basics of the language and gained confidence in themselves. We administrated a questionnaire to 12 children's mothers for kindergarten children in Al-Hasa City The goal of developing listening skills by reading stories at an early age is to absorb the good child at this age and accept it for each new and help the child to adapt to the new experiences, and enrich the language of the child by providing new vocabulary and phrases. Introduction English is an international language that began in
Anglo-Turkish household, it comes as a huge regret that I was never taught my father's language. This sense of a lost opportunity provided the catalyst for my zeal for foreign languages at school. I was not satiated with merely fluency in the A-Level courses; literature and film offered a wider European cultural perspective on societal issues. By dipping into the likes of Voltaire to Camus, I have found a new area of language study I had not met before. Voltaire's tale of 'Micromegas' a bizarre tale, in
Individual Development of Referential Cohesion in Different Language Groups Student’s Name University Affiliation Date Individual Development of Referential Cohesion in Different Language Groups Introduction In the past, there were people who were recognized for their ability to master particular languages with ease as compared with others. It was believed then that these people had unique talents. For this reason, they held important positions in the community. However, in the present society, people
or a piece of part fiction, part-monologue, part-essay. I just launched into it. What I was interested in were all questions that had come up out of poetry: they were questions about the language of poetry, they were questions about the relationship of language to landscape, questions about to what extent language is the poet and that that’s different from the person. There were going to be originally questions about what the political position
English as a primary language in my daily life. Most will agree that English is the international language of the world. To this day, English has been the most widely spread language around the globe. It is the official language of over 50 countries and the third most spoken language worldwide (Lewis, Gary, & Charles, 2010). However, despite the contributions English has made to the merging of a global village, the spreading of English will lead to the displacement of local languages and cultural
multicomponential models of communicative language ability (reviewed in Purpura, 2008), three proposals include pragmatic ability as one of their components: Canale Swain’s (1980) original framework of communicative competence for language teaching and testing, Bachman’s model of communicative language ability (Bachman 1990; in later versions, Bachman and Palmer’s model of language ability, 1996, 2010), and Purpura’s (2004) theoretical model of language
word-per-word into another language, its original meaning might get lost and become unclear. Keep
Task in EFL Classroom I. INTRODUCTION The reasons why the teachers should correct errors and how to give a proper respond to student’s task and activity is still a topic of constant debate in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. Should the teacher correct the students’ language errors? Most EFL teachers would answer this question with a ‘Yes’ while at the same time wondering how to do those activity. Although there is research that suggests error correction is ineffective as a means of improving
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Due to English is not the first language of many students in Turkey, students might face some difficulties when learning the language. Due to the fact that this study is small-scale research, it does not represent the population of Turkey. In this research, six adult L2 learners demonstrate outstanding levels of difficulties or challenges in certain fields such as speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Each of the six students is aware of their own difficulties
paper- what is Body Language? Is it more powerful than verbal communication? How can we read it? And can we fake it? Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "What you are speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say". A person stands in front of you, doesn’t utter a word…yet, you have already formed an image of what he is as a person, how come? If a person hasn’t spoken a word doesn’t mean his body hasn’t either…what you don’t know is, his body has a language of its own. Body language refers to the nonverbal