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Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy through School Age Review

September 8th, 2010 No comments
Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy through School Age (Child Language and Child Development)

For any professional in the social sciences, this is a must-have!The speech-language pathology chapter is a gem!The linguistics material, especially literacy, was impressive!
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Product Description: This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and [...]

The Global Intercultural Communication Reader Review

September 2nd, 2010 No comments
The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

This book provides a critical approach to intercultural scholarship. I would strongly suggest that students first review theoretical perspectives in the field, prior to using this textbook. Overall the book does a good job of covering the various perspectives in the field.
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The Big Red Book of Spanish Grammar w/CD-ROM Review

August 31st, 2010 No comments
The Big Red Book of Spanish Grammar w/CD-ROM

This is the best book ever on the subject of Spanish grammar!It explains EVERYTHING in detail.I was using multiple references trying to understand certain aspects of grammar, but I no longer had to do that once I got this book.It is very thorough.Exercises are available on the cd-rom if you want practice.It does not have [...]

Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction Review

August 30th, 2010 No comments
Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction

Radford is well known for his comprehensible textbooks of generative syntax. This book is very helpful for beginners to get access to Chomsky’s revolutionary ideas in his minimalist program (MP), which is radically different from his previous versions of grammar.What is the particular ofthis book is that the reader does not need to learn Chomsky’s [...]

Practical English Usage Review

August 28th, 2010 No comments
Practical English Usage

I have a copy of Practical English Usage on my desk at school. I haveother grammar reference books, such as Quirk and Greenbaum, at home, butthis is by far the most useful for a teacher of English as a foreignlanguage. Swan’s style is to focus on the problem points of learners, andexplain them and in [...]