The Implication of National Language Policy on English Language Teaching in Malaysia. Introduction • Malay‚ Chinese‚ Tamil and English are the major languages spoken by the different ethnic groups in Malaysia. • Due to the British colonization‚ the English language once has become the official language of the country. • In 1956‚ Malay language was given the status of national language in The Razak Report‚ and supported by The Rahman Talib Report in 1960. • Both reports became the basis of
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identity to language‚ identity to culture and identity to being a Filipino‚ my answer is Nationalism. The essay of Vicente L. Rafael talks about these issues and tends to awaken the Filipino. In the essay‚ the closely related issues of identity and language have proved us that we are indeed cultureless and left without identity. The essay talks about the hierarchy of English‚ Spanish‚ Tagalog and “Taglish”. Today‚ you can no longer distinguish the class of a person by the language he uses. You
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his tales. As shown through the BBC article‚ "Victorian word expert F Max Muller estimated that Shakespeare used 15‚000 words in his plays‚ a portion of which he invented himself by merging existing words and anglicizing vocabulary from foreign languages..." (Doc A). Shakespeare mastered a skill that all songwriters and music artists must utilize: the manipulation of words. A 60 minutes segment on Eminem shows how he‚ and other musicians‚ manipulate the syllables and sounds of words‚ as well as using
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it’s thinking of yourself less. Humility is the quality of being modest‚ respectful‚ and lacking pretence‚ but is often misunderstood as being meek. A while ago‚ somebody mentioned to me that "windowsill" was voted the most beautiful word in the English language. What many people don’t realise is that words have enormous power. They can make us erupt into laughter or bring tears to our eyes. They can influence‚ inspire‚ manipulate and shock. They can build and destroy. Some words have different effects
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English 101 3/21/14 Me‚ Myself‚ and I One of the few things that I and most people do on a regular basis‚ is speak multiple languages. From day to day conversations with family‚ friends‚ and coworkers we speak multiple languages and we don’t even realizing it. Now I am not saying that everyone starts there day off speaking English and transitions into Spanish followed by Italian. I mean the way we speak from person to person is different and that difference is like a different language. Some
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Written by Earnest Hemingway‚ “The Killers”‚ is a short story about two hit men planning to kill a boxer for a “friend” in Henry’s Lunchroom and Nick is involved in it. The plot can be divided into three parts according to the shifting of places. The first part is happening in a lunchroom where Nick is at. The killers come to order food there then tie up Nick as well as the cook‚ aiming to wait for the person they want to kill to come. In the end the boxer doesn’t show up and they do not hurt
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Questions in English (yes/no & information questions) Prepared for the Communications Competencies Center University of Puerto Rico at Humacao Title V Project Aníbal Muñoz Claudio August 2006 Contents Introduction …………………………………………………………………………….…i General objective …………………………………………………………………………ii Specific Objectives …………………………………………………………….…………ii Directions: How to Use this Module? ………………………………………………........... Diagnostic Activity……….………………………………………………………….. …… General Review: English syntactical
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wars fought‚ all faiths in man shaken” to describe the feeling the young intellectuals had in this years. The writers of the “lost generation” added their own feelings of loss and failure to the previous tradition of realism. The short story The killers by Hemingway is representative of this realism and those feelings of loss and failure‚ because it seems that Summit (the town where the action takes place) and its inhabitants are part of a sterile and destructive world without any god or powers above
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE II - PROGRESS TEST 2 GRAMMAR (TO BE HANDED IN SEPARATELY – WRITE YOUR NAME ON ALL THE SHEETS OF PAPER YOU HAND IN) 1. Identify the verb phrase constructions in the following sentences (phrasal verb‚ prepositional verb‚ phrasal-prepositional verb‚ lexical verb on its own‚ auxiliary + verb). Term definition: 1. A Phrasal verb: is a two –word verb where the second element is an adverbial particle. These phrasal verbs can be transitive or intransitive. The particle
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Sex Differentiation and Sexism in English Language ? ???????????? ?????????????????sexism????Webster Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary??????prejudice or discrimination based on sex ; esp: discrimination against women ‚ ?????????????????????«??????» ?“????”?????“??????????????????????”«????» ?“????”???????“???????(?????).”??????????“????”?????????????????????????????? ?)???????? 1?He/man?? ???‚ he‚ man‚ his‚ him‚ mankind????????‚????????‚ he????‘?’????‘?’‚ man????????: (1)If a person
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