Alison Cochrun

The author of the “swoon-worthy debut” (Harper’s Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister.One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money.Finding work at a local coffee shop, she’s just getting through the days―until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. They make a plan to spend the holidays together at his family cabin to keep up the ruse. But when Andrew introduces his new fiancée to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it’s Jack―the mysteriou

本書的主題為“國際語言學習”（International LanguageLearning），共包括12篇文章，所分析的有關語言學習的案例橫跨多個國家和地區，所涉及的方法，對中國國際漢語教學有很大的啟發和借鑒意義，值得國內學者研究參考。

本書為專業性評論。每年圍繞一個語言學專題展開，本書對教育技術手段的歷史進行了回顧，並對當前的研究現狀及方法進行了綜合性評價，指出了研究中的優點和不足，並對未來的研究方向和研究中可能出現的問題提出了前瞻性看法，值得國內學者學習借鑒。此項目為原版英文的影印，英文中可改動之處不多。商務印書館在原有基礎上，又增加了中文的總序和導讀，其中，導讀對文章的核心內容進行了詳細解讀，並對國內的相關情況做了對比性介紹，在降低原文理解的難度的同時，又拓展了原著的專業內容，進一步方便了國內學習者閱讀學習。