It sounds ominous, but it is unfortunately true: a virus has crept nearly undetected into the American English language, affecting the pronunciation of all who speak it. In this guide, a seasoned language professor shares his unique method that teaches you to avoid embarrassing mistakes in pronunciation-all while expanding your vocabulary.

Dr. William Harrison relies on his extensive experience studying and teaching languages for the past forty years to provide a comprehensive guide that combines jingles and pictures as mnemonic devices to teach students of all ages the two most important pieces of information about each English word-pronunciation and meaning. While using fun and lively jingles to model pronunciation patterns, Dr. Harrison encourages students to overcome such articulation errors as saying "coldslaw" instead of "coleslaw" and "bet" instead of "bed." Included are eighteen obstacles to proper pronunciation, reminding English speakers to rely on new, innovative ways to remember proper pronunciations instead of an archaic spelling system.

This practical reference manual can help anyone interested in correct pronunciation of American English and the evolution of pronunciation in America.

This book was originally published in 1901 it is the Second Edition and has been thoroughly revised and partly rewritten. Information includes, coils for gas and automobile engines, medical coils and much more, much of this information is still usefull and practical today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original artwork and text.

The continued growth in general studies and liberal arts and science programs online has led to a rise in the number of students whose science learning experiences are web-based. However, little is known about what is actually going on in web-based science courses at the level of the disciplines within liberal arts and sciences or the corresponding course design features. Online Science Learning: Best Practices and Technologies reviews trends and efforts in web-based science instruction and evaluates contemporary philosophies and pedagogies of online science instruction. This title on an emergent and vital area of education clearly demonstrates how to enrich the academic character and quality of web-based science instruction.

At last...you were all waiting with 'bated breath' I know (my Boyle-Breath novels #1, 2, & 3 are all out now also)...here's my 3RD "WHOOP'S" collection of Apostrophe, Spelling, and other 'word' error slip-ups. Happily, it has got to the stage that (photographed) mistakes are being rectified by the perpetrators themselves (some have even spotted me, mobile in hand); and I have myself started to fix the odd (so far) fox's paw (see the all-too-brief 'Wrong +Fixed' input - Chapter 1) One hundred (plus) more mistooks caught in their prime bleakness for you, including the 'usual suspect' chapters of pure plain awful Ap and Sp errors; and 'abroad'...accidents Add a section of 'One Wrong One Right'; a section of 'Firm' headliners where they just don't seem to care about correctness anymore, and a compendium of my beloved 'Just Weird' cock-ups and we're laughing all the way...to the bank ('NOT ' says my Ed. also known as Edith my good wife). Laugh, cry, enjoy Buy?

Guided Cognition for Learning: Unsupervised Learning and the Design of Effective Homework details a new instructional design approach called Guided Cognition where homework tasks are designed to guide learners to engage in specific, observable cognitive events that are hypothesized to elicit underlying theoretical cognitive processes that result in learning. Outlining the results of twenty-six experiments completed over the course of eight years, the book tells a significant story about the generality of Guided Cognition instructional design to improve comprehension and recall by students of varying ages and ability levels.

This title focuses on electronic learning communities created through the development and use of the Internet for instruction and training. Chapters focus on philosophies, background, reviews, technologies, systems, tools, services, strategies, development, implementation and research.

Adult learning offers practical guidelines, underpinned by sound scholarship, for the design and implementation of learning events. The author illuminates this process, which she views as a learning-centred and dialogic endeavour, by drawing on perennial and cutting-edge theory as well as on personal experience. She guides the reader in exploring the theory on adult learners and their needs, the learning process and strategies that educators can use for guiding and facilitating learning. This culminates in a discussion of a specific strategy for designing and implementing dialogic learning events - the seven steps of planning. She explains in practical terms how this strategy puts dialogic teaching into action, using learning tasks to structure dialogue with learners.

YOU'RE HIRED guides young professionals toward making the best of job interviews. It recognizes that a candidate's qualifications can get him or her through the interviewer's door, but securing the dream job requires much more. This book provides the three key strategies for getting hired. It shows how to identify the strongest qualities a candidate has for any job interview and additionally, provides the most appropriate responses to typical job interview questions. This material comes with practice worksheets to help the candidate apply the key learning of the book and position him or her perfectly for the next dream job.

What makes people learn effectively? What can we do to promote more effective learning?Innumerable researchers have studied these important and urgent questions, yet their findings tend to be fragmentary and disparate. Now Janet Collins, Joe Harkin and Melanie Nind provide the big picture. Drawing on research from all sectors of education the authors show that effective learning depends crucially on a few easily understood principles. These principles hold true regardless of the age or nature of the learner or the context in which the learner is working.Manifesto for Learning explains those principles and how to apply them, showing in the process how to make the vision of an effective learning society a reality.