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    The article goes on to talk about how the different languages that are spoken and not spoken using sign language may affect the culture you live in. How one set of words might mean something in one area and then something completely different in another. I feel that you language that you speak greatly influences your culture and vise versa. Of coarse we are all human and created equal, but just look at someone who speaks Spanish from Mexico and then one that speaks English from the South US.…

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    Students experience language or are exposed to language uses either by native or non-native speakers. In this educational context, students come across the spoken English Language through listening activities run in class or by the interaction with the EFL Teacher. In this session representative, samples of the listening tasks of the coursebook of 3rd grade Think Teen will be reviewed in terms of the criteria set by Rost (2002, p.160-181). In particular, the listening tasks under scope derive…

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    English is a global language. English is the third most spoken language after Mandarin and Spanish. English is no longer restricted to the shores of England. It has spread its influence far and wide and it currently enjoys a dominating presence amongst all world languages. The status of English as a global language rests not only on having a high number of people speaking the language but also on the fact that continually, year after year, more and more speakers are attempting to learn English…

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    For decades, languages have been changed all the time, because of conquest, migration, trade and so on. Through those ways, speakers of one language would be brought into contacting with speakers who speak different languages. In some cases, people only borrow a few words from their own language to express their though; in others, a new language may be formed by people to communicate with each other. Therefore, different languages can have different outcomes. In China, this contact situation is…

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    In this essay I will explain what has caused the English spoken today is different from the English spoken in earlier century. three reasons it has changed is other languages around us, then electronics and finally made up words or slang. One reason it has changed is that French changed is right after the English was form Germany. This happen when Germanic tribes invaded England. By 900 CE people of England spoke Old English.If other country come we learn from them. In 1066 William of Normandy…

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    the role of contexts and what is perceived to be (im)politeness by interactants are taken into account, the direct mapping of politeness linguistic strategies onto interactants’ utterances is no longer possible. Taking an example of these three utterances: (1) (a) Pass me the salt. (b) Could you please pass me the salt? (c) Would you be so kind as to pass me the salt? (Locher 2008) Depending on the context these sentences are uttered and also the relationship between interactants, any of these…

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    This essay will explore areas which support children in their development as readers and discuss how spoken language and different approaches, in the teaching of reading can develop and enrich children’s language comprehension skills. Reading comprehension is a process that can be developed through spoken language and different approaches to teaching reading. It means that a person understands what they are reading. Reading comprehension occurs throughout the reading process whilst a person…

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    Since nearly the beginning of spoken language, there have been abbreviations of words, ways to make the spoken language simpler and shorter. This has become more advanced over time, but it is clear that American English, at least, is not to the point of 1984’s Newspeak. Despite the more limited vocabulary that the 2016 world has, English has eliminated few words with such basic and primal meanings and uses as “good” or “bad.” However, Newspeak has gone considerably further, to the point where…

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    Children in first grade expand their vocabulary, develop the ability to write when they learn that written text represents spoken language, and begin to read and respond a variety of literacy materials (Levey, 2011, p. 162). This week I observed the language development of two first graders in Ms. Ashenfelder’s classroom. One child I observed was on the autism spectrum and the other was not. The checklist is on page 163 (Levey, 2011). Kaden got five of the eleven tasks on the checklist. He has…

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    people who study language, all spoken languages change over time. The rate of this change is not always at the same rate. For example, Japanese has changed relatively little over the past 1000 years, while English has changed rapidly in the past 300 years. There are two main aspects of change. They are: 1) terms used for objects, actions, and concepts and 2) how words are pronounced. Of these aspects of change, terms are the first to change. Some terms are borrowed from other languages. For…

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