Was English the right choice for Namibia as a national language? Am sure some of you might have heard the phrase “English came with a boat”, this is cause back then our ancestors just knew their mother tongues before German colonialism and apartheid when German’s and colonies from South Africa taught our people their languages(Afrikaans, German and English) in order to communicate with them. During apartheid Afrikaans, German and English held the position of official language; however, after independence
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History of English Literature Overview Anglo-Saxon Literature (500-1100) The Angles and Saxon conquered what is now called England in the 5th and 6th centuries. Christian missionaries taught the English to write. Northumbria soon produced Caedmon and Bede. Heroic poetry of a Christian kind is the chief legacy of Old English literature, notably Beowulf and the Elegies. A considerable prose literature grew up after King Alfred. Middle English Literature (1100-1500) Literature in England in this
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Pragmatic Transfer in Iraqi EFL Learners' Refusals, International Journal of English Linguistics, 1(2), 166-185. doi:10.5539/ijel.v1n2p166 The study deals with pragmatic transfer of Iraqi EFL learners' refusal strategies as reflected by their responses to a modified version of 12- items written discourse completion task; and compare with two groups ,namely Iraqi native speakers of Arabic and American native speakers of English. The data were collected from task consisted of three requests, three offers
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II was killed shot in the eye with an arrow. 5. What were 3 major reforms that William implemented? - 1. Only one God will be worshipped throughout the whole of England and there will be only one faith. This will preserve peace between the English and the Normans. - 2. All freemen will swear an oath that they will be loyal to the king. All freemen will swear to defend William against all of his enemies. - 3. No live cattle can be sold outside of
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To what extent English is the global language? http://www2.ignatius.edu/FACULTY/TURNER/languages.htm http://www2.ignatius.edu/FACULTY/TURNER/worldlang.htm (detailed tables) http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html 影响语言传播的因素： 1. http://www.5ykj.com/Article/xslwwjws/93980.htm 历史 经济 难度 对人类文明的贡献 2. http://bbs.hupu.com/12561712.html 短期看不太可能。决定语言传播的有几个因素： 1. 国家实力（说中文的就中国一个大头） 2. 文化输出（这点上天朝弱爆，天朝目前以及可短期预见的未来里，不具备输入文化的足够实力）等哪天天朝的流行文化，各种文化，电影，流行歌，书，明星等逆向输入英语世界，等哪天英语国家的青少年开始哈中了，这时候我们才谈中文的逆袭。
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The difficulty that new international students faced in a new English speaking country The number of students study abroad because of the High quality education in some English speaking country and the strongest financial statement. International students from many different culture and speak many different languages block them adjust to a new social and academic life in a foreign country in several aspects (Hawkes, 2014). Smith and Khawaja (as cited in Hawkes, 2014) that there are five factors:
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think my listening skill needs to be improved and my vocabulary is too small too. So I wanted to improve my English listening skill and enlarge my vocabulary through this independent learning activity. What’s more, I also wanted to know some techniques of taking tests, and know differences between British English and American English, and what features does British English or American English has. Last, since I’ve never done a presentation before, so I wanted to grasp some skills and tips to apply
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dawns in the background of this epic poem. * 30,000 lines of Anglo-Saxon poetry survive today * 3, 182 (10%) of the lines are from Beowulf * Setting – Denmark and Sweden * Oldest surviving English poem * Oldest text in English. * Composed in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) between 600 and 700 CE. * Written down sometime in the 10th century. * There is a manuscript of it in the British Library, that barely survived a fire. * It is a literary picture of melding religious
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The candidate must demonstrate they are able to follow the following tasks as their role as a Part time sales executive: A sales executive will be working the ground floor, serving consumers and helping them if they need assistance with any of their shopping needs. Sales executives will also oversee the retail assistants to check on their progress and to see if there are any other tasks that are outstanding. Good social skills are required as you will be working with people throughout the day, working
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Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) was incorporated in 1984. Its success is built on the long history and rich heritage of two flagship newspaper products. The Straits Times, the english language daily and LianHe Zaobao, the chinese language daily. SPH was publishes daily newspaper in english, chinese, malay and tamil four titles major language. Everyday, 74 per cent of population above 15 years old read one of SPH's newa publications. SPH also produces a range of magazines. They publishes
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