what is to be considered masculine‚ but how are these norms constructed? Through the use of toys‚ books‚ and clothing‚ children are socialized into their “appropriate” gender. These objects provide influence over behavior and appearance‚ showing boys and girls what is appropriate for each gender. After some investigation it was found that the toys‚ books‚ and clothing that children use not only foster the norms of gender behavior and appearance‚ but also construct gender roles in their young minds
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Some reports portray English language learners as a new and homogenous population. Actually ELLs are a highly heterogeneous and complex group of students‚ with diverse gifts‚ educational needs‚ backgrounds‚ languages‚ and goals. An English language learner is an individual that is of another culture and has migrated to America to live‚ learn‚ become educated and find a career. English language learners have been coming to America and continue to migrate here more and more. Most of them speak different
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success among foreign language learners. These include age‚ intelligence‚ aptitude‚ motivation‚ attitude‚ personality‚ learning/cognitive style and learning strategies. Definition of language learning strategies according to scholars : According to Brown 2007‚” learning strategies are those specific “attacks” that we make on a given problem‚ they are the moment-by-moment techniques that we employ to solve problems posed by second language input and output”. For Chamot 2005‚ “language learning
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Is English a ‘Killer Language’? The Globalisation of a Code Tanja Eckert‚ Andrea Johann‚ Anna Känzig‚ Melanie Küng‚ Bianca Müller‚ Cornelia Schwald‚ Laura Walder Abstract: Does English act as a Killer-Language or not? The fact that English has gained the status of a world language goes back to British colonialism. English was imposed on the indigenous populace in order to strengthen the power of the colonists. As the example of Papua New Guinea shows‚ this can have serious consequences for people’s
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English Philology Department Gender in the English language: a diachronic perspective 8.030502 – the English Language and Literature Course Paper CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………3-5 CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE STUDY OF THE CATEGORY OF GENDER IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1.1. The study of Gender in Modern Linguistics……………………….6-8 1.2. Contradictory Views on Gender in Modern English………………8-10 1.3. The Category of Gender in Germanic
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History of the English Language One thing that makes human culture possible is the language‚ not thought. We cannot form a precise though without the power of words. Surely‚ we can relay on pictures‚ but language is the tool that will help the idea construct more completely‚ precisely‚ with more detail and finesse. Animals communicate‚ but their way of communication is based on cries consisted of limited number of symbols which have general meaning. Example: In case of danger: - A human
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RESEARCH PROJECT AWARENESS UITM STUDENTS TO COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Study Background 1 1.2 Problem Statement 3 1.3 Research Objectives 4 1.4 Research Questions 4 1.5 Theoretical Framework 5 1.6 Research Hypothesis 6 1.7 Significance of
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LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES Deepak K. SAMIDA This article gives a general view of language learning strategies. Each group of strategies is briefly explained. Their application is also added as an example to show how a learner can use them. The language learning strategies are not newly created strategies‚ but have been in use by ancient storytellers thousands of years ago. It is said that in the Celtic period it took twelve years for storytellers to fully train. In the first two years
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English Language Education in Rural Schools of India: The Situation‚ the Policy and the Curriculum Abstract This paper attempts to bring in the issues related to English language education situation in rural schools in India‚ the state policy on language education‚ quality questions in second / foreign language education through an analysis of language policy practices and the curriculum and syllabi of five states (provinces) in the country. The language policy in school education emerged
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Importance of English in our Life English is the International Language and is one of the most popular and most spoken in the technology world. We need to know English language in order to study any science subject or any computer language. We need to know English to communicate effectively too many developed countries. English is very much important in our life...it is necessary in each and every field. If we know English we never feel tongue tide in front of others. It’s a widely spoken language. People
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