This collection of papers examines the relationship between the teaching of language and the teaching of literature to non-native students. The book attempts to identify key ...

The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning ...

Designed as a dictionary, but possessing an encyclopedic range, this is an invaluable A-Z guide to the debates surrounding language and literacy.

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting ...

This book is a user-friendly guide to English literature from 1960 to the present. From Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney to Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett, the book ...