Designed to help students use the English language to communicate effectively. Provides clear explanations and examples of forms, features, structures and functions of texts, demonstrates the use of language in context, and provides comprehensive guidelines for students to use as a foundation for their own communications.

Fundamentals of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a classic text on basic oral and maxillofacial surgery focusing on the concepts of the subject. It provides clinical exposure through numerous patient photographs, short videos and sensitizes the students to evidence-based practice. It ensures a comprehensive coverage of skills to diagnose maxillofacial diseases and perform minor oral surgical procedures. This book provides a strong foundation, has comprehensive coverage of syllabus, and imparts information in format which is easy to understand and remember. This will be invaluable to undergraduate dental students in their clinical years and provide basic knowledge to the postgraduates as well. - Additional chapters on: - Essential and basic topics like Drains, Electrocautery, Cryosurgery, Laser, Injections, Bone Healing, Delayed Union & Malunion which are not available in other contemporary books - Evidence-based oral and maxillofacial surgery, and - Research methodologies and statistical tools with focus on grant writing - Text supported with numerous illustrations and flowcharts for better understanding of concepts - Case-based questions to help students prepare for exams - MCQs with answers at end of each chapter for self-evaluation - Digital Ancillaries: - Short videos of surgical procedures - Video lectures by stalwarts in the field - Numerous explanatory power-point presentations

This text helps monolinguals achieve their dream of learning another language. Each chapter explains and exemplifies issues inherent in the language learning process that readers need to understand. These include maintaining motivation, dealing with errors, being strategic, and assessing progress. Readers receive advice on the practical steps they can take to make learning more effective and enjoyable. They also gain exposure to the methods and techniques used to research language learning. While doing so, they become aware of child language development, the evolution of language, language’s relationship to culture, and other fundamental areas of linguistics. Readers also confront limitations related to age and learn about the necessity of having realistic expectations concerning pronunciation, grammar production, word usage, and cultural knowledge. Questions following the end of every chapter encourage readers to reflect on the information presented and how they can use it. The text’s focus on first-time language learners and straightforward style make it accessible for high school students, college language majors, and those independently pursuing a language.

Grammar Fundamentals for Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Teacher's Reference aims to improve your knowledge of and confidence with the English language, including the terminology, form, and meaning of basic grammatical structures. The structures are presented within short vignettes about teaching abroad, including content that should be of interest for anyone in the field of TEFL. The book is designed to serve as a self-study grammar reference for the novice teacher of English grammar, but it can also serve as a review or to provide samples for more advanced grammarians.

In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility', 'authority', and 'knowledge': central, but problematic, concepts in contemporary anthropology. Their detailed case studies analyze diverse forms of oral discourse - everyday conversation, conversational narrative, song, oratory, divination, and ritual poetry - in societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. The studies show how speakers attribute responsibility for acts and states of affairs, how particular forms of language and discourse relate to claims and disclaimers of responsibility, and how verbal acts are themselves social acts, subject to such attributions. The volume challenges those cognitive theorists who locate responsibility for the meaning of verbal acts solely in the intentions of individual speakers. Instead, the contributors focus on the production of meaning between speakers and audiences in particular social and cultural contexts, through dialogue and interaction which mediate between linguistic forms and their interpretations. This landmark volume will serve for years to come as a point of reference in the study, not only of responsibility and evidence, but of reported speech, authorship, and other phenomena in the social life of language. Besides linguistic and cultural anthropologists, linguistics, and folklorists, it will interest also readers from pragmatics, legal studies, sociology, religion, and social psychology.

Before children are readers and writers, they are speakers and listeners. This book provides creative, hands-on strategies for developing preschoolers' speaking, listening, and oral comprehension skills, within a literacy-rich classroom environment. Each chapter features helpful classroom vignettes; a section called Preschool in Practice, with step-by-step lesson ideas; and Ideas for Discussion, Reflection, and Action. The book addresses the needs of English language learners and describes ways to support students' literacy development at home. The final chapter pulls it all together through a portrait of an exemplary day of preschool teaching and learning. Reproducible forms and checklists can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

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