Any Other House is an incredible true story of a family of nine living in a stone shack which had only two rooms. Set in County Derry, Northern Ireland, in the void 1950s-1970s, it tells of poverty, disease and isolation, and how the family survived against all odds. It covers the early part of the Northern Ireland civil war known as The Troubles. Any Other House is a pulsating read.
Focusing on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), this introductory textbook provides a thorough overview of the theoretical foundations, methodologies, and practical applications relevant to preservice teachers. It is designed for readers with no prior knowledge of linguistics or second language acquisition, making it accessible while covering essential concepts and practices in the field.
The volume consists of twelve classroom studies concerned with the implementation of learner autonomy in English classes. The individual studies range from primary school level to university level. They include studies on multi-media dictionary work, reading logs, peer correction, communication strategies, vocabulary learning strategies, oral proficiency, as well as work with literary texts and authentic news texts. Two studies focus specifically on the teaching of other subjects in English (Content and Language Integrated Learning). The authors describe their own empirical studies, record their classroom observations and make practical suggestions for teachers to take up in their own classrooms. All the studies are firmly grounded in second language acquisition theory and established didactic principles. They are prefaced by an introduction and a background chapter on the theory and practice of learner autonomy in language teaching.
This corpus-based study of allusions in the British press shows the range of targets journalists allude to - from Shakespeare to TV soaps, from Jane Austen to Hillary Clinton, from hymns to nursery rhymes, proverbs and riddles. It analyzes the linguistic forms allusions take and demonstrates how allusions function meaningfully in discourse. It explores the nature of the background cultural and intertextual knowledge allusions demand of readers and sets out the processing stages involved in understanding an allusion. Allusion is integrated into existing theories of indirect language and linked to idioms, word-play and metaphor.