Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques of analysis through practical application. Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field. Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research projects. Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader's understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. influenced by the context in which communication takes place; examines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts - including socio-cultural, situational and global influences; includes a range of different types of grammar - functional, pedagogic, descriptive and prescriptive; explores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts, such as advertising, dinner-table talk, email and political speeches; gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: David Crystal, M.A.K. Halliday, Joanna Thornborrow, Ken Hyland and Stephen Levey Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Grammar in Context is an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.

Creativity and innovation are important drivers of economic welfare and growth in contemporary societies. Collaborating with and learning from users in the early phase of the innovation process has been considered a successful approach to stimulate those creative sparks for organizations. However, the idea of users as innovators has also invoked critical responses especially in the context of innovations that are discontinuous to dominant designs. Martin Hewing and co-author Katharina Holzle explore the potential that can arise through collaboration with potential users who are not yet users. Those users at the peripheries are perceived to contribute more novel information, by which they better reflect shifts in needs and behavior than current users at the center."

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques of analysis through practical application. Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field. Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research projects. Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader's understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. influenced by the context in which communication takes place * examines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts - including socio-cultural, situational and global influences * includes a range of different types of grammar - functional, pedagogic, descriptive and prescriptive * explores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts, such as advertising, dinner-table talk, email and political speeches * gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: David Crystal, M.A.K. Halliday, Joanna Thornborrow, Ken Hyland and Stephen Levey Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Grammar in Context is an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.

This is a resource book for teachers looking for ideas on how they can make pronunciation teaching more interesting. It contains a collection of pronunciation practice activities for a wide range of levels, using a variety of methods. Divided into two parts, the first part introduces information about phonetics and phonology as background to the teaching activities, without being overwhelming. It also highlights some of the current areas of debate and discussion in the teaching and learning of English pronunciation. The second part of the book contains nearly 100 pronunciation activities divided into eight sections: Developing awareness; Sounds; Connected speech: Syllables and stress; Intonation; Pronunciation and spelling, grammar and vocabulary; Testing and Resources for pronunciation teaching. The book is accompanied by an audio CD with material to support the activities.

A three-level (B1+ to C1) integrated skills course for higher education students at university or on foundation courses. Designed specifically for students preparing for university, this integrated skills course develops language and real academic skills essential for successful university studies across disciplines. With authentic lectures and seminars, language informed by the Cambridge Academic Corpus and Academic Word Lists, the course guarantees that the English students learn is up to date and relevant to them. The C1 Advanced level Audio CD includes extensive listening material with authentic Cambridge Unviersity lectures, seminars and interviews with university students providing invaluable learning and practice material for developing listening, note-taking, discussion and other skills specific to academic context.

A three-level (B1+ to C1) integrated skills course for higher education students at university or on foundation courses. Designed specifically for students preparing for university, this integrated skills course develops language and real academic skills essential for successful university studies across disciplines. With authentic lectures and seminars, language informed by the Cambridge Academic Corpus and Academic Word Lists, the course guarantees the English that students learn is up to date and relevant to them. The Teacher's Book provides extensive teacher support including teaching notes and additional photocopiable worksheets for the classroom.

A three-level (B1+ to C1) integrated skills course for higher education students at university or on foundation courses. Designed specifically for students preparing for university, this integrated skills course develops the language and real academic skills essential for successful university studies across disciplines. With authentic lectures and seminars, and with language informed by the Cambridge Academic Corpus and Academic Word Lists, the course guarantees that the English and the study skills students learn are up to date and relevant to them. The Teacher's Book provides extensive teacher support including teaching notes and additional worksheets for the classroom.

A comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English pronunciation. These Audio CDs accompany Pronunciation Tasks Student's Book and contain clear pronunciation models and material to improve listening comprehension for pre-intermediate learners of English both in and out of the language classroom.

This volume explores a number of themes of current interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres: the social and cultural context of academic writing; differences between the academic and non-academic text; the analysis of particular text types; variation within and across disciplines; and applications of theory in the teaching of writing. The contributors include many of today's most influential scholars in the area of academic literacy, working in a wide variety of tertiary academic contexts in Britain, Finland, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Australia and the United States. The implications will be of relevance to all those engaged in teaching academic writing to both native and non-native English speaking students in tertiary education around the world.

Pronunciation Plus helps intermediate-level students of North American English improve their pronunciation through a variety of stimulating listening and speaking tasks. Many of these tasks are done with a partner, giving students the opportunity to interact with their classmates while practicing their pronunciation. The book contains sixty 2-3 page units. Together they address all of the important elements of spoken English: individual speech sounds, stress and rhythm, sounds in connected speech, intonation, and pronouncing written words.

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English, originally published in 1985 by the English Language Research unit in Birmingham and revised in 1992, sets out David Brazil's description of the system of intonation in English.This model of English intonation takes a discourse-based approach and attempts to assign 'meaning' or a communicative value to the different aspects that make up the system of intonation. Chapters within the book descibe parts of the intonation system which vary according to speaker choice: the tone unit as a whole, prominence, key, pitch and orientation. Three chapters are devoted to tones and their communicative value.This is an important and controversial work, which has influenced scholars in the field and ELT materials writers alike.A cassette containing all the examples of intonation features in the book is available.

Pronunciation Tasks provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English pronunciation such as vowels, consonants, consonant clusters, syllables and stress, sounds and connected speech, intonation, sounds and grammar, and pronouncing written words.

Pronunciation Tasks is a new book for pre-intermediate learners providing comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English pronunciation. The 66 units are grouped under eight main headings: vowels, consonants, consonant clusters, syllables and stress, sounds and connected speech, intonation, sounds and grammar, and letters and sounds, ensuring that the pronunciation needs of all major first language groups are met.Each unit in Pronunciation Tasks is designed to take 15 to 25 minutes of classroom time and the methodology reflects the varied and stimulating activities found in communicative classrooms. For example, learners are asked to perform communicative tasks, analyse pronunciation and work out rules. The vocabulary used to illustrate sounds is drawn from the word lists provided in elementary and lower-intermediate course books and the example dialogues and texts present a real-world use of language.Pronunciation Tasks is suitable for use as a supplement to any main coursebook and the flexible structure of the material means that it can be used on both intensive and part-time courses. The units can be used in any order and so teachers can select those parts of the book which best suit their learners' needs. Many of the activities can also be used with students at a higher level.The Teacher's Book contains concise and helpful background information, suggestions on how to use the materials in class and ideas for extension activities. The answer keys and transcripts appear in both the Student's Book and the Teacher's Book.