Language Teaching & Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. A Frequency Dictionary of Russian

   core vocabulary for learners

   By Serge Sharoff, Elena Umanskaya, James Wilson

   Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries

   A Frequency Dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions. The dictionary is based on data from a 150-million-word internet corpus taken from more...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar

   3rd Edition

   By Philip Holmes, Ian Hinchcliffe

   Series: Routledge Comprehensive Grammars

   Winner of the Swedish National Language Council’s Erik Wellander Prize, 2003 Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar is an award-winning complete reference guide to modern Swedish grammar. Systematic and accessible, the volume is organised to promote a thorough understanding of Swedish grammar, presenting...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
3. French Grammar in Context

   4th Edition

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Critical ELT in Action

   Foundations, Promises, Praxis

   By Graham V. Crookes

   Uniquely bridging theory and practice, this text introduces and overviews the various domains associated with the term critical pedagogy in the field of TESOL/ELT. Critical pedagogy addresses concepts, values, curriculum, instructional and associated practices involved in language teaching for...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. English for International Journalists

   By Mike Gandon

   Edited by Heather Purdey

   English for International Journalists is a clear and engaging step-by-step guide for non-native speakers using English in journalism across all forms of media. In-depth language analysis is provided in the specialised context of journalism, as well as a comprehensive approach to the rules and...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Khoesan Languages

   Edited by Rainer Vossen

   Series: Routledge Language Family Series

   The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development. According to a widely accepted hypothesis, the Khoesan languages represent the...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Finnish

   By Merja Karalainen, Helena Sulkala

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   Explores many interesting details of Finnish syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon, providing the linguist, for the first time in English, the opportunity for cross-language comparisons and detailed linguistic analysis....

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader

   By Gareth King

   The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader is a comprehensive reader designed to provide varied, stimulating and up-to-date reading material for learners of Welsh at the intermediate level. The Welsh Reader provides a bridge between basic literacy skills and the ability to read full novels and...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

   By Yukio Tono, Makoto Yamazaki, Kikuo Maekawa

   Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries

   A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Japanese, providing a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a100 million word corpus, composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction and news texts in current use, the dictionary provides the...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor

    Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over...

    Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge