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  1. Practice of English Language Teaching, The (2014)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £32.60

    Book with DVD, comprising a comprehensive reference work for teachers of English as a second or foreign language. Covering theory and practice, this guide examines the most recent ideas in methodology and...

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  2. Worlds of English (2013)

    Subject
    Languages; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £34.99

    The decision to use English in countries where it is not the first language is controversial. English is often attacked for causing real social and cultural damage. In South Africa, some schools are refusing...

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  3. Fry’s Planet Word (2012 Television)

    Director
    John-Paul Davidson
    Producer
    John-Paul Davidson
    Subject
    English language and literature; Languages; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

    In this five-part, BBC television series renowned polymath and wordsmith Stephen Fry investigates how language has played a crucial role in human evolution. He travels the world to learn the history of...

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  4. Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation (2012 Audio)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 75), £10.00

    Audio CD featuring speeches and scenes performed as Shakespeare might have heard them. Under the guidance of Ben Crystal, actor and expert in original Shakespearean pronunciation in performance, a company of...

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  5. Voices of the UK: Accents and Dialects of English (2010)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 153 minutes), £15.95

    This two-CD compilation, drawn from the extensive collection of language and dialect recordings held by the British Library Sound Archive, includes 143 recordings that capture and celebrate the rich...

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  6. Beyond Babel (2010)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 300 minutes), £15.00

    A two-disc DVD set containing the four, long-unavailable, television programmes, originally broadcast in 1991, along with twenty nine new additional sequences which expand on some of the themes raised by the...

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  7. Future of Language, The: The Routledge David Crystal Lectures (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £90.00

    Three of Professor David Crystal’s most popular lectures on the future of language, brought together on DVD, with an accompanying book. One of the world’s foremost experts on language and English...

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  8. Adventure of English, The (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 405 minutes), £43.05

    Melvyn Bragg and a host of experts explore the vibrant ,1500-year history of the English language in this 8-part television series. How did it grow from a relatively insignificant Germanic dialect to become...

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  9. From Shakespeare with Love (Unabridged Selections) (2009 Audio)

    Director
    David Timson
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Audio (CD), £6.97

    70 of Shakespeare’s sonnets read unabridged by actors including David Tennant, Anton Lesser and Juliet Stevenson. Directed and selected by David Timson.

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  10. Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK (2007)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century. It includes 71 5-minute audio extracts and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two...

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