a taxonomy and its implications

... features that have been claimed to be specific for mainland Europeans Results of this study reveal that there is little awareness of non-native varieties and many find it hard to accept the features ... Varieties of English 78
 Awareness of Euro-English as a Topic of Discussion 80
 Student Age Groups and Motivational Levels 83
 iii CHAPTER page Varieties of English: Availability and ... identity and how their teaching could be affected by a broader scope that exceeds traditional methods i TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER Page INTRODUCTION 1
 ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA (ELF)...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2016, 13:47

... language” and two ways to make a language “global”, they are official status and education priority I also have given examples and cite ideas of [1] explanation to the way a language achieve the status ... economical power are essential In other words, to maintain the status, a language needs a strong base and force to popularize itself Hardly anyone wants to learn a language of week and poor nation ... cannot make a language “global”, many languages are easy to study in terms of grammar and vocabulary but they are not “global” Here, I agree with Crystal in respect of his point that a language cannot...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 20:20

... used as the native language and English as the target language The Vietnamese word structure and the Vietnamese tones, intonation Generally, there are two aspects in Vietnamese that make the language ... negativism negative, command sarcasm, affirmative (adapted from Do, 2009: 194) Kieu and Grice (…) put it that there is interaction between syllabic tones and intonation Yet, according to Alan, ... intonation to Vietnamese EFL learners The pronunciation mistakes made by people learning to speak a foreign language are almost always carry-overs from their native languages Through a comparison...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... Central, maintained by the National Library of Medicine Advantages of the Open-Access Approach for Science The practical advantages of true open access are already very familiar to many researchers ... requires additional and expensive sales personnel Also, digital services are built on top of good metadata, and metadata creation and development costs are high The richer the metadata, the higher ... sequences can be downloaded, manipulated by anyone, and used as a raw material for a creative work has led thousands of individual investigators to take up the challenge of developing new data-mining...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 11:20

... used as the native language and English as the target language The Vietnamese word structure and the Vietnamese tones, intonation Generally, there are two aspects in Vietnamese that make the language ... negativism negative, command sarcasm, affirmative (adapted from Do, 2009: 194) Kieu and Grice (…) put it that there is interaction between syllabic tones and intonation Yet, according to Alan, ... intonation to Vietnamese EFL learners The pronunciation mistakes made by people learning to speak a foreign language are almost always carry-overs from their native languages Through a comparison...

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 16:21

... free and has regained a pain-free functional ROM His limp has resolved and he can walk pain free Informed consent for a CT scan was obtained to evaluate the last operation This scan was analyzed ... intact labrum and mild degenerative changes of the cartilage of the Figure Pre-operative anteroposterior and lateral radiographs Page of Figure Axial view of the femur, showing an increased a angle ... femoral head and mild degenerative changes on the acetabular side (see Figures and 2) The a angle was 60° (>55° is regarded abnormal and suspicious for a cam lesion [10]) The CE angle of 28° was...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... that are more useful may be available [22]; a population-based approach still has the potential to reduce more cases of disease [9,19,23]; and such targeting also has broader psychological and ... classical twin studies approach and the method adopted here A central feature of the model is that it abandons Fisher's assumption [26] that genes act as risk factors for common traits in a manner ... indicates that the risk of lung cancer is dominated by smoking in this population and the variance has at most a small genetic component Unlike the breast cancer example, γmax and γmin are always...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... opportunity, although a substantial minority (35%) see it as a major opportunity Far fewer view it as a major risk New markets and opportunities l Healthcare and pharmaceuticals, leisure and tourism and ... professional and public affairs at Philips, a healthcare and wellbeing company Some firms, such as Smith & Nephew, a British manufacturer of artificial hip and knee joints, already publicly cite ageing ... what they do, and wrap it around active people,” says Ms Hewitt “Too many brands are missing the boat in marketing to this group and understanding their power and influence,” says Linda Natansohn,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:05

... sou, T.B.Y Lai, S.W.K Chan and W.S-Y Wang (Eds.), Quantitative and Computational Studies on the Chinese Language, pages 353-372 Zhu, D 2001 Xiandai Hanyu Yufa Yanjiu Beijing: Commercial Press ... approach does not accommodate such transitional usages, but assigns a verb tag if the word is used as a verb and a noun tag if it is used as a noun CKIP (1993) assigns the same tag to the same word, ... theoretically we not treat it as nominalised but if for any practical reason someone might want it this way, he or she can easily extract all the Vx-tagged words and mark them nouns 118 Future Work and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... Analysis Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing:144–149 Manabu Okumura and Eiji Nanba 2005 Science of knowledge: Automatic Text Summarization.(in Japanese) ohmsha Manabu Okumura and Hajime ... summarization Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR Harendra Bhandari, Masashi Shimbo, Takahiko Ito, and Yuji Matsumoto 2008 Generic Text Summarization Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic ... the data sets for evaluating the result of summarization, as a query, and then use it as a query for query-biased summarization As an evaluation method, we adopt precision and coverage used at...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... distinguished between what he called natural language and the language we speak, which he dubbed artificial language Natural language refers to body language and intonation and is recognizable across species ... devoted to an examination of the “mental” and its relation to the balance of reality Physicalism: A thesis committed to the position that all reality is, at base, physical Pragmatism: A standard less ... cortical functions have all but ceased Even with all the data that modern machines can generate, confusion and doubt will prevail regarding a coma patient’s mental state, as in the famous case...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:30

