Language Studies essays:
L'INVASION ANGLAISE : Libération lexicale ou la fin d'une langue d'un empire ?
... traces ? Dans cette analyse il serait nécessaire de replacer des « risques » de la mort de cette langue dans son contexte en gardant le sens des proportions. Selon la population francophone, est-ce que ...
A Relationship that Changes for the Better
... Wendy Wasserstein's play Tender Offer is a dialogue between a father, Paul and his daughter, Lisa ...
Lesson Planning
... communicative activities. PRESENTATION OF THE WEEKLY PLANNING:Your presentation should answer these questions (although it shouldn't look like a questionnaire being answered!):1.What will my sts know, be able to do, or feel at the end of the class, that they didn't or weren ...
Why might 'academic' English need to be taught?
... behaviour can be traced back to an individual's genetic makeup. (Mooney ... environment it occurs in, i.e. culture/society or time period, effectively defines it. This meaning of crime is said to be a 'social construction'. (Mooney ...
TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH TRANSLATION.
... traditional approach, ( Grammar Translation, Communicative Language Learning, Task_Based Approach, and the last alternative approach Community Language Learning). Teachers ... parent ...
Cognitive Semantics - Extensions of Meaning
... language. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Lakoff (1993) have showed that metaphors pervade the whole language ... on the discourse context ... of news communication (print, radio, television ... thinking is a mechanical activity", etc. Sometimes, ... components of semantic change are the two processes ... a questionnaire ...
The Growth and Importance of English as a Global Language - How English developed from its origins until today. Discusses why it is now the most widely-learned language in the world.
... language of England now properly incorporated distinct Latinate linguistic features. The mixture of these two languages - French and Old English came to be known as Middle English. The French ...
A Study of Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure
... parents. 2.0.2.4 Causes of Pragmatic Failure There are various causes of pragmatic failure. The major causes may be: students' inappropriate transfer of semantically or syntactically equivalent structures or transfer of speech act strategies from their native language ...
Difficulty of the English
... parent can still have "broken" English that will make them ashamed of their parents. But down the line they will realized that even though their parent can't speak perfect English it dose not limit their understanding of the language ...
Taming the Lion: Teaching Productive Skills
... communication activities in the language classroom. WORKING ON COMMUNICATIONMany teachers look at teaching productive skills with uneasiness -noisy students, changing sitting arrangement, loss of concentration, increasing teacher's monitoring chores... is communication ...