Anthropology – Study of Human Diversity - the four subfields of anthropology Cultural anthropologists: ethnography… based on field work Archaeologists: material remains Biological: diversity thru time and space Language: now language to learn past Earnest Hooton: Physical anthropologist Black racist… said closer to primates than whites. caucazoid‚ mongloid‚ negroid Culture Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs; distinctly human; transmitted through learning. |
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. 1.1 WORDS IDENTICAL IN SOUND-FORM BUT DIFFERENT IN MEANING ARE TRADITIONALLY TERMED HOMONYMOUS 1.2 Classification of homonyms 1.3 Diachronically approach of homonyms 1.4 Synchronically approach in studying homonyms CHAPTER II. 2.1 ETYMOLOGICAL AND SEMANTIC CRITERIA IN POLYSEMY AND HOMONYMY 2.2 Modern methods of investigating homonyms 2.3 The two main sources of homonymy are: 2.4 Polysemy and Homonymy: Etymological
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Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able To Do The most fundamental responsibility of schools is teaching students to read. Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able To Do June 1999 Author note: This paper was prepared for the American Federation of Teachers by Louisa C. Moats‚ project director‚ Washington D.C. site of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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Linguistic discourse analysis 1.1Defining discourse Discourse is the creation and organization of the segments of a language above as well as below the sentence. It is segments of language which may be bigger or smaller than a single sentence but the adduced meaning is always beyond the sentence. The term discourse applies to both spoken and written language‚ in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose. Any series of speech events or any combination of sentences in written form wherein
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fits into the category of an endangered language in the United Sates because less and less speakers speak it and because it is taught less often to younger generations as well. Although Cherokee‚ a language containing its own rules in grammar‚ morphemes‚ syntax‚ and phonetics‚ was once a language spoken in vast areas around the United States by native peoples‚ the language struggles to survive albeit historical foreign attack and current domination of other languages such as English. The Cherokee
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ERROR ANALYSIS Error analysis emerged with the growing criticism of constrictive analysis. It was S.P Corder who first advocated in ELT and Applied linguistics community the importance of errors in language learning process. Corder (1967) mentions the paradigm shift in linguistics from a behaviouristic view of language to a more rationalistic view and claims that in language teaching‚ one noticeable effect is to shift the emphasis away from teaching towards study of learning. Corder further
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dictating proper sentence formation; lexicon is a list of words or phrases also known as vocabulary for a language that may be used in grammar to communicate. A lexeme‚ or fundamental unit of vocabulary for a language may consist of a single morpheme or multiple morphemes known as compound words. The lexicon is currently represented in language by the dictionary‚ a list of alphabetized words with meanings and definitions provided for each word. It is by definition a way that only humans are able to communicate
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THE INTERFERENCE OF MOTHER TONGUE IN STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE LEARNING A PAPER Submitted as a Partial Fulfilment in Seminar on language Teaching Lecture: Dr. Hermayawati‚ M.Pd By: Titis Wisnu Wijaya 07004114 B CLASS ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM THE FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION AHMAD DAHLAN UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2010 INTRODUCTION English which is an international language is used for communication in many countries around the world especially in the globalization
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1. Introduction Taboo can be defined as a prohibition that excludes something from use‚ approach‚ or mention. This may be on the grounds it is considered sacred‚ has the ability to inspire fear‚ or is thought to be disgusting or disagreeable. It is not a word indigenous to English. Chinese has their fair share of taboos; some of them are related to the language and culture. It is like any other race. The following three tips of Chinese cultural taboos have been existed through many years for
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represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to other types of writing systems‚ such as syllabaries (in which each character represents a syllable) and logographies (in which each character represents a word‚ morpheme or semantic unit). A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as the consonants. The first "true alphabet" in this sense is believed to be the Greek alphabet‚[1][2] which is a modified form of the Phoenician alphabet. In other
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