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Language Acquisition Theories English Essay
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Describing such a phenomenon has been a central issue of concern for many language scholars. Consequently, over the years various theories have arisen to try and give an explanation to the phenomena of second language acquisition. With ten years of experience in teaching English as a foreign language, I must say that it is essential to connect theories of language learning and acquisition.
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Present Perfect for Arabic Speakers English Coursework
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In part two of this paper, the paper will seek to compare how the grammar points in regard to the Present Perfect have been both treated and explained in two standard grammar books. The grammar textbooks that are used in this paper are: English Grammar, by Collins Cobuild and Essentials of English by L. Baugh’s.
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Effects of Teaching Styles on the Accuracy of Written English English Research Paper
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Generally speaking, different research has been carried out in attempts to establish the effectiveness of different teaching methods in teaching students. The methods that will be reviewed in this part of the study include the grammar-translation method, the communicative approach, and the eclectic method.
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History of the English Language English Essay
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Such was the significance of Humboldt's ideas that the speculation about the beginning of grammar was viewed as the most erudite contemplations in the field of linguistics. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a distinct practice in the study of Grammaticalization had been recognized but lacked the right terminology.
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Influence of English on Arabic Online Advertisements English Research Paper
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Arabic online advertisement has experienced changes in the recent past especially in the language used for the commercials. The language used in advertisements has a great impact on how people behave and react to a product or service being advertised. Customers have to understand to attain the purpose of commercials.
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Use of English Language in Arabic Online Advertisements English Research Paper
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The audience must understand the message in the commercial advertisement to purchase the product or service. The language being used during advertising is important in ensuring that a large number of audiences can understand the message (Al-Khalifa, 2012). Most organizations always intend to create awareness among a diverse group of customers.
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Variety of New English English Essay
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From a critical perspective, general accents represent the most common aspect of Australian English. On the other hand, broad accents come out as more extremely associated with the working-class speech. Similarly, cultivated Australian accents are a prestige variety closer to the British Received Pronunciation.
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Three Questions of English English Essay
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The American culture has an impact on young people’s language usage, there still exist a good number of American words that have not been adopted yet. For example, eat biscuits and not cookies; footpaths and not sidewalks; autumn does not fall. The young people, do this despite the saturation of American entertainment in homes.
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English International Communication English Essay
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Nigeria has become one of the fastest-developing African countries with other West African countries cultivating significant interests in its business growth. As such, this paper addresses the importance of understanding the progress in the English dativization process.According to Osundare (2004), the following three attitudes made Africans adopt and nativize English: accommodationist, gradualist, and radical attitudes.
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Speech Production English Literature review
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Voiced sounds are also characterized by by vowels, including /ivy/ as well as nasal sounds, including /m/. On their side, unvoiced sounds are characterized by noise-like and aperiodic sounds. These characteristics are best displayed in Figure 1.0 displayed in form of a spectrogram and waveform of a sentence.
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English as a Killer Language English Essay
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Since the English language is widely used in international relations, air-traffic control, and even music it is necessary to identify it as the world language. It is essential to define some terminologies and explain some of the ways in which a language can be murdered. In most cases, it is the other languages that come into contact which die and not English.
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English for Special Purposes English Literature review
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English for Specific Purposes is a larger movement within language teaching it gives concentration not only on teaching grammar and language structures but also gives an emphasis on language in context. It is basically a learner-centered approach. English for Specific Purposes takes each and every subject under consideration from accounting or computer science to Tourism and business management.
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The Syntax Subject English Essay
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Classification of grammar and syntax has evolved from the traditional methods to the current X bar syntax. This evolution has helped in adding some additional levels to the hierarchy of the phrasal structure rules and replacement of the traditional forms of the phrasal structural rules.
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English as the Global Language English Essay
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In the creation of a body of work that would seek to understand the problems that English encounters in its zest to become the global language, one would encounter issues such as the love that people tend to have for their cultures and their singular identity which in many cases is identified in keeping with the language that they adopt as their own.
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Bilingual Education and Community English Essay
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Bilingualism is an individual possession existence. It is a characteristic of a community or a group of people e.g. Australians and Arabians. There is a difference between society bilingualism and individual possession of bilingualism. Co-existing languages are a result of rapid change, rapid advancing of others cost, living in harmony or conflict.
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History of English - Spelling English Essay
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The OE <y> is sound and the letter finds its entry to the English alphabet from Latin. The letter was borrowed to make it possible for native OE to have a sound symbol for the sound /y/. the letter was renamed VI (/u: i:/) after its analysis as a V atop an I in the first grammatical treatise.
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Australian Variety of English English Essay
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For a long period of time, both linguistics and researchers in the field of sociolinguistics have argued that Australian English has no regional dialect but rather a social variation. Then what is the social variation? Linguistics has defined social variation as a variety that has been regarded as prestigious and associated with a certain class of people.
