Product Description
DIGITAL - Cambridge Topics in English Language Language Change Digital Edition (2 Years)
Author(s): Ian Cushing
Format: Digital
Language Change Digital edition is an introduction to how English has developed, grown and changed through history. It is suitable for students at advanced level and beyond.
Written with input from the Cambridge English Corpus, it explores the nature, origins and process of language change, as well as attitudes towards it. Furthermore, it looks at the policies and politics encouraging or halting change.
Using activities to help explain analysis methods, this digital resource guides students through modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.
Features:
Personalise Digital editions to your needs – set homework, link to the web and share annotations with your class.
Instruction in analysis techniques and research methodology, as well as examples of academic writing at an accessible level, give students models to follow for their own work.
Examples from the Cambridge English Corpus give students access to prestigious academic global English research, as well as insight into corpus linguistics and techniques for corpus creation and analysis.
Wider reading suggestions guide students towards broader topic exposure, encouraging them to research areas that interest them.
Longer research tasks encourage a greater depth of application and provide inspiration for non-examined assessment (NEA).
Written to support A Level and IB qualifications: in particular Cambridge International A Level English Language (9093) Paper 3 Text Analysis and Paper 4 Language Topics, AS & A Level English Language, AS & A Level English Language and Literature and IB English A.
Short activities and exam-style questions provide practice and help students get a deeper understanding of key concepts.
The Digital Edition is simple to navigate for both students and teachers – find notes quickly with highlights and bookmarks.
Simple and easy to use, link directly into Cambridge Digital from Moodle, Blackboard and any other VLE.
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Accessibility Information: The accessibility information of this publication is unknown.
Contents:
Series introduction
How to use this book
Topic introduction
1. The nature of language change
2. The origins of English
3. Processes of language change
4. Attitudes to language change
5. Global change
Ideas and answers
Transciprtion key and IPA chart
References
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements.
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