First, let's commend ourselves: how in the midst of a pandemic we faculty stepped up at record speed to teach in such a foreign learning environment. Try we did, adapt we did, and learn we did. But to be clear, and we already recognize this, this past spring was less about distance learning and more about crisis teaching.

This time around we have the opportunity to be much more purposeful and intentional, and that’s where The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instru...

Third edition of the most highly regarded teaching text book on the Japanese language. This is the companion workbook to the text.

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. The book's expansive historical purview illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds, drawing on the ideas of some of history's greatest thinkers and th...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings-all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections-introduction, development, exploration, and extension- which offer self-contained stages for s...

From profiling databases and mashups to cybersex and the truth about social networking, Miller's insightful second edition traces the pervasive influence of 'digital culture' throughout contemporary life.

Op 29 maart 2019 organisearre de Stifting Freonen Frysk Ynstitút Ryksuniversiteit Grins, yn ’e mande mei de Fryske Akademy, in sympoasium oer de takomst fan de frisistyk, de wittenskiplike stúdzje fan de Fryske taal en kultuer. Hoe moat dy stúdzje stal jûn wurde no’t de niget oan talestúdzjes stadichoan minder wurdt? Wa is eins ferantwurdlik foar de takomst fan de frisistyk? Yn dizze bondel litte alve minsken út it fjild har ljocht oer dizze problematyk skine.

Designed for students with no prior experience in linguistics, this is an engaging guide to the rich variety and typology of world languages. This third edition has been updated with new problem sets, an updated glossary and index, and a new section on linguistic cartography.

Nihongo betekent ‘de Japanse taal’ en is gericht op het ontwikkelen van taalvaardigheid in het Japans, vooral in functie van reizen naar Japan of werken met Japanners. In recente jaren is het toerisme vanuit België en Nederland naar Japan exponentieel gestegen. Een goed moment dus om Japans te leren.

Deze basiscursus Japans bestaat uit twee delen: Nihongo 1 en Nihongo 2. Elk deel bestaat uit tien hoofdstukken en is volledig in rōmaji (Japans getranscribeerd in ons alfabet) geschreven om...