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Defines, explains, and illustrates more than 1500 of the most common mistakes in word use made in English. Includes a brief guide to more effective writing and speaking.
This book looks in detail at over fifty of the most frequently used words in English, words whose frequency itself and whose multiple meanings and usages mean that they are a constant source of problems and mistakes for learners of English and in many cases for native speakers too. ... These are some of the vital keywords of English, words that are so easy to use, but also to misuse and to confuse. With the help of hundreds of clear examples, this book clearly explains their different meanings and different uses, pointing out some of the most frequent errors and difficulties. ... It is an often-ignored fact of language learning from intermediate level upwards, that ensuring or improving fluency in English is not so much a question of acquiring more and more vocabulary, but of better mastering the multiple uses and complexities of the essential words that have already been learned. Unfortunately many of the most common short everyday words of English are among those whose usage is hardest to fully master.... Most of the "problem words" looked at in this book are not just words that feature among those that are "learned" at an early stage; they are far more important than that. Nine of the words - including that, as, do, all, there and their - are actually among the 50 most frequently used words in English; almost all the rest appear in the list of the 500 most commonly used words in English - the vital words that constitute the hard core of all communication in the English language.... Linguists generally agree that fluency in everyday English at home at work or for travel can be attained with a command of between just 2000 and 3000 words. This small corpus of essential or common words makes up 90% of the language used for everyday communication. Beyond these 3000 words, new vocabulary acquired mainly consists of words for special purposes or circumstantial use, the vocabulary of the workplace, or specific interests, or local situations, including many words that one may encounter by chance one day, and rarely, if ever, hear of again. ... But however many different words one learns in English - sophisticated words, erudite terms, technical words and countless synonyms - the most vital requirement of all, more important than acquiring new vocabulary, remains to fully master the uses and meanings of the words that make up the basic corpus of everyday communication in English.
Should you split infinitives? Can you end sentences with prepositions? Does the Queen speak the Queen's English? This is practical and fun, to improve your writing for professional purposes or simply enjoy exploring the highways and byways of English usage
Teaching K-12 math becomes an easier task when everyoneunderstands the language, symbolism, and representation of mathconcepts Published in partnership with SEDL, The Problem with Math IsEnglish illustrates how students often understand fundamentalmathematical concepts at a superficial level. Written to inspire?aha? moments, this book enables teachers to help students identifyand comprehend the nuances and true meaning of math concepts byexploring them through the lenses of language and symbolism,delving into such essential topics as multiplication, division,fractions, place value, proportional reasoning, graphs, slope,order of operations, and the distributive property. Offers a new way to approach teaching math content in a waythat will improve how all students, and especially English languagelearners, understand math Emphasizes major attributes of conceptual understanding inmathematics, including simple yet deep definitions of key terms,connections among key topics, and insightful interpretation This important new book fills a gap in math education byillustrating how a deeper knowledge of math concepts can bedeveloped in all students through a focus on language andsymbolism.
This book, first published in 1988, charts society’s responses to the huge numbers of refugees in Europe and the Middle East during and after the Second World War. At the close of the war large areas of Europe lay in ruins, and large numbers of refugees faced upheaval and famine. Political considerations influenced the decisions as to who received assistance, and refugees were forcibly repatriated or resettled – and in the analysis of these matters and more, both the refugee crises of the 1940s and their relevance today are highlighted.
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The book is not written in the perspective of a particular theoretical framework and draws on insights from various research traditions, reflecting important methodological and theoretical developments in the field. It is a textbook directed towards university students of English at all levels. It can also serve as a source book for teachers and advanced students, and as an up-to-date reference concerning many word-formation processes in English.
Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language learning from language-use strategies, Andrew D. Cohen disentangles a morass of terminology to help the reader see what language strategies are and how they can enhance performance. Particular areas of research examined in the book include: - links between the use of task-specific strategies and language performance - how multilinguals verbalise their thoughts during language learning and use strategies that learners use in test-taking contexts In this fully revised and substantially rewritten second edition, every chapter has been reworked, with material either updated or replaced. Entirely new material has also been developed based on examples of specific strategies supplied by actual learners, mostly drawn from a website featuring these strategies in the learning of Spanish grammar.Strategies in Learning and Using a Second language will be an invaluable resource for language teachers and researchers, as well as for administrators of second language programmes and for students of applied linguistics.
