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Understanding and Teaching English Spelling A Strategic Guide


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English | 2018 | pages: 329 | ISBN: 1138082678, 113808266X | PDF | 3,2 mb
Concise and engaging, this text provides pre-service and practicing English language teachers with the knowledge they need to successfully teach the spelling of English. Offering context and explanation for the English spelling system as well as uniquely addressing specific problems in learning the spelling of English words, this book empowers readers with strategies for coping with these problems. Divided into six accessible sections, Brown covers the history of English spelling, the influence of technology on spelling, the role of punctuation, the features of present-day English spelling, teaching strategies for coping with difficult spelling, and the future of spelling and literacy. The short, digestible chapters include practical learning objectives and end-of-chapter exercises to help teachers understand and explain English spelling concepts.

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Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009224034 | 257 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the ‘death’ of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance drama as a critical field. While the prohibition on playing in many respects killed the English stage, drama thrived in print, with stationers publishing unprecedented numbers of previously unprinted professional plays, vaunting playbooks’ ties to the receding theatrical past. Marketed in terms of novelty and nostalgia, plays unprinted before 1642 gained new life. Stationers also anatomized the whole corpus of English drama, printing the first anthologies and comprehensive catalogues of drama. Craig captures this crucial turning-point in English theatre history with chapters on royalist nostalgia, clandestine theatrical revivals, dramatic compendia, and the mysteriously small number of Shakespeare editions issued during the period, as well as a new incisive reading of Beaumont and Fletcher’s A King and No King.

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The Levellers Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution


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2013 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0719089360 | PDF | 3 MB
The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil-war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalization of parliamentarian thought, Foxley shows that the Levellers’ originality lay in their subtle and unexpected combination of different strands within parliamentarianism. The book takes full account of recent scholarship, and contributes to historical debates on the development of radical and republican politics in the civil war period, the nature of tolerationist thought, the significance of the Leveller movement and the extent of the Levellers’ influence in the ranks of the New Model Army.

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The English Civil War


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1999 | 377 Pages | ISBN: 1840222220 | PDF | 12 MB
Between August 1642, when the Royal Standard of King Charles I was raised above Castle Hill at Nottingham, and September 1651, when the second Charles barely managedto escape to France from the bloody chaos of Worcester, three separate civil Wars between the Crown and Parliament were contested. This text is a military history dealing with the operational aspects of these wars, and is based on a combination of orginal sources and extensive studies of the actual battle fields – battles such as Edgehill, Cropredy, Lostwithiel, Marston Moor and Naseby.

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The Debate on the English Reformation Second Edition


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2014 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0719086612 | PDF | 3 MB
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of The Debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern historiography as well as to Reformation studies. It explores the way in which successive generations have found the Reformation relevant to their own times and have in the process rediscovered, redefined and rewritten its story. It shows that not only people who called themselves historians but also politicians, ecclesiastics, journalists and campaigners argued about interpretations of the Reformation and the motivations of its principal agents.The author also shows how, in the twentieth century, the debate was influenced by the development of history as a subject and, in the twenty-first century, by state control of the academy. Undergraduates, researchers and lecturers alike will find this an invaluable and essential companion to their studies.

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Taiwan in Simple English The Best Guidebook for Travelers and Tour Guides, 3rd Edition


Free Download Paul O’Hagan, Peg Tinsley, Owain Mckimm, "Taiwan in Simple English: The Best Guidebook for Travelers and Tour Guides (English for Tourism), 3rd Edition"
English | ISBN: 9863180351 | 2019 | 214 pages | PDF | 665 MB
This book is comprised of 32 interesting articles that introduce Taiwan from different perspectives, including its geographical position, customs, daily life, historical background, and present development.

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