An introduction to reading and analyzing texts in Sahidic Coptic, the primary literary language in Late Antique Egypt. 

This concise textbook provides beginner students with the knowledge and skills required for reading primary sources and teaches the grammar of documents written in Sahidic Coptic. Learners are invited to study aspects of the language across twenty structured lessons and, from the beginning, apply their learning directly to reading authentic ancient texts written by men and women between 380 and 750 AD. The book introduces the language through engagement with ancient texts rather than artificial exercises, enabling students to explore the history and culture of Egyptian communities under Byzantine and early Islamic rule, as well as key topics such as the development of Christian orthodoxy, the lives of women, and the emergence of monasticism as a major cultural force.

Revealing the scholarly worlds behind the world’s first writing system, this volume explores how cuneiform cultures classified, transmitted, and interpreted knowledge.

Cuneiform is the world’s first preserved writing system, yet cuneiform texts and the associated cultures and practices remain undervalued across several disciplines. Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures explores the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East. Case studies reconstruct the intellectual frameworks and the transmission of knowledge of scribal cultures to show how specific texts and objects can be interpreted within their cultural contexts.

This volume was conceived as a first book in SLA for advanced undergraduate or introductory master’s courses that include education majors, foreign language education majors, and English majors. It’s also an excellent resource for practicing teachers. 

Both the research and pedagogy in this book are based on the newest research in the field of second language acquisition.  It is not the goal of this book to address every SLA theory or teach research methodology.  It does however address the myths and questions that non-specialist teacher candidates have about language learning.

Steven Brown is the co-author of the introductory applied linguistics textbook Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation  textbook (and workbook).

The myths challenged in this book are:
 

§  Children learn languages quickly and easily while adults are ineffective in comparison.

§  A true bilingual is someone who speaks two languages perfectly.

§  You can acquire a language simply through listening or reading.

§  Practice makes perfect.

§  Language students learn (and retain) what they are taught.

§  Language learners always benefit from correction.

§  Individual differences are a major, perhaps the major, factor in SLA.

§  Language acquisition is the individual acquisition of grammar.

• Collaborate with school professionals to create a program specifically to meet the unique needs of new arrivals.
• Provide intensive literacy, numeracy, and content area support, especially for students with interrupted schooling.
• Develop the classroom supports necessary for students to achieve academic success.
• Provide supports that address the physical, social, and emotional challenges of newcomers.
• Work with families and communities to support students outside of a school environment.

Using mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer original mnemonic rimes that are by turns amusing, ironic, pathetic, sentimental, and sardonic to help students and independent learners acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.

Included are mnemonic jingles for 700 of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words. Each jingle contains both the sound of the Spanish word and its English meaning. The authors have included a general pronunciation guide to Spanish vowels and consonants.

This innovative approach, which the authors have used successfully with their own students, is simple, effective, and entertaining. In the words of one student, "This book teaches me not only Spanish words but English words as well."

Mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, Junior Edition, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer onginal mnemonic rimes appropriate in subject matter and skill level for junior high and high school students to help them acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.

Included are mnemonic jingles for several hundred of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words. Each jingle contains both the sound of the Spanish word and its English meaning. The authors have also included a general pronunciation guide to Spanish vowels and consonants.

This innovative approach, which the authors have used successfully with their own students, is simple, effective, and entertaining. In the words of one student, "This book teaches me not only Spanish words but English words as well."

It's time for a new approach to learning Spanish verbs. Unlike popular verb guides that require the rote memorization of hundreds of verb forms, this book clearly explains the rules that govern the conjugation of all classes of Spanish verbs—especially the irregular ones that give second-language learners the most trouble. These simple, easy-to-understand rules for conjugating Spanish verbs are effective learning tools for both beginning students and more advanced speakers who want to perfect their usage of Spanish verb forms.

Spanish Verbs Made Simple(r) has many helpful features that you won't find in any other verb guide:

• Clear explanations of all verb tenses and forms.
• The simple rules that govern the conjugation of all verbs—including the 90% of irregular verbs whose irregularities are entirely predictable.
• A detailed discussion of how each verb form is used, with numerous examples.
• A full explanation of the distinction between ser and estar—the single most confusing element in the Spanish verbal system.
• An extended treatment of the subjunctive that will help you understand why it is used in some situations but not others.
• Conjugations for 35 model Spanish verbs and a comprehensive listing of 4,800 verbs that indicates which of the models each verb follows.

