Nguyen Thanh Hai ITIU09090 English – the international language At the moment‚ about 2.000 million people speak Chinese as their mother tongue‚ whereas about 450 million speak English. As follow this criterion‚ Chinese must be the world’s global tongue. However‚ people all over the world like to use English as the second language rather than Chinese and currently English is becoming more and more popular as the international language. In my point of view‚ I agree with this opinion
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does the English language enable us to express ‘politeness’? The definition of politeness is ‘Having or showing behavior that is respectful and considerate of other people’(Oxford Dictionary) it is a social construct that has formulated by humans to communicate in society. They are usually taught in the home and in society through our norms and values of socialisation .Linguistically‚ politeness is a form of pragmatic‚ ‘the study of how interlocutors use their own knowledge of a language to convey
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Assignment Name: Una Burns Student No: 40024517 Course Director: Paul Anthony Assignment Title: Outline the problems faced by both the teacher and the student on a TEFL course. (1000 words approx.) Outline the problems faced by both the teacher and the student on a TEFL course. (1000 words approx.) The acquisition of a new language can pose many difficulties to both the student‚ in learning the language‚ and to the teacher in communicating and teaching the language. The following essay attempts
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educated audience. The point of this article is for the middle aged classes to wonder‚ and be convinced that the use of the abbreviations and made up words by youth and media are ruining the English language. We can tell that the text is targeted to these groups of people as this is a criticism towards the modern language that the youth has created. This was mostly due to the use of technology in young people’s lives‚ such as texting and computers‚ chatting and social networks and even the media. Some
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Did you know that animals are learning our language? And also some animals can even speak using our language such as bonobos? Animals are starting to learn our language. Such as a bonobo since in source 1 Speaking Bonobos paragraph 2 it says”...kept adding symbols to Kanzi’s keyboard …”Then in paragraph 3 it says”Kanzi learned to combine in regular ways…” In other words what this means is that the chimp would have symbols that they would press with other ones to make words or phrases. Also not
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The Origins of English Language The words from - Arabic origin 1) A part of Lithuanian media tends to portray HIV patients often as big-time debauchers‚ who engage in shameless insatiable sexual activities‚ relished with drugs and alcohol. (3‚ ‘Journalist hooked on making difference in peers’ coverage of HIV’- ‘Superstitions still big.’ Page 16‚ line 6) 2) Many of their experiments seem to involve coffee and IPods‚ and the word “branch” is rarely used. (2‚ ‘Coffee and IPods’ Page
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GCSE English Language Unit 3: Descriptive Writing The Descriptive Writing task in Unit 3 is worth 7.5% of the subject award and is marked out of 20. The mark given for each of the examples provided is supported by comments related to the criteria given in the specification for: i) Content & Organisation ii) Sentence Structure‚ Punctuation & Spelling. A national grade is indicated in each case‚ based on the way that the same mark scale for Writing has been used in the past
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English language and It’s role to Economic Prosperity English is known as the universal language. Almost all countries considered English language as the most influential language in the world. It is widely used in all areas and in all aspects. English is the national language of the United States of America which is considered as the most powerful country. In consider to this‚ people strive hard to speak and write using English language. For example: In a beauty pageant‚ some contestants prefer
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ISL Linguistic Date: 12 January 2013 History of the English Language • Indo-European Language Family Tree • World Englishes History of the English Language Source: http://www.danshort.com/ie/timeline.htm The figure below shows the timeline of the history of the English language. * The earliest known residents of the British Isles were the Celts‚ who spoke Celtic languages—a separate branch of the Indo-European language family tree. * Over the centuries the British Isles were
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English is one of the most widely used languages in today’s world and has a great impact on a successful career. Due to rapid modernization and westernization‚ the popularity of the English language has increased. It is internationally used and globally accepted. “English is being recreated every minute of every day‚ in billions of conversations in every country on earth; in countless books‚ films‚ television and radio programs‚ on the internet—recreated organically: that is‚ in ways that grow out
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