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Oxford Languages
This fully updated edition offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English…
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This new dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential Portuguese and English, and extra help with Portuguese and English verbs and pronunciation, all in a compact and affordable format.
An easy-to-use two-way French bilingual dictionary containing 40,000 up-to-date words and phrases, and 60,000 translations.
Drawing on the expertise of the Oxford Languages department, this revised edition of the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors provides authoritative advice on the spelling of difficult and…
This new dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential Spanish and English, and extra help with Spanish and English verbs and pronunciation, all in a compact and affordable format.
This edition of the Oxford Colour French Dictionary Plus has up-to-date coverage of essential French, updated cultural notes, a ‘Words you must know’ section, games, and grammar help - all…
An easy-to-use dictionary containing 90,000 up-to-date words, phrases, and definitions.
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An easy-to-use integrated dictionary and thesaurus containing 40,000 up-to-date words, phrases, and definitions and 65,000 synonyms and antonyms.
A compact, intermediate-level English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary covering over 90,000 words and phrases, and over 120,000 translations, including new words in each language. Pinyin romanization and Mandarin pronunciations are given…
This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research…
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This Handbook introduces key issues in the philosophy of language as currently practised. Topics include: the nature of language; the nature and role of semantic content; the dynamics of communication…
This volume presents the first comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Chapters provide detailed descriptions of individual languages and…
This Handbook represents a collective exploration of the emerging field of applied philosophy of language, where philosophy engages with linguistic aspects of our social world. It explores such hot topics…
This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool…
Jennifer Webb, Steve Eddy, Graham Elsdon
This revision guide has everything your students need to revise for AQA GCSE English Language. It will build their knowledge and skills for Papers 1 and 2. They will get…
Steve Eddy
Oxford Revise Edexcel GCSE English Language takes you through what to revise and how to do it. Revise your understanding of the knowledge and key concepts you need for your…
Julia Naughton
Oxford Revise Eduqas GCSE English Language takes you through what to revise and how to do it. Revise your understanding of the knowledge and key concepts you need for your…
Based on the Oxford English Corpus, this reference provides a up-to-date selection of 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions given in a clear, simple style, avoiding technical language.
Oxford Dictionaries
This is a durable, affordable, and portable hardback dictionary and thesaurus combined. It features a clear new design with integrated dictionary and thesaurus entries for ease of use, and has…
This new edition of the Pocket Oxford Thesaurus features over 230,000 synonyms and antonyms, to help you with all your everyday writing needs. This edition has been fully updated and…
With dictionary and thesaurus entries combined for ease of use, and a fresh, clear design, the Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus provides quick solutions to everyday language queries.
The most comprehensive bilingual Spanish dictionary of its kind. Authoritative, up-to-date coverage accessible through a clear colour layout. Now with new entry menu to help navigate longer entries. Additional materials…
An authoritative and easy-to-use dictionary, containing 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions, with a brand-new Factfinder centre section with information on countries of the world and prime ministers, plus spelling and…
The most accurate English-Arabic / Arabic-English dictionary ever published, based on real modern evidence of both English and Arabic with over 130,000 words and phrases and 200,000 translations.
Helen Backhouse, Paul Clayton, Lance Hanson
Oxford Smart Quest Student Book 3 will inspire Year 9 students through a relevant, diverse and aspirational learning experience. Part of the Oxford Smart Curriculum Service, Quest 3 is informed…
Martin Nixon
An authoritative and up-to-date thesaurus, containing 140,000 alternative and opposite words, and a new Wordfinder centre section for vocabulary building and word games.Replaces ISBN 0-19-860461-0
Sara Hawker
The Concise Oxford Thesaurus provides coverage of over 300,000 synonyms and antonyms, making it the ideal reference tool to improve your writing style or find the word you need to…
Angus Stevenson
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is an abridgement of the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary into just two volumes, providing a comprehensive description of the historical development of English together with…
Marie-Helene Correard
This edition of the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary is fully updated with thousands of new words, updated cultural notes, and sample utility bills, bank statements, and rent agreements, for anyone who…
Rebecca Oxford
After 30 years, language learning strategy (LLS) researchers have accumulated a critical mass of knowledge. This text shows why self-regulated learning strategies are necessary for language proficiency and offers practical…
Oxford Editor
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This browsable and unique dictionary explains the interesting words found in 19th century texts studied at secondary school. With clear explanations, panels, and an illustrated section of photographs and artworks…
The Language of Peace: Communicating to Create Harmony offers practical insights for educators, students, researchers, peace activists and all others interested in communication for peace. This book is a perfect…
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Rebecca L. Oxford
Over the past thirty years, the field of language learning strategies has generated a massive amount of interest and research in applied linguistics. Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies redraws…
Rebecca Oxford (University of Maryland)
Based on research, this text provides ESL/EFL and foreign language teachers with practical recommendations for developing their students’ second language learning strategies. It includes detailed suggestions for strategy use in…
A course equipping adult learners with the English that they need to work or study in the USA.
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Includes essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It is…
This book challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics. It proposes a critical poststructuralist perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to the emergence of dominant…