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This highly successful program assists in the development of all the language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) by presenting realistic settings, situations, and contexts. Perfect for use in an intermediate or advanced Russian course, V Puti offers conversational exercises, various readings (biographies, poems, literature and historical texts) and grammatical explanations and practice.
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Best Russky textbook.......2007-01-25
If you really intend to become fluent, this is a necessary text.
Schaums Outline is great, but this gives so much profound nuance, is great concise form. Pity that I already bought the awful 'Troika.'
Academia seems to dumb down teaching languages, so student must pay for more courses. Why else would academe push such trash, as Troika?
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Texts and Contexts: A Contemporary Approach to College Writing
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Write better essays with TEXTS AND CONTEXTS: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO COLLEGE WRITING! With high-interest readings, tips for writing good essays both in and out of class, and a comprehensive grammar review, this developmental English text provides you with the skills you need for college success. Readings cover compelling topics such as censorship of high school newspapers, rating movies, analyzing the job market, and whether or not college athletics should be reformed. Selections written by students give you realistic expectations for your own writing and help you build on your own skills.
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Weaver shows her growth as a teacher and researcher by bringing new insight and applications to her beliefs. A good book for all teachers who have their students write.
- Writing Teacher
More than fifteen years ago, Constance Weaver's Grammar for Teachers (NCTE, 1979) broke new ground by responding to widespread concern about the place of grammar in the curriculum. Suggesting that teachers need to know key aspects of grammar in order to teach writing more effectively, Weaver also argued that students need to be guided in learning and applying grammatical concepts as they revise and edit their writing. Attention to sentence structure and mechanics during the process of writing would result in better products.
With Teaching Grammar in Context, Weaver extends her philosophy by offering teachers a rationale and practical ideas for teaching grammar not in isolation but in the context of writing. She begins by introducing some common meanings of "grammar" and provides a historical overview of traditional reasons for teaching grammar as a school subject. After examining those reasons, she questions them, citing decades of research which suggests that grammar taught in isolation has little, if any, effect on most students' writing.
To lay the groundwork for a more effective approach, Weaver considers how preschoolers learn the basic structures of their native language and how second-language grammar is acquired. She goes on to suggest a research-based perspective on the concept of error and on the writing "errors" our students make, concluding with practical alternatives to what Lois Rosen has dubbed "the error hunt." Equally useful is Weaver's examination of the aspects of grammar on which we might focus as we guide our students in writing and revising sentences and in editing selected pieces. Her final chapter addresses the teaching of grammar from the perspective of learning theory.
The appendix includes numerous sample lessons from Weaver's own teaching, illustrating the five broad topics suggested in the text:
- teaching concepts of subject, verb, clause, sentence, and related editing concepts
- teaching style through sentence combining and generating
- teaching sentence sense and style through manipulation of syntactic elements
- teaching the power of dialects and dialects of power
- teaching punctuation and mechanics for convention, clarity, and style.
Teaching Grammar in Context fills a long-standing gap in the literature on teaching writing. It will prove invaluable to all practicing and preservice teachers, especially those at the middle and high school levels, where grammar is taught most intensively.
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Excellent source for teachers, parents.......2000-06-22
WARNING: This book is NOT a grammar handbook. It is NOT a small-minded diatribe against the deplorable state of education today. It is NOT a frivolous "just let the kids write anyway they want" text either.
Instead, Connie Weaver has created a text that reintroduces sanity to the issue of how to teach grammar, and its kin, writing.
This text clearly explains the history of grammar and how it has been taught in history. It addresses how children learn language (and thus grammar)and what does that mean for the way we teach it.
In particular, she share the overwhelming compelling evidence of numerous studies that we can not teach grammar in isolation through drills and worksheets.
What is then WONDERFUL about this text is that she goes on to show what DOES work in teaching grammar to students. She outlines specific lessons and how and why they work. And, of course, she backs it up with some research from the field.
Anyone who plans on being a teacher in elementary or a language arts teacher in the higher grades should be REQUIRED to read this book. Parents who want to know how their children can benefit from grammar instruction combined with whole language ideals (reading and writing) should read this.
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Students learn more, remember more, and can use grammar more effectively when they learn language in context. GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT offers comprehensive explanations, culturally rich readings, and numerous practice and writing actitivies.
