Changing Women Through Literature The 20th Century brought about many changes for writers. It was during this time that the war along with the feminist movement began to come forward. These two issues began changing the way women were viewed in society. Writers had the option of whether or not to keep their female characters the domesticated subservient homemaker or to bring forth the new emerging woman in their stories. The roles of women were changing from the passive homemaker who stayed at home
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The acquisition of a new language can pose many difficulties to both the student‚ in learning the language‚ and to the teacher in communicating and teaching the language. The following essay attempts to outline some of these difficulties. One of the major factors affecting all students attempting to acquire a foreign language is the correlation of the new language and their native tongue. The degree of variation between the student’s native tongue and the English language can cause all kinds of problems
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Four important visual aids teachers use with students to teach‚ learn‚ study‚ play and review knowledge in class for Language Teaching. The use of visual aids is important if a teacher really wants to do a great job‚ have more attractive classes and get better results from their students. Those aids are: the television which is entertaining and a good way for teaching‚ the radio a powerful appliance for improving the listening area‚ computers as a useful tool to study‚ and the video bins
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COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING APPROACH IN TEACHING SPEAKING Markus Dimu Radja ABSTRACT In teaching speaking teachers should know a).the concept of speaking‚ the element of the sound for instance phonemes because some of the students and including teachers still find difficulties in pronouncing them and b).models of learning and teaching and focused on CLT . Common to all version of Communicative Language Teaching is a theory of language teaching that stars from a communicative model of language and
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Integrated Approach to Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom This article considers the reasons why teachers often regard literature as inappropriate to the language classroom. These views reflect the historic separation between the study of language and the study of literature‚ which has led to the limited role of literature in the language classroom. However‚ the use of literary texts can be a powerful pedagogic tool. This article describes various approaches to teaching literature and provides a
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B.A. English Language and Literatures - CBCS Pattern 2008-09 -1- Annexure 8-A SCAA Dt. 21-5-2009 BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY‚COIMBATORE-641 046 B.A ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (CBCS PATTERN) with compulsory Diploma in Communicative English (For the students admitted during the academic year 2008-2009 and onwards) SCHEME OF EXAMINATIONS Inst. Hours/ Week Examination Duration Credit 3 3 4 4 5 2 3 3 4 4 5 2 3 3 4 4 5 3 2 3 3 4 4 5 3 2 CIA $ Uni. Exam 75 75 75 75 75 50 75 75 75 75 75 50 75 75 75 75 75
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think about our sense of language? Language affects our lives in ways that we do not often realize. In the essay “How Language Shapes Thought” Lera Boroditsky argues that many of our cognitive abilities are enhanced‚ or hindered depending on the fundamental structure of our system of language. I found that Boroditsky used much of her own research in order to support her claims that direction‚ time and gender are concepts largely affected by the structural system of our language. Overall I found Boroditsky’s
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TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH ROLE PLAY (PREDAREA LIMBII ENGLEZE UTILIZÂND JOCUL DE ROL) Role-play is a classroom activity in which learners take on a ‘role’‚ they play the part of someone else‚ from a simple discussion between a tourist when asking for directions in a new city or at the airport‚ to more elaborate conversation about the American Dream or Genetics. Role-play is a useful tool not only for developing language skills‚ but also for increasing sociocultural knowledge and intercultural
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inevitably travel with it. Browsing through youtube.com the concept of profanity is exemplified in thousands of videos. One video in particular provides the various legitimate uses of one of the most infamous profane words (OSHOInternational‚ n.d.). All profanity is not inherently negative‚ in many cases it acts as a social lubricant‚ confirming to all parties that the conversation has an informal tone. Profanity is often used as defamation‚ language that harms a person reputation. Traditionally
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’s language and children ’s literature How does the absence of parents function to provide order (or disorder) in literature written for children? Children ’s literature is an essential part of their linguistic‚ social‚ and cultural development‚ providing more than just entertainment‚ as West stated: “when I am writing for adults‚ I ’m just trying to entertain them. But a good children ’s book does more than entertain. It teaches children the use of words‚ the joy of playing with language...”
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