Received Pronunciation

• Based on your project, what suggestions do you have for other teachers with respect to providing multiple instructional strategies for helping ELLs to improve their pronunciation and also for assessing them with respect to accuracy and fairness as related to assessments and grading? I immediately I would suggest that the teachers turn to the Eight Instruction Strategies to improve ELLs success. These eight recommendations are excellent guidelines for the conductors of this project. The…

I have been observing a Spanish 1 class at Faith Christian School. For the teaching lesson, I chose to use a reader called Asi Leemos. It is a reader that the school purchased two years ago to try and improve reading comprehension. The reader is broken up in three units that follow the vocabulary and grammar lessons that are typical to a level 1 classroom. The reader is a collection of chapters that tell about two high school students. It tells about their personal information, school lives…

Today English is no more territorially and culturally bound. It is internationalized. It cannot be treated as a foreign language .It’s prominence is attributed to its dynamic and borrowing nature. It is used both as a link language and an official language. It is simplified according to the needs of people. English infuses confidence and confers status and prestige on an individual. It promotes a sense of oneness and togetherness. IT sector is playing a vital role all over the world. The…

2.3.2 Negotiation of Meaning in FTF Interaction Foster (1998) represented a classroom perspective on the negotiation of meaning. He argued that tasks provide comprehensible input by exchanging information and results in comprehensible output which this process promotes learning. The study was conducted in a classroom setting by intermediate English foreign language learners. They engaged in information exchange tasks in both dyads and small groups. The results revealed that dyads produced more…

Acquisition Task and Congruency. Each of the individual subjects recived rhy,ming recognition test. Inquiries of the test raise concerns over rhyme-yes objects have an biased benefit over sematic-yes objects. In resulting of this all the subkects received a form of rhyming test. Once the experiment was done the expirimentors came to conclusion that it seems like rhyme-yes acquisition is better than sematic-yes acquisition. Experimentors came to conclusion that shallow processing is inferior to…

grade level passage, “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, to read aloud in English. His pronunciations were extremely precise, since Erik presents no language disabilities. Only one term was mispronounced from the paragraph; “anachronism”; however, it was due to lack of exposure to the word. When the enunciation for the expression was modeled, he repeated with great articulation. It is evident the student received excellent foundations in areas of phonology and morphology, since his enunciations…

The main aim of this work is to analyze the meaning of dialect levelling in the broader context of the language change. Going through specific study cases this work will identify the factors that causes dialect accommodation phenomenon and the effect that this is having on identities of local communities. Analyze geographical factors and social-psychological implication will give us a clearer picture of the dialect continue change that has been occurring in Britain, and it’s consequences.…

linguistically similar used by different social groups who choose to say that they are speakers of one language which functions to unite & represent them to other groups. • Dialect deals with vocabulary, grammar, phonology, pronunciation, etc. • Accent deals with pronunciation and phonology • Regional variation 1. A variety of a language spoken by a particular group based on region (caused by geographical barriers) 2. British English vs American English vs Australian English 3. Javanese in…

English has been the dominant global language since the nineteenth century. As a result of British imperialism, the language was spread to every region of the world. Since the twentieth century the United States’ role as the global economic and cultural power, has helped to maintain the global influence of the English language. Various dialects of English reflect cultural, racial and socioeconomic aspects of these groups (“What Privilege”) Standard English has often been defined as the correct…

I remember when I use to live in Newfoundland, it was so different for me since I was born and raised in Brampton Ontario, and there was no multi culture on this island. When I first moved there I remember people would stare at me and look at me differently because of my skin color they would automatically assume I wasn’t from Canada or not Canadian because I wasn’t “white”. They wouldn’t consider me as a “Canadian” as well as a “Newfie” because I didn’t have the “Canadian” accent. Another…