Techniques for Teaching Reading to Adults Learners AUTHOR Dr Shamim Ali is a Professor in the Department of English & Functional Courses‚at National University of Modern Languages. She teaches English as Foreign/Second Language to Adult Learners at Foundation‚Certificate and Diploma Level.She earned her Doctoral Degree in EnglishLinguistics. Her interests include‚ Language Teaching‚ Teaching Language through Literature‚Adult language learning Bilingualism‚DiscourseAnalysis
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pronounce the words “the English way.” SOLUTION: To show the difference in the sounds‚ I make comparisons with words that they already know and pronounce well in English – “The ‘a’ in animal is like the ‘a’ in and‚” for example. I also draw attention to syllable stress – popular in English vs. popular in Portuguese. PROBLEM: Final consonants Portuguese doesn’t have letters like D‚ T‚ G‚ P‚ and K at the end of words‚ so it’s common for Brazilian students to accidentally add a little vowel sound at the
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As Persian is a stress-accent language‚ a certain syllable in a word is more prominent than other syllables. Considering the AM framework‚ there are three important prosodic studies of Persian. Eslami (2005) believe that in Persian there are four pitch accents (L*‚ H*‚ L*+H‚ L+H*)‚ two phrase accents (L-‚ H-) and also two boundary
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______1. The vibrator part of speech mechanism is responsible for the production of sound waves. ______2. The vocal cords are in ‘closed position’ when voiced sounds are produced. ______3. (Word) stress is the emphasis or force given to a syllable or syllable in a word or phrase as it is pronounced ______4. Semiotics is defined as the study of signs. ______5. Noise is anything that distorts a message by interfering with the communication process. ______6. The sender is the individual‚ group
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participle of the regular intransitive verb to happen= has happened. This structure is the present perfect tense. Pronunciation /hæz hæpənd/ The sentence stress falls as follows (underlined where stress occurs): has happened Has has one syllable‚ happened has two syllables: has hap-penned The two words are linked and flow together when spoken (shown with the underscore): has_happened Appropriacy Neutral Anticipated problems and solutions Students may think it is the simple past when they spot the
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London Highgate Cambridge CELTA Language Awareness Task Please note that your written English as well as the content of your answers forms part of our evaluation of your application. Section 1. Learning and Teaching Here are some statements about English language learning and teaching. Indicate on the continuum the extent to which you agree with them. Example- Language is primarily about communication. Yes [ X ] No
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Iambic pentameter means that there is a particular rhythm in a line or in a verse. It is broken up into small groups of syllables called “feet.” Iamb means that there is an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. The root word “pent-“ has to do with the number five. So iambic pentameter consists of five groups of two syllables with the accent on the second syllable. The lines of this poem rhyme according to the scheme of the English sonnet in the form of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. “Shall I
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Jennifer Sanchez Professor Sargent Poetry 165W December 18‚ 2009 {draw:frame} “Traveling Through the Dark”: William Stafford In the poem‚ “Traveling Through the Dark”‚ William Stafford uses alliteration‚ imagery and natural speech in order to convey the disheartening emotions that come with being forced to make a life threatening decision. He orders the images in his tale to allow our minds and emotions with his as he works his way through making a choice; man or nature. The poem lacks a
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Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that
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the painful past of black people. I would say that the poem reflects the rising of the status of black people in America as well as other countries. In the first verse the rhythmic pattern is of a regular 9. 7‚ 9‚ syllable pattern until the last line where the pattern of the syllables change to 6‚ ’²But ^Still‚| 0/00like Shdust‚ | I find this poem quite funny and sarcastic in the way Maya asks questions within the poems verses. These questions‚ with no doubt‚ I would say are asked to the ’white
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