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The Existence of Hong Kong English and Its Political and Social Roles English Literature review
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Kachru, (1985b) states that the diffusion of English which is unprecedented has, in essence, become a phenomenon for post-2nd world war. It has been realized that the study, as well as the classification of indigenous English varieties, is proving to be a new area where research needs to be done in a purposeful and organized manner (Kachru, 1992).
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English for Academic Purposes English Literature review
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Students’ proficiency in everyday communication does not imply that they are proficient in using academic language to perform more cognitively demanding and abstract tasks, for instance using appropriate language in the classroom and school environment. Academic language takes considerably longer time to learn than everyday kind of language.
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Understanding the Global Spread of English English Literature review
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This on the other hand means that the use of English is subject to government policies which in turn affect its acquisition. On contrary, the Philippines is a good example of a periphery country where English plays a significant role in the determination of access to power and wealth. These are countries Llurda (2006) refers to as ‘a multilingual country where globalization is best felt’ (p.23).
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Prosody - Analysis and Teaching English Coursework
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Prosodic features of a spoken language are not identified as discrete features. They are also known as suprasegmental or non-segmental features. In other words, prosody refers to prosodic features of tone, stress, speech, intonation, and others. Mostly three features are discussed when either comparing or contrasting between Arabic and English.
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Linguists Views on the Subject English Coursework
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Linguists’ divergent views on the subject are manifest in the multiple terms they use to refer to it: grammatical subject, notional subject, logical subject, psychological subject, semantic subject, referential subject, pronominal subject, expletive subject, and dummy subject among other references.
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Implications of World English and Quote Paradigm for Language Teaching English Literature review
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In most countries, English is identified as a foreign language without any official status. Nonetheless, English is used as the language for wider communication due to the British colonial legacy as well as the USA emerging as a superpower in the 20th century. In multilingual nations that have more than two languages, English is learned as a third language.
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Language and Culture English Literature review
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Language is also a reflection of the culture of people not just a part of the culture.  Students of language are thus required to not only learn a language but also the underlying culture of the people who speak the culture.  Second language teaching must make sure the acquisition of a language goes alongside the acquisition of culture.
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Problem of Global English English Literature review
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In an increasingly globalized world economy, there are infinite benefits of embracing a language that is spoken around the world. So far, the English language has emerged as best fitting for that purpose, and rightfully deserves to be referred to as an international language. Many people around the world today speak English as a foreign language.
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The Impact International Students Have on ESL Program English Research Paper
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The paper highlights the impact international students have on ESL programs by looking at ESL students’ perceptions and expectations with regard to the English language.  The study has been conducted at the University of Melbourne where the impact international students have on ESL programs is being identified.
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Approaches to the Teaching of Second Language English Essay
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The essay attempts to create an appeal to researchers involved in describing l2 literacy and investigating l2 reading pedagogy. Notably, the essay provides myriad overviews of research related to l2 reading and other numerous opportunities to reflect on, develop, and practice the teaching skills needed for effective ESL and EFL literacy instruction.
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Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages English Literature review
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Education (TESOL), where the initials stand for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, is a field of specialization in education. Of course, the mention of the word education creates an image of two parties in a classroom setting i.e. teacher and learner. The teacher passes worthwhile knowledge and values to willing learners.
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Language and Power in the Legal System English Coursework
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Language is of central significance within the legal system because there would be no laws without language. It is important to note that court judgments, legal proceedings, and legislations use specific linguistic forms. Generally, legal cases concern issues of interpretation and ambiguity relating to the words used in a conversation.
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Social Networking in the Context of Language Learning English Literature review
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Technology is synonymous with education just as education is synonymous with technology. The two are intertwined, such that one cannot be without the other. Power-point presentations and larger forms of storage have allowed educators and academic institutions to share their work and strategies, allowing for a more effective instruction session.
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The Pedagogical Implications of Thinking in Terms of Global English English Coursework
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Since the time of colonization, the English language has witnessed an unprecedented spread on the global platform. This can be attributed to a combination of numerous historical, political, cultural, social, and technological factors. The spread has led to the emergence of varieties of English characterized by multiple linguistic and cultural identities.
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The Translation Of The Arabian Nights By Richard Burton English Essay
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The translation of Arabian Nights by Richard Burton was driven by a number of factors such as the messages that Burton tried to put across. Burton observed that the idea of orientalism was common in the Arabian world and needed to inform the world about various ways in which it took place.
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The Global Spread of English English Essay
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Massive changes experienced throughout the economy of the world, communications, and ecology, these momentous changes have consequently lead to the increasing use of English. (Phillipson, 2011). It has been taken by soldier settlers, and traders, a process that was started in the Isles of Britain and the North American colonies.
