Learning and Teaching in the Primary Classroom

By: Maurice J. Galton
publisher: SAGE
year: 2007, pages: 161
PDF 2.3 Mb

Providing a framework for understanding the individual needs of pupils, this book describes how you can tailor your teaching methods to maximise learning. You will learn how to take account of your pupils' knowledge, skills and attitudes when selecting and applying principles of instruction, in order to make learning in your classroom as successful as possible.

Packed with informative case studies and classroom examples, this book explores how learning is conceptualised, direct instruction, interactive teaching, teaching as scaffolding, and how to overcome obstacles to learning.

This is a must-read for all practitioners and students of primary education who wish to understand how to best apply theories of instruction, and provide effective, dynamic teaching. Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-144) and index.

Download Link

Readmore »»

Grammar to Go: How It Works and How To Use It, Third Edition

By: Barbara Goldstein, Jack Waugh, Karen Linsky
publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
year: 2009, pages: 291, PDF 2 Mb

Brief and basic in its coverage, GRAMMAR TO GO offers students a unique focus on sentence diagramming that helps them visualize and understand how words connect.

Perfect as a primary text or as a supplement for courses with an emphasis on learning basic grammar and punctuation skills, this edition incorporates a wide range of new material to help students hone their skills--including additional traditional practice sets, more integrated assignments, increased opportunities for writing practice, and expanded discussions of each chapter's content on the book specific website.

Download Link

Readmore »»

Adjunct Adverbials in English (Studies in English Language)

By Hilde Hasselgård
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 338, Date: 2010-03-31
ISBN-10 : 0521515564, PDF 2.2 Mb

In this original study, Hilde Hasselgård discusses the use of adverbials in English, through examining examples found in everyday texts. Adverbials - clause elements that typically refer to circumstances of time, space, reason and manner - cover a range of meanings and can be placed at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

The description of the frequency of meaning types and discussion of the reasons for selecting positions show that the use of adverbials differs across text types. Adverbial usage is often linked to the general build-up of a text and part of its content and purpose.

In using real texts, Hasselgård identifies a challenge for the classification of adjuncts, and also highlights that some adjuncts have uses that extend into the textual and interpersonal domains, obscuring the traditional divisions between adjuncts, disjuncts and conjuncts.

Download Link

Readmore »»

An Introduction to Syntax

By Robert D. Van Valin,
C,.dge U--ity Pr.ss
Year 2001 | ISBN: 0521631998, 0521635667
256 pages | PDF | 6,4 MB

Clearly organized and accessible, this comprehensive new textbook provides students with a thorough grounding in the analysis of syntactic structure using data from a typologically wide variety of languages.

The book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using examples from a range of phenomena in human languages. It also includes a chapter on theories of syntax. Each chapter includes generous exercises and recommendations for further study.

Download Link

Readmore »»