working with and studying English as Second Language (ESL) learners in several contexts – online‚ corporate‚ and academic. In the course of interfacing with these different types of students‚ several interesting features arise in the study of the learners’ language‚ most especially errors in writing. In this article‚ I will give a brief background of the errors of the learners. I will also try to encapsulate some of my observations and experiences in dealing with language errors and probably suggest
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ENGLISH English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world. It is spoken as a first language by the majority populations of several sovereign states‚ including the United Kingdom‚ the United States‚ Canada‚ Australia‚ Ireland‚ New Zealand and a number of Caribbean nations. It is the third-most-common native language in the world‚ after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish It is widely learned as a second language and
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School Talisay City‚ Negros Occidental‚ Philippines Subject : Current Trends in Teaching English Instructor: Mrs. Liezl May C. Tortogo Student: Adoracion Aileen Ayn E. Hilado Reaction to Comprehension Based Approach in Teaching Language A. Summary of Comprehension Based Approach The Comprehension Approach refers to several methodologies of language learning that emphasize understanding of language rather than speaking. It is a pedagogical/instructive principle‚ which can be found in
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Prominence of Language I believe that of all possible human qualities‚ the one that wields the most power is the ability to use‚ understand and communicate effectively through language. Language is both powerful and useful but it is also what sets people apart from each other. After reading “Aria” and “Black English” and watching the Pidgin film‚ I have come to understand that language is also your identity. I conclude that your identity‚ both private and public‚ will affect your use of language. Language
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Second language is known as the language that we learn after our mother tongue. It is the secondary option of the individual. People learn second language for multiple purposes; to communicate with people of different ethnic‚ to get job‚ to feel easy to live in strange country or environment‚ to learn foreign culture and lifestyle etc. As it is very important to know or speak the language of the place where we live. However‚ my second language –English is the most the most difficult to learn in a
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dream in the development of genre’s in the English Language? Creation of Genre’s in the English language took its root in the fertile American zeitgeist in the late 19th and the early 20th century. Darwin’s doctorine of natural selection was especially influential in in instigating a functionalist school of thought‚ while the intellectual climate and economic forces operating in the US suited it to the being the breeding ground for the development of language‚ where most of the developments have taken
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is an important sphere of linguistic studies‚ as the knowledge of language requires not only ability to build up sentences (language competence)‚ but also ability to use them correctly in speech acts in order to achieve needed communicative-functional result (communicative competence). The subject matter of this research is the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Subjunctive Mood in the Modern English language. The aim of this research is to investigate the pragmatic
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is given the greenlight by 20th century Fox and the budget of 11 million dollars to film his creation. The film was released on Memorial Day weekend of that year‚ and we all know the rest is history. Now‚ flash forward to modern day. The United States is overseas battling foreign powers‚ the nation’s first African American is in the Whitehouse‚ and Justin Bieber is dominating our air
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AP English Language and Composition Summer Reading Assignment Welcome to APE! You are about to begin a course unlike any other English class you have taken. Before beginning your summer reading assignment‚ you must revisit your ideas about critical reading. Follow the link below to the site “Critical Reading of an Essay’s Argument.” While this site focuses on finding the central argument of an essay‚ the strategies suggested will benefit your reading of any text. Please annotate the article
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secondary school without a firm grasp on how to construct a complex sentence‚ a Senate committee is believed to have found. (The Age‚ 13 September 2007) Nothing unites a country more than its common language because from a language comes a history and a culture. (John Howard quoted in Migrants to sit English test‚ ABC Online‚ 11 December 2006) Linguists suggest that some people deliberately choose a low status accent as a way of invoking prestige‚ although this is less common amongst women than men
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