foreign language learners. This article presents the activities of a four-week program aimed at developing students’ pragmatic competence by focusing on two speech acts‚ openings and closings. 16 J U L Y 2 0 0 4 E N G L I S H T E A C H I N G F O R U M 04-0219 ETF_16_21a 6/23/04 11:21 AM Page 17 The role of pragmatic competence Communicative language pedagogy and research into communicative competence have shown that language learning exceeds the
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text that support your analysis. 1. Write the title of the text you have analyzed here: "When I Was Fair and Young" by Queen Elizabeth I circa 1585 2. List at least three examples of diction in the text that add to the overall tone. Explain how each word contributes to the emotional power of the piece. "Fair" and "Young" are good choices of words as it conveys o the audience that the Author was highly attractive. “Scorn" Conveys a strong negative emotion. it is stronger than using the word
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EUROPE’S SECOND LOGISTIC Population and levels of living what sort of people these Europeans were‚ and what inspired that curious combination of adventurous spirit‚ pious sentiment‚ and brutal behavior that characterized the explorers and conqueror?. After a century of decline and stagnation Europe’s population began to grow. In the middle of 15 th century the population of Europe as whole was 45-50 million‚ it’s about 2/3 less than it was before the plague. By the middle of 17 th century the population
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INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Samsung Corporation Case Group 10 Student Name Student Number Anthony Njau Praveen Jolly Amol Marathe 140535 140613 140843 Edna Twumwaa Frimpong Hassan Dirisu 140518 140797 Luis Pacheco Rojas 140519 1 The benefits‚ disadvantages and corporate governance issues of the Korean chaebol structure. 2 CHAEBOL : Definition ( Korean literal meaning) Chae: wealth ; bol: powerful family Conglomerate of companies usually owned by a single family in South
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Retrospectively‚ the First World War seems as if it was inevitable‚ but the arms race between the European powers can be conceptualized as a defensive response to the increasing military power by a country’s neighbours. Though some plans were indeed offensive‚ they were building not towards deliberately offensive maneuvers but rather an attempt to protect their borders should a neighbour invade. Germany’s answer to this in the Schlieffen Plan was an aggressive form of defence‚ hoping to avoid a war
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I am at a casino in California‚ and I am thinking about playing a game or two of craps. This is my first time ever playing craps and for the first three or four rolls I sit down and watch. Finally I feel like I am ready to play. So I stepped up and placed my first bet. Winner is announced. Shocked I gathered my winnings and kept playing. After winning a few more times I was given the opportunity to be the shooter. By now I have figured out that if I roll a seven or eleven we’ll automatically
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I think it is naïve of the United States to not require a mandatory foreign language in its schools. I believe it is paramount for Americans to learn a second language to not only better themselves‚ but to strengthen their country as well. Being bilingual has too much upside to dismiss. The United States currently has no foreign language policy in place‚ but large-scale immigration from Latin America and Asia in recent years has convinced many Americans that English should be made the official
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The formation of the EU‚ highlighted the importance of a central economic policy. The introduction of a single currency would allow Europe to partially achieve this by encouraging interstate trade and ridding of any trade tariffs that may still exist‚ this was achieved through the 1986 Single European Act‚ “the EU set about dismantling the remaining non‐tariff barriers to the free movement of goods‚ labour and capital.” (Healey 1999) A partial economic union sped up the process of introducing a single monetary union
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First-wave feminism was about suffrage and getting over legal obstacles like voting rights‚ property rights Second-wave feminism was about much more like sexuality‚ family‚ the workplace‚ reproductive rights‚ de facto inequalities‚ and official legal inequalities. Second-wave feminism also fought violence with proposals for marital rape laws‚ establishment of rape crisis and battered women’s shelters‚ and changes in custody and divorce law. Second-wave thought pop culture was sexist so the created
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the second soliloquy‚ but transforms into being decisive and willing to go through with the revenge in the fifth soliloquy‚ which it highlights his desire to uphold his honor even though all actions have consequences. The second soliloquy characterizes Hamlet as the more devoted to his revenge than the first actor. Imagery from the
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