questionnaires of which 2,030 were filled in. Moreover, he analysed spoken and written discourse while observing ten conference calls and emails. Evans (2013), as well as Chew (2005) distinguish between Hong Kong-owned companies, international companies and Chinese-owned companies when discussing the languages used on the work floor. In the international companies, English is perceived by the employees as being important as a spoken and written language. In Hong Kong-owned companies, English remains important
“the language in use”. The concept of "discourse" is a pivotal position in all the research and studies that fall in the area of analysis of texts; where the presence of the people emerged seminar in linguistics, philosophy, and literature made it a key pillar in the decisions, and addresses taken to the different disciplines. Scholars manage with the human language in the way of communicative made it the basis of the speech and its objective analysis. Yule (2010) difines discourse as “language beyond
Introduction Teaching vocabulary is a key factor when learning a foreign language. However, there are many teachers who do not teach vocabulary, or who just introduce it to students by repeating or reading it in the lesson. The main goals of my work are to emphasize the importance of teaching vocabulary and to introduce ways and techniques of presenting vocabulary in the classroom. The first section will define the meaning of vocabulary, and explain why it is essential for students to learn new
Who Speaks it and Why? Defining the English spoken in Cameroon has been part of the concerns of linguists inside and outside the country. Many of them have tried to not only say what they think should be referred to as Cameroonian English, but also have given an account of who speaks it and why. The
means being able to speak freely in the language, without translating in your head into your native tongue. It is the ability to speak freely in ordinary every day, occurrences in life like: getting up in the morning, eating breakfast, going out to school. it means conversing easily even in simple sentences, without having to stop and think of what words mean. Let us take a look at the process in which a person acquires this special skill: 1.1 Language acquisition One of the greatest miracles
religion has a strong bond with India. There are 200 languages spoken and has a tribal culture. Every citizen has a freedom to follow
Abstract— Automatic summarization has been an area of interest in the field of natural language processing. Automatic text summarization is the process of producing a summary from a given document automatically. The proposed method is a sentence extraction based single document text summarization which produces a generic summary for a given Malayalam document (Extractive summarization). Sentences in the document are ranked based on the word score of each word present in it. Top N ranked sentences
Mathematics was and still is one of the benchmarks considered when rating the achievements of civilizations. In addition, the two civilizations highly appreciated the importance of mathematics and contributed to crucial and vital discoveries and developments in this field. Byzantine scientists preserved and continued the legacy of the great Ancient Greek mathematicians and put mathematics into practice by using complex
it brought into clear view how important are students language acquisition behavior. It crystallized the importance of acquiring effective language to communicate with others what one has to relate in any form may it be spoken, written or signed. It was argued that one’s language acquisition is influenced by biology and environment. In other words, when we were born in this world we are already given by nature the capacity to learn language. Famous linguist Noam Chomsky (1957) as presented by Santrock
(McKay 2016). Therefore, English language is now considered as an international language, and it is often taught as a foreign language accompanied by teaching both American and British Cultural studies. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), in simple words, means the teaching of English language in a non-English-speaking region. Education in American and British cultures deals mainly with the different aspects of both cultures. Teaching English as a Foreign Language besides education in American