Language contact

Brown and Levinson created politeness theory, which is situated in the interpretivist paradigm (Goldsmith & Normand, 2015, p. 267). This theory is intended to explore the various ways language is used in certain social contexts, as well as how communication is affected by those word choices. The creators were curious why in some situations and relationships, people tend to be very blunt, while in others people tend to take a less direct approach. Politeness theory is based on Goffman’s concept…

The article, “Vocabulary Plus Technology,” by Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Linda Smetana, and Dana LGrsiham begins by describing how students retain new vocabulary words and other components of learning new words. The authors begin their studies with two statements they assumed were true. These statements were learning new vocabulary is a social interaction, we need to use the words, and the words need to have meaning to use. The authors emphasize the importance of before, during, and after reading…

Instructional Strategies (Include two strategies.) Specific example describing how the strategy was implemented 1. The first Instructional Strategy was a Read- aloud as an introduction. During the “Splits” program, the teacher started the lesson with a read aloud that was about two kids stuck inside on a rainy day. The two kids go in the attic and find pieces of fabric that were used in a general store to measure the size of fabric people were buying. The different sizes they found were ½…

derived to reflect the The children’s picture book ‘Go to Sleep Jessie!’ authored by Libby Gleeson and illustrated by Freya Blackwood, won the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s, Early Childhood picture book of the year for 2015. The written language in this picture book is used to create an interesting story that is also personalised (Tunnel & Jacobs, 2008). This picture book could be used to read to children that have recently become an older brother or sister as it discusses the theme…

Lesson 1: Could You Do Me A Favor? Requests with modals and If clauses; Indirect requests A: Main Dialog. Read and Listen (Adiran recibe una llamada de una compañera de clase) Lana: Hi, Adrian. This is Lana Larson. Adrian: Oh, hi, Lana. What’s up? Lana: Well, I got the stomach flu last week and I couldn’t go to school. I’d love to have all my notes in order. Would you mind if I borrowed your English class notes? Adrian: Um, yeah. I guess there’s no problem. I don’t think I’ll need them for…

academic world. However, many students experience anxiety in speaking when they are asked to express themselves in front of the class or other people. This is true even their language abilities are good. Anxiety in itself is not a bad thing since a certain amount of anxiety can motivate learners to learn and acquire one particular language. In this term paper, I am going to explore the causes of feeling anxiety in speaking English among students and measures to curb this problem. There are some…

To gain a deeper understanding on what ICT literacy is, or what standards are included on being ICT literate, one must first define the two words which constitute the term. ICT is the technologies that aid the collection, processing or the circulation of information or data. Meanwhile, literacy is the ability to classify, comprehend, interpret, construct, communicate, compute and use written and printed materials connected with different contexts. Literacy requires continuous learning to allow…

contexts (DEEWR, 2009, p. 15). The educator's role in intentional teaching is to provide an environment that is rich in materials and interactions that leads to decision making, problem solving and risk taking (Conner, 2010). This builds children's oral language skills by communication with the educator and peers, but educator can push this further and encourage writing skills by asking the students to draw out the new plan or ideas to overcome the problem. These environments also create…

During the core 01 course, one of the strongest connections learned was how language and gestures are ambiguous. Our body language, and gestures allow us to express ourselves uniquely. However, it can also be confusing for others as different cultures and different societies can also have different ways of expression. It is a wonderful thing to be able to express ourselves in the way we desire, we have so many options such as metaphors, art, written word, and so on. With metaphors we can express…

Music offers Infants skills such as to learning and practicing self-regulation, how to understand their emotions, balance, body awareness, bilateral coordination, thinking, memory, observation of differences in music sounds and patterns and spoken language. Briefly describe 2 changes you would make to the physical design of…