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Basic English Grammar is a classic development skills text for beginning students of English as a second or foreign language. While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the third edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities.
Blending communicative and interactive approaches with tried-and-true grammar teaching, "Basic English Grammar, " Third Edition, by Betty Schrampfer Azar and Stacy A. Hagen, offers concise, accurate, level-appropriate grammar information with an abundance of exercises, contexts, and classroom activities. New features of "Basic English Grammar," Third Edition: Increased speaking practice through interactive pair and group work. New structure-focused listening exercises. More activities that provide real communication opportunities. Added illustrations to help students learn vocabulary, understand contexts, and engage in communicative language tasks. New Workbook solely devoted to self-study exercises. New Audio CDs and listening script in the back of the Student Book. Student Book is available with or without Answer Key. Student Book and Workbook are available in split versions.
Also available are the multimedia CD-ROMs Fundamentals of English Grammar Interactive and Understanding and Using English Grammar Interactive. Clear, direct and comprehensive, the Azar Grammar Series blends tried-and-true grammar teaching with communicative activities. Program Highlights Clear charts and explanations * Student-friendly grammar charts with clear information. * Examples accompanied by clear explanations. * Minimal grammar terminology for ease of understanding. In-depth grammar practice * Immediate application of grammatical forms and meanings. * A variety of exercise types including warm-up, comprehension, completion, reading, listening, interview, and writing. * Interactive pair and group work using target grammar. Comprehensive, corpus-informed grammar syllabus * The verb-tense system, modals, gerunds, and infinitives. * Nouns, articles, pronouns, and agreement. * Sentence patterns, clauses, connectives, and more. * Written forms, spelling, and punctuation; spoken forms and pronunciation.
"Understanding and Using English Grammar is a developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English as a second or foreign language"--p. xiii.
The text for intermediate through advanced students provides a presentation of grammar in terms to students. Grammar explanations teach situationally appropriate English, both formal and colloquial and make distinctions between British and American usage. Each presentation is followed by graded activities that promote speaking, listening, and writing skills. The edition features an improved organization, expansion and/or clarification of grammar points, more illustations and excersises. It is now available in split editions with accompanying workbooks and teacher's manuals.
For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students and teachers alike. Its time-tested approach blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to develop all language skills. New to This Edition Pretests at the start of each chapter enable learners to check what they already know. Updated grammar charts reflect current usage and highlight differences between written and spoken English. A new chapter on article usage. A variety of high-interest readings include reviews, articles on current topics, and blogs that focus on student success. Additional incremental practice helps learners better grasp concepts, while thematic exercises and integrated tasks offer more contextualized language use. Step-by-step writing activities are supported by writing tips and pre-writing and editing tasks.
The Chartbook conatins all the grammar charts in the fourth edition of Understanding and Using English Grammar. Packed with easy-to-understand explanations and clear examples, the Chartbook is the perfect reference tool for students and teachers alike. Understanding and Using English Grammar is a classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced English language learners
This research aimed to find out the types and dominant use of cohesive devices in students’ English argumentative essay writing. This study was designed as qualitative study. The subject of this research was taken from students’ argumentative essays at Artha Wacana Christian University Kupang. There were 10 essays in writing course. The instrument of this research used documentary analysis and the data were collected through the document of students’ argumentative writings analyzed using the theory of cohesion by Halliday and Hasan (1976). The analysis was concerned with grammatical cohesion (reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction), and lexical cohesion (reiteration and collocation). The results of this study show that the 10 argumentative essays of students produced the five types of cohesive devices. There were reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical cohesion. Among those five types, conjunction most prominently with (44,9%), followed by the reference (37%), lexical cohesion (16%), while substitution (1,18%) and ellipsis (0,79%). Therefore, the researcher concluded that in students' argumentative essay the students still overused and misplaced of certain cohesive device namely conjunction, references and repetition.
