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Effective teachers of language minority students base their curriculum design and lesson planning on sound pedagogical principles and practices. This is the right book for planning how to learn English as a language. Teachers plan instruction around themes to maximize opportunities for students to acquire language and concepts. Teachers base their instruction on a thorough understanding of learning theory, including metacognitive, cognitive and social/affective ...
In this book, with an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is discussed, with full accounts of standardisation, names and the distribution of English in its global spread. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language (sounds, word structure, grammar and vocabulary) are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the ...
Now and then it has been deemed best to omit explanations, and to withhold personal preferences, in order that the student may, by actual contact with the sources of grammatical laws, discover for himself the better way in regarding given data. It is not the grammarian's business to "correct": it is simply to record and to arrange the usages of language, and to point the way to the arbiters of usage in all disputed cases. Free expression within the ...