Language rules have been changing rapidly over the last few centuries. One of those changes can be found when contrasting the voicing of the interdental sound between Middle English and present-day English. Middle English is an old form of the English language that was supposedly used between AD 1150 and AD 1500. A significant influence on its shaping came from the North Germanic languages and furthermore from the conquering Normans, who spoke a form of French and allowed loan words to find their
Should English be the official language in the United States? * English the official idiom in America. Every country has its own customs, culture, and language, but the United States is not the exception its official idiom is English. In this country live people all around the world, but they need to change their way of live, such as the language because when you go to the store, to go to the movies, everybody speak English logically it is their language and you need to understand them. As you can
varieties in language according to the user. In that case register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting, so register analysis concerns itself with the statistical description of certain texts, looking at the frequent occurrences of certain lexis and structures. It doesn’t go beyond the sentence level. The structure of technical English as the first real English for specific purpose textbook which was designed to teach special courses in English for foreigners
many interesting points regarding the inequality between women and men in the English language. Nilsen states that many common English words tend to show sexism towards girls since they seem to make women feel inferior to men. She demonstrates this clearly, by using metaphors and examples associated between the two genders. Despite overcoming an immense amount of inequality between
Language is a means by which people communicate, and the choice of spoken and written language is influenced by a person’s culture and the Discourse they are in. Spoken Australian Standard English (ASE) differs from its written form, in that the speaker must be clear in what they are saying, so the listener can make meaning of the conversation. If the listener does not understand, they are able to ask questions to clarify meaning. Also, intonation plays an important role in understanding the context
Italian groups and native English groups that even the really experienced Native Italian speakers of English who have spoken English for a long time are still capable of pronouncing some of the English consonants inaccurately. “The study revealed that some of the NI subgroups produced word-initial tokens
1. Introduction There are three key factors in language classes: learners, teachers and textbooks. The textbooks are the most viable and adaptable ones, being investigated and updated in the field. Richards (2001) highlighted the role of textbook materials as the main instructional materials in most language courses. Learners with various learning styles have different needs and interests. Therefore, a one-fit-all textbook cannot account for all existence diversity. Every learner may consider the
ELT in Technical Education: An Analysis of the Existing Hurdles in a Non – English Social Milieu and Some Viable Solutions SARAKANAM SRINIVAS M.A., M.Phil., (PhD) Faculty of English, Samalkot - 533440, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India Mobile: 91+ 9959343424, 9154957348 vasu.vasu14@gmail.com Abstract One of the major challenges any English Language Teacher often confronts is ‘imparting of speaking skills’ to the students of engineering
Contrastive Analysis was pedagogic. This was found ‘in comparison of several pairs of languages by scholars in the United States, all directed at establishing the areas of learning difficulty that were likely to be experienced by English Speakers learning other languages’( Ellis, 1986, p. 23). This very scientific approach of learning a target language has taken a wrong shape in the foreign language teaching pedagogy in Bangladesh. We have long observed that our language teachers consider that English (foreign
ABSTRACT: This study explores wh-in-situ in CamE within Chomsky’s (1998) Theory of Attraction.Following the ideas presented in previous works on in-situ CamE(Sala 2003, Ndzomo 2013, Epoge 2015 and Fongang 2015), it is shown that the LF movement analysis applies to CamE, with the wh-element moving at LF to check the Q-features carried by COMP. We also argue that both the optional intonational particle naah, which can be inserted in ex-situ and in-situ constructions,and the Q-features in COMP mark