question that may rise during doctor’s visit would be “Is second language important to comprehend?” In a hospital setting‚ when a patient does not speak a major language used‚ the practitioner or admissions would assign that patient a translator to clarify the patient about their health‚ risks‚ or procedures that need to be made. Communication barriers arise when the healthcare practitioner and the patient are not communicating in a more fluent language. This paper outlines interactions between patients
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Speaking a second or foreign language is‚ undoubtedly‚ a highly complex‚ and fascinating human activity. During the past few decades‚ there has been a growing interest in enhancing and encouraging the active use of the L2 in instructional contexts. There has been an emphasis on the crucial role of practicing and internalising a structure; fostering the balanced development of learners’ fluency‚ accuracy‚ and complexity of language; or enabling and encouraging learners to communicate their own meanings
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Article on Second Language Fluency This article discusses second language fluency. How do you acquire fluency in a second language? Language acquisition learners are taught in structured English immersion classrooms. No other language is taught. In order for students to become fluent in the second language‚ which is English‚ they must speak‚ read‚ and write in English. I interviewed a coworker whose second language is English. She is fluent in Spanish. During my interview we discussed how
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Error Correction in Second Language Writing: Teachers’ Beliefs‚ Practices‚ and Students’ Preferences Victor Albert Francis S. Corpuz Supervisors: Lynette May Annette Patterson Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Education Master of Education (Research) September 2011 Abstract Error correction is perhaps the most widely used method for responding to student writing. W hile various studies have investigated the effectiveness of providing error correction‚ there has
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A guide to writing an academic paper By Valerie Strauss I keep hearing from college professors that too many of their students don’t write well. So here’s a primer written for college students on how to write an academic paper‚ though some of the advice would be useful for anybody writing anything. The author is Steven Horwitz‚ a professor of economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton‚ NY. He is the author of two books‚ Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective and Monetary
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INTRODUCTION The person that I have chosen for this assignment‚ in order to analyse his performance in English‚ is called John and he is 23 years old. He comes from Greece and he was here in England for three weeks visiting a friend. He has been studying English for seven years in a private school of English back in Greece and he holds the Cambridge First Certificate degree. After going back to Greece‚ he will continue his studies in order to set exams for the Cambridge Proficiency. John was very
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(1) What is meaning of following declaration? int(*ptr[5])(); (a)ptr is pointer to function. (b)ptr is array of pointer to function (c)ptr is pointer to such function which return type is array. (d)ptr is pointer to array of function. (e)None of these Ans: (b) Explanation: Here ptr is array not pointer. (2) What is meaning of following pointer declaration? int(*(*ptr1)())[2]; (a)ptr is pointer to function. (b)ptr is array of pointer to function (c)ptr is pointer to such function which return type
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Speaker 1: I want to start off by saying that I know I have an accent and please don’t assume it’s Russian. More and more people are complaining about the GoTranscript test‚ about our rules‚ about the low acceptance rate and to be honest‚ I have pretty much had it with all this whining. First of all‚ the tests have we’ve had so far were easy. All you had to do is listen carefully‚ read our guidelines‚ and do some research. These things are in job description. Our clients don’t always have good quality
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The influence of body language and motivation on second language vocabulary learning BY: Atieh Berjis Sobhe Sadegh higher learner institute
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far if you had kicked it‚ thus the exaggerated indentation in the first line. 2. Similarly‚ the whole of the second stanza is indented. This shows perhaps a form of limitation or segregation between the two. a. The first stanza represents the ones unaffected by globalization and the western society. People who maintained their “original” culture. b. The second stanza represents those who chose to migrate and are bound to or favour the expat or international or western culture
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