Grammatical tense

With regard to Swales’ (1990) Create-a-Research-Space (CARS) model, ESP genre is defined as move and step as an analytical tool to examine textual sequence for two levels of the analysis: microstructure (lexico-grammatical features) and macrostructure (rhetorical structures). ESP genre has been applied increasingly in US higher education (Johns, 2002). This approach is related to discourse communication and has been designed in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) language teaching and learning…

When language is standard, it is often seen in a formal setting and in academic English. Formal language tends to be systematic, following grammatical patterns. Standard sentence structure follows a grammatical pattern of subject, verb then object (Gee & Hayes, 2011). Within the structure of the sentence is the context in which the language is presented. This plays an important role in determining appropriate discourse and…

Duc Nguyen-Pham’s essay I like that this essay has a clear thesis and provides interesting examples for supporting topic sentences. After reading this essay, I searched the film, Breakfast at Tiffany’, and found negatively portrayed American actress which are difficult to be noticed in this modern time. Also, each body paragraph talk about one topic which is one of the three avenues. So, I was able to easily understand the essay. Base 1: Unity 1. Is there a clearly stated thesis in the…

Psychological Development in Infancy and Childhood Abay Bektursun Psychological Development in Infancy and Childhood It is the development of an individual’s cognitive, intellectual, social, and emotional functioning and capabilities over the life span, from the infancy to old age. It is a subject matter of a discipline called developmental psychology. Initially, child psychology was the main focus of research. However, since the 20th century, people have learnt much about infancy…

A private and public language is similar to a coin; both have two sides/faces but in the end they are either just a language or a coin. The issue of “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez is that Spanish should not be taught in a school, because the main/public language is English.. The author of “Aria” is Richard Rodriguez, the original source is a chapter within his biography, “Aria” is intended for anyone who feels like they do not belong in a society and all they want is a something that creates a home…

It is predicted that successful language learners have the ability of tolerance and adaptation to unknown factors and vague segments of a new language. Among learners there are several learning styles that we can point out the one of important one which is ambiguity tolerance (AT) and defined as “ the degree to which you are cognitively willing to tolerate ideas and propositions that run counter to your own belief system or structure of knowledge” (Brown, 2000: 119). As Ely (1989) mentioned,…

happy (unhappy vs. happiness). • Compounding: combining two or more word in order to get a new word. For example blackboard, keyboard. • Symbolism: changing the internal phonemic structure of the word to follow a grammatical function. For example, tooth becomes teeth in the plural tense. • Reduplication: repeating all or part of the word to form a new word. For example, sing, singing, still singing. The processes of word formation are: • Acronymy: is the process of forming a new word from…

After completing the Write Experience assignment I was both disappointed and pleased. I was disappointed with my grade. I thought that I was a much better writer than the program was giving me credit for. I was frustrated as I kept submitting my assignment because the final submission was lower than my second submission. I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong. I was also very pleased because I was learning a lot about my writing errors, and I was learning new tips and tricks about the focus…

Linguistics is the study of language and how it is used. The main disciplines involved in this research is phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax and semantics. There are three different ways of forming morphologically complex words in English: inflection (dog-dogs, call-called), derivation (drink-drinkable) and compounding (sunglasses) (Bozix, Marslen-Wilson). This essay will focus on two of the morphological processes, inflection and derivation, and the similarities and differences between…

Kerouac employs a metaphor and grammatical repetition in the declarative “the abstract noun “call” and concrete noun “horizon” here present a hopeful new beginning for Sal and a fundamental change in how he will live his life. This is what Dean offers at the start of the book to Sal, an opportunity to leave his life as a newly-divorced and miserable man in the East behind and escape to what is hoped to be a better life in the West. Dean’s use of grammatical repetition in the utterance presents…