Generative linguistics

This chapter pulls together the three phases of this project, and summarizes my reflections on teacher/student perceptions of writing and the challenges that both groups articulated during my fieldwork at ELI. I also consider the contribution of the study to research in the field of teaching and learning writing in English and implications for Saudi higher education system specifically to the preparatory program in KAU. This chapter also includes a discussion of limitations and challenges of the…

#1 Literature ● ● ● ● ● Cornerstones of Mrs. Pruitt’s Classroom Curriculum Analysis (12.1.5, 12.1.6) Author’s purpose T ext structure and text aides Literary Elements (plot, setting, characterization, conflict, theme, point of view, tone/mood) Literary Techniques (flashback, foreshadow, imagery, symbol, allusion, figurative language [personification, metaphor, simile], dialect, irony, epiphany, oxymoron, allusion, suspense) Poetic Device (rhyme, rhythm, stanza, alliteration, assonance,…

Reflection Paper The lesson plan that I did for the assignment has many of the 12 principles put forth by Rod Ellis in Teaching English as a Second Language. Additionally, the lesson’s objectives are specifically chosen relating to some of the 12 principles. I chose several different teaching methods/approaches for my lesson as students in an actual classroom can benefit from a variety of methods and approaches. Lesson Objectives For my lesson plan, I have three lesson objectives. The first…

The mini-lesson will focus on decoding strategy and structural analysis for word endings: ed and ing (inflectional suffixes). TS needs to learn about context clues and the meaning clues the word itself might contain. He must understand that inflectional endings (-ed and -ing) reflect the time at which events occurred and they change the meaning of the word in a sentence. Lesson Steps: 1. Introduce the concept that is going to be taught by reading some parts of the picture book Dooby Dooby Moo…

Place According to T. Cresswell in “Place” stated about the place refer to location, locale, and sense of the place. Location is an absolute in the space with a specific set of coordinated and measurable distance from other sets of location, but the locale is material setting for social interaction, and send of place refers to feelings and emotions with that place. When people used space for living, space become a place. Reading about the place was very informative and easy to understand,…

Thomas C. Foster’s How To Read Literature Like A Professor is, as it says in the title, a guide on how to read literary works more professionally in order to better understand the concepts, themes, symbolism, and other aspects, like intertextuality better. Mr. Foster includes examples from many well known and praised works in order to give the reader a sense of what they should be looking for in order to contextualize a literary work. For example, Foster uses each chapter as sort of a guide.…

1. Rhetoric is a form of persuasive speaking or writing with occasionally the use of figures and other compositional techniques. It’s a language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience. 2. “One should eat to live, not live to eat.” - Cicero. This statement is an example of chiasmus. 3. An argument is the persuasion that tries to alter your mood, mind, and willingness to do something. You succeed in an argument when you successfully persuade your audience. Fighting…

According to Erika Lindemann, "Rhetoric is a form of reasoning about probabilities, based on assumptions people share as members of a community” (Howard 2010). The use of rhetoric for analysing sentences means that one must consider the nature, the context and its intended audience. The relationship that I will be exploring is the connections that are linked between rhetoric and cultural context, in particular, the railways in both Sydney and in Hong Kong. The social context that I consider my…

Denotation and Connotation Connotation and Denotation are the two principal methods of describing the meanings of words. While denotation describes the precise and literal definition of a word that would be found in the dictionary, connotation refers to the wide range of interchanging associations that most words carry with them. To use these two variances incorrectly can be a very negative thing, and could induce many damaging consequences. “The New York Times has a Communism fetish” (The…

Although the phenomenon of Dialect Levelling does not centre its attention on people we can say that it is correlated to the phenomenon of accommodation theory. Dialect Levelling occurs when the differences between regional varieties of two languages over time are reduced. This causes the disappearance of distinctive features while new features that emerge are adopted by speakers over the regional area. So this phenomenon focuses mainly on the variation between two languages of specific areas.…