Going well beyond any other guide in the clarity and detail of its explanations—as well as the innovative manner in which individual verbs are linked to model conjugations—Spanish Verbs Made Simple(r) is the only guide to Spanish verbs a learner needs.

Unlike other vocabulary guides that require the rote memorization of literally thousands of words, this book starts from the premise that using the etymological connections between Spanish and English words—their common derivations from Latin, Greek, and other languages—is the most effective way to acquire and remember vocabulary. This approach is suitable for beginners as well as for advanced students. Teachers of the language will also find much material that can be used to help motivate their students to acquire, and retain, Spanish vocabulary.

Spanish Vocabulary is divided into four parts and four annexes:

• Part I provides background material on the origins of Spanish and begins the process of presenting Spanish vocabulary.
• Part II presents "classical" Spanish vocabulary—words whose form (in both Spanish and English) is nearly unchanged from Latin and Greek.
• Part III deals with "popular" Spanish vocabulary, which underwent significant changes in form (and often meaning) during the evolution from Latin to Spanish. A number of linguistic patterns are identified that will help learners recognize and remember new vocabulary.
• Part IV treats a wide range of themes, including words of Germanic and Arabic origin, numbers, time, food and animals, the family, the body, and politics.
• Annex A: Principal exceptions to the "Simplified Gender Rule"
• Annex B: 700 words whose relations, if any, to English words are not immediately obvious
• Annex C: -cer verbs and related words
• Annex D: 4,500 additional words, either individually or in groups, with English correspondences

The second edition of Speechcraft: Discourse Pronunciation for Advanced Learners is designed to address the needs of advanced non-native speakers of English, specifically university-level students on North American campuses, who expect to interact with native speakers in academic and professional settings. These students need especially clear, intelligible speech to pursue their studies in their chosen discipline, to serve as international teaching assistants, and to interact well in their chosen professions.

A number of significant improvements make this edition better suited to meet the needs of this audience than even before. In particular, the model of English rhythm taught is now closer to that used by native speakers in their everyday interactions. Also, advances in linguistic research on English rhythm have been brought to bear on the lessons. An exploration of the pedagogical implications of these findings has led us to redirect the focus of Speechcraft, to reorganize lesson sequences, to clarify and simplify important regularities, and to develop new lessons to present important, missing content.

Understand the purpose and background of the new The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition project

Our understanding of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible has been transformed in the wake of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hendel explores and refines this new knowledge and formulates a rationale for a new edition of the Hebrew Bible. The chapters situate The Hebrew Bible; A Critical Edition project in a broad historical context, from the beginnings of textual criticism in late antiquity and the Renaissance to the controversies in contemporary theory and practice. This book combines close analysis with broad synthesis, yielding new perspectives on the text of the Hebrew Bible.

• Theory and practice of textual criticism
• Textual history of the Hebrew Bible
• History of text-critical scholarship

Now available in English

Josef Schmid's landmark publication, Studien zur Geschichte des Griechischen Apokalypse-Textes, has been the standard work for understanding Revelation's Greek manuscript tradition and textual history for more than sixty years. Despite the fact that most major studies on the book are based on Schmid's work, the work itself has long been out of print, making it difficult for the broader scholarly community to reassess Schmid's conclusions in light of recent manuscript discoveries and technological advances. This new translation of the work makes Schmid's detailed review of the history of textual scholarship; his comprehensive examination of the origin, history, and development of the Greek manuscripts of the book of Revelation; and his assessment of John's peculiar linguistic writing style accessible to a new generation of scholars.

Features

• A critical introduction that places Schmid's work in its historical and theoretical context
• Definitions and explanations of Schmid's text-critical terms and categories used in his construction of Revelation's Greek manuscript tradition
• The latest available information used to correct, update, and supplement Schmid's Greek manuscript data and historical and text-critical conclusions