native languages instead of Latin, teaching based in gradual development from simple to more comprehensive concepts, lifelong learning with a focus on logical thinking over dull memorization, equal opportunity for impoverished children, education for women, and universal and practical instruction. Besides his native Bohemian Crown, he lived and worked in other regions of the Holy Roman Empire, and other countries: Sweden, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Transylvania, England, the Netherlands and Hungary.
John Amos Comenius was born in 1592 in the Margraviate of Moravia in the Bohemian Crown. His birthplace is uncertain and possibilities include Uherský Brod (as on his gravestone in Naarden), Nivnice, and Komňa (from this village he took his surname, which means “a man from Komňa”), all of which are located in Uherské Hradiště District of today’s Czech Republic. John was the youngest child and only son of Martin Komenský (died 1602–4) and his wife Anna Chmelová. His grandfather, whose name was Jan (János) Szeges, was of Hungarian origin. He started to use the surname Komenský after leaving Komňa to live in Uherský Brod. Martin and Anna Komenský belonged to the Moravian Brethren, a pre-Reformation Protestant denomination, and Comenius later became one of its leaders. His parents and two of his four sisters died in 1604 and young John went to live with his aunt in Strážnice.
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