James Dean Brown's Books

Understanding Research in Second Language Learning

A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design

By: James Dean Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Understanding Research in Second Language Learning

A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design

By: James Dean Brown

What is research? - Variables - Data organization - Controlling extraneous variables - Critiquing statistical studies - The group and the individuals - Patterns in human behavior - Statistics for testing - Statistical logic - Correlation - Comparing means - Comparing frequencies - Hands-on critique and posttest.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521315514

ISBN 13

9780521315517

Shaping Learners’ Pronunciation

Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English

By: James Dean Brown,Dustin Crowther

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Shaping Learners’ Pronunciation

Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English

By: James Dean Brown,Dustin Crowther

A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS. With accessible, non-technical language, the authors show how phoneme variations, simple transitions, dropping sounds, inserting sounds, and changing sounds operate, and how CS is integral to English language teaching, especially for developing non-native users’ oral English communicative ability. Each chapter features explicit discussions of pedagogical ideas targeting L2 learners, further resources, and CS-oriented exercises that are accessible and easy to implement for L2 teachers. These exercises are accompanied when relevant with recorded audio examples of CS production at www.routledge.com/9780367697570.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

100062322X

ISBN 13

9781000623222

Mixed Methods Research for TESOL

By: James Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mixed Methods Research for TESOL

By: James Brown

Defining and discussing the relevance of theoretical and practical issues involved in mixed methods research. Covering the basics of research methodology, this textbook shows you how to choose and combine quantitative and qualitative research methods to b

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

074869806X

ISBN 13

9780748698066

Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes

By: James Dean Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes

By: James Dean Brown

Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes is a clear and accessible guide to the theoretical background and practical tools needed for this early stage of curriculum development in ESP. Beginning with definitions of needs analysis and ESP, this book takes a jargon-free approach which leads the reader step-by-step through the process of performing a needs analysis in ESP, including: how to focus a needs analysis according to the course and student level; the selection and sequencing of a wide variety of data collection procedures; analysis and interpretation of needs analysis data in order to write reports and determine Student Learning Outcomes; personal reflection exercises and examples of real-world applications of needs analysis in ESP. Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes is essential reading for pre-service and in-service teachers, and students studying English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL and Education.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317370007

ISBN 13

9781317370000

Spheres of Intervention

US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976

By: James R. Stocker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Spheres of Intervention

US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976

By: James R. Stocker

In Spheres of Intervention, James R. Stocker examines the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon during a transformational period for Lebanon and a time of dynamic changes in US policy toward the Middle East. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of declassified materials from US archives and a variety of Arabic and other non-English sources, Stocker provides a new interpretation of Lebanon’s slide into civil war, as well as insight into the strategy behind US diplomatic initiatives toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. During this period, Stocker argues, Lebanon was often a pawn in the games of larger powers. The stability of Lebanon was an aim of US policy at a time when Israel’s borders with Egypt and Jordan were in active contention. Following the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the internal political situation in Lebanon became increasingly unstable due to the regional military and political stalemate, the radicalization of the country’s domestic politics, and the appearance of Palestinian militias on Lebanese territory. US officials were more deeply involved in Lebanese affairs than most outside the region realized. After a series of internal crises in 1969, 1970, and 1973, civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975. The conflict reached a temporary halt after a Syrian military intervention the following year, but this was only an end to the first stage of what would be a sixteen-year civil war. During these crises, the US sought to help the Lebanese government in a variety of ways, including providing military aid to the Lebanese military, convincing Arab countries to take measures to help the Lebanese government, mediating Lebanon’s relations with Israel, and even supporting certain militias.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

295

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

150170415X

ISBN 13

9781501704154

Inventing Atlantic Canada

Regionalism and the Maritime Reaction to Newfoundland's Entry Into Canadian Confederation

By: Corey James Arthur Slumkoski

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Inventing Atlantic Canada

Regionalism and the Maritime Reaction to Newfoundland's Entry Into Canadian Confederation

