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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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    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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    What is the future of English as a global language? The world is changing so rapidly‚ from national politics to people’s livelihood. Definitely‚ language is one of the most important characteristic among there. English‚ which is considered as the world language at present‚ facing with sophisticated problems. Actually‚ the situation could persist on till the future. In my view‚ the future of English as a global language may be as the concave and convex sides of a nutshell‚ it is hard to foresee that

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    Kevin roc‚ ESSAY please forgive the for the bad grammar this is a draf . I’m kevin‚ i have no great story to tell‚ but my goals are larger than life itself. i want to go beyond the boundaries of the universe‚ to invent the next big thing‚ primarily to grow as a human being ‚20% of my efforts to help those I can in the process. neither science nor religion on its own has the answers i’m looking for‚ thus i find myself baffle walking between them. i believe that the highest sciences is religion

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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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    "...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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    today. Something that was meant to mend the conflict ended up backfiring strongly‚ but we have come a long way since then. As each new generation grows up‚ they begin to filter out the bad memories of the war. Today‚ we have a president that is black‚ we have the same opportunity for education‚ and the same rights. The people had suffered because of our ignorence to focus more on reuniting the states rather than giving justice to the people. At a glance‚ out nation has grown warmer since it’s

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    Megan Ward Black Like Me Dialectical Journal Quotation From the Text Page Number Response “How else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? Though we lived side by side throughout the South communication between the two races had simply ceased to exist?” Pg. 1 Unless you become someone or maybe go through some of the same things they’ve experienced‚ you will never truly understand them. “I had tampered with the mystery of existence and I had lost the sense of my

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    Summary - Black English

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    Summary - Black English - The following text is a summary of an essay written by James Baldwin in July the 29th in 1979 about the time that the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE)‚ or simply Black English‚ was surfacing in the linguistics discipline. The author of If Black English Isn’t A Language‚ Then Tell Me What Is? claims that Black English is a language‚ not a dialect. The first step that Baldwin goes is to show the differences between a dialect and a language using many

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    1.} The items on the left side of my ISN that I think is my best work is on pages 9‚ and 21. The reason why I chose page 9 is because it was the steps of meiosis‚ and tis chart of the phases really helped me understand what undergoes in a cell during all of the phases. This reflected in me knowing and understanding the steps much better. Page 21 is titled Getting variation into a population. The main reasons I chose this is because it reflected the knowledge of how mutations change in genetic code

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