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...

So far, not a single book has been published grouping the various written genres that businesspeople need in their jobs on a daily basis. Students of business English writing skills are often provided with a rather unsystematic compilation of information from heterogeneous sources. The result has been unsatisfactory, both for lecturers and learners. This book tries to fill that niche. The units have been selected on the basis of real feedback from students doing placements in companies. Genui...

As a study guide to enhance your insight into English grammatical usage, this book distinguishes itself from the merely practical, pedagogical school grammar on the one hand and the specialized linguistic grammar on the other hand.

Targeted at advanced learners of English (Common European Framework level B1-B2) with an interest in the linguistic study of language, this book will be of particular interest to first- (and second-) year university students and students of other institutes of high...