expressions were more academic, using more formal English, a language she had never used with her mother. Along with the lecture, she relates several examples of how her mother’s “Englishes” influenced her throughout her life, and how sometimes it was a barrier to communication. It was for this reason that Amy Tan decided to write a book where the reading level is easy and understandable--for those who like her mother had difficulty with complex English grammar. In many ways, Tan’s mother’s immigration experience
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looks and culture. Language What is standard English in the text and what is not? He writes ‘de’ instead of ‘the’ and “I ent have no knife” instead of “I don’t have a knife”. He also writes “yu” instead of “your”, “dem” instead of “they” and “mek” instead of “make”. He writes it the way he pronounces the words because of his accent. He is doing it on purpose because he wants to rebel against the Standard English: “… mugging the Queen’s English is the story of my life”. The words he chooses shows
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International General Certificate of Secondary Education English as a Second Language (IGCSE-E2L) Examination is mainly for fourteen to sixteen-year-old students who are going to study abroad in English speaking countries. This textbook is an IGCSE exam-preparation book whose target user’s proficiency level is about low-intermediate to intermediate. As for the, there are four parts (four themes) in total. There is an increasing difficulty of teaching objectives shown from part one to part four, which
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abbreviated aux) is a verb functioning to give further semantic or syntactic information about the main or full verb following it. In English, the extra meaning provided by an auxiliary verb alters the basic meaning of the main verb to make it have one or more of the following functions: passive voice, progressive aspect, perfect aspect, modality, dummy, or emphasis. In English, every clause has a finite verb which consists of a main verb (a non-auxiliary verb) and optionally one or more auxiliary verbs
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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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believed to illustrate how sociolinguistics is relevant to the teaching of language. Introduction From the perspectives of theoretical linguists, especially in the traditional approaches in English language teaching, the teaching focuses on language structure including some form of language such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, or spelling to name a few. However, things have changed with the arrival of a new approach known as the Communicative Language Teaching, where the features of sociolinguistics
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Ariana Timbol 1/29/2014 English 121 A Poison from the Future With Great powers comes with great responsibility as people use technology in their everyday life. Back in the days, people wrote to each other letters and that could take about a good few weeks to receive it and reply back or longer. Today, we have been gifted with social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other places for friends and family to chat on. Is social media really a gift or is it a curse? Who needs to interact
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California English: * Almost 50% of the population is made up of Latino/African Americans with separate accents. * Caucasian people pronounce the vowels in hawk and hock the same as well as cot and caught. * Moving vowels forward in the mouth is resulting in changes of vowel sound Cajun: * This dialect is a mixture of French, Canary Island Spanish, German, and English. * Some characteristics include fast talking, clipped vowels and an abundance of French terms. * The /th/
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LITERARY (STANDARD) LANGUAGE ( From: I.R.Galperin. Stylistics. Moscow: Higher School, 1977. pp. 41-57) Up till now we have done little more than mention the literary (standard) language, which is one of the most important notions in stylistics and general linguistics. It is now necessary to elucidate this linguistic notion by going a little deeper into what constitutes the concept and to trace the stages in the development of the English standard language. This
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INTRODUCTION English language plays a vital role in one's life as a medium of communication. According to some studies, there are 450 million people who speak English in more than 100 countries around the world. It has been subjected to a large average of integrated language variation for many years. Modern English as a communication tool is commonly used in many countries and philosophers considered this as the international language. The use of English language in different countries by native
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