Language Learning

The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and structures, while placing strong emphasis on the development of communicative skills. Each level of the course comprises a textbook and workbook fully supported by a free interactive Companion Website with a wealth of additional resources.

Methods of Language Teaching is an innovative teaching tool which enables upper level trainee teachers to witness language teaching methods being applied in a classroom.  The DVD shows a series of lessons illustrating methods that have been widely used, as taught by teachers who have made extensive use of these methods in their own classrooms.

DVD clips can be viewed at You Tube.
 

Colloquial Yiddish provides the first widely available, easily accessible, comprehensive Yiddish course designed primarily for the twenty-first-century international English-speaking independent learner and suitable for use in Yiddish classes worldwide.

The lives of many families involve contact with more than one language and culture on a daily basis. Growing Up with Two Languages is aimed at the many parents and professionals who feel uncertain about the best way to go about helping children gain maximum benefit from the multilingual situation.  The third edition now includes many updates:

• a dedicated website with new and updated Internet resources
• a new chapter giving the perspective of adults who have themselves grown up with more than one language
• a new chapter presenting research into bilingual language acquisition with information about further reading
• new and updated first-hand advice and examples throughout.

The new Language Learning Online Catalog is now available online. You can use it to preview titles, save the full details of a title to your booklist and e-mail to friends or colleagues. You can also save this information as a spreadsheet for your reference and instantly recommend books to your librarian using the online forms. Click here to view.

The Linguist List has posted a review of A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese, by Richard Xiao, Paul Rayson and Tony McEnery.
 

“Will no doubt be of great use and interest to many…my main reaction upon perusing this book has been a feeling of regret that it was not available to me years ago when I was first studying Chinese." – The Linguist List
 

Read the full review.