Introduction My topic is how important dictionaries can be, I chose this topic because it’s seems interesting to me, people all around the world use dictionaries but no one wonders what would happen if we didn’t have them. People make dictionaries in different languages, what if dictionaries were made in only one language? It would be hard for people to communicate with others when they travel to another country. I hope to learn the use of dictionaries towards different languages...
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Since its invention in 1992, texting has become a universal staple. It has allowed us to go day by day to communicate with each other in a quick more efficient way. We use texting to be more direct, or even to let someone know you are running late. Since texting has become a popular form of communication. Today younger generations have created a new form of speaking called “text-speak”. This new way of speaking has become a dialect of its...
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Behaviorist Theory Skinner's standpoint was that the learning procedure must be founded on preparing like redundancy, drill and repetition so as to be effective. He likewise asserted that youngsters learned by doing. He further expressed that understudies would react as indicated by the incitement they got. As indicated by the results, which could either be sure or negative, kids would rehash a specific conduct. Skinner believed extraordinarily in uplifting feedback and felt that it could be successful in controlling conduct....
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Introduction The internet originates from the early 1980s when it initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks. The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s marks the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet. Where writing was once a solitary activity, it has now become a very social way to communicate. Before the Internet, most people wrote to communicate with one other person. Now we reach hundreds or thousands of...
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Today, English is used in some form by at least one person in three (Fishman, 1998). As Fishman (1998) notices, colonization is one of the main reasons for being English as a lingua franca. He continued that, from 1940 to 1990 more than half of countries which success to achieve independence, was before British colonies. Nowadays knowing a common language as a means of communication and transferring knowledge, is even more demanded than before especially among the literates. Global language...
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While African American Vernacular English, also known by the modern denomination of Ebonics(and numerous other name variations it has gathered along time) is widely spread among the people of color living inside American borders in present times, the nature of this characteristic pattern of speech is still quite uncertain, given its relatively recent emergence and extension, from a historical point of view. In this paper, I will attempt to determine a few key factors which could aid in determining, first...
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As suggested by the researchers, web tools offer potential ground for supporting individual personal learning (Severance et al., 2008; Woo et al., 2011) by empowering their perception and valuable activity exploration (Boruta et al., 2011; Gardner, 2011; Mortimer, 2010; Shihab, 2008). This review of literature provides a context and groundwork for the investigation that attempted to discover the affordances and the learning strategies in Web 2.0-based language learning beyond the walls of formal learning spaces. Introduction Today, several hundred Web...
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Introduction When studying the factors affecting second language acquisition (SLA) it is important that we consider the differences among L2 learners as these differences can result in different levels of impact on them. Clearly, some language learners demonstrate better abilities in learning a second / foreign language than others. This can be due to internal factors (e.g., age, personality and cognition), and external factors that can be related to second language instruction, curriculum, use of certain SLA techniques, etc. In...
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If we look back 20 years in time, not many has changed. You may have a little bit more grey hair, other shows were on TV and you maybe feel better than 20 years ago but, one thing changed massively over the past 20 years, namely the introduction of the mobile phone. Due to the introduction of the mobile phone, the language we use changed extremely. Mobile phone language is interpreted differently by old people than young people. In this...
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Background The term ‘Commodification’ usually can be seen as a topic of Economics but actually, it can be used in every area. Even language can be commodified ,can be used as an economic resource where market value exists . There are many studies which are mainly based on language economics, and this area’s evolution has not deep-rooted history. It is evolving through time and thanks to the scientist now we have lots of educatory studies.Yarymowhich (2006) has used the term...
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In this article, I mainly focused on the theme of learning language through traveling and its peculiar features , its effects and its plus sides . Moreover, the article describes the main differences of learning English as a usual way by searching or reading books and learning the language through travelling different sightseeings. As we know, most of the people in our industrialized world eager to learn new languages and discover new lands, undergo new experiences, at a simultaneous time,...
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Abstract In language there is a metafunction, namely, Ideational; correlation of the usefulness of language in conveying experience in the form of expression and understanding of the perception of life that is carried out consciously called transitivity. This study attempts to analyze the transitivity process of Palembang Malay verbs with Linguistic Functional Linguistics categories. The research method uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative (mixed method). The source of the data collected in the form of a conversation in Palembang...
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First of all, language impairment is a controversial issue which triggers a great deal of heated debate among the language and the brain. Moreover, one other language impairment is dyslexia, due to the seriousness of the problem that it causes. In addition, it must be pointed out that, dyslexia has been recognized as a serious problem for both older and younger children. Besides this, it is important to be mentioned that, dyslexia should be treated experienced experts. Another factor that,...
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What is language? It is a system. System which is made of interdependent linguistic units, such as morphology or phonology which were the object of linguistic study since the early years. Yet, what had often been neglected in the past was the crucial fact that language is a system for communicating meanings, and therefore to really understand the nature of language we need to study how participants in communication actually use language to achieve meaning. Linguistics needs to take into...
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Today, social media plays a tremendous role in enhancing language learning. Social media seeks out attention. There are lots of different types of social media which includes social networking like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, etc., media sharing networks like Instagram, Snapchats, YouTube and writing reviews and online forum includes Quora, Reddit, Blogs and Vlogs.An average person over his life time spends more than five years on social media. Then, why can’t the same be use as language learning tool? And...
