Foreign Languages

Teaching Modern Foreign Languages at Advanced Level

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Teaching Modern Foreign Languages at Advanced Level has been designed to compliment Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School and focuses specifically on the skills and processes of teaching Mode… More >>

Teaching Modern Foreign Languages at Advanced Level

Inhabiting the Borders: Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities

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This study explored the experience of foreign language faculty in American colleges and universities. Foreign language faculty, because of the gender make-up of the field, their employment status, and their intellectual … More >>

Inhabiting the Borders: Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities

Studies in Language Testing 1: An Investigation into the Comparability of Two Tests of English as a Foreign Language

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This publication documents a major study, which compares the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE) with the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and investigates similarities in test content, candidature and use. While these tests were designed to measure many of the same abilities, they represent radically different approaches to language test development reflecting deeper differences between educational measurement traditions in the US and UK. The thorough investigation of the fundamental characteristics and operational utility of two of the most widely used English tests for foreign students makes this volume a valuable contribution to language testing research. It will be of particular interest to test users, language test developers and researchers…. More >>

Studies in Language Testing 1: An Investigation into the Comparability of Two Tests of English as a Foreign Language

International Education and Foreign Languages: Keys to Securing America’s Future

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“International Education and Foreign Languages” reviews the Department of Education’s Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs, which provide higher education funding for international education and foreign language programs. This book offers a timely look at issues that are increasingly important in an interconnected world. It discusses the effect of the nation’s lack of expertise in foreign languages and cultural knowledge on national security and global competitiveness and it describes the challenges faced by the U.S. educational system and the federal government in trying to address those needs.The book also examines the federal government’s recent proposal to create a new National Security Language Initiative, the role of the Department of Education, and current efforts to hold higher education programs accountable. This book provides information and recommendations that can help universities, educators, and policy makers establish a system of foreign lan… More >>

International Education and Foreign Languages: Keys to Securing America’s Future

Aprende Ingles con cuentos de hadas/ Learn English Through Fairy Tales: La Bella Y La Bestia/Beauty and the Beast

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Todos los cuentos comienzan en español,
¡y luego se “TRANSFORMAN” AL INGLÉS! ¡Es divertido! ¡Es rápido! ¡Es fácil!

Así es como funciona … Una palabra en español en el cuento aparece circulada, su traducción en inglés aprece en una columna lateral. De ahí en adelante la palabra en inglés se usará a través del cuento…una y otra vez en un contexto significativo. A medida que el cuento se desarrolla otras palabras en inglés se incorporán, las que se van a repetir a través del cuento con el propósito de reforzar su entendimiento. Al termino del libro el niño/a habrá aprendido por lo menos 20 palabras nuevas en inglés, en contexto y ¡con total facilidad! En los niveles 2 y 3 se incorporan otras 20 palabras nuevas, en adición a las palabras aprendidas en el nivel anterior. Al término del nivel 5, el cuento estará escrito casi completamente en inglés – ¡y será … More >>

Aprende Ingles con cuentos de hadas/ Learn English Through Fairy Tales: La Bella Y La Bestia/Beauty and the Beast

Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis

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This introduction to Buddhism examines its basic philosophical teachings and historical development, setting forth complex and significant ideas in a straightforward and simple style that is easily accessible to the student. The author’s orientation is philosophical, rather than religious or sociological. This approach is both the uniqueness and the strength of the work. Part I outlines the historical background out of which Buddhism arose and emphasizes the teachings of early Buddhism. By comparing the earliest Buddhist literature in both the Pali Nikayas and the Chinese Agamas, the author has established the common base of earliest Buddhism most free of sectarian rivalry. Topics such as epistemology, causality, existence, karma, morality, ethics, and nirvana are discussed in detail. Part II examines developments in the history of Buddhist thought and the emergence of the various schools of Buddhism. The development of Abhidharma is stu… More >>

Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis

The Study of Foreign Languages in the Choson Dynasty

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Korea has had a long history of training official interpreters in foreign languages. Modeling after the Koryo institution, the Choson government established the Bureau of Interpreters, Sayogwon, in 1393, one year after the inauguration of the dynasty. Since then, this bureau was maintained for five hundred years as the unique institute for training in foreign languages in Korea and as an office of the Choson government which was responsible for supplying all the official interpreters for diplomacy. In the Sayogwon, the four languages-Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese, and Jurchen (later replaced by Manchu)-were taught and textbooks and glossaries for the study of the languages were published and revised in the later periods. Those books extant today are invaluable sources for the historical study of the four languages. In the first part of the present study the history and institutional features of the study of foreign languages in the Choson dynasty are dis… More >>

The Study of Foreign Languages in the Choson Dynasty

French Idioms

• ISBN13: 9780764135583
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Idiomatic speech undergoes constant change in all languages. Updated to reflect current informal written and spoken expressions in French, this pocket-size book presents approximately 2,000 idiomatic French expressions, followed up with their English translations and meanings…. More >>

French Idioms

Music, in a Foreign Language

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Set in an imaginary police state in contemporary Britain, this novel explores the complex friendship between a physicist and a historian, two men linked by a secret history of political and sexual dimensions. When they come under the scrutiny of a state investigation that pits one man against the other, their lives and their friendship are changed forever.Amazon.com Review
You can’t accuse Andrew Crumey of playing it safe with his first novel. It’s sprawling, intricate, moody, crazed, philosophical, and oddly introspective. Despite a wealth of plot lines–among them the confused lineage of Duncan Waters, the love affairs of physicist Charles King, and a story of beautiful strangers on a train–the book also finds time to develop a discussion of Italian surrealist writer Alfredo Galli, who may or may not have created many of the plot lines attributed to the narrator. Ultimately, Music in a Foreign Language becomes a work of meta… More >>

Music, in a Foreign Language

The Learnables and Basic Structures: French

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More enjoyable than typical programs of either the textbook variety or the records that have you simply repeatBook and 7 CDs…. More >>

The Learnables and Basic Structures: French