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The purpose is diagnostic with a view to the professional competence of ELF university lecturers who communicate their expertise to a multicultural audience. The main research question is: What are the lecturers’ perceptions of their own language use and ability to communicate in English during lecture situations, and do the underlying language ideologies influence their positive or negative self-perceptions?
To say that Indians have a passion for the game may be an understatement. As we toured the city of Bangalore, we came to see more and more of such gatherings on a daily basis. The love of the game is similar to the way Ghanaians love soccer. A team could easily be formed on the smallest open field, and then it would begin.
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Eckersley (2004) identifies the things that enhance one’s well-being as marriage, religion, friends, work, leisure, health, and money. It also comes from one’s capacity for control, self-esteem, and optimism. Being adaptable, the ability to work toward goals, and a sense of coherence add to personality traits that lead to one’s happiness.
Another proof to support the given statement is concerning dialect. Each language has several regional varieties which are called dialects. The people living in a particular region naturally acquire the dialect of that region, because they imitate what they hear. Dialect is not limited to the difference in the pronunciation of certain sounds.
Since time is a very precious resource, I want to use it wisely, thus, I would prefer to focus my energies on the things that I am really good at than try to learn new things that are not in line with my interest. As Jobs had pointed out, we do not have to live with the results of other people’s thinking (Young, Jeffrey 2005).
According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that one’s career choices will influence one’s entire future and happiness, and the author wants to be sure that his choices are informed by a good knowledge of himself. The researcher’s preference would be to become a Human Resources Manager in a successful company.
On this basis, it is submitted that the interrelationship between the lexico-grammar hierarchy ranking words, in turn, changes the reader’s perceptions about the three texts to slow down our process in reading the texts. For example, we know from the outset that all three texts are educational texts within different contexts
According to the research, the friendships between dogs and human have raised many questions also. This paper briefly analyses some such questions and also the importance of dogs in human life. The love and care extended by dogs are limited only to their owners and the beloved ones. On the other hand, dogs always look suspiciously at strangers.
The translation seems greatly influenced by the environment and King’s directions and intentions. The varying style of addressing might also be due to the fact that the preface has been written by a team of translators and linguist scholars upon the order of the king and these words were not directly spoken or thought by King Alfred.
Every language has its beauty and intrinsic values. My aim is not to downgrade anglicism, but to show how Frenchmen try to maintain the purity of the French language. Some of the related issues are: Language has different registers. Written language as in its journalistic, technical, and business registers. Another form is the literary register.
The external conflict exists at various levels as to the conflict between the aspirations of the teachers and the Principal’s shrewdness, the conflict between the teachers enhanced by their desire to seek favors from the officials, the conflict between the perceptions of Mr. Sawit and Miss Noel as to teaching and education.
State verbs can further be classified into locational and non-locational verbs whereby the latter further consists of further sub-classes including state, perception, possession, and cognition. Verbs that fall under the activity class are segregated on the basis of the control element they are associated with.
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This paper will begin with the statement that with the advent and explosion of the internet within mainstream contemporary society, the necessity of technical writers to produce highly readable and user-friendly instructional manuals and designs has never been greater. Writers and researchers have identified a series of effective characteristics of technical communication.
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According to the text, the words may be spoken, written or signed, but they are conveyed in a way that is meaningful to those to whom they are conveyed. Words are so commonplace that we take them for granted; we are unaware that the way we communicate to others affects our lives in countless subtle ways.
The language spoken in Britain at that time was the Celtic. The Angles came from England and their language was called Englisc - from which the words England and English derived (History of the English Language, 1997). A language may be important as a lingua franca in a country or region whose diverse populations would otherwise be unable to communicate.
Orality is completely natural to human beings, considering that every human being in every part of the world first learns to speak. It is an extension of his interaction with other human beings and comes first as a process of imitation and then evolves as putting conscious thoughts into words. Literacy on the other hand has been described by scholars ranging from Plato to Walter Ong.
