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2014年推薦新書~

Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, 6/e
－ A Course in Second Language Acquisition

Author：H. Douglas Brown
Publisher：Pearson Education ESL (2014)

ISBN：9780133041941
Price：NT$ 650

Principles of Language Learning and Teaching is the classic second language acquisition (SLA) course textbook used in language teacher education programs worldwide. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching introduces key concepts and offers straightforward definitions of terms, thought-provoking questions, and summary tables and charts. The sixth edition has been revised to include current research, updated references, and closer links between pedagogy and teaching.

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2014年推薦新書~

Public Speaking Matters
(International Edition)

Author：Kory Floyd
Publisher：McGraw-Hill Higher Education (2014)

ISBN：9781259253911
Price：NT$1,200

Public Speaking Matters teaches today’s diverse student population that adapting to the situation is crucial to speaking success across all segments or their lives. Students learn that adaptability does not mean changing their messages to suit what they believe the audience wants to hear. Instead, successful public speakers adapt to the audience, to the occasion, and to the situation at hand.

Combining LearnSmart’s adaptive suite of resources with student focused and highly relevant content, Public Speaking Matters helps students develop the confidence they need to become effective public speakers.

2014年推薦新書~

Macmillan Literature Collections：
Food Stories

Level：Advance / CEF Level：C2
Publisher：Macmillan Education (2014)

ISBN：9780230463912
Price：NT$ 170

Food Stories

This ‘tasty’ collection brings together five stories and extracts all with food at their heart. Food and literature have a long relationship and food is used to shed light on characters and relationships, from meals as the centre of  family life to food as a political symbol. With all kinds of stories and all kinds of foods, there will be something for all literature (and food) lovers to enjoy.
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2014年推薦新書~

The Resourceful Teacher Series

Teaching Grammar Creatively
(with CD-ROM/1片)

Author：Günter Gerngross．Herbert Puchta．Scott Thornbury
Publisher：Helbling Language (2006)

ISBN：9783902504296
Price：NT$ 1,300

Teaching Grammar Creatively offers more than 50 complete lessons covering a wide range of grammar structures, learner levels, and age groups. Each lesson is divided into two main sections: Language Awareness Activities and Creative Grammar Practice. The Language Awareness Activities are designed to introduce and provide initial practice of items that may not yet be familiar to your students. The Creative Grammar Practice section provides ideas for a deeper and more personalised familiarisation with these items, always with an element of individual creativity. Each lesson ends with the creation of a learner text –  a permanent and original record of the grammar, in the form of a story or a poem, for example.

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