opinions‚ ideas‚ and thoughts that are worth sharing with the world‚ and writing is an effective way of getting them out. The communicative language competence is a main goal for developing teaching writing skills‚ and it contains linguistic‚ sociolinguistic and progmatic components. Written language also has characteristics‚ some of which are orthography‚ complexity‚ vocabulary‚ formality. The Common European Framework describes in a comprehensive way what language learners have to learn to do in
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1. Describe the major goals and methods of the ethnography of communication. 2. Discuss the interrelationships of gender and language in English speakers. 3. Outline the objectives‚ methodologies‚ and results of the sociolinguistic study of language and class. 4. Describe the main goals of conversation analysis‚ indicate what features of conversation support this approach and discuss any weaknesses of conversation analysis. 5. Summarize and critically evaluate the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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Chapter 2 Communication Accommodation Theory A cross-disciplinary discourse-sensitive framework Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate‚ while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish‚ and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me‚ my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian‚ Spanish
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that has caused the deaths of about two million people. As for Angola‚ a civil war was caused by the lack of natural resources and ethnicity differences. This civil war resulted in over one million dead. In Algeria‚ conflicts arose from the reinstatement of dominant Islam. After colonial rule‚ Algeria faced many political problems. In search of a way to prosper‚ some Algerians wanted to return to an Islamic state. However‚ in 1992‚ the elections were revoked when the Islamic party won the election. Civil
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flexibility); Ethnorelative view; Empathy Knowledge & Comprehension: Cultural self-awareness; Deep understanding and knowledge of culture (including contexts‚ role and impact of culture & others’ world views); Culture-specific information; Sociolinguistic awareness Skills: To listen‚ observe‚ and interpret To analyze‚ evaluate‚ and relate Requisite Attitudes: Respect (valuing other cultures‚ cultural diversity) Openness (to intercultural learning and to people from other cultures‚ withholding
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Transgressing Monolingualism and Bilingual Dualities: Translanguaging Pedagogies Ofelia García‚ Nelson Flores and Heather Homonoff Woodley A. Yiakoumetti (ed.). Harnessing Linguistic Variation for Better Education. Peter Lang. Throughout the world language minorities are most often educated in schools that have been designed for language majorities. Usually they are educated only through the medium of the dominant state language. But even when they are given the opportunity to be educated
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billion of its funds strategically to triple their foreign production of oil and gas by 2007. However they had to manage the inherent risk to their reputation the investment was allocated for politically sensitive countries like Venezuela‚ Angola‚ Algeria‚ Azerbaijan and Iran‚ all which were known for corruption‚ bribery and human rights violations. Statoil’s largest strategic target was Iran‚ who held 9% of the worlds known oil reserves and 15% of its natural gas deposits. Statoil’s CEO maintained
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For Tunisia and Algeria‚ the root causes of the uprisings are poverty‚ rising food prices and unemployment. Libyans on the other hand are aggrieved for the concentration of national wealth amongst the elite families as well as imperial presidency. Imperial presidency‚ poverty
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Albert Camus’ story "The Guest‚" takes place in the rough terrain of Algeria at the end of World War II. Algeria‚ under French control at the time‚ was very tense due to civil unrest of the Arabic people. The protagonist of the story is Daru‚ a solitary French schoolteacher who lives at a school on a remote plateau that has been deserted due to a freak snowstorm after eight months of drought. Two minor characters‚ a French policeman‚ Balducci‚ and an Arab prisoner arrive at the school. Balducci commands
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Essay on Wars – Destructive for Humanity. War is‚ without argument the worst collective experience of humanity. It has created new nations on the rubbles of destroyed cities and humans dead. It involves mass killing without humane feelings even if short and swift. Our recent experience with Kargil‚ which was not even not even a full-fledged war‚ reopened the sordidness of military action. Wars‚ when prolonged like the World Wars‚ result in human brutality‚ mass extermination of races and
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