LANGUAGE? __________________________________________________ English isn’t managing to sweep all else before it -- and if it ever does become the universal language‚ many of those who speak it won’t understand one another by Barbara Wallraff ECAUSE I am interested in what happens to the English language‚ over the past year or so I’ve been asking people‚ at dinner parties and professional gatherings and so on‚ whether they think that English is well on its way to being the global language. Typically
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International Spoken English for Speakers of Other Languages Book 2 Achiever Communicator Vincent Smidowicz Bridget Bloom Spoken English for Speakers of Other Languages Book 2 Achiever/Communicator Introduction This booklet provides a taster of the new support materials created for Spoken ESOL. All the sample exercises included here have been selected from Book 2‚ which covers the Achiever and Communicator levels. This new and important resource (see Key features) is designed both to help
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American English Chapter 12 Monday‚ 4th of Feb. Haifa Almotiary 1. How did the values of “Puritanism” and “republicanism” contribute to the will to simplify American English during the 1770s--1830s? The first ideal may be linked to the Puritanism value of thriftiness and the second to republicanism‚ that is‚ democratic ideas about social sharing and the role of any privileged class in interpreting language for other less privileged classes 2. What are some of the simplifications
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proficiency is derived from mandates issued by the US government‚ declaring that a limited English proficient student is one who comes from a non-English background and "who has sufficient difficulty speaking‚ reading‚ writing‚ or understanding the English language and whose difficulties may deny such an individual the opportunity to learn successfully in classrooms where the language of instruction is English or to participate fully in our society." ACTFL views "performance" as being the combined
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entire set of words is the language’s vocabulary. The ways in which the words can be meaningfully combined is defined by the language’s syntax and grammar. The actual meaning of words and combinations of words is defined by the language’s semantics English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world.[4] It is spoken as a first language by the majority populations of several sovereign states‚ including the United Kingdom
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Chandra Khadka English 060 Karen Ryan September 4‚ 2012 One sided love The author idea and my reaction was when I was younger my mother take care of both. After his school his mother drops him at girls home to take care of him. When he is at her home girls start to love him‚ but don’t know about the girl feeling My little is one sided one and author name was Kelly Ruth Winner .The man idea about the restate mean was we have to share our fillings to the person to whom we have feeing
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English Is Important In Both Our Personal And Professional Lives “ ENGLISH IS IMPORTANT IN BOTH OUR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIVES” Modern English‚ sometimes described as the first global lingua franca‚ is the dominant language or in some instances even the required international language of communications‚ science‚ information technology‚ business‚ aviation‚ entertainment‚ radio and diplomacy. Its spread beyond the British Isle began with the growth of the British Empire‚ and by the late 19th
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English Pronunciation Pronunciation can be a tricky matter when it comes to the English language. Unlike with languages like Hindi and Tamil‚ letters in English take on multiple phonetic forms (think of the a in ‘can’ and the a in ‘war’); thus‚ the concept of pronouncing a word the way it is spelled does not apply. This is partly the result of derivation; English is a derivative language. It means that many of its words and phrases have been borrowed from other languages (cafe‚ boutique‚ cocoa)
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[pic] Journey Of English By Amir Efendi Headings: 1. Introduction ● Short story on English language 2. The Humble Origins ● Talking of my first introduction to English during childhood 3. A Tough Way ● Experience in trying to bring knowledge of the English language to a different level 4. Gaining The Skills ● When my English got better all that was left to was to make it excellent 5. The Journey Ahead ● The future as I see
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The Idea of Returning Home in Rush Home Road and Kite Runner “A moment lasts all of a second‚ but the memory lives on forever.” (Author Unknown‚ Thinkexist.com) This quote means that you have many moments in life that are simply just to take up time and carry one throughout the years but memories are much more important and stay in one’s head forever with no time limit. This quote is significant to the two novels Rush Home Road and Kite Runner because each protagonist has a past that they
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