English Language

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic description of complex prepositions (e.g. in view of, by way of) in English and discusses the theoretical justification for their classification as a grammatical category...

How to be a Brilliant English Teacher is packed with practical advice drawn from his extensive and successful experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer. This accessible and readable guide offers sound theoretical principles with exciting practical suggestions for the classroom...

How to be a Brilliant English Teacher is packed with practical advice drawn from his extensive and successful experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer. This accessible and readable guide offers sound theoretical principles with exciting practical suggestions for the classroom...

Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators, learning support teachers and learning support assistants will welcome this much needed text which shows how to make successful reading interventions for reluctant or weak readers at secondary school level...

Introducing Electronic Text Analysis is a practical and much needed introduction to bodies of linguistic data known as corpora. It examines how corpora enhance our understanding of literary and non-literary works...

Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as literature and advertising, and individual gifted minds. Drawing on a range of real examples of everyday conversations and speech, from flatmates in a student house and families on holiday..

Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as literature and advertising, and individual gifted minds. Drawing on a range of real examples of everyday conversations and speech, from flatmates in a student house and families on holiday..

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The KS3 curriculum plays a critical part in giving students the best possible start to their secondary education and preventing the need for intervention later on. This timely book provides detailed guidance on how to develop a robust, multi-faceted, inclusive and challenging KS3 curriculum in Engli..

The KS3 curriculum plays a critical part in giving students the best possible start to their secondary education and preventing the need for intervention later on. This timely book provides detailed guidance on how to develop a robust, multi-faceted, inclusive and challenging KS3 curriculum in Engli..

This standard introductory textbook presents in systematic form an account of current English practice. The introduction provides a full scheme of sentence analysis, and cross-references link parts One and Two...