ABSTRACT This current research is entitled " BODY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS IN LAMAHOLOT CULTURE ". The writer formulated two research questions, namely: (1) What are the types of body language in Lamaholot Culture? and (2) What are the functions of body language in Lamaholot Culture?. The aims of this research to find out the types of body language in Lamaholot Culture and the functions of body language in Lamaholot Culture. The data was taken from interviewed the Lamaholot community and analyzed the data by using descriptive qualitative method. There are two types of body language in Lamaholot Culture, namely : 1. Part of body, wich include 1). Head ‘Nado geri lodo’. 2). Facial expression, a). Eyebrows ‘Ilo mate’. b). Eyes ‘Mate bohi’ c). Nose ‘Geweru iru’. d). Lips ‘Giki wewe’. e). Tongue ‘Lolo ewel’. and f). Jaw ‘ Bea wewe’. 3). Eye contact ‘Niku weki’. 4). Body posture, a) Body proximity ‘Tobo ire no kerejehe’. b). Shoulder movement ‘Briku geri lodo’. c). Arm placement ‘Teke ale’ d). Leg and feet movement ‘Tili lei’. 5). Hand and finger gesture, a) Hadling and placement object ‘Sedu ewe nawu / Breka ekewai’ b).Finger tapping or druming ‘ Deto lime’ and 2. Intent, 1). voluntary/intentional movement ‘Penuhu lime’ and 2. Involuntary movement ‘Eke melihe’. And find out five function in Lamaholot culture, namely : 1). Affirms ‘Nado geri lodo’. 2). Contradict ‘Geka be’. 3). Substitution ‘Ligu lime’. 4). Complementing ‘Giki wewe’. 5).Accenting ‘Pemela’. And there are thirtieth body language in Lamaholot Culture.
ABSTRACT This research is about a descriptive study of main characters in The Land of Five Towers By Ahmad Fuadi.The problems of this study are what are the main of charactersin The Land of Five Towers Novel, and what are the characteristic of main characters in The Land of Five Towers Novel. The aims of study are to find out the main of characters found in The Land of Five Towers Novel, and describe the characteristic of main characters found in The Land of Five Towers Novel. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative. The data was taken from the novel. In this research, the writer used the documentation technique to collect the data from novel, then analyzed the characters and characteristic of each dialogue that includes to the types of characters and characteristic of the characters. After analyzing the data, the writer found two types of characters, they are major and minor character. Major character is a character is a emphasized to tell the story. This characteris very important in the story. Minor character is a character that support the major character. This character is not too important and is usually only used to support the role of major character. while the characteristic are protagonist and antagonist characteristic.Protagonist is a character who is loved by the reader. The protagonist usually looks likes a hero according the reader. Antagonist is a character that always makes a conflict.
Latar belakang penulis melakukan penelitian yaitu Perkembangan ekonomi yang semakin pesat membuat persaingan antar pengusaha-pengusaha semakin ketat dimulai dari berkembangnya teknologi yang menyebabkan pengusaha akan menghadapi berbagai kendala didalam perkembangan bisnisnya sehinga pengusaha membutuhkan suatu strategi untuk meningkatkan penjualan, meraih keunggulan yang diharapkan dan mampu memenangkan persaingan. Penulis melakukan penelitian ini bertitik tolak dari permasalahan yang sering ditemui dilokasi penelitian yaitu bagaimana hubungan antara strategi pemasaran terhadap penjualan produk, bagaimana memanfaatkan media sosial facebook sebagai media pemasaran dalam meningkatkan penjualan produk. Kemdian penelitian bertujuan untuk menganalisis hubungan antara strategi pemasaran terhadap penjualan produk di kota Kupang. Penelitian yang penulis lakukan disini adalah penelitian lapangan (Field Research) dengan mendeskripsikan data kualitatif tentang strategi pemasaran dan penjualan produk dengan komposisi variabel dan indikator yang terdapat dalam penelitian ini. Penelitian ini dilakukan di kota Kupang dan sampel dari penelitian ini sebanyak 100 orang sebagai responden. Dalam mengumpulkan data penulis menggunakan kuesioner. Sedangkan didalam pembahasannya menggunakan alat analisis korelasi linear sederhana. Dari hasil penelitian yang dilakukan strategi pemasran dan penjualan produk menununjukan bahwa strategi pemasran dan penjualan produk mempunyai hubungan yang signifikan sebesar 0,000>0,05 yang berarti terdapat korelasi yang signifikan. Terlihat nilai pearson correlation sebesar 0,421 dari nilai output di atas diketahui bahwa nilai Persen Correlation yang dihubungkan antara masing-masing variabel mempunyai tanda bintang, yang mengartikan bahwa terdapat korelasi yang signifikan antara variabel yang dihubungkan Karena pearson correlation bernilai positif, maka arah hubungan searah yang berarti semakin baik strategi pemasaran maka semakin meningkat penjualan produk, sebaliknya jika strategi pemasaran tidak baik maka penjualan produk akan menurun. Melalui penelitian ini, penulis menyampaikan beberapa saran yang kiranya dapat membantu parah Pengusaha yang berjualan menggunakan media sosial facebook dijadikan sebagai input yaitu dengan diketahui bahwa strategi pemasaran dan penjualan produk dalam korelasi tidak ada hubungan. Hal ini perlu diperhatikan, bahkan ditingkatkan agar strategi pemasaran dapat mempengaruhi penjualan produk dan dapat tetap terjaga dengan baik.
