www.ccsenet.org/elt English Language Teaching Vol. 3‚ No. 3; September 2010 Sociolinguistic Competence and Malaysian Students’ English Language Proficiency Mohan K. Muniandy Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Academy of Language Studies‚ Kuala Pilah Campus‚ 72000 Kuala Pilah‚ Negeri Sembilan‚ Malaysia Tel: 60-6-483-2130/ 60-12-611-8478 E-mail: mohan691@.ns.uitm.edu.my Gopala Krishnan Sekharan Nair Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Academy of Language Studies‚ Dungun Campus‚ 23000
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Before signing up for Composition I‚ I asked to myself why do I have to take this? In fact‚ I used to find English classes insufferable‚ but I never imagined that I would adore and write compositions with full of confidence and passion. Now a days‚ students take in a fear of signing up for a composition class. And the main concern of this is that students are required to cover three main topics which include: reading‚ writing‚ and literature. The difficulty of gathering ideas in writing and interpreting
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is undeniable that English is not an easy language to learn. Malaysian ESL students oftentimes find English to be rather confusing and difficult to learn. Pronunciation seems to trip most students up. Though the English language syllabus makes room for pronunciation skills to be included in classroom practices‚ many often have problems with the pronunciation of certain words. According to Abbas and Muhammad Reza (2011)‚ many ESL learners have “major difficulties” with English pronunciation even
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Estonian Business School Institute of Foreign Languages GRAMMAR OF SPOKEN ENGLISH Term Paper By Maria Esko BBL-2 Supervisor: Ludmilla Podolski Tallinn 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Common Features of Spoken English 4 Grammar Characteristics 7 Clause Combination 7 Position of items 8 Pausing‚ Repeating and Recasting 8 Organising the discourse 9 Ellipsis 9 Response Tokens 10 Vague Expressions 11 Headers and Tails 11 Conclusion 12 References 13 Introduction
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Learn the basic reading and listening abilities of English. Spend at least one hour everyday listening to news or discussion programs such as NPR (National Public Radio) news or BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation; the World Service or Radio Four are best) news. It’s hard to understand what they are saying when you first begin to listen to them‚ but gradually you’ll get used to the speed and tone. Then you can get a brief idea of what they are talking about‚ although you can’t get the detail.
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The English language has such convoluted and variegated origins as very few other languages do in the rest of the world. The intermingling of Angles‚ Saxons‚ Jutes‚ Frisians‚ Romans‚ Normans‚ Celts and the French just to name a few‚ has led over the course of almost 3‚000 years to the development of a language with extraordinary vocabulary richness and spelling complexity. To this day we keep on adding new vocabulary‚ especially thanks to the sciences and technology fields. Having a working knowledge
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How do you learn how to speak English very fast? Is it possible to accelerate your English speaking ability? Is it possible to make massive improvements in only 2-3 months? The answer is yes. But of course‚ to make massive improvements requires massive intensity and effort. So‚ how can you do it? How can you improve super-fast? What do I recommend for this kind of goal? 1. Obsession The first and most important thing you need to achieve this goal is incredible passion. You must have tremendous emotional
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LINGUISTICS FACULTY THE CHAIR OF TEACHING‚ PRACTICE‚ AND TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH TERM PAPER In History of English language “Borrowings in Old English” Kyiv 2013 Introduction Old English (Ænglisc‚ Anglisc‚ Englisc) or Anglo-Saxon[1] is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southern and eastern Scotland
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000 to 7‚000. One of the most important languages is English language. Why do we think English language is the most important? English plays a major role in many areas including medicine‚ engineering and education‚ which in my opinion; is the most importantlanguage to learn. First of all‚ the reason why English language is important is to help students find better jobs. In the business sector‚ the most commonly used language is the English language. In order to achieve success in the selected
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Table of Contents Overview & Development English Legal System……………………………………………….2 Characteristics of English Legal System ………………………………………………………...3 References …………………………………………………………………………………….....6 Business & Corporate Law English Legal System Most would agree that some form of legal system is neces sary for a society to thrive. This is true of the most primitive of cultures‚ but the English legal system has developed over many centuries‚ and in the process‚
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