CPE Use of English Examination Practice

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Essential Business Grammar Builder

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"Essential Business Grammar Builder" presents and practises the fundamental grammar requirements for students studying Business English. It is ideal for use in class and for self-study. Key features: contains 60 units of grammar and functions; each unit is presented clearly on a double-page spread for simple cross-referencing and checking; over 100 authentic citations from sources such as "Newsweek", "Wall Street Journal" and "International Herald Tribune" provide authentic examples of the target language; includes 18 self-administered tests to check understanding of the grammar, plus a preliminary test designed to raise awareness of their starting level and help assess progress; all exercises with a speaking/listening context are recorded on the Audio CD and can be used to check answers and practise pronunciation; the grammar points are reinforced through authentic cartoons, creating a motivating context where students can enjoy the application of their learning; and, the appendices include tables of regular verb forms, a list of irregular verbs, help with spelling and punctuation, a glossary of key grammar terms, all indexed, and a full answer key.

Email and Commercial Correspondence

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If you write emails and letters as part of your work, then this book is for you. By applying the suggested guidelines, you will stand a much greater chance of getting the desired reply to your emails in the shortest time possible.

Some of the key guidelines covered include:

• Write meaningful subject lines - otherwise recipients may not even open your mail.
• Always put the most important point in the first line - otherwise the reader may not read it.
• Be concise and only mention what is truly relevant. Write the minimum amount possible - you will also make fewer mistakes!
• Be a little too formal 
• than too informal - you don’t want to offend anyone.
• If you have two long important things to say, say them in separate emails.
• Give clear instructions and reasonable deadlines.
• If you need people to cooperate with you, it is essential to highlight the benefits for them of cooperating with you.
• Empathize with your recipient's busy workload.
• Never translate typical phrases literally - learn equivalent phrases.
The book concludes with a chapter of useful phrases. There is also a brief introduction for trainers on how to teach Business / Commercial English.

Practical Phonetics and Phonology A Resource Book for Students

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Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings―all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections―introduction, development, exploration and extension―which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained.

Revised and updated throughout, this third edition of Practical Phonetics and Phonology:

• presents the essentials of the subject and their day-to-day applications in an engaging and accessible manner
• covers all the core concepts of speech science, such as the phoneme, syllable structure, production of speech, vowel and consonant possibilities, glottal settings, stress, rhythm, intonation and the surprises of connected speech
• incorporates classic readings from key names in the discipline including David Abercrombie, David Crystal, Dennis Fry, Daniel Jones, Peter Ladefoged, Peter Trudgill and John Wells
• includes an audio CD containing a collection of samples provided by genuine speakers of 25 accent varieties from Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore and West Africa
• gives outlines of the sound systems of six key languages from around the world
• contains over a hundred activity 
•  exercises, many accompanied by audio material
• is accompanied by a brand new companion website featuring additional guidance, audio files, keys to activities in the book, further exercises and activities, and extra practice in phonemic transcription
New features of this edition include an additional reading on teaching pronunciation, phonetic descriptions of three more languages (Japanese, Polish and Italian), expanded material on spelling/sound relationships, more information on acquiring the pronunciation of a foreign language, additional suggestions for further reading and much new illustrative material.
Written by authors who are experienced teachers and researchers, this best-selling textbook will appeal to all students of English language and linguistics and those training for a certificate 
 in TEFL.

Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research

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The clear and practical writing of
Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating
Quantitative and Qualitative Research has made this book a
favorite.  In precise step-by-step language the book helps you
learn how to conduct, read, and evaluate research studies. 
Key changes include: expanded coverage of ethics and new research
articles

Coming To Terms A Theory of Writing Assessment

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In a provocative book-length essay, Patricia Lynne argues that most programmatic assessment of student writing in U.S. public and higher education is conceived in the terms of mid-20th century positivism. Since composition as a field had found its most compatible home in constructivism, she asks, why do compositionists import a conceptual frame for assessment that is incompatible with composition theory?

By casting this as a clash of paradigms, Lynne is able to highlight the ways in which each theory can and cannot influence the shape of assessment within composition. She laments, as do many in composition, that the objectively oriented paradigm of educational assessment theory subjugates and discounts the very social constructionist principles that empower composition pedagogy. Further, Lynne criticizes recent practice for accommodating the big business of educational testing—especially for capitulating to the discourse of positivism embedded in terms like "validity" and "reliability." These terms and concepts, she argues, have little theoretical significance within composition studies, and their technical and philosophical import are downplayed by composition assessment scholars.

There is a need, Lynne says, for terms of assessment that are native to composition. To open this needed discussion within the field, she analyzes cutting-edge assessment efforts, including the work of Broad and Haswell, and she advances a set of alternate terms for evaluating assessment practices, a set of terms grounded in constructivism and composition.

Coming to Terms is ambitious and principled, and it takes a controversial stand on important issues. This strong new volume in assessment theory will be of serious interest to assessment specialists and their students, to composition theorists, and to those now mounting assessments in their own programs.

Tech Talk Elementary

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