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Going Graphic: Comics at Work in the Multilingual Classroom 2 reviews
Stephen Cary
Heinemann, 2004
I Love This Book!
Stephen Cary has written a wonderful book for teachers of English Learners as well as for native English Speakers in the process of expanding their language.
Cary's years of teaching and learning language acquisition theory and practice as well as his love of children and wonderful sense of humor have helped to create a terrific teaching aid. New and experienced teachers will find a great ...
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Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism3 reviews
Colin Baker
Multilingual Matters, 2006
A vast comprehensive overview of bilingualism
Colin Baker draws from a vast well of resources. The Bibliography spans about 40 pages alone. I am positive that this book will stand as the 'textbook' of blingualism for generations to come. It is an excellent source of information and education.
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Joinfostering (Adapting Teaching Strategies for the Multilingual Classroom)1 review
Christian J.Faltis
Macmillan Company, 1993
Joinfostering
This book was written with two audiences in mind: (1) education majors who are in the process of becoming classroom teachers, and (2) established teachers who are interested in changing the way they teach to accomodate students in their classrooms who are adding English to their already developed native language(s). As the number of students who are learning English as a second language grows in ...
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Typography, polyglot: A comparative study in multilingual typesetting10 reviews
George Sadek
The Center, 1991
both fair and fun
As an adult convert to Catholicism struggling for now five years with infertility, a non-American and the daughter of a founder of my hometown's Family Planning Association, I ordered this book wondering if it would help me sort out my mixed feelings about abortion. When it arrived my heart sank: though I had been interested in the topic, it looked long enough to remind me of the ...
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The Acquisition of Irish: A Case Study (Multilingual Matters Series, No. 72)1 review
Maire Owens
Multilingual Matters Limited, 1991
Greatest book I ever read!
This is the best book I've ever seen about celtic languages. I recomend to read it for you too.
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Multilingual FSI: Cantonese Basic, Level 1 (Cassette Included)3 reviews
Elizabeth Boyle
Multilingual Books and Tapes, 1998
Further comments on FSI
A thought of some extra things to say about this course. Good Point: The early lessons carefully cover pronunciation and the the later lessons cover grammar and vocabulary. The progression is well thought out. Bad Point: The vocabulary list given is not complete. New words are introduced in the Drills which are not included in the Vocab list. I prepared my own vocab list becuase of it. Overall: ...
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Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis: The Bell Labs Approach2 reviews
Springer, 1997
excellent survey
This is an excellent survey of the AT&T/Bell Labs TTS methods, particularily the WFST techniques. I am surprised, however, that little discussion is devoted to *stochastic* methods. For example, the sentence, "The deer was rotting on Ridgedale Dr.", might have the "Dr." expanded to "Doctor" and not "Drive" by the application of a trigram language model trained on a text corpus rather than ...
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Learning to Read: Theory and Research (Language and Education Library)2 reviews
Multilingual Matters Limited, 1999
Learning to Read: Beyond Phonics and Whole Language
This book breaks down the reading process into the foundational pieces necessary for success. It was a valuable tool in helping the parents, that I work with, understand why I do the things that I do, in my classroom.
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The MacMillan Visual Dictionary : English, Spanish, French, German (Multilingual)5 reviews
Jean-Claude Corbeil
John Wiley & Sons, 1994
For the curious.
The knowledge in this book seems so basic, but there are a lot of words that I didn't know before. I'm mostly interested in how different the German words are from English. It is lucky for me that the English words are on the top of each list and German at the bottom, so I'm likely to see what I might know before I get down to what is really strange. I don't know Spanish or French either, but ...
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How to Say Fabulous in 8 Different Languages: A Multilingual Phrasebook for Gay Men2 reviews
Gerard Mryglot
Translator Network, 1995
Buy this book!
This is an indispensible book. I use it every day. Priceless information. Get it.
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Bilingual Education in China: Practices, Policies and Concepts (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism)1 review
Multilingual Matters, 2007
Immersion in China
A very good book for people interested in this topic, containing a variety of articles on different aspects (and types) of bilingual education in China.
It seems an immersion approach is sweeping China, regardless of lack of resources in rural areas and insufficient preparation in terms of curricula and the training of bilingual personnel. It is heartening to read of high-up officials in ...
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Farm Implement and Machinery: Multilingual Illustrated Dictionary1 review
H. Steinmetz
Agribookstore, 1982
essential, cheap, almost complete
As far as I know, this book is not only a vocabulary which gives a translation in five languages, but it is a small enciclopedy collecting almost everything about farm machinery from the oldest to the newest. It is cheap and for its dimension it is really manual.
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Cambridge Word Routes Inglese-Italiano: Dizionario tematico dell'inglese contemporaneo (Cambridge Word Routes)1 review
Michael McCarthy
Cambridge University Press, 1995
favoloso reference tool
This book may be designed for Italians learning English, but it's an amazing reference for advanced speakers of Italian as a foreign language. It is a combination of encyclopedia (arranged in conceptual, not alphabetical, order); thesaurus (thousands of words, with nuances explained in Italian, and illustrated in idiomatic Italian and English phrases); and picture dictionary (very practical ...
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Community and Communication: The Role of Language in Nation State Building and European Integration ...1 review
Sue Wright
Multilingual Matters Limited, 2000
European studies and language policy fused together
Language and language policy is often studied by linguists who do not have a background in political studies. Wright's book, by contrast, provides a rare and exciting fusion of two subjects which in British universities are often joined in theory ("European studies and modern languages") but seldom in practice. Her study challenges the orthodoxy that multilingualism is always a good thing. ...
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Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (Child Language and Child Development)1 review
Multilingual Matters Limited, 2006
Outstanding!
For any professional in the social sciences, this is a must-have! The speech-language pathology chapter is a gem! The linguistics material, especially literacy, was impressive!
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The Coming Industry of Teletranslation: Overcoming Barriers through Telecommunication (Topics in Translation)1 review
Minako O'Hagan
Multilingual Matters, 1998
In-depth forecast of translation industry
This book covers the current translation industry and its future forecast. The author coins teletranslation. By this term,she predicts that communications based traslation will prevail into translation market place around the globe. I believe that this book is one of the best books about translation industry ans its related topics.
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Adding English: A Guide to Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms1 review
Elizabeth Coelho
Pippin Publishing, 2003
Lots of information presented in an easily read format
This book is perhaps one of the best ESL books I've come across recenlty. It is easy to read and understand. It is practical and it gives lots of great suggestions without sounding pompous or preachy. The book would make a suitable textbook for those studying to be an ESL teacher, or a good reference for those who are already an ESL teacher. The book is divided into clear chapters, giving the ...
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Controversies in Second Language Writing: Dilemmas and Decisions in Research and Instruction (The Michigan ...1 review
Christine Pearson Casanave
University of Michigan Press/ESL, 2003
A thorough discussion of the issues
This book does a really great job laying out the different issues in L2 writing and explaining the different sides. I got a lot of good information and ideas from reading this book, particulary the Classroom Perspectives sections. These really brought to life for me how the issues affect classroom practice.
Overall, this is an extremely useful book for anyone who wants thorough understanding ...
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Bilingual Education and Social Change (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism)1 review
Rebecca D. Freeman
Multilingual Matters, 1998
Bilingual Education and Social Change
The book is in really good shape and only has some underlining that doesn't deter from quality
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Color and Learn Arabic with us Book and Tape1 review
Ashraf Alsabbagh
Multilingual Books and Tapes, 1998
My son (3-year old) loves it.
The pictures are nice and the letters are large enough for my 3-year old to color. The tape is very clear and the voice of the little child on it is very adorable.
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