As the paper outlines, while the reporter does not feel there is anything sacrosanct about graduate school, he must assure you that he is not an individual that falls into the above category. Graduate school is more than a mere extension of the undergraduate study. An individual is making a commitment to themselves and to society.
As the paper declares, the reporter will discuss this phrase as it relates to economics. How does business succeed under the theory of No Free lunch? This term has an acronym of TANSTAAFL that is referred to by economists in their discussions. TANSTAAFL means “There is no such thing as a free lunch”.
A language is a basic form of social interaction. A specific language is shared by every language community. It binds the members of the community to each other, helps to foster the relationship between the members and creates interaction among them. All these aspects are covered in discourse.
According to the paper, the archer has no other option but to watch the results of his skill, and desperately lament over the outcome. Similar is the position of Victor Frankenstein. He has created a creature, which he should not have created at all and now is aghast at the unpredictable and impending consequences.
The primary purpose of language is to communicate with others. Language choice influences our meaning because all language is necessarily subjective. The meaning of specific words is considered to be different for those listening from those speaking – sometimes it can be a slight difference and sometimes a very large one.
Although dictionaries exist that claim to offer clear and concise definitions of words, for linguistics the issue involves philosophical concerns: How is objective meaning determined for language? What methods are used to determine the difference between one word and another? Is it possible to say words spelled similarly have different meanings?
There are a large number of sounds that can be produced by human beings. The arbitrary selection of sounds in each language is one of the distinctive features on the basis of which languages differ. Certain sounds and sound patterns are common in several languages. Some sounds belong to almost every language.
As the reporter outlines, he, fortunately, maintained an open mind and after his first few weeks of Law 200, taught by the legendary late USC law professor Charles Whitebread, he realized that he had discovered his passion. From reading cases on his own during the classroom discussions, he found himself frequently checking the clock.
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The author was the only family member to be born in the United States, while his parents and his siblings were all born in Vietnam. His family had a hard life when they came to America, as they had to work extra hard to earn and save enough money. They wanted to make sure that the author had a better life than they had growing up.
The God of Small Things is a story that revolves around the life of many characters which as the story depicts, very important yet ironically, seems insignificant because these lives did not create a change in the social system in which they are in.
Many claim that there is a set of behaviour for each family member that makes a family happy. Others would claim that there are no particular rules to follow in living a happy family life and one would have to just go about in their own lives figuring out what makes their own family a happy one. There is a set of guidelines for living a happy family life.
This paper tells that in order to establish an epistemic proportion about one’s own manner of rationalization at the time of reading, it is imperative that one should be able to clearly analyze what is written. It is the mind that makes and at the same time, it is only human to make errors. The apparent contradiction of this statement calls for special attention while reading.
With the spread of English, this is giving many different members of global society to adopt a new language which will give them new opportunities in business and in education. It is sometimes argued that the growing global adoption of English as the primary language maintains the ability to negatively-affect language diversity and cultural identity.
It is evidently clear from the discussion that putting a man on the moon was necessary for proving the competition weaker. Feeding the world would only demonstrate a humanitarian goal. While it might be a novel and ideal effort, it does not provide a gain over the competition. It is unfortunate, but man’s priorities are misplaced.
According to the paper, the issues of ill health due to obesity and related illnesses ranging from diabetes mellitus to cardiac illness are snuffing out the lives of even young people in this fast-paced age. Sedentary lives are more common with the advent of computers. The reporter would set an example by jogging every morning and encouraging my friends to accompany him.
According to the paper, doing something to make their lives better fueled his dream of becoming a radiologist and then enter the medical profession one day. Yes, he knows that becoming a radiologist and a doctor is not easy and he may face a lot of obstacles along the way but he's confident that he can hurdle all these challenges.
The researcher states that in 1979, the father of her two children kidnapped them after a visitation weekend. They were nowhere to be found and the author went through much anguish to find them. There was no "Amber Alerts" at that time so after the police could not find them the author had to keep pursuing any leads she found on her own.
