TEACHING TECHNICAL ENGLISH AND GENERAL ENGLISH Introduction English today has become more than the Lingua Franca of the masses. It has become the lifeline. The call of the hour is for the academia to well-equip itself with the most competent language skills. Only then can suitable help be extended to the beneficiaries‚ the students. My paper will focus on the nature of General and Technical English today. It will also attempt to show how Technical English and General English can be made more student-centric
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as‚ Austro-Asiatic‚ the Indo- Aryans‚ Indo-Tibetans‚ Indo-Burmese‚ Mongolians‚ etc. have combined to make the great Assamese people of today. Assam‚ however‚ has remained practically a land of Tibeto- Burmese people. Assamiya or Assamese is the lingua franca of the state. Assam can be divided into three natural regions‚ namely the Brahmaputra valley‚ the Barak valley and the Hilly regions. These regions are quite distinct from one another with regard to the composition of people‚ manner of living
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The Art and Science of Competency Modeling: Best Practices in Developing and Implementing Success Profiles By J. Evelyn Orr‚ Craig Sneltjes‚ and Guangrong Dai • ompetency models C create a foundation for integrated talent management systems which are linked to increased shareholder value. Human capital has the potential to differentiate an organization • xtensive research E has identified the leadership competencies required for success – do not reinvent the wheel
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Disney Selection Criteria For every type of business to start‚ we first need to select the most suitable location for the business. A proper selection of the location will determine the fate of the business to success or fail. In our research for Disney we have chosen the location for Disney to expand to is Toronto‚ Canada. Land is very important. When Disney first came into the world at Anaheim‚ Walt Disney soon came to realise that it needs to have a big piece of land to get a Disneyland
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David Crystal said “English is the future.” He says that English will soon be the ‘lingua franca’ or common language. Many aspects contribute to the rise of English speakers around the world; they include the number of people who speak English and the visibility of those people through things such as media‚ tourism and business‚ the need for people around the world to be able to communicate in a common language and the common language that is spoken in politics. However‚ countries that do not speak
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A literary tradition-written form of a language. Dialect-A form of a language spoken in a local area. Language branch is a group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages. Language family is a group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history. Second largest languest family is sino Tibetan. Both the angles and the normans contributed to the develop Of the English language because they invaded England. English is the most important
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Latin is an extremely important and influential language. It was the official language of the Roman Empire‚ fathered languages like Spanish and Portuguese-two of the most spoken languages in the world‚ French-lingua franca from the 17th century until the middle of the 20th and Italian-the language of the Renaissance. In fact‚ it was so influential that even today it is taught in schools though it has long been a dead language. But how did Latin become such a language? At first‚ Latin was a language
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University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus Master of Arts in English Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the course INGL 6466 – Studies in Bilingualism Prof. Alicia Pousada By Stephanie Hernandez Reinat First semester 2012-2013 Languages in Ghana Introduction There have been linguistic studies prepared in order to understand the functions of multilingual countries. Ghana‚ being one of these multilingual countries‚ is very complex and complicated with many
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Intro: The first European power to arrive in India was the army of Alexander the Great in 327-326 BC. The satraps he established in the northwest quickly crumbled after he left. Later‚ commercial trade was carried between Indian states and the Roman Empire by Greco-Roman sailors that reached India by sailing on the Red and Arabian Seas. The Portuguese sailor‚ Vasco da Gama‚ was the first European to arrive in India solely by navigating the sea‚ at the end of the 15th century. Having arrived
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different time frames : The Period of Re-Orientation (1898-1910); Imitation (1910-1925); and Self-Discovery (1925). The Philippine Literature in English saw it’s dawn with the introduction of free public instruction and the use of English as a Lingua Franca in all levels of education in public schools. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Filipino revolutionist won against the Spaniards who colonized Philippines for more than 300 years. The Philippine flag was hoisted on June 12‚1898 as a symbol of independence
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