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  • Communicative Competence in a Second Language

    Theory, Method, and Applications

    Edited by Matthew Kanwit, Megan Solon ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.This unique text offers a multidisciplinary, critical, state-of-the-art research overview for this skill in second language learners. Expert contributors from around the world lay out the history of the field, ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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    The Jury

    A BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama

    by Matthew Solon ...
    Narrated by Bill Nighy, mx Maggie Steed, Frances Jeater, Denys Hawthorne, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Gary Olsen, Philip Bretherton, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    Twelve jurors. One verdict. Can the jury decide?When high-profile company director Virginia Hart fights a libel case against journalist Pat Carver, twelve ordinary people find themselves navigating the complex and unfamiliar world of the civil court. A woman’s reputation is on the line, and they alone must decide whether the allegations made against her in the satirical magazine Shady Tales count ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Five Days In May

    by Matthew Solon ...
    Narrated by Samuel West, Nicholas Boulton, Henry Goodman ...

    Unabridged

    56 min

    Written by Matthew Solon. This BBC Radio 4 'Saturday Play' tells the story of the tense negotiation that followed the 2010 general election, which led to the country's first post-war coalition. Based on interviews with those who were at the meetings, political journalists and on published material - and using actors to play all the key characters - this is a compelling account of those five ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    The Day That Lehman Died

    by Matthew Solon ...
    Narrated by John Shea, John Rothman, Rob Campbell, Mark La Mara ...

    Unabridged

    56 min

    A BBC World Play written by Matthew Solon and directed by John Dryden. On 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers, one of the oldest and largest investment banks in the world, with its headquarters in New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was the largest bankruptcy filed in US history and sent the already unstable global financial markets into an uncontrollable tailspin. Based on ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    The Bid

    by Matthew Solon ...
    Narrated by John Sessions ...

    Unabridged

    56 min

    After five years of planning and an 18-month campaign costing more than £15m, England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup ended in humiliation in front of millions of TV viewers around the world. This thrilling drama tells the behind-the-scenes story of what happened in Zurich in the days leading up to the momentous announcement on 2nd December 2010. The England bid team - which included David ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    TakeOver

    A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama

    by Ayeesha Menon, Matthew Solon ...
    Narrated by Rajit Kapur, Amrita Acharia, Full Cast, Abhin Galeya, Munirih Grace, Danny Ashok ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 54 min

    A fast-paced, globe-trotting family saga of wealth, power, revenge and karma - with helicopters, private jets and a tiger reserveMeet the Majumdars, a family at war - with itself...Self-made tech mogul Ravi Majumdar fought his way up from nothing to make a billion-dollar fortune. Now he risks losing everything in his single-minded quest to defeat his enemy, Jai Singh: the man he once considered ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    by Lightbown, Patsy M., Spada, Nina ...
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    Teachers are often told that new teaching methods and materials are 'based on the latest research'. But what does this mean in practice? This book introduces you to some of the language acquisition research that will help you not just to evaluate existing materials, but also to adapt and use them in a way that fits what we currently understand about how languages are learned. ... Read more

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  • How Languages Are Learned 5th Edition

    by Patsy M Lightbown, Spada ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
    Now in its fifth edition, the award-winning How Languages are Learned has established itself as an indispensable introduction to research in language acquisition and its relationship with classroom practice. 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 ... Read more

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  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition 2nd Edition

    by Rod Ellis ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    In the 30 years since Rod Ellis first published the award-winning Understanding Second Language Acquisition, it has become a classic text. This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition. Ellis presents a comprehensive overview of the different theories in this field and ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism

    by Ping Li, François Grosjean ...
    The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition and the bilingual brain.This thorough introduction to the psycholinguistics of bilingualism is accessible to non-specialists with little previous exposure to the fieldIntroduces students to the methodological approaches ... Read more

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  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

    by Muriel Saville-Troike, Karen Barto ...
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  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

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