Some reports portray English language learners as a new and homogenous population. Actually ELLs are a highly heterogeneous and complex group of students‚ with diverse gifts‚ educational needs‚ backgrounds‚ languages‚ and goals. An English language learner is an individual that is of another culture and has migrated to America to live‚ learn‚ become educated and find a career. English language learners have been coming to America and continue to migrate here more and more. Most of them speak different
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INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER I GENERAL NOTES ON LITERARY LANGUAGE 4 CHAPTER II VARIETIES OF LITERARY LANGUAGE 6 CONCLUSION 11 List of Literature 12 INTRODUCTION A literary language is a register of a language that is used in literary writing. This may also include liturgical writing. The difference between literary and non-literary (vernacular) forms is more marked in some languages than in others. Where there is a strong divergence‚ the language is said to exhibit diglossia. Classical Latin was the
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The Origins of English Language The words from - Arabic origin 1) A part of Lithuanian media tends to portray HIV patients often as big-time debauchers‚ who engage in shameless insatiable sexual activities‚ relished with drugs and alcohol. (3‚ ‘Journalist hooked on making difference in peers’ coverage of HIV’- ‘Superstitions still big.’ Page 16‚ line 6) 2) Many of their experiments seem to involve coffee and IPods‚ and the word “branch” is rarely used. (2‚ ‘Coffee and IPods’ Page
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Taking an English class during college is important for a fundamental education‚ because regardless of the major I chose‚ I must able to communicate well in written and spoken words. After all‚ in the future‚ when I try to obtain a job‚ the corporations will most likely base their decision on my ability to express ideas and opinions in a sophisticated and correct manner. Therefore‚ increasing my knowledge and skills in English will increase my opportunities to success. Yet‚ currently‚ many students
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English is a universally accepted language. A man who doesn’t know to speak n English is likely to be put alone in the Sahara desert as he is that useless in this period. There are so many advantages for you if you try to speak or communicate in English‚ they are : 1) Rewarding job Our dream is to get a good job which is accepted by the society. To get such a job‚ there are a series of interviews which you should face. Our fluency and skill in English speaking is the main criteria which the
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Abstract This study aims at finding out differences between Persian and English speakers’ patterns (macro and micro) of responding to compliments and observed some dissimilarity between them while accepting‚ rejecting and evading a compliment. This study also indicates whether Persian learners of English produce target- like compliments and compliment responses in English and whether pragmatic transfer can occur. Discourse completion tests (DCTs) were used to study the strategies employed when
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English as a Global Language – Debating the future of world English with references to Cristal‚ Phillipson and Reid. Introduction The aim of this essay is to explore the positions of Cristal‚ Phillipson and Reid and to consider how to address and how not to address the global language situation. There have been many different opinions expressed by academic linguistics as to weather the spread of one dominant language is an advantage or a disadvantage
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“Politics and the English language” George Orwell General questions 1. This piece is written basically just to criticize bad writing and also to criticize the downgrade of the English language. In the essay Orwell argues that “our language is probably curable”. The main point is just to show examples of how the language has deteriorated and also to give some pointers on how it can be fixed. 2. Throughout the essay the author’s tone is that of aggravation because the entire piece
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ISL Linguistic Date: 12 January 2013 History of the English Language • Indo-European Language Family Tree • World Englishes History of the English Language Source: http://www.danshort.com/ie/timeline.htm The figure below shows the timeline of the history of the English language. * The earliest known residents of the British Isles were the Celts‚ who spoke Celtic languages—a separate branch of the Indo-European language family tree. * Over the centuries the British Isles were
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English as a Global Language English was first spoken in Medieval England‚ what we now know as England‚ by the Angles and the Saxons. At the end of the 16th century there was about 5-7 million people who talked English in England. English is now the language that is most widely used in the whole wide world. Except the United Kingdom‚ the United States‚ Canada‚ Ireland‚ Australia and New Zealand‚ there are a lot of Caribbean nations who use English as a first language too. I will show how and where
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