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    Подготовить конспекты по следующим разделам: 1. Applied linguistics 1 History The term applied linguistics dates back at least to the 1940s in the USA when linguists applied analytical methods to the practical problems of producing grammars and phrasebooks and developing language courses. 2 What Is Applied Linguistics? Applied linguistics: (1) was interdisciplinary‚ drawing on psychology‚ sociology‚ and pedagogy as well as theoretical linguistics; (2) included a range of fields including lexicography

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    Mexican America’s ‚ Cubans‚ Puerto Ricans‚ and Central and South American’s are the groups I have chosen to write on. It took some time to study these groups as I am one of the typical American’s who seems to link the groups together. I do not mean to be that way‚ I simply haven’t done a whole lot of research on the matter. What I have discovered is that they are all very similar‚ but have somewhat different priorities and traditions. It also appears that economic status is a dividing factor.

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    Finally‚ with idealistic social class expectations on the significant other. The protagonists also have to overcome social conventions which are rules their significant others follow. Elizabeth struggles with the social convention Darcy still follows and with Darcy falling in love with Elizabeth. He admits that “[in] vain have [he] struggled. It will not do. [His] feelings will not be repressed” (Austen 128). Therefore‚ Darcy still thinks of loving Elizabeth is shameful because being she is in a

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    Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (1999) 19‚ 81–104. Printed in the USA. Copyright © 1999 Cambridge University Press 0267-1905/99 $9.50 PRAGMATICS AND SLA Gabriele Kasper and Kenneth R. Rose INTRODUCTION Pragmatics has two roles in SLA: It acts as a constraint on linguistic forms and their acquisition‚ and it represents a type of communicative knowledge and object of L2 learning in its own right. The first role of pragmatics is evident in functionalist (Tomlin 1990) and interactionist

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    Linguistics III Set 1: Cross linguistic influence and learner language Psychological principles of SLA form the foundation stones for building a comprehensible understanding of the acquisition of the linguistic system. The studies was centered on the contrasts between the native lang and the target lang (contrastive analysis) and the effect of the native on the target lang (cross linguistic influence). 1-The contrastive analysis Hypothesis It’s the study of two languages in contrast. Based on

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    All throughout history art has thrived in most prospering civilizations. These works of art are very often expressed the politicalsocial‚ and economic conditions of the time period in which they were created. The Egyptian pyramids and the Gothic Cathedrals are the epitome of works of art that express politicalsocial‚ and economic conditions. The Egyptian pyramids date back to Ancient Egypt from 3200 B.C- 500 B.C. The Ancient Egyptians created these pyramids for many reasons. They reflected

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    Familial poverty is an exponential issue in our community‚ many factors contribute to poverty and many more concerning familial poverty. In the Denver Metro Homeless Initiative’s most recent observational study‚ information indicates that a large percentage‚ two-hundred and twenty four out of three-hundred and forty households with children are homeless. While there are government programs to assist underprivileged and impoverished families such as welfare‚ food stamps‚ free and reduced lunch for

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    lot of historical background to the Mexican American identity. This identity started with the Mexicas. The Mexicas were indigenous people from Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. The Mexicas were a group of indigenous people that had their own set of beliefs‚ norms and values. The Mexicas had long hair (including men and women) because long hair meant wisdom. The Mexicas harvested their own food. With related to the political aspect the Mexicas had their own political structure. They had a male ruler and

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    Many Mexican came to the U.S.A. as agricultural workers or spent majority of their lives working jobs that provided little opportunity for upward mobility or the ability to save for retirement (Angel &Angel‚ 1998). These older cohorts have extremely low levels of education‚ less fluent in English‚ and many were exposed to occupational health risks associated with farm work. These disadvantages‚ taken together‚ have a cumulative effect that seriously undermines the economic well being of older Mexican

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    Linguistics‚ though one of the youngest behavioral sciences‚ has a background extending over several millennia. During this period scholars with various interests have concerned themselves with language. Some of the most readable treatises on language were produced by the Greeks and Romans‚ such as Plato’s Cratylus and Quintilian’s advice to an orator. Much of our terminology was devised in the course of this earlier concern. Any of introductions to linguistic cannot‚ therefore‚ limit itself to one

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