... Language plays an important role in human life. Everyone tries to acquire, learn and use language as means of communication and simultaneously as social symbol of humanity. By using language, ... “As timid as a rabbit” Rabbits are small mammals found in several parts of the world. Rabbit habitats include meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, deserts and wetlands. Rabbits live in ... Encyclopedia indicates that bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. There are nearly 20,000...
... teaching making invitations in particular, and raise the importance of applying cross-cultural activities to teaching and learning English to English majors in Dong Thap University in general. ... Problems arise as language learners are not competent and fail to understand the cultural- social aspects of communication. Take speech acts of invitation as an example. Vietnamese saying goes: ... plays an important role in communication in all cultures. Wall (1987) indicated that many of our daily social interactions involve making invitations and responding to them. In daily social...
... and describing situations are regarded as the mainfunctions of idioms in both Englishand Vietnamese. 1.1.3. Demarcation of IdiomsWords and groups of words including idioms make a vocabulary ... be paraphrasable as ‘It is a boring hard place to live and work’.35(Fernando & Flavell 1981). Third, there is significant inter-language borrowing of idioms across languages (Fernando & ... same point of view,Cowie, Mackin & McCaig (1993) state that idioms are groups of words with setmeanings that cannot be calculated by adding up the separate meanings of the parts.Fernando...
... paper aims to compare and contrast the differences and similarities of various types of questions inEnglishandVietnameseand thus, suggest some application for language teachers and learners.Nguyễn ... been talking about?May I have a drink?Can you pass me the salt, please?As we can see from the examples above, interrogative operators are placed at the beginning of the questions, accompanied ... 1970s, comparing and contrasting linguistics has been playing a more and more important role to meet the rising demand for language learning to communicate and scientific developments in the direction...