days ago and began studying at a university. There was a discussion time during one of her classes. She was on a team with three American classmates. During the whole session, she only said two or three sentences. One might think it is because her English is very poor and she doesn’t know what to say or when to say it. That could be true. However, when she was talking about her point or idea, those three American classmates didn’t pay any attention to what she was saying. This could be understood to
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There are four types of instruction for ELL students these are English emersion, English as a second language, bilingual education, and primary language programs. All these English Language Learners have an L1 and English comes as an L2. They can have varying levels of English. They can start from no English to some. There are some strategies that can be used to help ELL students to read. Visual references are the most important because they can make connections with what they are reading. No matter
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world vary between 5,000 and 7,000 with English being the most popular. English may not be the most spoken language in the world, but it is the official language in a large number of countries. Throughout the world, when people with different languages come together, they commonly use English to communicate whether it might be spoken through physical interactions or putting words together. The three types of languages that I use to communicate are English, Urdu and body language. I am one in
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1. Differentiate National, Regional and Official Languages National Language In the definition given by the dictionary, National Language pertains to the language spoken and written by the majority of people in a country; also, the official language of a country, recognized and adopted by its government. Other sources define National Language as a language which has a connection with people and the territory they occupy. A national language may for instance represent the national identity of
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term vocabulary because it is the basic foundation in any language and through reviewing the literature, the researcher found the following definitions that share some similarities. Hornby (2000) in Oxford Advanced Learner‘s Dictionary of Current English states that vocabulary is all the words that someone knows or uses, the words that are typically used when talking about particular subject or a list of words with the explanation of their meanings in a book for learning foreign language. Saputra
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The study of language has been referred to a system of human communication in modern linguistics. Thus, pragmatics takes the spotlight as it studies language from the users’ point of view. It is appealing because it talks about how people make sense of each other linguistically (Yule, 1996). As stated by Crystal (2013), people make choices, they undergo constraint in using language, and they notice different effects of their language use in an act of communication. Pragmatics is fundamentally concerned
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silence in the novels of Elie Wiesel, and at the ways Wiesel both demonstrates and gets around the fact that conventional language simply breaks down when it is used to talk about the Holocaust. I plan to expand on the same project for my senior English thesis. For this thesis I am studying the ways Wiesel uses silence in the literal content of his novels and in his writing technique, and am working toward explanations as to how he gives these silences meaning. My fluency in French from my semester
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(3): more intense contact, (4): strong cultural pressure, (5): very strong cultural pressure). The study of Brown on intensity of language contact reveals the fact that for Native Americans borrowed more words from Spanish language rather than from English or French. This happens because users of Native American languages were exposed to Spanish more often and sooner than other languages. This contact somehow forced native societies to acquire other language in order to communicate and
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InterOffice Memo To: Subject: Majestica Hotels Inc. Position to take regarding the Shanghai opportunity Problem Statement Majestica Hotels has been given the opportunity to manage a new luxury hotel development in Shanghai being constructed by Commercial Properties of Shanghai Limited (CPS). Negotiations have been stalled due to the different expectations of both parties regarding their roles in the new development and the terms of the management contract
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