Lezen draagt in belangrijke mate bij aan een succesvolle schoolcarrière van kinderen. Maar lezen is voor lang niet alle kinderen vanzelfsprekend, velen hebben een steuntje in de rug nodig. Deze bundel laat zien hoe aarzelende lezers over de streep getrokken kunnen worden. Verschillende auteurs geven hun visie op de aanpak van leesproblemen.

'De aarzelende lezer over de streep' is het resultaat van het wetenschappelijk congres van Stichting Lezen eind 2012. De auteurs belichten in de hier geb...

This book deals with multiple situations in which IT students may find themselves during their professional careers and focuses on the various skills that are required when having to use a second language during said career.

All units are centered on one IT-related topic and contain exercises on skills such as listening, reading, writing and speaking. The book contains many topical articles, podcasts and videos. The emphasis in the first six units is on telephone conversations/(client) meetin...

Dit is een voorlees/oefenboek bestemd voor zowel scholen als voor ouders die kinderen in de leeftijd van 4 -7 jaar Engelse willen leren. Het boek is makkelijk om te lezen en vraagt van een ouder/leraar geen extra voorbereiding. Wel moeten de Engelse woorden op de juiste manier worden uitgesproken.

Het verhaal bestaat uit 10 hoofdstukken. Deze gaan over de basis thema's zoals "colours", "introduce yourself in English", "house", "counting to ten", "animals", etc .. De oefeningen in het boek co...

Grammar in Use is the world's best-selling grammar series for learners of English. Essential Grammar in Use with Answers, authored by Raymond Murphy, is the first choice for elementary-level (A1-B1) learners and covers all the grammar required at this level. It is a self-study book with simple explanations and lots of practice exercises, and has helped millions of people around the world to communicate in English.

For second-language writers, academic writing in English can be very challenging. Non-native English students can apply structural, linguistic and stylistic skills and strategies, to help them produce English academic texts. This book aims to increase learners' awareness and understanding of these skills and strategies, resulting in a more mature text and a more mature writer.

Academic Writing in Englishtakes a process-based approach. Students are guided through the academic writing process, ...

This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

The BDMP (www.beckettarchive.org) digitally reunites the dispersed manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s works and facilitates their examination. The projec...

In an internationalised academic environment, lecturers and researchers increasingly need to use English to give lectures and presentations, to participate in seminars and conferences and to coach international students.Academic Spoken English offers help in the following areas:

- adapting a written text for a spoken register

- expanding spoken academic vocabulary

- using discourse markers, which structure the presentation for the audience

- improving delivery (pace, clarity, interaction with the...

Oxford Practice Grammar knows that students need different types of explanation and practice at each stage of their study. Intermediate gives you more detail with extended practice. Great for the classroom or self-study and covers the grammar students need to know for the Oxford Test of English and B2 First exam.

Six full practice tests with tips and training for the 2015 revised Cambridge English: First (FCE). First Trainer Second edition offers six practice tests for the revised Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam combined with easy-to-follow guidance and exam tips. The first two tests are fully guided with advice on how to tackle each paper.

Extra practice activities, informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a bank of real candidates' exam papers, focus on areas where students typically need the m...