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    Body Language

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    Five Mistakes People Make Reading Body Language – And Five Nonverbal Signals That Send Positive Messages This is one of a series of occasional papers by The Dilenschneider Group to bring clients and friends a different perspective. We hope you find it of interest. FIVE Mistakes People Make Reading Body Language – and FIVE Nonverbal Signals that Send Positive Messages Carol Kinsey Goman‚ Ph.D. B ody language was the basis for our earliest form of communication when the split-second

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    Language Experience

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    1. Write about your past formal or informal language learning experiences. Would you consider them effective or ineffective? Learning foreign languages is a real challenge to everyone and a lot of people have their own successful and unsuccessful experiences. As for me‚ I’d like to tell about a negative one because‚ unfortunately‚ I had it more than positive. I’ve been learning English since I was 10 years old. At first‚ it was at school. Those lessons left much to be desired. We had a middle-aged

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    Linguistic Diversity: English Language Learners Janice Watson EDU: 639 Human Relations & Learning in the Multicultural Environment Dr. Jamie Worthington September 20‚ 2010 Linguistic Diversity (English Language Learners) English Language Learners (ELL) refers to students whose first language is not English and encompasses both students who are just beginning to learn English. Because there are so many students who enter the United States who do not speak English well or not at all‚ we

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    Film Language

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    Film Language The Semiotics of Cinema What is Film Language? Ways in which films tell stories and affect the viewer; the elements of filmmaking employed to tell the story in a particular way Christian Mertz’s theory: film was not a language system but a language. French film theorist Conventions Customary ways of doing things‚ rather than grammatical rules A way in which something is usually done‚ especially within a particular area or activity Example: Canadian tire money‚ where it

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    Language Analysis

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    Language Analysis: When teaching a grammar or function lesson‚ submit this LA sheet with your lesson plan. Target Language: (write the target sentence/s from the lesson here)This coat fits me‚ but it doesn’t suit me (Elementatry). | Meaning: (try to state this in student-friendly language)The coat I’m trying on is the right size (fit)‚ but it is a wrong colour‚ shape etc (doesn’t suit) | Context / Conveying Meaning: (state the context and how you will convey meaning) By showing different

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    Manipulation of language

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    The power of language is far-reaching‚ it is the language that builds up the foundation of human; therefore‚ only language can manipulate people. In the novel Animal farm‚ George Orwell uses many techniques of language to convey the moral of the book. The story shows how power will make people corrupt as well as illustrate the abuse of the language of power. There are different kinds of misuse of power language. The faith of rebellion make animals blindly follows the order from Napoleon. The wisdom

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    Language analysis-practice EAL cat Fear must not blind us to facts The article ‘Fear must not blind us to fact’ has published on the Insight Publications (website) in 2013 which was wrote by Cameron Bright. The article is about the Melbourne government is going to install more CCTV cameras in the city to prevent random attacks not happen again. He argues that the government should think carefully about install the CCTV before any evidence shows it makes appreciable different to public safety. The

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    Language Essay

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    Marquise Long Understanding the importance of language An American author named Oliver Wendell Holmes once stated‚ “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” This quote‚ itself describes the importance of language as it embraces “growth” as an aspect of it. Language‚ which is a method of communication used by humans‚ allows for innovation and progress within the world. For starters‚ communication is important because

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    Endangered Languages

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    help us to determine whether a language UP:23/04/2012-09:19:31 WM:23/04/2012-09:19:38 M:LG102-4-FY A:11a5 R:1101631 C:A531A08874E68F858726D2BE7C18B7DAF6AD10B9 is in a dangerous position or not‚ such as acquisition rate by the children‚ attitude of the whole community to the language and effects of other languages that can threaten the language. Moreover‚ being able to have and evaluate such factors is important in order to decide the level of endangerment of a language. Classification of endangerment

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    What Is the Language?

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    When our teacher asked to us: “What is language?” I couldn’t give a specific answer‚because the language means many things.So‚my mind was bombarded by lots of things.I said to myself: “Language is our identity‚language is our culture‚language is words‚rules‚interfaces‚signs‚reaction‚action‚verbal‚non-verbal‚discourse...”I was confused by that attack of the opinions and couldn’t choose a specific word that identifies language for the teacher’s question.After the class‚when I came to home on the bus

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