Received Pronunciation

I also figured out that it is so complicated. Especially, in my case, English is my second and I am not really good at it. On a similar note, my pronunciations are not perfect. Sometimes, it gives me a hard time to talk to people whose English is their original language. Likewise, they get a hard to understand me, too. Therefore, when communicates with people who are divert from you, you really need…

always loved for people to read me stories, but hated to read to others. It was hard for me to pronounce words and it was more difficult for me to understand the words I was reading. All that changed after the bad experiences I faced and the help I received from the different people in my life. At home my mom was a single parent, working all the time, so she didn’t have much time to help work on my reading skills with me. She was able to read me a story every night, and that was something I…

college level. At one point, she hosted a radio show. In 1981, she divorced, left teaching, and began to writing children’s books and poetry (University of Minnesota). Pat Mora became a writer in her late thirties, and credits a poetry fellowship she received from the National Endowment for the Arts for encouraging her to write as an occupation (Rowlands). Mora’s writing styles include essays, poetry, children’s books, and a memoir. She is bilingual, and she writes many of her books that way.…

inequalities that exist in the United States are almost certainly due to a combination of many different factors, one likely source of inequality is discrimination” said Nier. Just when you think you have a chance of getting a job and you haven’t received a call back isn’t because you weren’t good, but because what they was looking for. Jobs will say “the position was given to someone else” with no explanation to why you did not receive the position. Employers will find a way to dodge the…

Communication can be defined as the conveying of or exchange of information between two people. Cross-cultural communication can be simply looked at as the study of how persons from varied cultural backgrounds communicate amongst themselves and also across the different cultures. This is of great value as it allows us not only to appreciate the diversity in culture but also provides us with the opportunity to learn from the various cultures. The understanding of someone else's culture smooth's…

All business activities involve communication. For any manager, various processes such as leading, motivation, negotiation, decision making, problem solving and brainstorming, are all based on their ability to effectively communicate with employees, clients and suppliers. In most cases, managers have difficulty in communication, even when it is domestic. Hence it is only natural that people face barriers to communicating effectively across cultures. In particular for managers and expatriates…

For school, I read what I had to without enthusiasm. When my teacher began an out-loud-reading session in History class, I tried to escape to the bathroom right before it was my turn. And the times I could not escape, I read with many pronunciation mistakes while I inwardly cringed because I did not understand what I was reading. However, my penchant for crafts and assemble things meant instructions which accompanied reading. Therefore, my reading career began with instructions for learning…

Furnborough and Truman (2009) stated that feedback fills the gaps between learners’ knowledge and target language competence. Dorney (1994) postulated that feedback is “a process, which carries a clear message about the teacher’s priorities and is reflected in the students’ motivation”. As Chastain (1988) states, the type of feedback teachers provide to students shows whether they view language as a grammatical system or as a communicative system. Feedback on language forms pushes students to…

Children’s Hospital, and also the speaker of the Ted talk titled “Lifelike simulations that make real-life surgery safer.” He is the director of the Pediatric Simulator Program also, at the Boston Children’s Hospital. Weinstock is a well-educated being, received his PhD in molecular and cell biology from Rockefeller University and furthered his education in clinical training in plastic and general surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. As you may know, when patients of all ages are sent into…

The best part of watching your childhood dreams be crushed before your very eyes, is knowing that there are thousands of other people experiencing the exact same thing, at the exact same moment. There’s something comforting in the unity that lurks behind the pain of having your favorite television show be so thoroughly disrespected, as was the fate of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I went to see the movie less than a week after it’s opening in 2010, and left less than an hour into the movie. When…