technology can have an adverse affect on our children. Children today do not spend their leisure time playing dodge ball or skating. They spend hours playing video games‚ watching TV‚ surfing the Internet or using cell phones. Cell phone activities have become particularly onerous for those of us trying to educate our youth. Children no longer talk to each other‚ even if they are in the same room. They text message. One might naively think that texting isn’t so bad because at least children are expressing
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docx)‚ text documents with .rtf extension or as .pdf documents. If you wish to submit in any other file format please discuss this with your lecturer well before the assignment submission date. |Student Name: |Tamara Johns | |Student ID No.: | | |Unit Name: |Introduction to Written Texts
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This lesson was about the two types of text we can use in classroom and their characteristics; authentic material‚ which are written or spoken texts designed for first language speakers to read or listen to‚ where language is not simplified for English learners‚ and the non-authentic materials‚ written for teaching purposes‚ this can be written by the teacher o typically‚ are texts in textbooks or other published materials. To be suitable to use in classroom‚ reading material must fulfill specific
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The Language of Text Messaging Report The Language of Text Messaging Texting had come around when the first cellular phones had been invented. It was originally designed for the deaf and hard of hearing people but has since grown to be an easier and cheaper way of contact than calling. The aim of texting is to be able to send quick and short messages to contacts. This is better achieved by shortening the English language which in turn created the language of texting. I believe that texting
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The Exeter Texts (A discussion of different kinds of viking texts.) The Exeter consists of The Seafarer‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Wife’s Lament. These stories are different collections of viking texts‚ they begin to show different sides of these people. During this time period‚ people craved adventure‚ glory‚ and women craved love. These stories are about anglo saxons and their adventures that they crave everyday‚ they live their lives everyday as if it were their last‚ they spend everyday in their
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THE TEMPEST REVIEW (MULTIMODAL TEXT ANALYSIS) The multimodal text I have chosen is taken from the Guardian online‚ its genre and mode is a review of a production of the Tempest performed in May at the Globe Theatre in London. The online text is intended for Guardian readers because Tilden‚ the reviewer is a regular contributor to the newspaper. The prosodic feature of conversational rhythm is used and Tilden uses an easy informal tone that people enjoy to
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Text Analysis THE GREEN DOOR BY O’HENRY The text under analysis is a story written by O’Henry. His real name is William Sidney Porter and O. Henry is his pen name. O. Henry is an American short-story writer of the late 19th century. He is a representative of realism‚ who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Typical for O. Henry’s stories is a twist of plot which turns on an ironic or coincidental [kəuˌɪn(t)sɪ’dent(ə)l] (випадковий) circumstance. Although some
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Who’s Afraid of Virginai Woolf Passage Analysis – pages 30 and 128 The final moment in the play provides a strong sense of resolution for the relationship of George and Martha in contrast with the merciless bickering that makes up much of the action of the drama. The cathartic ‘exorcism’ of illusion leaves all four characters able to embrace a new beginning this is particularly true of Martha and George. The hysteria and escalating conflict of earlier scenes is culminates in a final scene that
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Introduction The problem between students and the text exams is that‚ somehow exam sometimes makes the students which‚ they are taking the exam‚ make them nerves and they feel that‚ they are lost in the exam and they should looking for the successful and the easiest way to find their self and how to be the top one in the exam. This paper is about‚ the situation of taking exams and the advantages and disadvantages of text exams and quiz exams. However‚ it seems to be that‚ the only way to differentiate
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A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer‚ and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. The ultimate goal of text-to-speech synthesis is to convert ordinary orthographic text into an acoustic signal that is indistinguishable from human speech. The conversion process‚ illustrated in Figure 1‚ is considered
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