The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English - ESL Edition

Don LePan, Martin Boyne

ISBN 10: 1551110083 / ISBN 13: 9781551110080

Editore: Broadview Press Ltd, US, 1995

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The ESL edition of Common Errors in English offers a comprehensive survey of the sorts of difficulties second language learners most often experience with English-and provides real help to students in overcoming them. The body of the book is organized according to grammatical categories, covering such topics as Verb Tense difficulties; Word Order Problems; Negation; Gerunds and Direct Objects; Singular and Plural Difficulties; and Direct and Indirect Speech. Included as well is a comprehensive section on usage and meaning, and a list of words commonly misspelled.The authors take care to avoid the harshly prescriptive; the book is informed throughout by a sympathetic understanding both of the difficulties that face every ESL student and of the particular problems faced by individuals from different linguistic backgrounds as they learn the peculiarities of English grammar and usage. The book includes a generous selection of exercises informed by these principles, and an accompanying answer key.Common Errors in English: ESL Edition will be an invaluable reference text for second language learners at a wide variety of levels.

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• Titolo: The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English - ESL Edition
• Editore: Broadview Press Ltd, US
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1551110083
• ISBN 13: 9781551110080
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Dimensioni: 15,24 L x 1,11 A x 22,86 P centimetri 15,24 centimetri di larghezza per 1,11 centimetri di altezza per 22,86 centimetri di profondità
• Peso: 360 grammi

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The ESL edition of Common Errors in English offers a comprehensive survey of the sorts of difficulties second language learners most often experience with English—and provides real help to students in overcoming them. The body of the book is organized according to grammatical categories, covering such topics as Verb Tense difficulties; Word Order Problems; Negation; Gerunds and Direct Objects; Singular and Plural Difficulties; and Direct and Indirect Speech. Included as well is a comprehensive section on usage and meaning, and a list of words commonly misspelled.

The authors take care to avoid the harshly prescriptive; the book is informed throughout by a sympathetic understanding both of the difficulties that face every ESL student and of the particular problems faced by individuals from different linguistic backgrounds as they learn the peculiarities of English grammar and usage. The book includes a generous selection of exercises informed by these principles, and an accompanying answer key.

Common Errors in English: ESL Edition will be an invaluable reference text for second language learners at a wide variety of levels.

Informazioni sull?autore

Martin Boyne recipient of the Governor-General's Medal when he graduated from Trent University, now teaches English to second language students at the same institution.

Don LePan is the author of The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture (Macmillan, 1989) and of the first-language edition of The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English (Broadview, 2/e 1992).