By: Corey James Arthur Slumkoski

When Newfoundland entered the Canadian Confederation in 1949, it was hoped it would promote greater unity between the Maritime provinces, as Term 29 of the Newfoundland Act explicitly linked the region's economic and political fortunes. On the surface, the union seemed like an unprecedented opportunity to resurrect the regional spirit of the Maritime Rights movement of the 1920s, which advocated a cooperative approach to addressing regional underdevelopment. However, Newfoundland's arrival did little at first to bring about a comprehensive Atlantic Canadian regionalism. Inventing Atlantic Canada is the first book to analyse the reaction of the Maritime provinces to Newfoundland's entry into Confederation. Drawing on editorials,government documents, and political papers, Corey Slumkoski examines how each Maritime province used the addition of a new provincial cousin to fight underdevelopment. Slumkoski also details the rise of regional cooperation characterized by the Atlantic Revolution of the mid-1950s, when Maritime leaders began to realize that by acting in isolation their situations would only worsen.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442611588

ISBN 13

9781442611580

The Making of Princeton University

From Woodrow Wilson to the Present

By: James Axtell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Making of Princeton University

From Woodrow Wilson to the Present

By: James Axtell

In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. The Making of Princeton University tells, for the first time, the story of how the University adapted and updated Wilson's vision to transform itself into the prestigious institution it is today. James Axtell brings the methods and insights from his extensive work in ethnohistory to the collegiate realm, focusing especially on one of Princeton's most distinguished features: its unrivaled reputation for undergraduate education. Addressing admissions, the curriculum, extracurricular activities, and the changing landscape of student culture, the book devotes four full chapters to undergraduate life inside and outside the classroom. The book is a lively warts-and-all rendering of Princeton's rise, addressing such themes as discriminatory admission policies, the academic underperformance of many varsity athletes, and the controversial "bicker" system through which students have been selected for the University's private eating clubs. Written in a delightful and elegant style, The Making of Princeton University offers a detailed picture of how the University has dealt with these issues to secure a distinguished position in both higher education and American society. For anyone interested in or associated with Princeton, past or present, this is a book to savor.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

686

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691227527

ISBN 13

9780691227528

The Abolitionist’s Journal

Memories of an American Antislavery Family

By: James D. Richardson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Abolitionist’s Journal

Memories of an American Antislavery Family

By: James D. Richardson

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor, George Richardson (1824–1911), across nine states, uncovering letters, diaries, and more memoirs hidden away Their journey brought them to the brink of the racial divide in America, revealing how his great-great-grandfather Richardson played a role in the Underground Railroad, served as a chaplain to a Black Union regiment in the Civil War, and founded a college in Texas for the formerly enslaved. In narrating this compelling life, The Abolitionist’s Journal explores the weight of the past as well as the pull of one’s ancestral history. The author raises questions about why this fervent commitment to the emancipation of African Americans was nearly forgotten by his family, exploring the racial attitudes in the author’s upbringing and the ingrained racism that still plagues our nation today. As America confronts a generational reckoning on race, these important perspectives add a layer to our larger national story.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826364047

ISBN 13

9780826364043

Doing Second Language Research

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Second Language Research for Graduate/Master's Students in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, and Others

By: James Dean Brown,Theodore S. Rodgers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Doing Second Language Research

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Second Language Research for Graduate/Master's Students in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, and Others

By: James Dean Brown,Theodore S. Rodgers

An accessible introduction to language learning research, which provides a 'feel' for what research activities are like by engaging the reader in several roles across a range of research design types, both quantitative and qualitative. Roles include research subject, research organizer, data collector, data analyst, and research reporter. The book systematically explains the characteristics and purposes of various types of research, including terminology, the logic underlying selection, and the steps typical of each type of research design. It also offers an introduction to some classic research studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

334

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0194371743

ISBN 13

9780194371742

Using Surveys in Language Programs

By: James Dean Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Using Surveys in Language Programs

By: James Dean Brown

This book presents a comprehensive, but practical, overview of the different phases and activities involved in the development and implementation of effective survey projects by language-teaching professionals. The text, which includes chapters on planning, designing, gathering, analyzing, and reporting survey research, would be accessible to graduate students, language teachers, administrators, and researchers. The theoretical and practical issues involved in survey design are defined and discussed in digestible chunks. All concepts are explained in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step manner, with ample examples and checklists provided. Each chapter also includes a list of key terms, a set of review questions, and a collection of exercises for practical application. In this text, language-teaching professionals will find all of the crucial information needed to survey students and teachers about their beliefs and practices. The results can then be used for developing curriculum, evaluating the success of language programs, or doing other relevant research.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521796563

