Abstract This study aims at finding out differences between Persian and English speakers’ patterns (macro and micro) of responding to compliments and observed some dissimilarity between them while accepting‚ rejecting and evading a compliment. This study also indicates whether Persian learners of English produce target- like compliments and compliment responses in English and whether pragmatic transfer can occur. Discourse completion tests (DCTs) were used to study the strategies employed when
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are they? The two discrete educational philosophies are bilingual education and teaching a second language. 2. What does Rodriguez mean when he says‚ “[I]n a way‚ it didn’t matter very much that my parents could not speak English with ease…. And yet‚ in another way‚ it mattered very much” (para.15)? I think when Rodriguez’s said it didn’t matter to him he meant socially because his parents didn’t speak English that great but they were able to speak it to the attend of people understanding them
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The History of English Teaching Methodology by S. Kathleen Kitao : Doshisha Women’s College‚ Kyoto‚ Japan Kenji Kitao : Doshisha University‚ Kyoto‚ Japan Language teaching has been around for many centuries‚ and over the centuries‚ it has changed. Various influences have affected language teaching. Reasons for learning language have been different in different periods. In some eras‚ languages were mainly taught for the purpose of reading. In others‚ it was taught mainly to people who needed to
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Better teaching through provocation The quest for an effective pedagogy differentiates the teacher from the researcher. Within the humanities and social sciences‚ we are constantly confronted with the challenge of communicating complex material in a novel and effective manner. Active teaming is bolstered by an approach that emphasizes creative problem solving‚ and critical thinking. And active learning often begins with a question. Despite those techniques‚ philosophical inquiry can
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HISTROY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN BRIEF A BRIEF HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE History of English language will explain‚ why learning English as a second language is difficult without proper instruction‚ even though basic components are same. Throughout its history English has been influenced by the varieties of language. Living languages never remain static. Every language is the product of change and continues to change as long as it is spoken. Only dead languages like Latin or Sanskrit change no
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In the 21st century‚ the evolution of the English language is occurring at an alarming rate. With the blending of cultures and religions and the advent of new technology‚ such as cellphones‚ and global messaging software‚ the basic core of the language is beginning to change. Slangs and shortened versions of words‚ are becoming universally accepted. Some of this is likely to be just trend or fashion‚ but with a new emphasis on speed and transfer of data‚ many of these new word forms will be permanent
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Communicative Language Teaching Approach The Definition Of CLT Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) originated from the changes in the British Situational Language Teaching approach dating from the late 1960s (Richards & Rodgers‚ 2001). Stemming from the socio-cognitive perspective of the socio-linguistic theory‚ with an emphasis on meaning and communication‚ and a goal to develop learners’ “communicative competence”‚ Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach evolves as a prominent
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Standards are formally ordered as numbers with bulleted sub-descriptors. In this document the bulleted sub-descriptors have been numbered 1a)‚ 1b) etc. for ease of reference. New Teachers’ Standards 2012 | Q Professional Standards (old 2007) | Teaching A teacher must: | Where the old Q standard ‘best-fits’ the new. A Bold font indicates main Standard correspondence‚ a normal font indicates possible supplementary link/evidence. | 1. Set high expectations which inspire‚ motivate and challenge
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Enumerate how language evolved through memes. Ans. A1.Introduction: Amoung all the animal kingdome‚ only we humens are having an advanced system of communication system between indiveduals. We don’t have a ny clear ida whetere the language was existed before the writing system. So it remains difficult to tracd the accurate history of language. It is belived that language first apperared between 30‚000 and 100‚000 years ago‚ but the qustina still remains‚ how did language evolved? Here I
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The English language has had an adventure in many respects‚ and has been very near extinction. The original language is undistinguishable from the language that we speak today. Although the language is very deeply rooted in the Latin language it has managed to retain much of its Germanic qualities. Today the language is about sixty percent Germanic and forty percent Romantic. The beginning of English started with the Scandinavian people when they landed in Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries A
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