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Price: $73.95

Format:
Hardback 688 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-10:
019442099X

ISBN-13:
9780194420990

Publication date:
April 2005

Imprint: OUP UK

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Practical English Usage, Third Edition: Hardcover

Third Edition

Michael Swan

The world's most trusted guide to problems in English - now in a new edition.

Readership : Teachers of English. Higher-level students of English (working alone or in class).

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Michael Swan is a writer specializing in English language teaching and reference materials. His interests include pedagogic grammar, mother-tongue influence in second language acquisition, and the relationship between applied linguistic theory and classroom language-teaching practice, and he has published a number of articles on these topics. Michael has had extensive experience with adult learners and has worked with teachers in many countries. He is a Visiting Professor at St Mary's College, University of Surrey.

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Special Features

  • Thoroughly revised following extensive research with current users of the book.
  • New features make it easier for users to find their way around the book.
  • All the most popular entries are retained, but almost all the entries have been modified to make them clearer and more effective in solving readers' problems.
  • Explanations and examples now based on current corpus research.
  • New entries on 'Kinds of English', covering standard English and dialects, correctness, spoken and written English, formality, and variation and change.