Yao'an Lolo Grammar Sketch
Title | Yao'an Lolo Grammar Sketch PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | |
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A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan
Title | A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Cebuano language |
ISBN |
Day of Reckoning (Sean Dillon Series, Book 8)
Title | Day of Reckoning (Sean Dillon Series, Book 8) PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Higgins |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2011-06-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 000737397X |
The incomparable Jack Higgins returns to the bestseller lists, launching undercover enforcer Sean Dillon into a most spectacular adventure – a no-holds-barred battle with a Mafia don.
School Dropout and Completion
Title | School Dropout and Completion PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Lamb |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2010-11-29 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9048197635 |
School dropout remains a persistent and critical issue in many school systems, so much so that it is sometimes referred to as a crisis. Populations across the globe have come to depend on success at school for establishing careers and gaining access to post-school qualifications. Yet large numbers of young people are excluded from the advantages that successful completion of school brings and as a result are subjected to consequences such as higher likelihood of unemployment, lower earnings, greater dependence on welfare and poorer physical health and well-being. Over recent decades, most western nations have stepped up their efforts to reduce drop out and raise school completion rates while maintaining high standards. How school systems have approached this, and how successful they are, varies. This book compares the various approaches by evaluating their impact on rates of dropout and completion. Case studies of national systems are used to highlight the different approaches including institutional arrangements and the various alternative secondary school programs and their outcomes. The evaluation is based on several key questions: What are the main approaches? How do they work? For whom do they work? And, how successful are they in promoting high rates of completion and equivalent outcomes for all? This book examines the nature of the dropout problem in advanced industrialized countries with the goal of developing a broader, international understanding that can feed into public policy to help improve completion rates worldwide.
Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China
Title | Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China PDF eBook |
Author | Stevan Harrell |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2001-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520219892 |
This is a varied and wide-ranging collection of essays by Yi and foreign scholars on the history, traditional society, and modern social changes among the 7 million Yi people of Southwest China.
Grammar with Vocabularies of Volapük: (the Language of the World) for All Speakers of the English Language
Title | Grammar with Vocabularies of Volapük: (the Language of the World) for All Speakers of the English Language PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Martin Schleyer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Contrastive Pragmatics
Title | Contrastive Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Aijmer |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2011-06-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027286647 |
We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).