Galician language

Learning literacy standards, which are the following: MELS.LIT-2.1- Uses language to communicate MELS.LIT-3.1- Listens for different purposes The first content component of the literacy standards is centered on expressive language. The assessment examined the students’ facility in using their native language to communicate. Furthermore, the second content component of the literacy standards is focused on listening and receptive language. The assessment examined the students’ ability to listen…

Preposition is a word or a group of words which brings out the correct relationship between a noun/pronoun or between a verb and a noun/pronoun or an adjective and a noun/pronoun. Prepositions are important structural words. They have been called, ‘hooking words’, since they are used to hook nouns, pronouns and word-groups on to preceding words and word-groups including sentences. The purpose of the hooking is to mark the relation of the noun, pronoun or word-group with another word or…

In You are What You Speak, Guy Deutscher (2010), the author, explained how the languages influence people’s aspect, thoughts, and a society (p.215). In other words, people can make assumptions about a society from its language. Thus, people can make assumptions about the mysterious tribe found by anthropologists by examining its linguistic characteristics. For example, linguistic anthropologists can name the mysterious tribe “Utoceaiso” from their assumptions about the tribe. The first part of…

rigor of hours of practice which over time becomes a uniquely somatic knowledge. One that is visible in the way someone carries their body, it can be just as distinctive as an accent. Naming another story about they are and what they know, in the language of the…

Language plays an important role in a child’s intellectual, emotional and social development. Language can be both seen and heard. Language is a guide to social reality (Sapir, 1949). For example, body language, sign language and the social convention about how to combine words, express and connect ideas to interact with other people. All language including written, visual and spoken developed from cultural and social contexts and understood in people's social and cultural background (Green,…

Besides, Chang and Roebl (2011) point out that L2 listening difficulties come from text, listener, speaker and task. Additionaly, they added two more factors ¨input chanel and surroundings¨ and ¨relevance¨. In the same line, Yang (2011) divides listening comprehension problems into five categories: text, listener, listening process, speaker, and task. On the other hand, according to Hamouda (2013) EFL learners have crucial problems in listening comprehension because universities pay…

of them in communication. When talking to each other human not only just simply exchanges messages but also exchanges variety of meanings and emotions through verbal communication (consist of 6 main elements: voice tone, voice speed, voice volume, language, vocabulary and grammar) and nonverbal communication (involve different aspects: facial expression and gaze, kinesics, haptics, vocalics, proxemics, physical appearance, chronemics and the environment ). After researchers of the two aspects of…

(1959) believes that "culture is communication and communication is culture" (p. 169). Every culture has its own unique language; language made of beliefs, traditions, ideals and values which is a strong determinant of how one describes an experience and behaves in a situation. Different culture perceives the world in a distinct way, unlike any other culture which forms a language and acts as a means of communication. In the article “Cultural Variability in Communication”, Gudykunst (1997)…

The list of nicknames that have stemmed from my given name of Marygrace is actually quite long when I think about it. The most obvious but least used nickname being Mg, while other names such as Mig and Mur are what dominate people’s minds when they speak to me. Other nicknames have come and gone such Pigeon and Magnesium. However, overall each nickname I have gone or go by represents an important part of my life. Mig is typically not a common name or even a common nickname. The only person…

A human, a primate species that walks the face of the Earth, is defined by the complex emotions that they produce, otherwise unachievable by other species. Human emotions are still a mystery to most people, by seeing how quickly we are able to change to one emotion to another. The fact we are even able to be able to have all of these emotions is remarkable. As researchers dig deeper they find out unique or emotions are and many other things that are able to categorize us as humans. Sympathy is…