...PRONOUNCIATION Received Pronunciation is commonly referred to as “standard British” queen English oxford English or even “BBC English” .it was considered as the “standard English” accent although seen as a non-regional dialect of England. The Queen English was once considered to be way to speak and was thus used to teach pronunciation to foreign student of English. these days, its is mostly considered to be out of date and elitist. RP is a form of pronunciation of English language it is stated that its an account ,not a dialet and through many content, discuss its usage, how its has changed over time the change of its status and didractic charts of its vowels, consonants, diphthongs and triphthongs. Origin of Received Pronunciation RP was originally the accent of the East midlands region of England in the 15th century. It further spread due to the successful trade of that region, thus attainment of economic success. The accent stabilized in London since trade had spread toward the south of England . It was also believed to be the pronunciation of British England based on the speech of upper class of south eastern England. It was spoken at the public schools and at oxford and Cambridge universities. Until recently, it was the standard form of English used in british broadcasting. It is believed that only few people in Britain actually have an RP accent but it is the English that is spoken by the royal family and members of upper classes and the noble. RP pronounces “h”at...
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... Nueva Extension, Surigao City Action Research In English Spelling Deficiency Researchers: Jonalyn Y. Vitorillo Kristene Merie B. Danduan Carla Saragoza Sheena Marie Juntilo Jorama D. Bato Ethel P. Dekit Kirby P. Cosep Catherine C. Borres Lorelie Labrador Mrs. Eleine Q. Alipao English Adviser Abstract Spelling is seen as an indication of status and education. Those who are not good at spelling often feel embarrassed about their lack of skill and are unhappy about allowing others to see what 3 they have written. As a result, they may be reluctant to write at all. Since spelling is only necessary as part of writing, any instructor who has students write in his/her class is helping students develop their spelling .For in order to develop spelling, Pupils must be involved in an active writing program in all areas of the curriculum, not just spelling. Therefore, it is crucial that spelling development is not perceived to be developed solely in an English class. This research would also be of benefit to other researchers since "Current research has challenged the traditional notion that spelling must be taught in a rote manner focusing...
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...Chicano English is a fully formed English dialect spoken by Mexican Americans in California (Penfield). It is a contact dialect and is usually acquired by second or third generation Latinos during their language acquisition stage. Chicano English (CE) is not “learner English” or Spanglish, and it is the native language of most speakers. Chicano English has a distinct sound, people who are not familiar with it can mistake it for being an accent or thinking that Spanish is their first language. However, Chicano English speakers are mostly monolingual, and know little Spanish. There are misconceptions that educators can have about the CE community. For example, thinking that those who speak CE lack proficiency in English, believing that their...
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...|consultation with students | | | | |In this tutorial I feel free to ask|433 |4.26 |.780 | |questions | | | | |The tutor encourages students to |435 |3.77 |.916 | |think for themselves | | | | |The tutor promotes class discussion|433 |3.51 |1.059 | |The tutor makes the subject |434 |3.40 |1.169 | |interesting | | | | |The tutors spoken English is easily|434...
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...000 with English being the most popular. English may not be the most spoken language in the world, but it is the official language in a large number of countries. Throughout the world, when people with different languages come together, they commonly use English to communicate whether it might be spoken through physical interactions or putting words together. The three types of languages that I use to communicate are English, Urdu and body language. I am one in the 2 billion people that use English even though it is my second language. Language is the human ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication. In the United States, speaking English immediately opens up opportunities regardless of your ethnicity, color or background. Since English language is so widely spoken, many people believe it is vital to learn as a second language. When I speak English, my tone depends on who I am talking to because if I am addressing an adult then it is respectful with correct English but if I am talking to friends then my tone is informal. It is believed that English is the language of trade. It is true that English has been introduced in the field of Trade and Business for a lot of years. In addition, English is a language that is used in films, music, television, and in a lot of more technological features like World Wide Web (internet). A big amount of population of the world watches Hollywood’s movies. This expansion also led to the increase in popularity of English language...
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...Hawkinson November 18, 2014 Stage 5: Language Autobiography; Algonquian Language A Native American Language Language of any kind helps us to define or shape our culture or society. For thousands of years, we have used language as a way to communicate, trade, or to pass along our history with stories and legends. We have seen how language can grow and develop, and how it is affected by other cultures or societies. Language is always adapting just like everything else where it will flourish in some cases and disappear in others. Native Americans, such as the Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia, once thrived along the Hudson Bay area. This Confederacy consisted of twenty-eight to thirty-two different tribes, who all spoke a dialect form of the Algonquian Language. The Algonquian Language originated from the Algic Language. This language bade consisted of forty-four different sub-languages, all of which fell under the sub-language Algonquian except for two (Thompson, 2014). The Algic Language originated from Proto-Algonquian, which is the original form of all Algonquian Languages, and dates back 3,000 years (Thompson, 2014). Currently the origins of where this language first originated from or how it came about are unknown. Europeans became the first to encounter this language around 1584, when settlers began arriving in the New World (Rountree, 2014). The Algonquian Language consisted of several different sub-languages; to which different forms were spoken; dependent on the region...
