| This is definitely NOT the best teacher's prep for the CSET English! There are only a handful of study guides available for the CSET, and this one, the newest, is the worst I've seen. There is very little in the way of content review, and the sections on test-taking strategies are not very helpful. What is worse, the book is full of wrong information. I found many mistakes in the practice tests for subtest II, for example, where the author gives blatantly wrong definitions for several grammatical terms, including double-plural nouns and compound verbs. Moreover, his knowledge of the field of linguistics is appallingly limited, unforgivable in someone who is being paid to write about the subject. He places phonology and syntax within the field of applied linguistics (misleading - they belong primarily to pure linguistics), and his definition of philology ("the study of language in its cultural and social context") is actually the definition of sociolinguistics. Don't waste your money on this book. The study guides put out by the Orange County Dept. of Ed. are MUCH better. |
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