This third edition of this text presents the major grammatical contrasts between English and Spanish in a simple and direct manner that is ideal for teachers of either language. This book addresses difficult grammatical topics for the English speaker, such as the question of aspect (preterit/imperfect) and the Spanish indicative/subjunctive; the English modal auxiliary system; and other challenging topics for the Spanish speaker. This reworked and expanded edition presents a complete inventory of all the major inter-lingual contrasts, emphasizing those contrasts that pose difficulties for teachers and students alike. The text features numerous exercises and, new with this edition, an extensive glossary of grammatical terms. Answer key available upon request from the publisher.

¡A explorar! is a 3-level Spanish course designed to meet the requirements of secondary school curriculums throughout the Caribbean. Written and developed in association with teachers and consultants in the Caribbean, it is designed around topic-based units so that language learning and skills development can be taught in real-world contexts. The Student’s Books are highly illustrated with a lively design and clear layout. They provide comprehensive coverage of key vocabulary, grammar and functional language which are delivered through topic-based units so that language learning and skills development can be taught in real-world contexts. Engaging and motivating activities feature throughout, to develop and practice the four key language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. There is continuous reinforcement of language learned throughout the course, with revision sections at regular intervals. With a strong cultural focus throughout, the Español en acción spreads in every unit offer stimulating, thought-provoking and enjoyable insights into the culture and society of Spanish-speaking countries with stimulating and thought-provoking insights into Hispanic societies through the Español en acción spreads at the end of every unit. The course uses Latin American Spanish vocabulary throughout, and informative notes in the about variants found within Latin America and the Caribbean are included in the Teacher’s Guides. Audio files to support listening activities are available online through the Collins website.

Grammar by Diagram is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool, the book explains how to expand ten basic patterns for simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, and how to employ verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles), other specialized structures, and even punctuation for additional versatility. The third edition includes more exercises at the foundational level and more focus on how to arrange and combine sentences for maximum effect. It also includes a new initial chapter on "preliminaries" to define a few basic but overarching concepts, a separate chapter on pronouns, and a chapter devoted to the connection between understanding grammar and writing effective sentences.

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (General Editor: Victor H. Mair). Although numerous book-length studies of language and modernity in China and Japan can be found even in English, little has been written in any language on the question of linguistic modernity in Korea. Infected Korean Language, Purity Versus Hybridity by noted journalist and writer Koh Jongsok is a collection of critical essays about Korean language and writing situated at the nexus of modern Korean history, politics, linguistics, and literature. In addition to his journalistic and writing experience, Koh also happens to have a keen interest in language and linguistics, and he has received postgraduate training at the highest level in these subjects at the Sorbonne. This book bears witness to the trials and tribulations-historical, technical and epistemological-by which the Korean language achieved "linguistic modernity" under trying colonial and neo-colonial circumstances. In particular, Koh tackles questions of language ideology and language policy, modern terminology formation, and inscriptional practices (especially the highly politicized questions of vernacular script versus Chinese characters, and of orthography) in an informed and sensitive way. The value of Koh's essays lies in the fact that so little has been written in a critical and politically progressive vein-whether scholarly or otherwise-about the processes whereby traditional Korean inscriptional and linguistic practices became "modern." Indeed, the one group of academics from whom one would expect assistance in this regard, the "national language studies" scholars in Korea, have been so blinkered by their nationalist proclivities as to produce little of interest in this regard. Koh, by contrast, is one of precious few concerned and engaged public intellectuals and creative writers writing on this topic in an easily understandable way. Little or nothing is available in English about modern Korean language ideologies and linguistic politics. This book analyzes the linguistic legacies of the traditional Sinographic Cosmopolis and modern Japanese colonialism and shows how these have been further complicated by the continued and ever-more hegemonic presence of English in post-Liberation Korean linguistic life. It exposes and critiques the ways in which the Korean situation is rendered even more complex by the fact that all these issues have been debated in Korea in an intellectual environment dominated by deeply conservative and racialized notions of "purity," minjok (ethno-nation) and kugo or "national language" (itself an ideological formation owing in large part to Korea's experience with Japan). Koh sheds light on topics like: linguistic modernity and the problem of dictionaries and terminology; Korean language purism and the quest for "pure Korean" on the part of Korean linguistic nationalists; the beginnings of literary Korean in translation and the question of "translationese" in Korean literature; the question of the boundaries of "Korean literature" (if an eighteenth-century Korean intellectual writes a work of fiction in Classical Chinese, is it "Korean literature"?); the vexed issue of the "genetic affiliation" of Korean and the problems with searches for linguistic "bloodlines"; the frequent conflation of language and writing (i.e., of Korean and han'gul) in Korea; the English-as-Official-Language debate in South Korea; the relationship between han'gul and Chinese characters; etc. This book will be of value to those with an interest in language and history in East Asian in general, as well twentieth-century Korean language, literature, politics and history, in particular. The book will be an unprecedented and invaluable resource for students of modern Korean language and literature.

Collins CSEC® French Workbook supports the Student’s Book by providing additional material for skills development and language practice. Following the structure of the Student’s Book, the Workbook gives students the opportunity to practise the grammar and vocabulary of each topic-based unit, as well as reading, writing and speaking skills. Each unit comprises a variety of exercises carefully designed to consolidate and reinforce language learning, as well as provide stretch and extra challenge. Additional writing and speaking practice in exam-style activities is also provided. The Workbook can be used in class or at home, and activities are equally suitable for extension work in class or as exercises set for homework.

A volume in Research in Second Language LearningJoAnn Hammadou Sullivan, Series EditorIn 2002, this series was launched with its first volume, Literacy and the Second LanguageLearner, which contained many noteworthy research studies in the learning andteaching of second language reading. The selection of this theme for the series' entry onthe scene demonstrates the importance of the topic of second language reading. Becausereading plays a key role in the act of acquiring new knowledge, it is important to understandthis complex process. The series again explores this multifaceted and fruitful areaof inquiry in this, its seventh volume. In recent years, an explosion of work that strivesto create a more complete understanding of second language reading has occurred andresearchers today are making gains in fitting together a model of second language reading.This current volume brings together a range of high quality analyses of adult foreign language reading across languages andresearch methods. It provides important research findings that will assist foreign language readers and those who supporttheir efforts.