courses as native English speakers to get a college degree. International students should get some advantages because they are ESL students. However‚ some teachers have a same expectations of non-native speakers as native speaking students. Many Asian students choose to study business‚ economics‚ hospitality and tourism‚ and English as their major. Those majors’ instructors have many non-native speakers in class. Many instructors have the same expectation of ESL students as they do of native English
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INTRODUCTION In this task I will talk about my research and analysis on English native speaker’s pronunciation‚ which can be a useful tool to understand the rules adhered to it. The consistencies and inconsistencies among the speaker‚ the account of them and the reasons why they do happen will be observed in this analysis. I asked six native speakers to read aloud some sentences. Five of them were American and one was Canadian. They were told that all of them had nonsense words. Analysis of
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Native speakers of English are a speaker who used English as a first language or mother tongue. Usually native speakers of English are people from English-speaking countries like the USA‚ Great Britain‚ Australia‚ Canada‚ Ireland‚ etc. Anyone may acquire the native speaker status by virtue of being just as proficient as a genetic native speaker of a language. In Singapore‚ where English has been the medium of instruction since 1987 and where‚ by now‚ there are many users of English whose proficiency
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Terrell smith Lisa Caloro Comp 1 April 28‚ 2008 The essay by Eric Lui‚ “notes of a native speaker” spoke about his experiences growing up as an Asian American male in the united states. Growing up‚ He had to face stereotypes and tried to overcome them all as time went on‚ so much he later felt he lost his identity of who he really was. He says in the essay “here are some ways you can say that I am white:” and then follows with a list of things that most Caucasian people do or wear on a everyday
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later on when you work in this area‚ as it helps you to communicate well and effective with foreigners. This book appeals to me‚ because I am French native speaker‚ so this book will help me in my future to deal with people that are native english speaker. I want to study international business in the future‚ and this book introduces English speakers to the challenges of international communication and provides sound advice to help them adapt successfully which will help me as I speak english almost
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determining a given word’s degree of integration into the mental lexicon. The paper begins by reviewing the body of evidence relevant to the research question‚ and then presents the design and results of an investigation comparing nonnative and native speaker patterns of responses in light of depth of word knowledge scores. In discussing the results of the study‚ a tentative model for the process by which words are integrated into the mental lexicon is proposed‚ and the long-standing belief that
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Comparison and Contrast The United States in a country of immigrants. We can found people from every part of the world. That’s why this country also has many social problems that sometimes people don’t identify. Discrimination is not only about skin color. I learned that discrimination is also about social classes and languages. Not understanding people’s language is a social issue in the United States that have been presents for years. After I read the essay of Amy Tan‚ “Mother Tongue” and
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Topic: What are the strengths and the weaknesses of “An ideal teacher”? How to improve it? An Analysis “An ideal teacher” “An ideal teacher” essay focuses on who is an ideal teacher for English language learners‚ native or non-native teachers. Although it is a quite good essay‚ it still has some drawbacks. This essay will discuss the strengths as well as weaknesses of this given essay while suggesting some ways that can be taken in order to enhance this essay. It is undeniable that the essay has
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Name: Anh Thy Vu Date: Sep/16/2014 Anthropology 115 Global Flow (Part 2) Immigration is a hot topic nowadays. There are a lot of people come from different places in the world with the hope for a better life. The United Stated is one of the most developed countries‚ the melting pot‚ where everyone wishes to live including my family as well. It is always a precious time whenever you have a chance to talk or interview with the immigrated people. I am really lucky to get an opportunity to interview
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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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