Grammatical tense

• Grammar • Tenses • Comprehension • Making sense of texts (Graph adapted from Dr Ali Cullerton, Ph.D (2015) Semantic The semantic portion…

America. This language has been carrier by Spanish colonists to many other parts of the world that include the Canary Islands, the Philippines, southern parts of North America, and the coast of Africa, making it very widespread across the world. The grammatical structure of Spanish is very similar to the structure of the other romance languages. One distinguishing factor is the use of the preposition “a” (which typically means “to”) before the direct object of a verb, if the object happens to be…

Richard Rodriquez in “Private Public Language” talks about how his parents talked a lot differently in public than they did in private. "In public, my father and mother spoke a hesitant, accented, not always grammatical English. And they would have to strain—their bodies tense—to catch the sense of what was rapidly said by los gringos.” Going of this, you can see the difficulties that are faced when society doesn’t seem to accept you. Seeing English as a public language and Spanish as a private…

learn, typically because it is their second language behind American Sign Language. On the contrary to many beliefs, American Sign Language is not just English with signs. It has its own sentence structure and grammar which excludes tenses and many other grammatical parts that English has. American Sign Language is more similar to Chinese with their sentence structure and grammar then it is English. I personally understand the difficulty of English, and often struggle with it today as I learn…

elements of narration and interpretation of characters are utilized to examine the excerpt from the novel, About a Boy. Based on the excerpt, the sentence structure is not complex and the sentences are not long. The excerpt is written using past tense, thus it is a reminiscence of the past. The use of vocabulary is simple and the conversations between the major characters, Marcus and Will are casual yet emotive. Generally, the use of words such as ‘fear, cry, sick, upset and problems’, during…

Diary is an activity that refers to share what the writer think, feel, and express idea. It means that they write what they want. Mahadzir (2006, p.13) However, applying this activity in teaching depends on the consideration of the question(s) that one seeks to answer. In addition, the diary entries would offer teachers the insights of how learners make use of their unique experience to master the language. (Reis 1994, as cited in Mahadzir, 2006, p.6). The fundamental benefit of diary methods…

In her article, “Lost in Translation,” Boroditsky presents her interesting perspective on language and argues for the benefits of understanding the ways language affects different cultures. The author Lera Boroditsky is a professor of psychology, neuroscience, and symbolic systems at Stanford University. The audience consists of educated, business career individuals all of whom read the Wall Street Journal, where the article was published. The author targets the business career individuals…

Her father had ordered the family never to speak to her, leading to the gross underdevelopment of her Broca’s and Werinicke’s area—the language centers of the pre-frontal cortex. The lack of stimulation in these speech centers caused irreparable damage. By the age of thirteen, Genie had no real capacity to learn language. This phenomena of severely decreased ability to learn something as someone ages is called a “critical period.” Something is expected to develop within this time and if it does…

to proof read my own papers I subconsciously think that I have not made any mistakes so I don’t even look for the small mistakes or see any problems. Paperrater.com will catch any spelling or grammatical error that I have made such as misplaced commas, run on sentences, spelling mistakes, wrong verb tenses and much more. It even grades my papers and shows me how to improve my papers at the same time. A huge plus to the website is that it is free and anyone can use it. I think that paperrater.com…

Focusing on the teaching aspect of the CALL project, it was vital that certain criteria was met and fulfilled as it is an important method of presenting a new language for learners. From teaching previously, relating the target language to a realistic situation is beneficial. As Swartz & Yazdani (2012:224) says, 'presenting vocabulary in realistic situations provides learners with a rich context that provides adequate semantic information ' and this was considered when collecting examples…