Book Description
An expanding series of short, specialist English courses for different professions, work skills, and industries.
Author : Sylee Gore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780194579414
An expanding series of short, specialist English courses for different professions, work skills, and industries.
Author : Adrian Wallwork
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1441994017
English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing is the first ever book of its kind specifically written for researchers of all disciplines whose first language is not English. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with authentic examples taken from real emails, referee's reports and cover letters, you will learn how to: • use strategies for understanding native speakers of English • significantly improve your listening skills • organize one-to-one meetings • feel confident at social events • manage and participate in a successful conversation • write effective emails • review other people's manuscripts - formally and informally • reply effectively and constructively to referees' reports • write cover letters to editors • use the telephone and Skype • participate in (video) conference calls • exploit standard English phrases Other books in the series: English for Presentations at International Conferences English for Writing Research Papers English for Research: Usage, Style, and Grammar English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises English for Academic Research: Vocabulary Exercises English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises
Author : Pamela Davis-Kean
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2016-06-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0128036508
Using psychological theory as a basis, Socializing Children through Language examines naturally occurring conversations between mothers and children in the context of achievement, self-regulation, food consumption, and television watching to illustrate how families of different socioeconomic means interact and discuss a variety of topics in the home. Specifically, the chapters in this book draw on enhanced audio recordings of over 40 families across a range of education and income levels to investigate how mothers' language relates to child behaviors over time. The unique pairing of this digital observer data with empirical data on achievement tests, regulation tasks, and parenting information on the home environment collected one year later presents an altogether revolutionary way to understand and think about how family socialization works across socioeconomic levels. - Focuses on mother–child talk about desires, thoughts, and emotions - Studies the relationship between math talk and children's math knowledge and achievement - Emphasizes the management language used by mothers to guide the behavior of their children - Explores children's media environment in the home, the conversations that occur during digital technology use, and whether it relates to children's outcomes - Considers food-related discussions in families prior to and during mealtimes, including how parents and children express food likes and dislikes, hunger, mealtime routines and expectations, and explanations about nutritional values
Author : Haruko Minegishi Cook
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847691005
Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book examines dinnertime talk in a homestay context and explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a foreign language and their Japanese host families socialize their identities through speech style.
Author : Sylee Gore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194201368
Please note that the Print Replica PDF digital version does not contain the audio. English for Socializing is part of the EXPRESS SERIES. It is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs English to socialize in a professional context. It can be used to supplement a regular coursebook, on its own, as a stand-alone intensive specialist course, or for self-study. With English for Socializing uncomfortable silences during a business dinner will be a thing of the past: you will be prepared for any situation!
Author : Matthew J. Burdelski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107187834
Classrooms are dynamic spaces of teaching and learning, where language and culture are intertwined in remarkable ways. The theory of language socialization explores how sociocultural practices in classrooms help to shape language learning and development. This collection is the first of its kind to bring together research on this fascinating concept. It presents 10 case studies, based on linguistic and ethnographic research conducted in classrooms located within communities in North America, Europe and India, spanning learners from preschool, to primary and secondary school, to university. Following an introduction that discusses the theory and core concepts of language socialization, the volume is divided into three central themes: socializing values, dispositions, and stances; socializing identities; and language socialization and ideology. Both new and more experienced researchers will appreciate its new insights into how language socialization is carried out across the globe.
Author : Mark Fidelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351860755
Most companies today realize the imperative to connect with their customers, employees, and partners through social technologies -Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, and elsewhere. But a huge challenge is still in the way: how to build programs and teams for accomplishing all that. While organizations have been fixated on how to use the latest social tool, they've lost sight of how to create a talent pool capable of adjusting to the next wave of technology around the corner. For corporations to successfully transform into social business enterprises they must shift the focus from computers and tools to developing skills and attitudes around technology. Socialized! represents a "playbook" on how to create such a high-performing social enterprise. Filled with clear strategies and real-life stories from visionaries and change makers, the book is designed to help leaders motivate employees throughout the organization to adopt a "social" mindset, ensuring success against the competition.
Author : Ryan Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199300992
This book argues for a greater specification of how international law influences relevant actors to improve human rights. It argues that states are influenced via general social processes such as cultural contagion, identification, and mimicry. These processes occasion a rethinking of fundamental regime design problems in human rights law.
Author : Dennis R. Bryson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN :
The Rockefeller philanthropies and the Macy Foundation launched a series of programs during the 1920s and 1930s aimed at the production and dissemination of knowledge on the rearing and education of the young. Thus, millions of dollars in foundation funds were put into projects in child study and parent education, the reorganization of secondary education, child growth and development, culture and personality studies, and the personality development of young children by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, the General Education Board, the Macy Foundation during the period 1923 to 1941. Informing these projects was a coherent sociopolitical agenda: in order to promote a stable, pacified social order, the foundation projects attempted to foster the formation of friendly, sane, and sociable personalities, who would avoid conflict and other kinds of anti-social behavior. Thus, the micropractices of private life, especially child rearing and familial and marital practices, were targeted by a sociopolitical scheme oriented toward the reconstruction and pacification of social life. The book examines in depth the foundation programs and the deliberations of officers and trustees as they designed and implemented these programs. Special attention is payed to the role of Lawrence K. Frank in the creation and direction of the foundation programs.
Author : Frederick F. Schmitt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780847679591
In this wide-ranging collection of never before published essays, distinguished scholars in the fields of philosophy and economics examine such questions as whether testimony is a basic source of knowledge, the degree to which notions of a good argument are determined by speakers and their audiences, the role of individual biases in the development of science, and the social aspects of group belief and group justification. The collection ends with the first comprehensive bibliography of social epistemology.