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Bloomsbury grammar guide
This guide is a simple, easy-to-use handbook that shows how the English language works. An A-Z section deals with commonly-made mistakes and points of confusion. Punctuation, common errors, and words, phrases, sentences and clauses are also covered.
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Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English
This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It can also be used by English speakers and is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been extensively piloted. The book guides the reader through the process of writing science research and will also help with writing a Master's or Doctoral thesis in English.
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Measuring Readability in Financial Disclosures
Defining and measuring readability in the context of financial disclosures becomes important with the increasing use of textual analysis and the Securities and Exchange Commission's plain English initiative. We propose defining readability as the effective communication of valuation-relevant information. The Fog Index—the most commonly applied readability measure—is shown to be poorly specified in financial applications. Of Fog's two components, one is misspecified and the other is difficult to measure. We report that 10-K document file size provides a simple readability proxy that outperforms the Fog Index, does not require document parsing, facilitates replication, and is correlated with alternative readability constructs.
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Leaving tomorrow : a novel
In the small Alberta town of Tomorrow, young Arthur yearns for a larger life. His father prefers the love of horses and good books, while his mother is guided by practicality and her faith. Bev, his rough-edged brother, chooses action over thinking. Among them is the solitary Arthur -- intelligent, curious, garrulous, romantic and at odds with his surroundings and his religion. His one ally is his adopted cousin, the fearless Isobel. Their mutual admiration for the land, for literature, for all things French and for each other sustains Arthur. When Bev goes to fight in Vietnam and returns emotionally broken, relationships within the family change and tensions between the two brothers rise. With a secret between them, Arthur leaves for Paris, where he pursues his passions for writing and women and at last claims the life he has always wanted. But dreams and reality don't always match, and it takes going away for Arthur to appreciate the push and pull of both home and love.
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At the Crossroads of TESOL and English Medium Instruction
The connection between TESOL and English-medium instruction (EMI) may appear at first to be somewhat tenuous. After all, teaching English to speakers of other languages is typically accomplished through deliberate, form-focused instruction. On the other hand, EMI presupposes and is enabled by the ability of all participants (e.g., teachers, students, administrative staff) to use English as a lingua franca. Yet if EMI and TESOL are not obvious companions they can exist in a very natural symbiosis, and can potentially inform each other, both in research and in practice. The authors illustrate this first by examining definitions of EMI, and then contrasting them with an analysis of the characteristics of research studies which situate themselves in the area of EMI. After this opening analysis, they introduce the contributions in this special issue as case studies for the opportunities existing for cross-pollination between TESOL and EMI. The authors conclude by arguing that the rapid growth of EMI means that it will be an increasingly important factor in the future, and therefore these connections need not only to be understood, but to be exploited more fully, for the mutual benefit of transnational education and TESOL. (Verlag, adapt.).
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A Study of Internet-Based Collaborative Translation Model for Chinese American Literature
The Internet has brought great changes to our study, life, interpersonal communication and so on. With the popularization of the Internet, \"Internet +\" has become a new model that promotes the rapid development of various industries and nobody can escape from it. The Internet collaborative translation model can improve translating efficiency and quality, and it is conducive to the communication and broadcast of different cultures. So, it can be taken as a new possibility and attempt to translate Chinese-American literature. But, there are also some problems such as inconvenient management of translating process, great differences in styles and quality of translated texts, and so on.
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Corpus linguistics : refinements and reassessments
Throughout history, linguists and literary scholars have been impelled by curiosity about particular linguistic or literary phenomena to seek to observe them in action in original texts. The fruits of each earlier enquiry in turn nourish the desire to continue to acquire knowledge, through further observation of newer linguistic facts. As time goes by, the corpus linguist operates increasingly in the awareness of what has gone before. Corpus Linguistics, thirty years on, is less an innocent sortie into corpus territory on the basis of a hunch than an informed, critical reassessment of existing.
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The returns to english-language skills in India
India’s colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. In this study, we use individual-level data from the 2005 India Human Development Survey to quantify the effects of English-language skills on wages. After controlling for age, social group, schooling, geography, and proxies for ability, we find that hourly wages are on average 34% higher for men who speak fluent English and 13% higher for men who speak a little English relative to men who do not speak English. The return to fluent English is as large as the return to completing secondary school and half as large as the return to completing a bachelor’s degree. In addition, we find that more experienced and more educated workers receive higher returns to English. The complementarity between English skills and education appears to have strengthened over time—only the more educated among young workers receive a premium for English-speaking ability, whereas older workers across all education groups do.
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