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This course is designed to begin development of superior reading skills, through a focus on Extensive Reading. Students will be introduced to a variety of activities during the semester to increase their understanding of how and why they read.
This book provides extensive reading materials to conduct activities for teaching language. The activities help teachers introduce extensive reading to students, to organize and introduce suitable reading materials, to motivate and support, and to monitor and evaluate reading. The activities also link reading with particular aspects of language learning, for example, increasing oral fluency, improving reading and writing skills, or learning new vocabulary. In the end, 12 most frequently asked questions about extensive reading are listed and answered, such as different levels of readings for students, and a couple of further readings.
This book is a textbook on journalism aimed at professional journalists, students, and trainees. It covers the full range of skills needed by reporters in an industry where ownership, technology, staffing and the flow of information are constantly changing. A guide to the universals of good journalistic practice, the book aims to describe new techniques which, when added to the more traditional ones, make a universally skilled journalist. This fifth edition includes a dozen case history panels giving the context and stories behind articles David Randall has been involved with over decades of reporting for the UK’s leading newspapers.
This book illuminates how culture shapes social world and how society shapes culture. It starts from ways of looking at culture, goes through cultural meaning, culture as a social creation, production of culture, distribution of culture, reception of culture, organizational cultures, cultural communities, and finally ends at the examination of the interactions between culture and power. It explores stories, beliefs, media, ideas, art, religious practices, fashions, and rituals from a sociological perspective, and it provides a wide spectrum of cultural examples from multiple countries and time periods. As the fourth edition, it offers new coverage of nationalism as a cultural object, the construction of gender and sexualities, cross-cultural trust, etc.
