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The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice

By: Noriko Iwasaki,Yuri Kumagai

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The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice

By: Noriko Iwasaki,Yuri Kumagai

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader: A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and presents twenty-five authentic texts taken from a wide range of media and literary sources, which promote a deeper understanding of Japan among readers. The book is divided into ten genre-based chapters, allowing the learner to focus on the textual features relevant to that genre. Key features include: Selected texts covering topics related to Japanese language, society and culture encountered in the Japanese media, from news reports to interviews, book reviews, short stories and editorials. Word lists for challenging vocabulary and kanji provided throughout to aid comprehension and learning. Pre-reading activities to enable familiarity with the topic, the text’s background and words to be encountered in the reading passages. Short grammar explanations of essential structures. Questions to help comprehension, raise awareness of genre features, promote critical reading, and to encourage the reader to think more deeply about the content. Opportunities to write passages, utilizing what has been learned by reading the text. Vocabulary and grammar lists at the back of the book. The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader emphasizes reading as a purposeful social act, which requires readers to make meaning of the text by considering the authors’ choices in language (scripts, vocabulary, styles) in the text. The learners are guided to situate each text in society (for example, the author, target audience, social-cultural background related to the subject) in order to understand the social significance of reading and writing. This book aims to help learners develop the ability to critically read and write in Japanese for their own social purposes. It is suitable for both class use and independent study.

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268

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Routledge

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1000408868

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9781000408867

Surface Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media

By: Sergey V. Biryukov,Yuri V. Gulyaev,Victor V. Krylov,Victor P. Plessky

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Surface Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media

By: Sergey V. Biryukov,Yuri V. Gulyaev,Victor V. Krylov,Victor P. Plessky

Surface Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media covers almost all important problems of the interaction of different types of surface acoustic waves with surface inhomogeneities. The problems of surface acoustic wave interaction with periodic topographic gratings widely used in filters and resonators are under careful consideration. The most important results of surface wave scattering by local defects such as grooves, random roughness, elastic wedges are given. Different theoretical approaches and practical rules for solving the surface wave problems are presented.

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398

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642577679

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9783642577673

Diagnostic Pathology and Molecular Genetics of the Thyroid

A Comprehensive Guide for Practicing Thyroid Pathology

By: Yuri E. Nikiforov,Paul W. Biddinger,Lester D.R. Thompson

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Diagnostic Pathology and Molecular Genetics of the Thyroid

A Comprehensive Guide for Practicing Thyroid Pathology

By: Yuri E. Nikiforov,Paul W. Biddinger,Lester D.R. Thompson

The first comprehensive surgical pathology textbook and reference on the thyroid in over fifteen years, this book presents the most advanced concepts on the diagnostic surgical pathology, cytopathology, immunohistochemistry, and molecular genetics of neoplastic and non-neoplastic thyroid diseases. The authors provide a detailed description of the surgical pathology of thyroid diseases side-by-side with major advances in immunohistochemistry and molecular genetics that can be used in evaluating thyroid tumors and non-neoplastic diseases. By combining diagnostic surgical pathology, cytopathology, immunohistochemistry, and molecular genetics, the book effectively mimics the practice of contemporary surgical pathologists. All major chapters have a uniform style of description and include a separate section on molecular genetics. A companion Website will include the fully searchable text and an image bank.

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828

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451152957

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9781451152951

The Politics of Incompetence

Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance

By: Neriko Musha Doerr

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The Politics of Incompetence

Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance

By: Neriko Musha Doerr

“Incompetence” is not an objective state lacking competence nor a kind of deficiency that needs to be filled. Rather, it is a constructed state that is productive, working in tandem with its opposite, “competence.” Perception of incompetence/competence works as what Michel Foucault (1977) calls a technology of “normalization” that pushes individuals to aspire to follow a shared norm, while hierarchically differentiating individuals according to their proximity to the aspired norm. The notion of incompetence is thus “productive” in that it turns individuals into specific kinds of “subjects” (Foucault 1977). The Politics of “Incompetence”: Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance further investigates other productive processes around the perception of “incompetence” specifically through its intersections with various ideologies—“academic achievement,” teacher-student hierarchy, “native speaker” ideology, normative unit thinking, and privilege of vulnerability—as such intersections generate new knowledge, new reflection on one’s assumptions and privilege, new space for marginalized language, and more. This volume opens up a new area of study—productive cultural politics of “incompetence”—by focusing on language learning in diverse contexts: Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms in US colleges, Italian language tourism in Italy, and indigenous Māori language revitalization at an Aotearoa/New Zealand school.

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195

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666936243

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9781666936247

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice

By: Noriko Iwasaki,Yuri Kumagai

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A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice

By: Noriko Iwasaki,Yuri Kumagai

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1000408949

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The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

Surface Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media

Surface Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media

Diagnostic Pathology and Molecular Genetics of the Thyroid

Diagnostic Pathology and Molecular Genetics of the Thyroid

The Politics of Incompetence

The Politics of Incompetence

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

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