The Story of Human Language Part I Professor John McWhorter THE TEACHING COMPANY ® John McWhorter‚ Ph.D. Senior Fellow in Public Policy‚ Manhattan Institute John McWhorter‚ Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute‚ earned his Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and became Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley after teaching at Cornell University. His academic specialty is language change and language contact. He is the author of The Power of Babel: A
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1. Differences between First Language and Second Language | First Language | Second Language | Definition | any language other than English that a child was exposed to during early development and continues to be exposed to in the home or community | any language learned after the first language or mother tongue | Basis for learning | universal grammar alone | knowledge of the first language also serves as a basis for learning the second language | Learning Process | children spend
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Language and Society 1. The relatedness between language and Society 1) While language is principally used to communicate meaning‚ it is also used to establish and maintain social relationships. 2) Users of the same language in a sense all speak differently. The kind of language each of them chooses to use is in part determined by his social background. Language‚ in its turn‚ reveals information about its speaker. 3) To some extent‚ language‚ especially the structure of its
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Running Head: BACKWARD DESIGN Backward Design Healthy community Title: How does a healthy community look like? Subject: English Topic: Healthy community Grade: 7 Designer: laila Established Goals: Talking and listening: • Communicate in simple formal and informal situations‚ expressing ideas and opinions clearly. • Vary strategies for talking and listening according to different familiar
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A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to‚ i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her. These two characterisations do not exhaust the possible definitions‚ however‚ and the label is occasionally applied in ways that are variously misleading or factually inaccurate. Some children learn more than one language from birth or from a very young
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The Love Languages One of the biggest part of communication is how we send and receive messages. How we communicate takes may different forms. According to Author Gary Chapman’s book The 5 Love Languages (1995). “We tend to speak our primary love language‚ and we become confused when our spouse does not understand what we are communicating.” Words of affirmation‚ quality time‚ receiving gifts‚ acts of services‚ and physical touches are the languages we are going to cover. The first love language
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writing" 3.1. Organisation 3.2 . Task achievement / Relevance to Question (title) 3.3 . Accuracy 3.4 . Range and style 3.5 . Coherence and cohesion 3.6 . Appropriateness and referencing 4 The role that language discourse functions have in "academic writing" 4.1 Description 4.2 Definition 4.3 Narrative 4.4 Cause and effect 4.5 Comparison and contrast 4.6 Argument 4.7 Exemplification 4.8 Classification
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Community Health Nursing - Emergency Response WGU Community Health Nursing HAT1 (0310) Community Health Nursing - Emergency Response Whether a disaster is natural or man-made it can have immediate and lasting effects on a community the can affect the financial‚ environmental and health aspects of an individual or a community. Quick and efficient response is imperative in all aspects of emergency response including healthcare. Ongoing personnel training‚ establishing preparedness plans
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Communities are created and maintained all around the world. All countries have them and there are often many different communities in every country. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ a community is defined as “the people with common interests living in a particular area”. Many communities in the United States were formed when European settlers came across the Atlantic Ocean to North America; For example‚ Native American tribes were common communities before the European settlers sailed west
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Language and Memory Paper Donnell M. Thomas University of Phoenix PSYCH 560/ Cognitive Psychology Dr. Kristi Collins-Johns 15th August 2010 Language and Memory Paper Introduction Language is important to the way we communicate. Semantic memory is acquired over the years and is vital to language. Language becomes second nature when we already know what‚ when and how to say something. We form sentences‚ phrases‚ paragraphs by planning what we say and how we will say it. Most people
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