Description:
This lively and engaging book traces English's remarkable journey from a from a small, local language to the global resource it is today.
Review Quotes:
'Philip Seargeant does a terrific job in English Language: The Basics, making complex ideas clear, using fascinating current and historical examples of language in use and attitudes to language. This is a really excellent, must-have book for A Level students, their teachers and the general reader too!'
Barbara Bleiman, Education Consultant at the English and Media Centre and Co-Editor of emagazine