Choices & Connections combines current scholarship and effective pedagogy, developed by a diverse community of expert voices, to provide all students with foundational communication skills to support their succes in the classroom, their lives, and their communities.

Ths new edition has been revised with the continuing guidance of Macmillan Learning's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Editorial Board to equitably support the learning of all students. The text has been thoroughly updated with do...

New Contemporary Chinese, a complete textbook series, is tailored for adult learners of the Chinese language. The series includes four volumes, with each volume consisting of a Textbook, an Exercise Book and the corresponding Teacher's Book, Supplementary Reading Materials, Testing Materials, Character Writing Workbook, and multimedia teaching resources. Volume 1 and Volume 2 each contains a Character Book. New Contemporary Chinese aims to develop the learners' comprehensive abilities of list...

The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji is a unique study guide that provides acomprehensive introduction to all the kanji characters on the Japanese Ministryof Education's official Joyo (General Use) list.

Jerin van den Brink, a young man of Albanian-Dutch descent, full of passion,

passed away before his time from a rare disease, on the 5th of May

2018. Some of his works, sketches, poetry, and literary reviews on Albania

and the history, are being published as originally written in English or Albanian.

In her book Biri (translated from Albanian as ‘The Son’), dedicated

to the loss of her only child, the writer Flutura Açka, refers often to the texts

of her son. Written with love, thoughtfu...

In light of the rapidly growing number of people studying Arabic--in academia, governments, NGOs, and business--Media Arabic is a unique and timely learning tool for anyone looking to access news information from this important global region firsthand. Media Arabic introduces the language of the newspapers, magazines, and internet news sites to intermediate and advanced level students of Modern Standard Arabic. Using this textbook, students will be able to master core vocabulary and structure...

Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada have worked for over four decades in second language research and education. They are highly respected worldwide for making theory and research about language learning accessible and relevant to classroom teaching. This widely acclaimed book remains essential reading for second language teachers.

This engaging 2005 introduction offers a critical approach to discourse, written by an expert uniquely placed to cover the subject for a variety of disciplines. Organised along thematic lines, the book begins with an outline of the basic principles, moving on to examine the methods and theory of CDA (critical discourse analysis). It covers topics such as text and context, language and inequality, choice and determination, history and process, ideology and identity.

Blommaert focuses on how la...

A problem-based introduction to phonetics, featuring over three hundred integrated exercises to help students discover and practice the subject interactively. It assumes no previous knowledge of phonetics; concepts are introduced gradually and frequent cross-referencing means that students will see how the subject fits together and how later concepts build on earlier ones.