This guide, designed to help language educators meet the needs of program evaluation and assessment often requested by their institutions, provides step-by-step advice to help educators conduct evaluation and assessment and to show how it can lead to meaningful programmatic change and provide useful data on which to base curricular decisions.
From "abbreviation" and "abessive" to "zero morph" and "zero-derivation," this title translates complicated morphology terms and phrases into clear definitions. It also offers an introductory, nontechnical overview of morphology for the beginner and an annotated bibliography with suggestions for further reading.
The Reminiscences of Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon of Tudor Place
As a Georgetown resident for nearly a century, Britannia Kennon (1815-1911) of Tudor Place was close to the key political events and figures of her time. This record of her experiences-now available to the public for the first time-offers a unique glimpse of nineteenth-century America.
Documenting a study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, this book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms - especially pain - and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life.
One of the keys to learning the Turkish language is to understand the importance and function of the verb. This title helps both the beginning and advanced student of the language by providing approximately 1,000 verbs in context as they appear in the colloquial Turkish phrases and sentences, or short dialogues in translation.
Provides Syrian terms for the language spoken in everyday life by Muslims primarily in Damascus, but understandable throughout Syria as well as in the broader linguistic areas of present-day Lebanon, Jordan, and among the Palestinians and the Arabic-speaking population of Israel.
Presents the core vocabulary of everyday life in Morocco - from the kitchen to the mosque, from the hardware store to the natural world of plants and animals. This title contains myriad examples of usage, including formulaic phrases and idiomatic expressions.
As in the ever-changing English language, Brazilian Portuguese is colorful and ever-changing in its giria or slang (from the simply conversational to the vulgar). This dictionary, containing over 7500 Brazilian expressions, is suitable for travelers, businesspeople, translators and others.
