Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any reader can understand and gain more pleasure from poetry. Exploring poetry’s relationship to everyday language and introducing major genres and technical aspects in an accessible way, it is a clear introduction to how different types of po...

Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Italian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Colloquial Turkish is the ideal introduction to the language, offering a step-by-step approach to Turkish as it is spoken and written today and requiring no previous knowledge of the language.

The ideal introduction to spoken and written Tamil. Focuses on the standard language of Tamil Nadu in South India, while providing a useful introduction to formal speech and the written language.

Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Welsh. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written or spoken Yiddish. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

This edition of Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach adds four new chapters and has over 350 lesson plans to help teachers-from elementary through secondary school-learn the tactics and skills of various sports. A web resource with video clips shows some lessons in action.

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisit...

Introducing Linguistics brings together the work of scholars working at the cutting-edge of the field of Linguistics, creating an accessible and wide-ranging introductory level textbook for newcomers to Linguistics.

This course teaches Catalan, as spoken in north-eastern Spain today.