A common language. There is no doubt that a common language used throughout the world would do much to brings countries closer to each other. Thought it is becoming increasingly easy to move from place to place‚ our inability to communicate with one another‚ gives rise to numerous misunderstandings and makes real contact between people of different nationalities impossible. Many attempts have been made to overcome this problem and they have all failed. The fear of foreign influence and domination
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COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN CUREENT ESL CLASS ROOMS S.Rajaram Associate Professor in English Thiagarajar College of engineering Madurai-625 015 ____________________________________________________________ ________________ ABSTRACT Amidst the phenomenal developments in the context of science and technology‚ education for the 21st century needs a lot of rethinking on modernization and creation of hi-tech educational tools. An important feature of education has been its use of
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THE EMPIRICAL BASIS OF SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE LIKE LEARNING A FIRST? 1. PSYCHOLINGUISTIC MECHANISM Dulay and Burt began with the premise that first and second language acquisition in children were the same process‚ and that the kinds of errors made by a second language leaner would be the same as those made by a first language leaner of the same language. Children learning a second language are usually older tan L1 learners; they are further along
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Three things I learned this summer Summer is the time of year when you are supposed to relax and enjoy the heat of the sun. Summer is the time where you can go swimming‚ have BBQ’s‚ go camping‚ have bonfires‚ go tubing‚ go boating‚ go fishing‚ and do all sorts of thing. Summer is the time of the year where they have derbies‚ circuses‚ carnivals‚ and fairs. In the summer there is also rodeos and concerts. Summer is the time of year where you can go to bed whenever you want to. You can stay up late
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Three things I want to do before I die. I’m going to talk about three things I want to do before I die. There are more than three‚ but If I have to chose‚ I say that I want to go south America‚ meet the actress from desperate housewives which is American drama‚ and find someone whom I truly love. Firstly‚ I’m going to talk about why I want to go South America. There’re two reasons to support this. As a First reason‚ I want to meet my friends with whom I studied English in Toronto. We still
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Language is an important aspect in human life. It is a means of communication the person to the others. The people need language to looking for and give people benefit information. People need language as a communication to express their feeling‚ though and desire. Language has two major purposes for us that are as an instrument of communication and as a vehicle of thought (Dummett: 2002). Language as instrument of communication means that people use language to gather all of the information that
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Compare the ways language is used in source three and source two Source two uses formal language so that it can fulfil its purpose to inform the audience. Therefore it uses facts and figures throughout the article to give the reader as much information as possible whilst still containing the sense of disaster e.g. “The tropical storm saw winds of up to 170mph” this is followed by‚ “that sent waves crashing…” This gives the fact more power and influence than if it was just in its own because it
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Dr. Hopkins EC 4350 11 September 2012 Reading Journal #2 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism Chapter 2 What they tell us: Shareholders are not guaranteed any fixed payments. What they don’t tell us: Shareholders really only care about the short-term profits instead of long-term investments which in turn reduces the growth of the firm in the long-term.” …the L word‚ that is limited liability‚ is what has made modern capitalism possible.” (12) -Karl Marx defends capitalism Adam
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Tell me about your Lunar New Year In Chinese and many other Asian countries‚ people celebrate the Lunar New Year. With me‚ the Lunar new year is the most important holiday of the year when all of the family’s member gather together after a hard-working year. It’s 11.59 PM on December 30th in the Lunar Calendar. In just a minute‚ New Year’s Day began with a bang. Fireworks are displayed‚ all of my family drank champagne‚ kissed and hugged together. We all yelled “Happy New Year “-a word to say
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the Shrew & Ten Things I Hate About You Several hundred years separate ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and 10 Things I Hate About You‚ are women represented any differently in today’s society? (M) Hello there‚ and welcome to S.A.S. otherwise known as the Shakespeare Appreciation Society. My name’s Mandella and we’re here live at Hathaway’s Theatre. Today we’re going to look at the differences between good ol’ will’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’ and its movie adaptation ’10 Things I Hate About You’ and to help
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