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Language is a complex and important feature in every day life, it is how we as humans communicate to one another, how we express our needs and emotions and how we get the attention of our peers. How does language begin to develop in children? They are not born speaking the words adults use around them and they do not have a meaningful understanding of the deeper meanings behind the vocabulary we use in our every day life. The best...
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The intention of most media messages is to persuade the audience to believe or to behave a certain way. Hollywood films use upscale special effects to make the spectators that what they’re seeing is real. News use several techniques – such as direct quotation of identified sources – to make their audience accept the story as accurate. The media messages that use persuasive language can be found in quite a few different spheres. Commercial advertising has a main goal which...
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The first language is an innate ability and that the sensitive period for language begins in the womb and lasts until the age of seven. During this sensitive period, the child absorbs language through listening to the sound of her environment. Obviously mum can feel the movements of a baby in the womb and sometimes she sees a baby’s movements. It is happened because the baby can response to noise and mom’s voice. Mum and her baby begin to communicate...
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English language is essential in our daily life. It serves many purposes. For instances, to communicate with people, to promote products and so on. Nowadays, the fast growth of communication technologies and information has assisted a revolution on how we use English language. Due to the increase usage of English Language as the first global language, the proficiency of English language is an advantage for the user. Eka Kurniasih (2011) stated that in international context, English serves as a tool...
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ABSTRACT This research is aimed to find out the lexical meaning and connotative meaning of Balinese language. Balinese language is one of the traditional language in Indonesian country which an unique thing because of the historical of these language are had been influenced not only by the Balinese language itself, but there are an influenced from Sundanese language and also Javanese language, so there will be several meaning or words which has the same meaning but difference pronunciation or the...
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Abstract Language has been proven to be inseparable from socio-cultural interaction. Recent empirical studies on conversation in a discourse of a multi sociocultural group observe the need of politeness strategies to ensure smooth conversation among the interlocutors. Even though Nigeria has made English Language as a language of unity, the controversies, division and distrust among the various ethnic group that make up Nigeria exacerbate. However, the problem could be traced to inability of the ethnic groups to understand and accommodate...
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Introduction Human language is unique and vastly different from the sounds and noises of animals. It just so happens that humans' position in the words is unique as well. We have created a regulated system of survival, generally referred to as civilization or society. Just like we are the only specie capable of language exchange we are the only specie with this highly complex and developed living circumstance. It might seem obvious that these two are linked, that we would...
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According to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the essence of social media is to recreate a “town square” environment in the digital world for people to engage in conversations similar to a traditional city center (Dwoskin, 2019). Thus, people can create a profile on social media that mirrors the reputation of a normal person in real life. Based on this, people can have different forms of communication that enable them to exchange information and ideas to communicate in a...
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As being as a complex symbolic system; language has its own designs and styles to be used in different stages of age, occasions and even in social statuses. And what is appropriate at one time or place may not be at another. As a teacher, I do not want inappropriate word choice to get in the way of teaching and try to create awareness of what is or is not appropriate. This essay covers the understanding of appropriate usage of...
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The purpose of each language is to express emotions and other related linguistic information, and to express the contrast and other similar features in it by toning. However not all languages use tones to distinguish words or phrases. Tone in languages are common in Africa, East Asia, and the western areas of North America. Nilo-Saharan is primarily a family of the African interior, including the greater Nile basin and its tributaries, as well as the central Sahara desert some of...
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A human child is capable of many things in early childhood. One of these capabilities is being able to learn languages. From age five all the way back to birth, children are honing their language skills day by day. From birth to six months, babies learn to recognize their parents’ voices and turn toward sounds that are familiar to them. Babies learn to grunt, chuckle, whimper and gurgle and learn to gain others attention by using their voices. One of...
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A significant problem in European integration is about dialects/languages and specifically how the EU establishments adapt to language variety. In this research paper, I tried to build up an investigation for evaluating the nature of language routines not in outright terms, yet rather regarding their compatibility with the objectives of actors, in terms of 'scenarios'. The article concentrates around the European Parliament due to the facing of 'enlargement' and the complexities that come with it. Looking at the financial and...
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For many writers, figurative language is a device used to make readers empathize with characters. In the short story, “On the Rainy River,” the author, Tim O’Brien, utilizes figurative language to depict the main character’s experiences, inner thoughts, and struggles. More specifically, he also implements figurative language to advise readers about the narrator’s past traumas. The author’s use of similes, metaphors, and symbols contribute to the progression of the story and the reader’s understanding of it. The main focus of...
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The basic anatomy of a human eye suggests that humans should be able to see every colour within the full spectrum of visible light. However, the languages do not reflect a spectrum of colours, they have a set of basic categories and terms that most of the colours fall into. The question of why there should be a name for orange and not yellow-green has bothered scientists for a long time. The perception of colour appears to differ across the...
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This paper deals with so many things related to language ideology. The term “ideology” has always been accompanied by its association as it is obvious in its dictionary meaning as ‘a system of ideas, ideals especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy’ Recently, there has been a lot of effort to explore a notorious issue of ideology. This paper aims at exploring the relationship between ideology and language in terms of Contrastive Discourse Analysis...
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