Historical Background Of Arabic Language: Arabic language‚ with its rich heritage is considered to be one of the oldest languages in the world with a wealth of knowledge that archeologists to this day are still trying to uncover. Since the middle Ages‚ Arabic has enjoyed a universality that makes it one of the greatest languages in the world‚ along with Greek and Latin. This status shows not only the number of speakers‚ but also the place that the language has held in history‚ and the significant
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Introduction Across 294 countries in the world‚ there are about 6‚500 languages are commonly using in the daily life. The domination of English has been proved as an international language all across with the coming of globalization in future‚ English is the language of diplomacy and international communications for the use of business‚ tourism‚ education‚ science‚ computer technology‚ media‚ Internet and etc. Without language‚ all the things couldn’t happen and stay in place like today. People
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A language translator is a program which translates programs from source language into an equivalent program in an object language. Keywords and phrases:source-language‚ object-language‚ syntax-directed‚ compiler‚ assembler‚ linker‚ loader‚ parser‚ scanner‚ top-down‚ bottom-up‚ context-free grammar‚ regular expressions A computer constructed from actual physical devices is termed an actual computer or hardware computer. From the programming point of view‚ it is the instruction set of the hardware
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1) What are the functions of language? (450 – 500 words) All forms of human life communicate with each other and humans are not unique in this capacity. Human forms of communication include verbal forms‚ body language and gestures. However‚ this communication system is learned instead of being biologically inherited. Children for example‚ acquire a language as they develop and grow and this miraculous language ‘instint’ (Pinker 1994) seems‚ at first glance‚ to happen effortlessly. As Romaine
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Language arts is the term typically used by educators to describe the curriculum area that includes four modes of language: listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ and writing. Language arts teaching constitutes a particularly important area in teacher education‚ since listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ and writing permeate the curriculum; they are essential to learning and to the demonstration of learning in every content area. Teachers are charged with guiding students toward proficiency in these four language
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“Endangered languages should be saved” Many languages are at the danger of disappearance. The reason of their extinction could be the decrease in a number of people speaking that language. A 85% of 6000 languages appear to be spoken in 25 countries (NOW 2000). Language extinction is caused by external and internal factors. Internal forces such as community’s negative behaviour to mother language‚ or simply decrease in the number of speakers are mainly derived from factors such as military‚ economic
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The Power of Language In the text “Can English be dethroned?”‚ Roland Breton(2000) points that English is one of the most widespread use of languages in the world. He believes that the growth of economic globalization affects the use of English. In addition‚ he thinks that cultural imperialism has a great impact on “language wars”. Breton also states‚ “the best way to kill off a language is to teach another one”. I partially agree with the writer. I think that the writer makes a relevant point
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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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Shari Smith Marie Baker Matthew Reece Unit 1 Research Assignment 1: Exploring Programming Languages Computers don’t do anything without someone telling them what to do‚ much like the average teenager. To make the computer do something useful‚ you must give it instructions in either of the following two ways: Write a program that tells a computer what to do‚ step by step‚ much as you write out a recipe. Buy a program that someone else has already written that tells the computer what to do.
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Literature review. The search for better ways to teach languages has been underway for centuries and with some historical perspective we can analyse that each development should be assessed individually. Traditional forms of teaching and syllabus design concentrated more on the teacher playing a central role in the classroom‚ teaching also focused much more on form rather than meaning and there was a great importance given to testing and assessments. Nowadays teaching and syllabus design concentrates
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