Revise WJEC : GCSE english and english literature.

Prepara a los alumnos para los cursos WJEC GCSE de inglés y WJEC GCSE de literatura inglesa, es decir, para el General Certificate Secondary Education en Galés. Ofrece muestras de preguntas y respuestas de los exámenes, junto con comentarios de los examinadores a estas respuestas y consejos para mejorarlas. También, proporciona un apartado para localizar y recuperar información, en el que se repasan las cuestiones principales de cada capítulo, así como un CD-ROM con material complementario.

Of mice and men : literature guide for GCSE.

Guía de lectura para la obra 'De ratones y hombres' del autor estadounidense John Steinbeck, que ayuda a los estudiantes que estén preparando el examen GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) a entender la novela. Incluye un análisis del argumento, de la estructura de la novela y de sus personajes, una sección sobre el autor y el contexto histórico, comentarios sobre el texto de la obra y preguntas para afianzar los conocimientos del texto con respuestas al final del libro.

Contrastive analysis of keywords in discourses: intégration and integration in French and German discourses about migration

This article suggests a theoretical and methodological framework for a systematic contrastive discourse analysis across languages and discourse communities through keywords, constituting a lexical approach to discourse analysis which is considered to be particularly fruitful for comparative analysis. We use a corpus assisted methodology, presuming meaning to be constituted, revealed and constrained by collocation environment. We compare the use of the keyword intégration and Integration in French and German public discourses about migration on the basis of newspaper corpora built from two French and German newspapers from 1998 to 2011. We look at the frequency of these keywords over the given time span, group collocates into thematic categories and discuss indicators of discursive salience by comparing the development of collocation profiles over time in both corpora as well as the occurrence of neologisms and compounds based on intégration/Integration.

English as a Second Language and Children’s literature : An empirical study on Swedish elementary school teachers’ methods and attitudes towards the use of children’s literature in the English classroom

Previous research has shown multiple benefits and challenges with the incorporation of children’s literature in the English as a Second language (ESL) classroom. In addition, the use of children’s literature in the lower elementary English classroom is recommended by the Swedish National Agency for Education. Consequently, the current study explores how teachers in Swedish elementary school teach ESL through children’s literature. This empirical study involves English teachers from seven schools in a small municipality in Sweden. The data has been collected through an Internet survey. The study also connects the results to previous international research, comparing Swedish and international research. The results suggest that even though there are many benefits of using children’s literature in the ESL classroom, the respondents seldom use these authentic texts, due to limited time and a narrow supply of literature, among other factors. However, despite these challenges, all of the teachers claim to use children’s literature by reading aloud in the classroom. Based on the results, further research exploring pupils’ thoughts in contrast to teachers would be beneficial. In addition, the majority of the participants expressed that they wanted more information on how to use children’s literature. Therefore, additional research relating to beneficial methods of teaching English through children’s literature, especially in Sweden, is recommended.