Learner English

Learner English is a practical reference book which compares the relevant features of students'' own languages with English helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have. It includes 22 chapters each of which covers one language background. Chapters are written by specialists with experience in teaching students from the areas concerned. They describe and explain the most important typical pronunciation grammar vocabulary and other mistakes of learners who speak Dutch-Flemish Scandinavian languages (except Finnish) German French Italian Spanish Catalan Portuguese Greek Russian Polish Farsi Arabic Turkish South Asian languages (with a separate chapter on Dravidian languages) West African languages Swahili Malay/Indonesian Japanese Chinese Korean and Thai.