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    Brain and languages.

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    Brain and Languages. By the sense of hearing‚ is how we learn to speak and communicate. The audible speech perception is produced in the rotation Heschl in the right and left hemispheres. Understanding how the brain works can help us to learn another language more easily. Language occupies its own section of the brain. Actually‚ there are two main areas; Wernicke’s area allows us to understand words spoken to us and Broca’s area allows us to speak to others. This information is transferred to

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    Language Development

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    theories of language development that try to explain how a child learns a language and how issues can appear‚ slowing or inhibiting that development. The first is the Behaviorist Perspective. This theory states that children develop their language skills through operant conditioning. As they attempt to speak and make sounds that resemble words‚ they are rewarded with praise. Some behaviourists believe that children imitate words and are rewarded for doing so‚ thus leading to their language development

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    Language and society

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    Language and Society 1. The relatedness between language and Society 1) While language is principally used to communicate meaning‚ it is also used to establish and maintain social relationships. 2) Users of the same language in a sense all speak differently. The kind of language each of them chooses to use is in part determined by his social background. Language‚ in its turn‚ reveals information about its speaker. 3) To some extent‚ language‚ especially the structure of its

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    Language and Gender

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    Language and Gender What evidence is there to show that men and women behave very differently in conversation? How do linguists account for these differences? Language is a tool that is believed to be unique to the human species. It is believed that on earth we are the only species to have developed the capacity to utilise language as a tool. It is considered to be the most powerful tool that we as modern humans have in our arsenal as it allows us to pass on our knowledge from one generation

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    Figurative Language versus Literal Language Figurative language‚ which some may refer to as “figure of speech”‚ is a type of language that utilizes description to produce a particular illustration and reveal a person’s emotion. It is‚ also‚ said that figurative language is associated with the human senses. Figurative language contains words that produce an intuition or thought of what the author wants his or her audience to know. At the end of the day figurative language plays an important role

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    Assembly language can execute the same commands as machine language; however‚ the commands have names instead of numbers. Assembly language‚ unlike machine language‚ is a symbolic representation of operation codes‚ symbolic memory addresses and pseudo codes‚ which makes the virtual environment user friendly. Machine language‚ on the other hand‚ is represented as binary bits consisting of a string of 0s and 1s‚ which makes the virtual world challenging since the lingo is only comprehended primarily

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    Language Acquisition

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    …………………………………………......……..… 3 Main body 1. Language acquisition ………………………….….….......… 4 2. The stages of language acquisition ……………....…......….. 5 2.1. The prelinguistic stage ……….….........…...........… 7 2.2. Babbling ………………………........…...........…… 7 2.3. One-word utterances ……………..…....…...........… 9 2.4. Two-word utterances ……………..............…..….... 10 2.5. Telegraphic speech …………………........…...…… 13 2.6. Language learning during the pre-school period ….. 16

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    In the current scenario analysis‚ playing electronic virtual games become a popular daily activity in human life. No matter is mobile based or even computer games‚ each of them having a standard popularity from all range of age group? Surprisingly‚ even children less than 5 years old able to control and use a smart device like IPad. This may due to the influence of their parents‚ for example‚ parents might play the alphabet song using IPad and leave it to the children while they continue with their

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    The power of language

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    The Power of Language Although Susanne Langer did a study on humans and animals to show signs vs. symbols in understanding language‚ Helen Keller and Malcolm X took different paths on discovering the power of language. Langer brings up how there is a difference between symbols and signs‚ which most people consider them one in the same. For Keller she was deaf and blind from the age of 19 months‚ where she had difficulty learning how to communicate and understand language. In Malcolm X’s case‚ he

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    Language Transcript

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    Talking child: Language Observation 2: Language Transcript Child’s Name: Lilli | Child’s Age: 4.7 years | Date: 22/08/2012 | Observers Name: Miranda Day | INFORMATION | INTERPRETATION | Time: 10:25amWe are outside this morning and I notice Lilli playing with “Z” and “A” on the bikes. Lilli spots me sitting with “S” (2.5years) from the toddler room and leads “Z” and “A” over to me. She says “Hello Miss Miranda. What are you doing?” using expressive language whilst making eye contact

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