CELTA Pre-course task Section 1 Task 1 1. Monolingual‚ adult group classes‚ part time‚ mixed gender‚ similar ability‚ day‚ teachers with English speaking backgrounds 2. After the course finishes I will be teaching the same. Task 2 1. I decided to teach adults because I like to listen to the various life experiences the adults have‚ I also like the adults hunger and willingness to learn. Adults are usually very motivated and make for an interesting class. 2. I find I’m well suited
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are related‚ they are founded on different oral language skills (in addition to other cognitive skills).5 Decoding is dependent upon speech-sound information (phonology)‚ particularly appreciating that a spoken word is made up of individual sounds (phonemes). Once a word has been decoded‚ comprehension depends upon broader language skills such as vocabulary‚ grammar and making inferences. Variations in decoding and linguistic comprehension result in different reading profiles (see figure)‚ which relate
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The original use of the term was in Body Ritual Among the Nacirema‚ which satirizes anthropological papers on "other" cultures‚ and the culture of the United States. Horace Miner wrote the paper and originally published it in the June 1956 edition of American Anthropologist. In the paper‚ Miner describes the Nacirema‚ a little-known tribe living in North America. The way in which he writes about the curious practices that this group performs distances readers from the fact that the North American
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‘A simple definition’ of language ‘might be that it is “a system of symbols and rules that enable us to communicate” and that ‘words‚ either written or spoken are symbols’ and ‘rules specify how words are ordered to form sentences’ (Harley‚ 2008‚ pg.5). However this can be debated and as a result ‘many linguists think that providing a formal definition of language is a waste of time’ (Harley‚ 2008‚ pg5). ‘There is no human society that does not have a fully developed language; being human and being
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The Indigenous Tribes of the Rainforest – The Nukak Tribe The Nukak Tribe is found in between the Guaviare and Inirida River in the Amazon basin. It is part of the Guaviare department‚ in the Republic of Colombia. Unlike any other tribe‚ the Nukak population is facing a severe threat to extinction. Their current numbers only lies around 400. Over half of their population were found dead or killed since they met in the Columbian civil war between the Columbian soldiers and gorillas. The out-side
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Background/Case History Child A is a typically developing three and half year old male who attends the Ann Campbell Early (ACE) Learning Center on the Middle Tennessee State University Campus. The mother reported that no complications occurred throughout her pregnancy‚ which lasted nine months. She did not experience any sickness during her pregnancy. She reported that no immediate family members have been diagnosed with a learning disability‚ dyslexia‚ stuttering‚ autism‚ or ADD/ADHD. The mother
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navigation‚ search In linguistics‚ a morpheme is the smallest component of a word‚ or other linguistic unit‚ that has semantic meaning. The term is used as part of the branch of linguistics known as morphology (linguistics). A morpheme is composed by phoneme(s) (the smallest linguistically distinctive units of sound) in spoken language‚ and by grapheme(s) (the smallest units of written language) in written language. The concept of word and morpheme are different: a morpheme may or may not stand alone
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Chap. 9 Psychological Assessment: The use of specified procedures to evaluate abilities‚ behaviors and personal qualities‚ measurement of individual differences because the majority of assessments specify how an individual is different from or similar to other people on a given dimension Sir Francis Galton: Hereditary genius in 1869‚ Galton’s Ideas of Intelligence: Differences are quantifiable‚ Differences form a bell shaped curve or normal distribution‚ Intelligence(mental ability) can be measure
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DEFINITION OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM A type of cultural criticism‚ postcolonial criticism usually involves the analysis of literary texts produced in countries and cultures that have come under the control of European colonial powers at some point in their history. Alternatively‚ it can refer to the analysis of texts written about colonized places by writers hailing from the colonizing culture. In Orientalism (1978)‚ Edward Said‚ a pioneer of postcolonial criticism and studies‚ focused on the way
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Modern English Lexicology 1. lexicology as a branch of linguistics 2. the object of lexicology 3. various aspects of lexicology 4. the connection of lexicology with other linguistic sciences 5. two approaches to Language Study Lexicology is a branch of linguistics‚ the science of the word‚ dealing with the vocabulary of a language and different properties of words. The term lexicology is composed of two Greek morphemes lexis - means word‚ logos - means learning. Scientists whose works are
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