acquiring a foreign language. Whereas the grammar translation method focuses on the translation of certain grammar rules and the translation of vocabulary‚ the communicative approach aims for acquiring the skill of communication for the learner Scrivener (2011). Both methods are effective in their own way‚ although the communicative approach focuses on the actual goal of language‚ namely communication between human beings. In this essay the grammar translation method and the communicative approach
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Darkness in Poe‚ Hawthorne‚ Melville and Dickinson E.A. Poe‚ Hawthorne‚ Melville and E. Dickinson’s works contain similar elements and images which can be related to the theme of darkness. These authors used these motives as their main subject throughout their works. Some of them led very gloomy and dark life so they used those experiences to utter their feelings by putting them on the paper. These poems and works can come across as kind of morbid at first sight
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1. THEORY OF SPEAKING This part‚ dealing with the theoretical background of speaking‚ aims to determine the position of the speaking skill among the other skills and to analyze the elements that speaking as a skill includes. Speaking is as a language skill used as a communication tool to share ideas‚ feelings‚ opinions‚ thoughts‚ or information by using the target language. It is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing‚ receiving and processing information
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a grammar book and a methodology book if possible. Recommended books: Grammar: Parrot‚ Martin – Grammar for English Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press) Swan‚ Michael – Practical English Usage (Oxford University Press) Methodology: Jim Scrivener – Learning Teaching (Macmillan) Jeremy Harmer – How to Teach English (Longman) 1. Below are pairs of commonly confused words. Explain briefly how you would convey to a student how the words in each pair differ in meaning. a. b. sensitive / sensible
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Discussion Questions for "Bartleby‚ the Scrivener" 1. What does the subtitle of "Bartleby" suggest? What is the significance of Wall Street and the walls in the story? Don’t overlook the contrasting images of white and black walls. 2. What is the significance of the information that the narrator provides about himself and his employees at the beginning of the story? How does it prepare us to understand Bartleby and the narrator’s attitude toward him? In what ways in "B" really a story
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many employees feel as though they have no voice‚ or that when they express themselves they will be overlooked. This is where the problem lies‚ due to these feelings many people lose their will much like the character Bartleby in “Bartleby the Scrivener” or rebel against the authoritative figures like Peter Gibbons does later on in the movie. When both characters were faced with the possibility of losing their livelihood Peter Gibbons choose to undermine the system and schemed a way to exact retribution
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ASSIGNMENT 2 FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Background - Life and learning styles Initially when I started observing the students in our Elementary class‚ I had a few choices but the one that stood out to me‚ I think‚ has such an interesting story to tell for her few years that she’s been on this earth. I interviewed Rine M.‚ a 23 year old Management from the DRC (Democratique Republic of Congo)‚ in the Elementary English Class. Rine‚ who has a degree in Marketing‚ has been in Durban for the past
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aided in bringing to light his argument on the vitality of having money in order to live a favorable life because he had the information to sustain his appeal. One piece of material exercised to further his point was “to be a law-stationer‚ or a scrivener or scavenger‚” suggesting that a life without money is similar to the life of a scrounger with nothing of his own. The evidence‚ to be “avoided by those who know your worth and shrink from it is as a claim on their respect or their purse‚” manifests
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Comparing and Contrasting (quoted from Jim Stover‚ “Writing About Literature”) One of the best methods to help us clarify our thoughts about a character‚ an event‚ a poem‚ a story—nearly anything—is to compare and contrast. (To compare can mean to find similarities and differences. Coupled with contrast‚ however‚ to compare means to point out similarities‚ while to contrast means to point out differences.) Many of us‚ feeling weighted down by cares‚ have happened to see someone coping with a
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slicing meat is chosen to watch over a man who starves himself as art. A man who cannot eat is guarded by those who slaughter meat for food as a living‚ seemingly mocking the hunger artist’s situation. This circumstance is similar in Bartleby‚ the Scrivener when the grubman provided good meals to Bartleby at the lawyer’s expense. The grubman shoved food at Bartleby even when he renounced everything including food‚ preferring to waste away but food is still given to him as if teasing him. Despite the
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