Second Language Teaching and Learning

Second Language Teaching and Learning is a practical guide to the methodology of task-based language instruction.

Language as a Complex Adaptive System

Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language researchBrings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their workIllustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition.

Words That Change Minds (3rd edition)

- Learn the influence science and practice.
- Discover the ways people unconsciously get motivated, process information and make decisions.
- Decode any communication problem and solve it.
- Find out how to pry open mental space in even the most closed of minds.
- Create rapport and credibility with anyone.
- Avoid inadvertently saying or doing the wrong thing.
- Get practical applications for sales, marketing, recruiting, negotiation, teaching, training, communication at work, conflict resolution.
- Increase your impact in interpersonal communication, teamwork, and in mass communication.

Transcription Practice For the International Phonetic Alphabet. Exercises for Students of English.

This book will serve to help learners transcribe the sounds of English by means of the International Phonetic Alphabet and use phonetic transcriptions of words in dictionaries.

Scientific and Technical Translation Explained

From microbiology to nuclear physics and chemistry to software engineering, scientific and technical translation is a complex activity that involves communicating specialized information on a variety of subjects across multiple languages. It requires expert linguistic knowledge and writing skills, combined with the ability to research and understand complex concepts and present them to a range of different audiences. Using a combination of interdisciplinary research, real-world examples drawn from professional practice and numerous learning activities, this introductory textbook equips the student with the knowledge and skills needed to get started in this exciting and challenging field.