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Textbooks
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The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese
The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese offers the student with no prior background in Chinese competency in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Using a staggered introduction of characters the program takes students from complete beginner to post-intermediate level in all four areas.
The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese - Level 2 now available!
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.
Research & Reference
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Hot off the press: the new 2012 Reference Catalog is here
Can you hear the drum roll? The 2012 Reference Catalog has arrived and can be downloaded today. Simple. You can learn about all our 2011 and 2012 Library Reference titles, both in print and eBooks, across the humanities and social sciences. And we have packed the Catalog full of new interactive features. Read on for the full low down.
New - Methods of Language Teaching DVD
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.
General Interest
Colloquial Yiddish
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.
New - Growing Up with Two Languages
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.
News
New Language Learning Online Catalog
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.
Review of A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese
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
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