cooperation regionally and internationally. Mergers‚ associations‚ and takeovers are common and English is used as the means to communicate‚ negotiate and execute transactions by participants where one partner can be a native speaker of English or none of the partners are native speakers of English. The world we live like a “global village” where no nation‚ group or culture can remain anonymous (Samovar & Porter‚ 1991). As the world becoming smaller‚ we are increasing interaction with people from different
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focus on the written and on reading‚ so class work would have to have a considerable component of oral and communicative work to supplement the text. This would not be difficult for me‚ as a native speaker‚ but would limit the usefulness of this text for those who wish to teach English but are not native speakers. The introduction to the text says that this text will be used to "acquaint [the reader] with the English words that are most frequently used". If the user of such a book is a beginning
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Every one of us knows more about the teamwork‚ the business‚ the baseball game‚ the American culture and the bond among them. I believe everyone enjoy their teamwork about this‚ especially our team members‚ because only our team did not have any native speakers and none of us knew about baseball very well. We saw the game‚ we looked around the stadium‚ we searched information from the official website of Valley cats and we asked the questions to the baseball game manager. All we want to do is to make
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PROBLEMS OF PRONOUNCIATION FOR NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER WHAT IS NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER? Non-native English speaker result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non-native users of any language tend to carry the intonation‚ phonological processes and pronunciation rules from their mother tongue into their English speech. They may also create innovative pronunciations for English sounds not found in the speaker’s first language. Current English speech recognition systems are commonly
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Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants: Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap by Timothy VanSlyke | | | | | | | | | In a two-part series entitled "Digital Immigrants‚ Digital Natives‚" Marc Prensky (2001a‚ 2001b) employs an analogy of native speakers and immigrants to describe the generation gap separating today’s students (the "Digital Natives") from their teachers (the "Digital Immigrants"). According to Prensky‚ the former are surrounded by digital media to such an extent
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A native speaker is a person who has spoken the language from the earliest childhood. It other words‚ It is known as ‘Mother Tongue’. Is it true that a native English speaker makes a better English teacher? The answer is no. Not all native English speakers make a better teacher. Being an English teacher‚ you must not only know how to speak in English‚ but to know how to teach. According to Justin Murray‚ the most important characteristic of being any teacher is to know how to teach to the level
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According to the title of the statement‚ scandals are useful in certain areas by calling our attention to some problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. Undeniably‚ it is quite appealing staying at a normative position‚ and I consent insofar as scandals do have positive effect. Nevertheless‚ scandals can sometimes distract our attention from more important things and thus reflect their negative side. It’s true that the speaker’s assertion that scandals can be useful in politics‚ academia
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Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants ©2001 Marc Prensky _____________________________________________________________________________ Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky From On the Horizon (NCB University Press‚ Vol. 9 No. 5‚ October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students
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came upon the story and decided to incorporate it in the novel that he was currently writing. Throughout his life‚ "Wright ’s fascination with rebellious lawbreakers would catalyze some of his most important work"(Butler 1). In Wright ’s novel‚ Native Son‚ Bigger Thomas was created from five young black men from Wright ’s childhood. These men were rebellious criminals who Wright looked up to and feared. Wright believed they acted the way they did because of how society had treated them. "Wright
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The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy ’s sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia‚ a publication known for its sensationalism‚ and was presented in twelve monthly installments from January to December 1878. Due to the novel ’s controversial themes‚ Hardy had some difficulty finding a publisher; reviews‚ however‚ though somewhat mixed‚ were generally positive. In the twentieth century‚ The Return of the Native became one of Hardy ’s most popular novels.[1] |Contents
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