This paper tells that understanding one’s self-leadership skills helps an individual to understand the elements or the factors which would help in increasing the levels of ‘self-motivation’. Self-leadership skills are vital for goal setting and help in identifying the actions that an individual needs to adapt to achieve the same.
According to the paper, the person who has an undeniable impression on the author’s personality is that of his Grandma Pearl. Simply stating she was Gem of a person. Although no more with them today in this physical world, her presence is still palpable. Just like any ocean or desert or mountain have its elemental force.
The letter was written to the members of the San Diego District school board as a fervent appeal regarding a matter which was one of the utmost importance - the debate that has been taking place recently on whether or not to offer liberal education classes in the inner-city schools of San Diego. The author addresses the matter in great detail.
Grammar is concerned with the elaborate systems which speakers use to build words into larger and meaningful units. It deals with the organizing of the smallest structural units possessing meaning and using it to form meaningful combinations bigger than words. “The of was room” is by this definition nongrammatical.
As English gradually becomes universal, some school administrators and educators have difficulty realizing the importance of learning a foreign language, further than that of a requirement to graduate. They reason that learning a foreign language will just be worthless if the students are not planning to use their second language after graduation.
Each individual is expected to have developed a standard behavior based on what is socially accepted within a given society or culture. For instance: People who lived a happy family life may consider marriage as a normal part of life which every person should have achieved before or during the early adulthood stage.
In the XIX-th century, British political imperialism had circulated the English language around the world, but in the twentieth century, its global presence was maintained and increased almost solely through economic domination of the new superpower - the United States of America. The economy has replaced politics as the main driving force.
The article with the title, “Code-switching in Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love” focuses on the evaluation of the phenomenon of code-switching described by the writer Ahdaf Soueif as is evident from the title of the article. According to Albany and Hancock, Soueif employs Arabic as well as English in order to represent “the different aspects of linguistic and cultural norms of Egyptian society.”
The use of Euphemism enriches the qualitative expression of language and at the same time, it smoothens the expression of thought (Smyth). That is, language is often opaque and not eloquent or fluent without the effective use of euphemism.
This widespread use of loanwords may not be so apparent to the ordinary person but it is to the linguist who has studied the etymology of a large number of these words and has some acquaintance with languages other than English. Need is the biggest factor why people adopt loanwords. For example, in referring to the names applied to objects.
It is difficult to say whether it is better to live in a city or in a small town. But for a person who wants a fast life, wants to face challenges, wants excitement, for that person a big city living is a right choice. In big cities, you get to face challenges as you are placed in a variety of situations every day.
I could successfully replicate my business skills into the social scenario. The fundamental pillars of every business operation including mission, money, management, and marketing as leant by me in the business ventures were to be replicated in the non-profit scenario so as to ensure the success of the project.
For while the United States has seen its language emerge from what is arguably the most varied group of spoken languages ever voluntarily concentrated in one area, it has fought tooth and nail the acceptance of the fact of its multicultural linguistic base even as it adopted the speech patterns and vocabularies it officially disdained.
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The paper "A Rolling Progression" is an outstanding example of a research paper on English. We use language to communicate with others and our language choice influences both our meaning and perception of others. Language influences our meaning because language is subjective.
Within the poem, imagery is used to evoke emotion by bringing forth images of lonely, desolate places and the longing for company, or for something more than what is currently there. “With echoing straits between us thrown” conveys the emotion of loneliness by using the imagery of long, empty straits.
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As the paper outlines, the word “romance” is usually associated with feelings of love between two individuals, most of the time, a male and a female. The strong emotions elicited by this experience have inspired people to do things out of the ordinary, such as an artist coming up with a masterpiece.
This paper has been the result of the long-felt need to classify and evaluate the effectiveness of various ELL programs and particularly the value of mainstreaming ELL students in response to the challenges in the instruction of the students with limited English language proficiency.