Introduction |
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Unit 1 Reading non-fiction |
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Reading And Writing Skills |
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Types of question, language and style |
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Key reading skills for responding to passages |
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Planning and structuring a commentary |
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Using evidence and quotations |
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Types Of Non-Fiction Text |
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20 | (1) |
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33 | (7) |
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Memoirs and autobiographies |
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Practice and self-evaluation |
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Unit 2 Writing non-fiction |
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Approaching `directed writing' questions |
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66 | (2) |
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Approaching `writing for a specified audience' questions |
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68 | (3) |
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Planning written responses |
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71 | (5) |
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76 | (20) |
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Key focus: discursive writing and writing to argue |
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Practice and self-evaluation |
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108 | (2) |
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Unit 3 Imaginative writing |
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Exploring imaginative writing tasks |
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110 | (2) |
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Key reading and writing skills |
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112 | (23) |
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Creating your own imaginative and descriptive writing |
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135 | (12) |
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Practice and self-evaluation |
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147 | (6) |
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Unit 4 Text and discourse analysis |
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Features of spoken language |
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153 | (9) |
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162 | (6) |
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168 | (2) |
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Summary: key points for discourse analysis |
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Unit 5 Spoken language and social groups |
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The context of spoken language |
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Language used to include and exclude |
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178 | (14) |
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Non-standard features of English |
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192 | (6) |
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Speech sounds and accents |
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198 | (5) |
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Theories and studies of social variation in language |
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203 | (7) |
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Dialect, sociolect and idiolect |
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210 | (8) |
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Unit 6 English as a global language |
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English and other languages |
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Whose English is it? Kachru's Circles model |
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226 | (3) |
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From British to Global English |
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229 | (5) |
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English: standard and non-standard |
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234 | (7) |
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British vs American English |
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241 | (3) |
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244 | (7) |
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Unit 7 Child language acquisition |
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The main stages of early development |
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251 | (11) |
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Language acquisition by children and teenagers |
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262 | (11) |
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The functions of young people's language |
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273 | (3) |
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Theories of language acquisition |
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Part 2 Practice and self-evaluation |
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286 | (8) |
Index |
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Acknowledgements |
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