About this product: This book demonstrates the vital connection between language and gesture, and why it is critical for research on second language acquisition to take into account the full spectrum of communicative phenomena. The study of gesture in applied linguistics is just beginning to come of age. This edited volume, the first of its kind, covers a broad range of concerns that are central to the field of SLA. The chapters focus on a variety of second-language contexts, including adult classroom and naturalistic learners, and represent learners from a variety of language and cultural backgrounds. Gesture: Second Language Acquisition and Classroom Research is organized in five sections: Part I, Gesture and its L2 Applications, provides both an overview of gesture studies and a review of the L2 gesture research. Part II, Gesture and Making Meaning in the L2, offers three studies that all take an explicitly sociocultural view of the role of gesture in SLA. Part III, Gesture and Communication in the L2, focuses on the use and comprehension of gesture as an aspect of communication. Part IV, Gesture and Linguistic Structure in the L2, addresses the relationship between gesture and the acquisition of linguistic features, and how gesture relates to proficiency. Part V, Gesture and the L2 Classroom, considers teachers' gestures, students' gestures, and how students' interpret teachers' gestures. Although there is a large body of research on gesture across a number of disciplines including anthropology, communications, psychology, sociology, and child development, to date there has been comparatively little investigation of gesture within applied linguistics. This volume provides readers unfamiliar with L2 gesture studies with a powerful new lens with which to view many aspects of language in use, language learning, and language teaching.
About this product: Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition is an interdisciplinary and timely edited book of essays and empirical studies, most of which are based on the papers presented at the Form and Meaning Conference held in Chicago in 2002. The goal of the conference and now of the book is to present linguistic and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition, attempting to integrate external and internal issues in interlanguage development, while outlining directions for future research. The editors address questions, such as: What is the nature and sequence of the form-meaning mapping process? How are these connections made? How are these connections used to construct grammars and lexicons? And, how can conditions and external factors be manipulated to improve the chances of making these form-meaning connections?
Contributors to this volume include such second language acquisition scholars as Susan Gass, Nick Ellis, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Catherine Doughty, and Diane Larsen-Freeman. They address these form-meaning issues from a variety of settings and from multiple perspectives.
Researchers and graduate students in applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and language pedagogy will find this volume to be an important resource.
About this product: Based on UCLA’s executive education mergers and acquisitions program, this concise guide will help professionals needing M&A knowledge understand legal and regulatory environments; how to structure deals from financial, tax, and accounting standpoints; and how to analyze valuation models and use them to gauge the effects of a potential merger. Combining the best components of a live seminar with the detail of a textbook, Mergers and Acquisitions provides the qualitative and quantitative M&A tools today’s executive needs. J. Fred Weston (Los Angeles, CA) is the Cordner Professor of Money and Financial Markets at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written or co-authored several business titles.
About this product: This law book is a more comprehensive, practical approach to the subject of mergers and acquisitions than the highly theoretical or confined approaches taken in previous works. Principally designed for law school students, Business Planning for Mergers and Acquisitions presents a thorough treatment of the merger and acquisition process from the perspective of a practicing attorney. It will also be helpful to attorneys and investment bankers practicing in the merger and acqusition area, as well in business school courses dealing with mergers and acquisitions.
The text considers numerous topics arising in the business of mergers and acquisitions, including corporate, securities, antitrust, pre-merger notification, federal income taxatation, accounting, and valuation. Thompson integrates the consideration of these topics while focusing on various types of merger and acquisition transactions.
A significant number of problems are used to illustrate the many varied and interrelated principles, and each chapter begins with a problem designed to present a real life setting for an examination of the topics covered in that chapter. The approach is intended to help the law student or other reader gain both a practical and theoretical understanding of many of the legal problems a business attorney will likely encounter in practice. The deals presented offer some of the most challenging and intellectually reewarding work for attorneys.
To better illustrate many of the transactional principles, reference is made throughout the book to the 1989 acqusition by Time, Inc. of Warner Communications, Inc. Business Planning for Mergers and Acqusitions offers a thorough and engaging course for law students who may plan to practice in business law.
A teacher's manual and a 2003 supplement are also available.
About this product: This guide is designed to help the acquisition librarian to coordinate a programme which will review materials as they pass through the acquisition process. It provides basic preservation terminology and discusses the role the acquisition librarian plays in the preservation of library collections. The book also encourages acquisition librarians to integrate preservation activities into the acquisition process, and discusses the coordination of acquisition, collection development and preservation functions. It offers scenarios for handling items in poor condition in the acquisition process and concludes with a full reading list.
About this product: Evaluating serials vendors is a way to ensure cost-effective quality service. The "Guide to Performance Evaluation of Serials Vendors" provides the information necessary to collect and analyze data on serial vendor performance, compare vendor performance and systems, and incorporate vendor evaluation into regular work activity so that crisis situations do not force the issue. Among the topics covered are: applying quantitative and qualitative measures; techniques for evaluating subscription agents and standing order vendors; obtaining data for bid situations; and disclosure of evaluation results. An annotated bibliography leads to more information on evaluating serials vendors. The "Guide to Performance Evaluation of Serials Vendors" provides an approach to ensuring continual high quality and consistent service and access for library customers.
About this product: Operations in English 55 Natural and Logical Sequences for Language Acquisition by: Gayle Nelson and Thomas Winters Level: Beginner to advanced intermediate, Primary – Adult
An operation is a pair work activity in which students communicate naturally to accomplish a set task step by step. The students try to use language accurately. One gives instructions very clearly; the other follows them exactly. If the first student makes a mistake, the result is usually funny as well as instructive. The activity is effective both in building conversation skills and as a game.
What are the tasks? The 55 operations include classroom activities (using a calculator or making a paper airplane), household activities (setting a table or pounding a nail), games and exercises (hopping on one leg or playing dice), food and recipes (making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or pudding), communication (mailing a letter or using a fax machine), and such miscellaneous activities as writing a check or using an automatic teller or vending machine. After the initial pair work, the authors suggest a variety of follow-up activities, such as · having the students describe the sequence (in the first, second, or third person using whatever tenses they are working on) · creating new operations · writing mini dramas · doing related out-of-class research.
· Inexperienced teachers will appreciate the easy way each activity is presented and the simple explanation of what operations are and why and how to use them.
· More experienced teachers will find that these operations are quite compatible with a wide variety of teaching approaches like James Asher's Total Physical Response, the Silent Way, or the Natural Approach.
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