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...Charles Clifton, Jr. University of Massachusetts Antje S. Meyer University of Birmingham Lee H. Wurm Wayne State University Acknowledgments: Preparation of this chapter was supported by NSF Grant SBR-9807736 to R.T. and NIH Grant HD18708 to the University of Massachusetts. To appear in A.F. Healy & R.W. Proctor (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychology, Vol. 4: Experimental Psychology. New York: Wiley. Treiman et al., Psycholinguistics, 2 Introduction Language comprehension Spoken word recognition Printed word recognition The mental lexicon Comprehension of sentences and discourse Phenomena common to reading and listening comprehension Phenomena specific to the comprehension of spoken language Phenomena specific to the comprehension of written language Language production Access to single words in spoken language production Generation of sentences in spoken language production Written language production Conclusions INTRODUCTION Psychologists have long been interested in language, but psycholinguistics as a field of study did not emerge until the 1960s. It was motivated by Chomsky’s work in linguistics, and by his claim that the special properties of language require special mechanisms to handle it (e.g., Chomsky, 1959). The special feature of language on which Chomsky focused was its productivity. Possessed with a grammar, or syntax, humans can...
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...School Students’ oral English Interest Abstract With the opening-up of China, English teaching has been getting more and more attention, especially since Beijing won the bid to hold the 2008 Olympic Games，the economy and society developed quickly in China and different cultures have come into contact more and more, there is no denying that English will play an important role in communication. As a result, English teaching and reform are coming to a turning point, how to improve students' spoken English is the core issue of students and teachers. Students are more and more eager to learn English well especially the oral English, but a lot of difficulties and barriers in the way. Therefore, how to stimulate middle school students' oral English interest becomes more and more important. In this paper, the author pays attention to studying the present situation of Middle school students Oral English study, and propose some personnel but effective strategies to stimulate students’ oral English skills. Key words：Oral English, interests, communication. Table of Contents Abstract…………………………..........................….............................................……….ii Table of Contents…………………………………………………………........…………iii Outline…………………………………………………………………………………… v 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………… 1 2. The Significant Value of Oral English………………………………………………… 2 2.1 English is the most widely used languages…………………………………………. 2 2.2 Oral English Skills is the Necessary...
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...A2 English Language Revision Guidance and Easter Work 2015 (1) Make sure you have your revision timetable worked out. Use calendar to plan work for different subjects (2) Make sure your folders/booklets/handouts are sorted out for: a. Language Diversity i. Language Change – over time (timelines, key events, language features, theories, standardisation etc) ii. Different varieties of English (American, Caribbean, Indian, theories, Kachru, divergence, creolisation, basilect, prestige forms, etc) b. Child Language Development i. Spoken Language (terms, theories, stages, etc). ii. Written language (terms, theories, stages, phonics, IPA etc). (3) For each area of the course, revise terminology, concepts, issues, theories etc (see overleaf). Booklets provide a very good starting point + VLE and links to helpful resources and sites. (4) Terminology and Method: For all questions you need to be able to use the Language Constituents and relate these to Context. So revision of Language Constituents, word classes, grammar etc is important eg you need to be quick and confident recognising features like imperatives, passive voice, noun phrase structure, different pronouns, modal verbs etc. And of course be able to comment on their effects: TERM – DEFINITION - EXAMPLE – COMMENT ON EFFECT [See the checklist overleaf.] (5) Theories and Issues. Read and makes notes on ‘Language: A Student Handbook’ (you have to give this book back after Easter). Particularly useful for...
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...1 / 6 P1 – Explain the role of effective communication and interpersonal interaction in a health and social care context. What is communication? Communication is simply passing a message from one person to another. It is a 2 way process and there is a way it is done; sender, message, the method of which it is sent, receiver, understanding and feedback. Contexts; * One to one communication has to be a relaxed type of communication. When you first start talking to someone you need to make them feel welcomed in speaking to you, this is the best way before you begin to give information to the other person. * Group communication works the same way as one to one but it has different principles. Everyone has there own group of friends and they all have different ways of speaking to each other in other ways people wouldn’t understand. Informal is something you would most probably use with your family and friends. Communication between collegues is something that all professional business's uses for example; hospital or doctors. When they are speaking to each other about a certain thing in their job then most people wouldn’t know what they are saying as they have their own terminology. Also, it shows respect to other people. When in a health and social care setting if respect isn't given from each colleague then that could impact on the care given to the residents by staff. All colleagues in the health and social care sector must have trust in each other to build a good...