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Successful Bilingual Education Programs English Literature review
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The challenge of learning the second language can vary depending on the existing differences between the L1 language and the L2 language. Some aspects of L1 language may vary in essential aspects, such as semantics, from the L2 language. The differences imply that learning the L2 language would be a greater challenge.
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The Frequent Family Trips to Visit the Burj Khalifa English Essay
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The article showcases how identity is developed in prose narration. On the other hand, the creative writing activity also reflects on the importance of the learned aspect of writing ordinary pieces. The activity shows the importance of ordinary writing where it reflects on common family experiences such as a family vacation that did not go as planned.
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Contemporary Business Leader Mark Zuckerberg English Essay
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Studies support that the best managers are those who can execute multiple skills and consequently act to fulfill their duties. A manager tackles complex situations in a highly volatile and assorted environment. For them to operate an organization successfully, they need to mind the plans, organizations, and controls that will impact their capabilities.
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History of Comic in the 20th Century English Research Paper
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Maus by Art Spiegelman is incredible graphic writing that presents to us a number of themes. These are for instance Morality, Racism, Family issues, Guilt, Survival, past, and the present, Luck, Power among many others. However, the theme of Racism as well as past Vs Present echoes quite strongly in this book.
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Encounter with Chulawa English Essay
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Parents were to prepare a room at home and thought of a way of luring John into going to that room. The process of exorcism is carried out by a person with experience. There is a certain procedure in Islam for performing an exorcism. The first is to make wudhu and ensure that the house is clean; the room walls should be free of any images.
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Prepositions and ESL Learners English Coursework
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English prepositions make it hard for foreign learners to remember them and their precise application. In light of these problems, it is important to find a lasting solution since the problem affects even the ENLs. The solution exists in the collaboration between the education practitioners and the students. 
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The Review of Language Learning Processes English Coursework
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Language learning activities are activities aimed at promoting language understanding, especially for second language learners. Proper language learning ensures that a student understands language input and is able to use that language in interaction.  In language learning, interaction refers to a social process of making meaning and interpretations
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Teaching ESL Learners with Different Background Culture English Research Paper
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The paper points out in detail the need for teachers of ESL learners to effectively understand both the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the learners. Evidence obtained from research shows that learning a second language is influenced by the personal attributes of the learner, their prior language development and competence, and the environmental factors.
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The Spread of English Language English Essay
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The recent trend in the rise of English use has mainly occurred over the last two decades. Subsequently, the English language has reached a high status the world over due to an array of factors; as the primary language for millions of individuals, the language used in international relations, for media as well as for global communication.
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Mainstreaming ELL Students English Case Study
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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.
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Language Learning English Case Study
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As a teacher, I have to choose the best approach that will make me realize the desired outcomes. Teaching environments vary and the types of students change every time. Understanding which approaches to use has to be a priority of every teacher. In this study, I undertake an in-depth discussion of major theories of language learning and acquisition and the outcome of language teaching.
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Enhancing Students English Capabilities in Key Areas English Case Study
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It is essential to state that Nathan is 8 years and six months old and is in grade three. Nathan has learning difficulties that have affected his communication levels, and as such, his capabilities in talking/listening, writing, and reading are approximately three years lower than those of his year 3 colleagues.
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The Application of a Functionalist Approach to Translation English Case Study
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This essay aims to show the combination of these theories as applied to the investigation of linguistic specificities regarding translations of a given text. As such, the Functionalist Approach of Translation as proposed by NORD (1997) is exemplified within the selected text and its application is described within the context of Scoops theory.
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Semantic Components that Define a Lie English Case Study
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The following section discusses the definition of a lie in English and our native language. The objective is to determine the semantic components that define the meaning of lying in our language and find similarities or differences between them.Coleman and Kay (1981) view lying in terms of prototype and it contains three important features- a false statement, intent to deceive, and knowledge of falsity. 
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Domain analysis According to Fishman 1971 English Assignment
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A domain of language is about normal interactions between usual participants within a given in typical settings about a typical topic. Examples of these domains are family, friendship, religion, education, and employment. On the other hand, a setting or set up is the physical situation or the typical place where speech interactions occur (code choice). Examples of a set up include a home, church, mosque, school, office (Fishman, 1972).
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Global Spread of English English Annotated Bibliography
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This is a necessity if it is to be truly useful as a means of communication. As in so many areas of globalization, it is however likely in general to be of more use to those were links to countries where English is the main tongue, and at present, to men rather than women, because of educational differences, and the type of work carried out by women as compared to men.
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Phonemic Analysis and Teaching English Case Study
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A language's phonology has a basic unit which is called a phoneme. When a number of phonemes are combined together, they form morphemes or words, which are meaningful units. The typical definition of a phoneme is "the smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning".
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