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Confusing and full of typos.......2002-12-18
This book can be quite confusing at times, and is best used with a teacher in a class. It's not designed for self-study. There are quite a few errors in the book as well. The editor needs to go through it again and fix the mistakes. Some sections introduce a grammar point, and then offer NO practice for that point.
Grammar in Context.......2001-05-02
In response to Chen-Wu's review: This reviewer is confusing the instructor's manual, which has tests and answers, with the main text, which has about 400 pages of contextualized grammar presentations, charts, exercises, and activities.
A misleading message.......2001-03-16
The book though titled Grammar in Context (ESL Series) is actually a booklet of about 48 pages with merely some drills and keys in it. The book is of no use unless you already have Grammar in Context (paperback edition). In my opinion, this booklet should be treated as an attachment to the original book Grammar in Context and ought not to be sold separately . Besides, all the bookreviews under the item are related to the original book Grammar in Context (paperback edition). So be careful when you order the book. I suggest the bookreviews under this item be removed.
Good book to start with.......2000-09-07
I found this book quite useful and a very good source to start with specially for people who have done only first level courses.
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Students learn more, remember more, and can use grammar more effectively when they learn language in context. GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT offers comprehensive explanations, culturally rich readings, and numerous practice and writing actitivies.
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With Teaching Grammar in Context, thousands of teachers discovered why students achieve better results when they learn grammar during the process of writing. In Lessons to Share, Connie Weaver's promised sequel, she focuses on the practical, offering valuable "lessons" from educators at all levels.
The first section of the book addresses the learning and teaching of grammar, setting the stage for subsequent sections. The purpose behind the article on how language is learned is to help readers understand that babies and preschoolers acquire the grammar of their language without direct instruction and that language continues to develop indirectly during children's school years. Connie's article on teaching grammar in the context of writing articulates other aspects of the rationale that underlies this book: teaching grammar in the context of its use.
The second and major section deals with teaching grammar through writing, across the grades. The authors address punctuation, parts of speech, effective word choice and syntax, and conferencing with students to teach revision and editing. The next section focuses on style, with emphasis on sentence composing, "image grammar," and "breaking the rules" for stylistic effect. There is also a discussion of the power of dialects and the dialects of power. The last section deals with teaching the English language and its grammar to ESL students in kindergarten through college. The section and book conclude with an article on using grammar checking computer software.
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Not the best, but definitely not the worst........2007-03-27
As a textbook, the organization and presentation of the topics could be better; however, the book contains some good ideas.
brilliant.......2007-03-26
constance weaver knows what she's talking about. these ideas have worked wonders in my classes.
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The many handbooks on the market share in a common irony: they intimidate and confuse at least as much as they help. This book grew out of its teacher-authors' dissatisfaction with such works -- and the unenlightened fixities they're filled with, the overdose of rules they dispense, and the resulting linguistic disabilities they perpetuate. Students can read this book straight through as a general introduction to the conventions of writing. They'll also learn about linguistic myths and about the critical role of context in a writer's choicemaking.
In this second edition, practices (not exercises) are included to give students samples of the suggestions discussed in the text. A new chapter to this edition also addresses the special needs and concerns of ESL students.
Ideal as the primary rhetoric text in college writing courses, the second edition of The Right Handbook:
- demonstrates the complexity of grammar and usage issues and shows how to solve problems by using real writing
- demystifies the rules of "rightness" in a pragmatic, humorous way
- allows for quick reference with an easy-to-read format.
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WARNING - This is the OLD edition.......2007-03-28
Amazon in currently (3/28/07) selling the old (first) edition of the workbook for V Puti in conjunction with the new (second) edition of the textbook itself. The second edition of the textbook has been largely rearranged, and requires that it it be used in conjunction with the second edition of the workbook (now called "Student Activities Manual"). The first edition of the workbook, sold by Amazon, does not correlate with the current edition of the textbook.
I purchased V Puti - textbook and workbook - as a package from Amazon, and had to return the workbook, since it is useless with the new edition of the textbook. I then bought the new edition of the workbook from its publisher, Pearson Prentice Hall, who sell it for the same price that Amazon charges for the outdated OLD edition.
For the workbook itself I would give 5 stars. For Amazon's botching of the editions that they sell I give 1 star. Hence 3 overall.
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Spanish Subjunctive in Context
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