Cambridge CELTA Written Assignment 1: Focus on the Learners Part A: Student profile: Personal Information: Previous Language Learning Experience: Chien has been studying English for two years‚ of which only the last three months have been at English teaching centres; the rest of her English learning has been self-taught. Because of this‚ her pronunciation and listening skills are not as good as they should be for an intermediate level student. She is conscious of this fact and this negatively
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Language Planning: Nature and Goals 1. INTRODUCTION Using the definition of language planning from Coulmas (2005: 186) which reads thus; “Language planning involves making informed choices about language…” as a point of departure‚ this essay will attempt to firstly provide a thorough definition of the notion of language planning‚ as well as explain the relation between language planning and language policy. Secondly‚ this essay will define and discuss ideological language planning and normative
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Describe and evaluate the evolutionary theory of food preferences According to an evolutionary approach current human behaviour can be understood in terms of how it may have been adaptive in our ancestral past. Evolutionary theorists are concerned with behaviour which is adaptive and having survival value‚ these researchers look for ultimate explanations. Current behaviours may be maladaptive and dysfunctional but can be understood as having been adaptive and functional in some way. To undertake
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UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT SPEECH‚ LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Early identification of speech‚ language and communication delay is extremely important as the chance of improving these skills are increased. Outside agencies can be informed and your child will receive the specialist support they require. If these delays are not identified the delay will continue and the child may suffer from lack of confidence and will more than
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incoming college freshmen should have decided on what program they should take in college. Unfortunately‚ senior students nowadays are facing a dilemma on their college course preference. This quandary made the researcher conduct a study regarding the factors that influence seniors’ decision making in their college course preference. Information Technology‚ Nursing‚ and Hotel and Room Management are the usual courses that are taken up by many students because of the popularity. Some of them are constrained
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The study of language By: ... Semester: ..; Group: .. 2012/2013 Plan: ✓ Introduction. ✓ Varieties of language. ✓ Language‚ culture and thought. ✓ Speech as social interaction. ✓ The quantitative study of speech. Introduction:
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THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISING *Lakshmanan.M.P “There are four ways‚ and only four ways‚ in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do‚ how we look‚ what we say‚ and how we say it.” -Dale Carnegie Abstract We are living in an era of information explosion in which advertising seems to be an indispensable building block of the media.
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Internal Customers‚ Physician Preference Items‚ and Standardization Physicians are both participants and customers of the health care supply chain.1 While the patient is the ultimate recipient of hospital products‚ the physician‚ or clinician decides which product to use.1 Physicians; because of their strong preferences‚ create up to 61 percent of total supply chain expenditures‚ and drive 80 percent of hospital expenditures.1‚ 2 Physicians possess a lot of power‚ and at times do not align with
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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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any language means a contraction‚ reduction and impoverishment of the sum total of the reservoir of human thought and knowledge as expressible through language. To what extent do you agree with this? As globalization takes place‚ languages spoken by the majority became lingua franca of different regions. English for example as its most widely spread across the entire world‚ is spoken by 360 to 400 million as their first language and 470 million to more than 1 billion as their second language. It
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