Orthography

based on basic principles about how children learn and how teachers teach effectively to respond to learners’ needs. The role of a teacher in a classroom involves setting-up and managing a learning environment that will be conducive to teaching and learning. The learning environment includes the curriculum, the children, the teachers, the school administrators, the parents, the equipment, and the different learning materials involved in daily business of learning and teaching that is expected to…

Media Language In an increasingly globalized society, the power of mass media is evident in almost every aspect of daily life. Mass media, whether it be social media, broadcast news, journalistic writing, or even academic writing, has a wide and varied effect on the way people interact. Media writing, specifically journalistic writing, has unique characteristics that are not found in any other form of language. The benefits of studying these characteristics with a critical lens are numerous:…

n December 14, 1967, the poet Yehiel Perlmuter (1904 – 92), better known by his adopted Hebrew name Avot Yeshurun, gave an address titled “Ha-sifrut ha-ivrit ta’aroch et ha-tfila” (“Hebrew Literature Will Recite the Prayer”) on the occasion of receiving the Brenner Prize. In his speech, he said the following about his relations with Yiddish: That Yiddish has begun to come to you when you dream and when you are awake, because it became known to her that you are determined not to speak it,…

The Pohnpeian Language I. Introduction As human beings we communicate in some form weather its using our mouths, sounds, motions, clicking sounds, etc. Either way we communicate to build relationships or to simply get a task done. There are roughly about 7,000 different languages spoken around the world and changes yearly (BBC). All different and from various regions of the world all have one thing in common and that is grammatical structure. A. Background Information First, thing about writing…

3. Causes of endangerment in an Index There is no single reason for language endangerment. Usually more than one factor are responsible for endangerment. But all the possible factors are examinable to make a correct result. The responsible factors and causes of endangerment are given with analyzing: 3.1. Domination of State language And Lingua Franca: The philosophy of the blood bathed language movement of 1952 in East Pakistan was for the right to speak in mother tongue. The people’s demand…

literature as the initiative has been done recently by the canadian education sysytem to relate the oxford dictionaries to the canadian usage, a condition that was partly remedied and shown in 1962 in the canadian dictionary because The "official"orthography taught in Canadian schools is and always has been the British standard of spelling, and the "official" dictionaries are British, the various Oxford and akin lexicons and not Webster being in most cases the ranking authorities. In the end…

by these missionaries. Three missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, Thomas Arabousset, Constant Gosselin, and Eugene Casalis, were positioned in Morija, where a substantial amount of work was done toward the creation of an orthography for the Sesotho…

Both Iceland and Japan’s language policies are resistant to change – both countries are seen as homogenous both internally and externally, which especially in Japan has resulted in language planning and policy being slow to respond to changes (Gottlieb 2008; Hilmarsson-Dunn 2006). In Iceland, long traditions in lexical purism have affected the official language policies, but in recent years, the focus has shifted more towards ensuring Icelandic’s status at the national language in the country…