This volume is part of an exciting experiment in scholarship: to promote an innovative approach to plurilingualism. Royalties from sales of this work will support the "Jon Hassall Memorial Fund for the encouragement of Jazz at Trinity College of Music, Old Naval College, Greenwich, SE10 9JF UK."
Translator into Persian: Minoo Asdjodi. With over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education institutions in the USA, Iran and the UAE, Minoo Asdjodi is currently a faculty member at the Department of English and Writing Studies in Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. Her research areas focus on language education and sociolinguistics. She has also published and won awards for her short stories.
Crocodile Beach: English-Persian Bilingual Reader is Volume 5 of the World English Bilingual Readers Series. This series consists of stories from around the world which are written bilingually with carefully controlled vocabulary and grammar making them suitable for learners of both English and other languages. A variety of realistic and exciting themes encourage language learners to read for pleasure.
Titles available in similar bilingual formats by Peter & Susan Hassall include 'The New Potter' . . .
Parallel series include Bilingual Readers and Translation Workbooks to encourage self-study, teaching/learning and translation to/from other languages. The Bilingual Readers support user preference being presented in 2 formats depending on the language that appears first in each paragraph. These Bilingual Readers also provide an expert translation solution for the complementary Translation Workbooks, which can be used to stimulate written and/or oral translation.
Ani is sure she can win the cross-country race. But she takes a wrong turn in the jungle, is attacked by a crocodile and imprisoned in its larder. Will she ever escape?
About the Author:
Peter & Susan Hassall are authors of a number of books written for and by students of World Englishes including their well-known ESSC series output following implementation of the Extremely Short Story Competition [ESSC] held in the UAE, Japan and Lithuania. Having worked in Higher Education in the Middle East, South-East Asia and the Pacific Rim, Peter & Susan Hassall have been presented three English Speaking Union awards at Buckingham Palace by HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, President of the ESU.
With over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education institutions in the USA, Iran and the UAE, Minoo Asdjodi is currently a faculty member at the Department of English and Writing Studies in Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. Her research areas focus on language education and sociolinguistics. She has also published and won awards for her short stories.