ISBN 13

9780521796569

Teaching and Assessing EIL in Local Contexts Around the World

By: Sandra Lee Mckay,James Dean Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Teaching and Assessing EIL in Local Contexts Around the World

By: Sandra Lee Mckay,James Dean Brown

English today is a global language embedded in a great variety of social contexts, resulting in linguistic and pedagogical variation. Taking a new look at the teaching and assessing of English as an international language (EIL), this text highlights overarching principles and provides specific strategies for responding to questions and challenges posed by the changing demographics of English language learners and users around the world. Teaching and Assessment in EIL Classrooms introduces an original, coherent framework in which needs analysis, pedagogical principles, and assessment are integrated describes variables that influence effective teaching and assessment and the characteristics of various EIL teachers and learners emphasizes that pedagogical and assessment decisions need to be based on the learning and teaching needs of each specific EIL context includes specific principles and strategies for teaching and assessing grammar, oral language, and literacy skills in EIL classrooms provides strategies for integrating computer-mediated language into EIL classrooms in ways that promote cross-cultural awareness, language development, and individualized learning Timely, accessible, and practical, this text for graduate and pre- and in-service courses on language teaching and assessment is at the forefront in providing valuable information and guidance for enabling principled and context-sensitive praxis in EIL classrooms worldwide.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317668413

ISBN 13

9781317668411

Recollections Of The Storming Of The Castle Of Badajos

By: Captain James MacCarthy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Recollections Of The Storming Of The Castle Of Badajos

By: Captain James MacCarthy

The situation for the Duke of Wellington and his British and Portuguese troops in 1812 was somewhat perilous. Although they had chased Masséna and his French Legions from Spain, overwhelming numbers of enemy troops were still in Spain despite being scattered through the provinces. For Wellington to move forward and take the fight to the enemy, he would have to take the two border fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajos, and do so quickly before the bickering French marshals united against him. After capturing Ciudad Rodrigo in a bloody but short siege, the Iron Duke turned his attention on the much more formidable fortress of Badajos, a fortress that they had failed to take before. The few trained Allied engineers were bolstered by volunteer officers like the author Captain MacCarthy, who undertook the dangerous work of the engineers. However, a lack of artillery and shot meant that the task would be exceptionally difficult, and pressed by time Wellington orders an early assault by the best of his infantry over barely practicable breeches. As a diversion, he also orders an attempt to capture the castle of Badajos by escalade - the author himself being part of this diversionary effort. In the event, the breeches prove to be impregnable and after repeated murderous attempts, the defences of Badajos are only breached by the ladder borne assault on the castle. Captain MacCarthy’s short narrative is vividly written filled with the blood and shot of the siege and the castle’s final capture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Pickle Partners Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

178289151X

ISBN 13

9781782891512

Criterion-Referenced Language Testing

By: James Dean Brown,Thom Hudson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Criterion-Referenced Language Testing

By: James Dean Brown,Thom Hudson

Criterion-referenced Language Testing looks at the practical applications of this new area of language testing.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

640

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521000831

ISBN 13

9780521000833

The War in the Peninsula

Some Letters of a Lancashire Officer

By: Robert Knowles,James MacCarthy,Ian Fletcher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The War in the Peninsula

Some Letters of a Lancashire Officer

By: Robert Knowles,James MacCarthy,Ian Fletcher

Lieutenant Knowles served in the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers 1811-1813, seeing action in several battles, being wounded at the storming of Badajoz and at the battle of Salamanca. He was killed at Roncesvalles on 25 July 1813 during the Battle of the Pyrenees.By combining the overall picture as painted by Lt Knowles with the specific, bloody narrative of the storming of the Castle by Captain MacCarthy in one volume, this work is not only fantastic value for money but also offers the discerning reader a whole new perspective on the campaign. What did these two men – of different temperaments – make of events? Wellington had watched helplessly at Badajos as the flower of his army was smashed against the ramparts of Badajos: the 4th and Light Divisions attacked no less than 40 times. When they finally succeeded, an orgy of rape, pillage and destruction followed that even the Iron Duke could not quell. What did both men have to say about this? Both of these rare classics are essential reading for students of the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

198

Publisher

The History Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0750980117

ISBN 13

9780750980111

We’Re in Danger! Who Will Help Us?