... 0021-9045(88)90006-8 Shah, WM: A generalization of a theorem of Paul Turan J Ramanujan Math Soc 1, 67–72 (1996) Aziz, A, Rather, NA: A refinement of a theorem of Paul Turan concerning polynomials Math Ineq Appl ... Cite this article as: Zireh: On the maximum modulus of a polynomial and its polar derivative Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011 2011:111 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit ... >k, and has all zeros in |z| ≤ k One can continue that Dαs · · · Dα2 Dα1 p(z) will be a polynomial of degree (n - s) for all a1 , as Î ℂ with |a1 | ≥ k, |a2 | ≥ k, , |as | ≥ k, (s

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... xab xa+1,b and xab xa+1,b+1 for all a, b Regard a permutation x ∈ Sn as a monotone triangle of order n as follows: For each a n − 1, let xa1 , xa2 , , xaa be positive integers such that {x(1), ... general aspect to Fact 1.2 for even arbitrary permutations Theorem Let x ∈ Sn and Max B(x) the set of bigrassmannian permutations maximal weakly below x in Bruhat order, and Ess(x) the essential ... that c ∈ x [a] That is, c does not appear in x [a] while c + appears in x [a] as xab = c + as just seen Hence xa,b−1 c − Third, to see (b), recall from Lemma 4.1 that xab is equal to xa+1,b or xa+1,b+1...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 11:20

... quantitative and qualitative methods were employed in order to gather reliable and sufficient information and data Quantitative data are numeric information that is subject to statistical analysis, ... but also jealousy and safety, and also something Irish Magenta is frequently raspberry flavor while a warmer red indicates strawberry, cherry or danger or flammability and is also associated ... for practice-repeated reading in language learning This activity also enhances interaction opportunities with peers and makes the reading task more appealing than learning alone Applying Readers...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:25

... the organization of the classroom and the goal of teaching are achieved through teacher talk Appropriate teacher talk can create harmonious atmosphere and, at the same time, promotes a more friendly ... words at some other time Appropriateness in the classroom lies in a balance between language as “display” and language as genuine communication (Mc Carthy and Walsh, 2002) 1.2 Theoretical background ... the teachers in class As an indispensable part of foreign language teaching, teacher talk has its own features in that both the content and the medium are the target language The language employed...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:29

... require a great deal of skill Anyone can learn and yell into the crowd as long as they smile a lot - In addition to cheering at games and competing, a cheerleading team can often a lot of philanthropy ... philanthropy and charity work, modeling, motivational speaking,television performances, and advertising - Whether or not cheerleading is a real sport is a question that may never be settled Although ... Although there are good reasons to consider it a sport and it certainly meets some of the accepted criteria of being a sport, there are many people who will never consider it more than an after school...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2015, 15:56

... Language Teaching and Research Press Crandall, J (1999) Cooperative language learning and affective factors Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cullen, R (2002) Teacher talk and the classroom context ... data for the research and methods of data analysis - Chapter Three: Data Analysis and Findings interprets the results of the study This chapter attempts to provide answers to the posed research ... Discourse and language teaching: a scheme for teacher education Oxford: Oxford University Press Cook, V (2000) Second Language Learning and Language Teaching (2ndEdition) Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:40

... same basic application is another way to control costs Finally, and most importantly, when many publishers get together and share standards and archiving, and collaborate, that is certainly a ... libraries and labs It is the libraries and labs that are most unwilling at this time to give up paper, because no one has a reliable way to store bits and bytes over many years and over many ... journals over many decades and even centuries True digital archives will have their standards and operational performances publicly known and monitored by publishers, researchers, and librarians alike...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2015, 12:01

... pancreatic acinar cells 38th Meeting of the European Pancreatic Club, 2006, Tampere, Finland A travel scholarship was awarded Raina Devi Ramnath and Madhav Bhatia Treatment with substance P and ... are activated Physiological calcium signals are generally transient and localized Global and sustained increase in cytosolic calcium levels causes abnormal intracellular enzyme activation, vacuole ... Inflammatory mediators such as chemokines and substance P are known to play a key role in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis (Bhatia, Brady et al 2002; Bhatia, Ramnath et al 2005; Bhatia, Saluja...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06

... Glennon, and Ajay A Palvia "Sample Selection Bias in Acquisition Credit Scoring Models: An Evaluation of the Supplemental-Data Approach." Available at SSRN 1722382 (2013) Berger, Allen N., and W ... scoring and the small business: A review and the need for research." A paper presented in USASBE 1997 National Conference, San Francisco, California 1997 Malhotra, Rashmi, and D.K Malhotra "Evaluating ... Pohar, Maja, Mateja Blas, and Sandra Turk "Comparison of logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis: a simulation study." Metodolski Zvezki 1.1 (2004): 143-161 Press, S James, and Sandra...

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