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...Based on the theories of first and second language acquisition, how do you think the average Malaysian student learn English? Discuss your reasons. Introduction Young children are natural language acquirers; they are self-motivated to pick up language without conscious learning, unlike adults. They have the ability to imitate pronunciation and work out the rules for themselves. The idea of “English is difficult” does not occur to them unless it’s suggested by adults, who themselves probably learned English academically at a later age through grammar-based text books. The advantages of beginning early Young children are still using their individual, innate language-learning strategies to acquire their home language and soon they also use these strategies to pick up English. Young children have time to learn through play-like activities. They pick up language by taking part in an activity shared with adults such their parents and teachers. They firstly make sense of the activity and then get meaning from the adult’s shared language. Young children have more time to fit English into the daily programme. School programmes tend to be informal and children’s minds are not yet cluttered with facts to be stored and tested. Children who have the opportunity to pick up a second language while they are still young appear to use the same innate language-learning strategies throughout life when learning other languages. Young children who acquire language rather than consciously...
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...the accident occurred. This was his first visit to Buffalo, NY, though he has visited Miami, Florida and San Antonio, Texas several times in the past 20 years. Mr. Gonzales has been a widower for 6 months and has four adult children who reside in Mexico. Mr. Gonzales completed ninth grade in Mexico and worked as a security guard at an industrial site. He speaks fluent Spanish and reads and writes Spanish at about a fifth grade level. Although he has taken English emersion classes for several years and his auditory comprehension of English is good, his spoken English is limited. Reading and writing English are basic and inconsistent. He is an ardent soccer fan, enjoys Mariachi music, and attends church on a regular basis. According to his sister, Mr. Gonzales has a history of hypertension, prostate cancer, and osteo–arthritis. He had a partial knee replacement to the right knee in 2005. He wears corrective lenses that were broken during the car accident, and during the optometric evaluation to replace his lenses, early stage bilateral cataracts were noted. Three years ago Mr. Gonzales was diagnosed with a mild bilateral sensori–neural hearing loss during an employment hearing evaluation but refused amplification. Following the TBI, Mr. Gonzales made rapid physical recovery. He received intensive occupational and physical therapy for four weeks in a medical rehabilitation unit. Therapies focused on gaining independence in activities of daily living (ADLs). Although Mr. Gonzales...
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...The impact of English as instructional design on understanding level of students The impact of English as instructional design on understanding level of students Submitted By Md. Shariful Islam Kabbo ID No.-1620997 Shakera Ferdous ID No.- 1621030 Md. Ashekz Zaman ID No.- 1621050 Submitted To Dr. Muhammad Shariat Ullah Professor Independent University, Bangladesh Date: 15-03-2015 15th March, 2016 Dr. Muhammad Shariat Ullah Professor, School of Business Independent University, Bangladesh Subject: Letter of transmittal. Dear Sir, It is great pleasure for us that we have the opportunity to submit the report on “The impact of English as instructional design on understanding level of students” We have tried our level best to put meticulous effort for the preparation of this report. Any shortcomings or fault arise as our unintentional mistake. We will wholeheartedly welcome any clarification and suggestion about any view and conception disseminated through this term paper. Thanking you Sincerely yours Md. Shariful Islam Kabbo ID No.-1620997 Shakera Ferdous ID No.- 1621030 Md. Ashekz Zaman ID No.- 1621050 Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Introduction 1. Background English is the most widely used language in the world. It is spoken in many countries as first language (almost 375 million people) and as second language (almost 220 million...
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...Italian, Portuguese and others as well. In the twenty century, Latin was the major language that was used for literature and to be educated. The Latin language was influenced by many others in the native language that included those of Celtic languages, Greek and Etruscan. The Latin languages were consistently developed due to the fact there were significant differences during each period. These differences included those in the literary written language and also due to differences in the spoken language of he educated and those of the less educated population lower class. When it all started the Latin language was the only italic language that belonged to the Indo-European linguistic family and the development of these languages were generated or taken by other tongues, including the language known as Celtic, Etruscan and Greek. The Latin language under went reconstruction, during its evolution stage, between the literary written language which was very different from the way it was spoken and conformed to the educated versus to that of the less educated versus that was most used by the less uneducated culture or population. However as time has passed and many other languages began to become established, Latin was used less and then it became harder to understand, also people from different areas with in the country, at this time there were so many other languages developing that the Latin language was being less used and it was so much harder to understand and read and...
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...North Frisian as an Endangered Language Despite the North Frisian language being classified as an endangered minority language confined to a small region in Northern Germany and having fewer speakers annually, as newer generations are born and learn more established Germanic dialects, there is a strong movement dedicated to preserving the language from the German government as well as international organizations through the implementation of academic programs, transcription of manuscripts, dictionaries, and literature, and extensive assistance from existing native speakers, which intends to maintain an active interest in and use of the language. A language becomes endangered when its speakers no longer pass it onto the next generation. If there are no more native speakers, the language then becomes known as a “dead language.” A language only becomes extinct when there are no existing speakers of it. Although there are no established guidelines on how to identify whether or not a language is endangered, there are several indicators that are examined to determine if one is endangered: the number of living speakers, the mean age of native and fluent speakers, and the percentage of the youngest generation acquiring fluency with the language in question. These three criteria each influence how a language is evaluated, and one indicator does not always necessitate the other two. Endangered languages are not always languages with few speakers. Even though small communities are...
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