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The use of technological tools to foster language development has
led to advances in language methodologies and changed the approach
towards language instruction. The tendency towards developing more
autonomous learners has emphasized the need for technological tools
that could contribute to this shift in foreign language learning.
Computer-assisted language learning and mobile-assisted language
learning have greatly collaborated to foster language instruction
out of the classroom environment, offering possibilities for
distance learning and expanding in-class time. Recent Tools for
Computer- and Mobile-Assisted Foreign Language Learning is a
scholarly research book that explores current strategies for
foreign language learning through the use of technology and
introduces new technological tools and evaluates existing ones that
foster language development. Highlighting a wide array of topics
such as gamification, mobile technologies, and virtual reality,
this book is essential for language educators, educational software
developers, IT consultants, K-20 institutions, principals,
professionals, academicians, researchers, curriculum designers, and
students.
Packed with clear guidance on the nuts and bolts of grammar and
plenty of examples, this text will help students master the
fundamentals of English grammar and tackle written assignments with
confidence. 60+ bite-sized units help students overcome common
areas of difficulty, such as forming different tenses, using
connectives to link ideas and build an argument, punctuating
sentences and choosing the right words. Each unit is presented on a
double-page spread, making it easy for students to flick through
the book and quickly find the unit they need. Short, focused
exercises at the end of each unit - with answers provided at the
back of the book - make this text ideal for both self-study and
classroom use. This third edition contains four new units on
hedging, being critical and collocation. Improve Your Grammar is an
essential resource for students of all disciplines and levels
wanting to excel at writing, and can be used as a self-study
workbook or on tutor-led grammar modules.
A field guide to the trade and art of editing, this book pulls back
the curtain on the day-to-day responsibilities of a literary
magazine editor in their role, and to the specific skills necessary
to read, mark-up and transform a piece of writing. Combining a
break-down of an editor's tasks - including creating a vision,
acquisitions, responding to submissions and corresponding with
authors - with a behind-the-scenes look at manuscripts in progress,
the book rounds up with a test editing section that teaches, by way
of engaging exercises, the nitty-gritty strategies and techniques
for working on all kinds of texts. Generous in its insight and
access to practicing editors' annotations and thought processes,
The Invisible Art of Literary Editing offers an exclusive look at
nonfiction, fiction and poetry manuscripts as they were first
submitted, as they were marked up by an editor and how the final
piece was presented before featuring an interview with the editor
on the choices they made about that piece of work, as well as their
philosophies and working practices in their job. As a skill and a
trade learnt through practice and apprenticeship, this is the
ultimate companion to editing any piece of work, offering
opportunities for learning-by-doing through exercises, reflections
and cases studies, and inviting readers to embody the role of an
editor to improve their craft and demystify the processes involved
in this exciting and highly coveted profession.
Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted
distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of
scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed,
fragmented attention that characterizes the experience of mass
culture. Patrick Kindig's Fascination, however, tells a different
story, showing that many fin-de-siecle Americans were in fact
concerned about (and intrigued by) the modern world's ability to
attract and fix attention in quasi-supernatural ways. Rather than
being distracting, modern life in their view had an almost magical
capacity to capture attention and overwhelm rational thought.
Fascination argues that, in response to the dramatic scientific and
cultural changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, many American thinkers and writers came to conceive of
the modern world as fundamentally fascinating. Describing such
diverse phenomena as the electric generator, the movements of
actresses, and ethnographic cinema as supernaturally alluring, they
used the language of fascination to process and critique both
popular ideologies of historical progress and the racializing logic
upon which these ideologies were built. Drawing on an archive of
primary texts from the fields of medicine, (para)psychology,
philosophy, cultural criticism, and anthropology-as well as
creative texts by Harriet Prescott Spofford, Charles Chesnutt,
Theodore Dreiser, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edward S. Curtis, Robert J.
Flaherty, and Djuna Barnes-Kindig reconsiders what it meant for
Americans to be (and to be called) modern at the turn of the
twentieth century.
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