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Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Learn to speak standard American-style English with clarity, confidence and accuracy. Exercises present tricky vowel and consonant sounds and demonstrate correct syllable stress and rhythm. Provides tools to change your accent quickly, including lists of important rules and exceptions. The 4 DVDs will coach you in correct American-style pronunciation.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
All writing--whether it's an essay, a personal letter, or a detailed business report--is at its most memorable when it's built on the fundamental and critical skills that transform your words from good to great. The first lectures provide the first key to more engaging and effective writing: understanding literary genres and the ways their unique styles can shape and inform your own voice. The focus then shifts to the art of rhetoric and the ways...
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
This beginner level program teaches the building blocks of American Sign Language, including basic words, expressions, and phrases. It also includes such fundamentals of signing as handshape, orientation, location, and movement. 60-minute video and 208-page dictionary and guidebook.
Series
EASY ESL volume 9
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"Teaches communication and cultural "know how" for job seekers, entry-level and even supervisory workers. The series develops key language skills used in a wide variety of Customer Service jobs"--Website.
Series
EASY ESL volume 8
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"Teaches communication and cultural "know how" for job seekers, entry-level and even supervisory workers. The series develops key language skills used in a wide variety of Customer Service jobs"--Website.
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Examines sociolinguistic questions and the dynamic state of American English, a language rich in regional variety, strong in global impact, and steeped in cultural controversy.
Episode 2Follows Robert MacNeil as he travels down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Appalachia, Louisiana Cajun country, and the Tex-Mex border to examine Southern dialects and accents and the influences of French and Spanish on American English. Linguist Walt Wolfram, columnist...
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Leap, Lily, and Tad travel to the Word Factory where they discover amazing machines such as the Word Whammer that take letters and turn them into words. Discusses vowels, rhyming, and blending sounds. Includes a guide presenting parents with suggested word games to further the lessons of the video.