growing demographic of students are those whose first language is not English. Today‚ the majority of students are English Language Learners‚ and they may speak several languages and come from many different cultural backgrounds. These are students who have significant challenges in English which include: reading‚ writing‚ and responding to the subject-matter demands of school. Assessment strategies have influence over the education of English Language Learners since assessments impact the classification
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English is an incarnate language—I accept this fact wholeheartedly. There is probably a good reason we are not discovering the Urdu slang for "#swag" or "LOL": the language is dead ( for some )‚ definitely spoken but no longer changing. To be honest‚ based on those two words‚ I would endeavor to guess that Urdu is grateful to be dead for the ubiquitous some and the youth . Even in a bizarre scenario‚ where languages had an afterlife‚ I bet Urdu would be brutally tortured for eternity‚ surrounded
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Language is a social-cultural-geographical phenomenon. There is a deep relationship between language‚ culture and society. When we study a language‚ we have to study its dialects‚ register‚ slang‚ taboo‚ idiolects‚ etc. We can find the role of language and culture in The Parent Trap movie. The movie tells us about the differences culture of 2 girls who live in London and California. They were separated when they are baby. It was because their parents divorce. One of the
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w w w e tr .X m eP e ap UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education .c rs om 0500/22 FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH Paper 2 Reading Passages (Extended) Additional Materials: * 6 1 2 9 3 6 9 5 7 9 * October/November 2011 2 hours Answer Booklet/Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and
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socioeconomic status‚ which in the business industry is crucial. Variations in language therefore cause many social attitudes to arise and be utilised to discriminate others just on the way we speak which is what is occurring in the business world at the moment. Firms tend to hire people who speak in the same expected manner since ‘it is all about hiring ‘people like us’’‚ which further outlines one of the functions of language to separate ‘us’ from ‘them’ COURSE RELEVANCE: #accents #social attitudes
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"Politics and the English Language" is an essay by George Orwell published in 1946 where he criticizes the way written English language has evolved. Orwell uses five texts from various contemporary authors to identify in them the "perversions" in the evolution of the language. He then classifies these into four main fallacies: "dying metaphors" or cliches‚ "operators or verbal false limbs" or the elimination of simple verbs and the use of passive voice rather than active‚ "pretentious diction" or
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Name: Instructor name: Course: Date: Critical analysis of language teaching resources a) Write an exposition of what you consider to be essential criteria for effective language learning materials design and support your opinion from your readings Introduction Effective language learning is the necessity of time. No matter in which discipline you are or what field of occupation you have effective language is a vital goal to success‚ which cannot be ignored. There are several standards‚ which determine
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"...then try and transfer it across” this language is shaped and selected for the sport as “Transfer it across” wouldn’t normally be associated with a football. In addition football comes with its own lexicon‚ like other sports it includes its own unique terminology. For example Gray comments “you don’t usually take out a striker out of the penalty for a free-kick round...” The terminology used is here is “penalty” “striker” and “free-kick” the language is specifically selected for football therefore
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Sharon Goodman (1996) She states that we are living in a time of increased in-formalisation. Informal language used to be reserved for close personal relationships but this isn’t the simplicity anymore. Norman Fairclough agrees and calls it conversationalised language. David Crystal (2001) In his book on language and the internet Crystal refers to dialogic e-messaging which refers to immediate communication rather than traditional letters. This has changed
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Section One Parts of Speech AL Diagnostic Tests Nouns Lessons and Activities Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs CO PY R IG Review Activities Final Tests HT Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections ED 3 MA TE RI Diagnostic Tests 5 Name Date Period Score % DIAGNOSTIC TEST 1 PARTS OF SPEECH For each underlined word in the following sentences‚ identify and then write the part of speech on the line next to the number. Each part of speech is
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