Refugees and Migrants: a Test of Civilization

By: James N. Purcell Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

We’Re in Danger! Who Will Help Us?

Refugees and Migrants: a Test of Civilization

By: James N. Purcell Jr.

Victims of wars, oppression, and famine depend on well-prepared interventions for their basic survival. Yet in the twenty-first century, the world's conscience has gone dormant, and governments have been left free to ignore or trivialize their moral obligations to humankind. Caring societies cannot hide from these daunting humanitarian challenges. As in the past, only experienced, bold leadership can marshal allies for proposed twenty-first century solutions. We're in DANGER! Who Will HELP Us? is the chronicle of one humanitarian leader's experience working on behalf of civilian victims of war, oppression, and famine, fully revealed in American know-how, initiative, and grit. James N. Purcell Jr. writes from leadership perspectives gained directing global humanitarian organizations and shares his and his team's daring interventions into the humanitarian crisis in Indochina following the Vietnam War and in other world regions—interventions that saved, protected, and restored the lives of millions of refugees. Presidents, feisty congressional debates, and strong volunteer groups helped Purcell and his team marshal allies for twentieth-century solutions, and today he makes the case for the same unyielding spirit for humanitarian crises in Syria, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Central America. Civilization's new test is whether we can help free the world's conscience and regain a sense of moral outrage, purpose, and resolve to face our responsibilities directly and to act. As caring members of the international community, we must determine our appropriate and equitable roles in solving systemic dysfunctions that bring people to the brink of despair—and help those we can.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

450

Publisher

Archway Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1480868795

ISBN 13

9781480868793

Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes

By: James Dean Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes

By: James Dean Brown

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

166

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317369998

ISBN 13

9781317369998

Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State

By: James Gallen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State

By: James Gallen

Interrogates the role of power and emotions in the responses of Western States and churches to their historical abuses.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

399

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1316515540

ISBN 13

9781316515549

Delmore Schwartz

The Life of an American Poet

By: James Atlas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Delmore Schwartz

The Life of an American Poet

By: James Atlas

Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined. Delmore Schwartz was only twenty-four in 1938 when his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, was published. He received praise from T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. For Tate, it was “the only genuine innovation we’ve had since Eliot and Pound.” A decade later, the short-story collection The World Is a Wedding was published; many critics characterized it as the definitive portrait of their generation. In this biography, the first about the man whom John Berryman called “the most underrated poet of the twentieth century,” James Atlas traces Schwartz’s history, from the arrival of his Romanian ancestors in New York, to his youth in Washington Heights, to his career at Harvard as a graduate student in philosophy, and onward to the flowering of his generation in the '40s, when he and the critics, poets, and novelists who were his friends made their reputations. Schwartz’s brilliant satires of his friends and acquaintances, his autobiographical stories, and his letters to his illustrious peers contribute to this vivid portrait of an era—and of that era’s most trenchant chronicler.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

489

Publisher

Macmillan + ORM

Published Date

ISBN 10

0374722692

ISBN 13

9780374722692

Moonpies, Fireflies, Some Twisted Dreams, Some Truth, and Some Lies: Book One of Two

A compilation of quotes with my added perspectives, deep thoughts, philosophy, my observations and reality, some short stories, and vignettes.

By: James (Jim) Linn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Moonpies, Fireflies, Some Twisted Dreams, Some Truth, and Some Lies: Book One of Two

A compilation of quotes with my added perspectives, deep thoughts, philosophy, my observations and reality, some short stories, and vignettes.

By: James (Jim) Linn

About the Book In this memoir and bibliography, combined with philosophy and short stories, James (Jim) Linn has collected twelve years of quotes from others and how they spoke to him, his deep thoughts, some poetry, and thought-provoking memes. Linn also shares his observations about life and human nature. About the Author James (Jim) Linn played and managed softball teams, both men’s and co-ed, for forty-seven years. He now enjoys playing pickleball five days a week. In his free time, Linn likes to spend time with his family and friends, travel to Europe and different cities in the US, and learn new things.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

947

Publisher

Dorrance Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 13

9798888125052

Book's by James Dean Brown

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email