Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and production mediated by relations of power. Using this conceptual framework, the volume addresses ...

This is a completely revised edition of a comprehensive and popular introduction to the fast moving area of Forensic Genetics. The text begins with key concepts needed to fully appreciate the subject and moves on to examine the latest developments in the field. Now illustrated in full colour throughout, this accessible textbook includes numerous references to relevant casework.

With information on the full process of DNA evidence from collection at the scene of a crime to presentation in a le...

In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and wha...

Een ideale handleiding om je kind op een aangename en speelse manier groot te brengen.Heel wat kinderen kampen met een motorische achterstand, zo blijkt uit recent wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Liefst één op de drie kleuters blijkt bijzonder zwak te presteren. Geen wonder: stoepen en straten zijn te druk of onveilig geworden om er te spelen. Hoepels, springtouwen, ballen en ander 'beweeglijk' speelgoed zijn ingeruild voor computerspelletjes en het internet. Nochtans is het erg belangrijk dat ...

Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new edition of James's most enduringly popular work offers more information than any previous edition.

How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. A teacher who is able to accurately interpret the underlying relationship processes can learn to proactively, rather than reactively, influence the dynamics of any class. These are skills that can be taught.

This invaluable text explains how adult attachment theory offers new ways to examine professional teaching relationships, classroom management and collegial harmony: equally impor...

Logistics Management is designed for use on its own or with the Market Leader series. Ideal for students who need the language of more specialised areas of business English, the book focuses on the reading skills and vocabulary development required for logistics management. Logistics Management includes: * authentic reading texts from the Financial Times and other sources * a glossary of specialised language * two 'Check Tests' designed to help assess progress

From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives

We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr. Stuart Brown illustrates, play is anything but trivial. It is a biological drive as integral...

Niveau A1 bis B1

Zielgruppe:

Lernende der Grundstufe, die grammatisches Grundwissen wiederholen und vertiefen wollen.

In der aktualisierten Ausgabe der Grundstufen-Grammatik richtet sich der Wortschatz der Erklärungen und Übungen nach den Vorgaben des Europäischen Referenzrahmens. Die farbige Zuordnung der Übungen zu den Niveaustufen erleichtert eine gezielte Wiederholung und Vertiefung der jeweiligen Grammatik und hilft bei der Vorbereitung auf die Prüfungen der Niveaustufen A1, A2 und...