becoming a confident user of english

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2013, 23:42

... we realize that slogans are not present in EAPs and only appear in VAPs In VAPs, they are accompanied with the name of a particular product or the name of the company The purpose of the slogan ... 4.1.5 Summary 4.2 Lexical Features in EAPs and VAPs 4.2.1 Evaluative Adjectives in EAPs and VAPs Leech (1966) observes that “Advertising language is marked by a wealth of adjective vocabulary” There ... form but also comparatives and superlatives are used in the Body Copy of EAPs and VAPs Remarkably, English and Vietnamese advertisers have the tendency of using the base form of evaluative adjectives...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26

... SPEECHES Layout is identified as the way in which the parts of something are arranged, and the layout of a graduation speech is the way in which the writer arranges and organizes the parts or ideas ... (4.1)President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.[46] Thanking: The procedure of thanking appearing ... similar words, phrases, or clauses As shown in the above example, in (4.73) parallel structures are made up at clause level At lower level of parallel, word balancing with word appears popularly:...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:27

... research, collecting data related to the research, analyzing data Table 4.1 Phrasal and Clausal structures in Titles of the based on syntactic and semantic features of English School Event/Plan ... awareness of language learners about the distinctive features of ESAs and thus to help learners have a new look in preparing an announcement of their own, both in English and in Vietnamese language ... SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT Google search, books and websites OF 4.1.1 An Overview 3.2.2 Data Analysis An ESA consists of parts: the Title of the Event/Plan and Data collected will be mainly analyzed...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:28

... information about the linguistic features of Award Acceptance Speeches 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 Aims - Raise the awareness of learners of English in effective communication In addition, based ... General Features of Oscar Acceptance Speeches 2.2.8.1 Acceptance Speech as a Type of Discourse 2.2.8.2 Notions of Acceptance Speech An acceptance speech is a speech delivered on accepting some award ... has made a great contribution to art /science/politics/etc.[62] 2.2.8.3.Some Notes on the Oscar Wikipedia cites “An Academy Award, also known as the Oscar, is granted by the American Academy of...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:28

... differences and similarities between them Thus, it plays an important role in translating, teaching and learning a foreign language There are kinds of CA: the contrast of languages and the contrast of ... use of a simile rather than a metaphor, makes clear difference in meaning Using a simile rather than a metaphor can add meaning by calling attention to the process of comparison as in "A woman without ... Word meaning Every word combines lexical and grammatical meanings The grammatical meaning reflects the ways in which the lexical meaning operates The same grammatical meaning may be shared by...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40

... The table below shows the average length of a body in all advertisements taken into analysis, as far as the number of paragraphs and sentences are concerned: Total of bodies Paragraphs Total Per ... part of the system of a language and is known as links between the clauses and sentences of a text Halliday and Hasan view that cohesion is a semantic relation, it refers to relations of meaning ... Hasan (1976) are used as the framework for data analysis Other types of lexical cohesion are out of the scope of the thesis The data analyzed in the thesis are advertisements in a magazine named...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... applications in teaching and learning English 3.2.1 Application of Discourse Analysis to Teaching Grammar To enable teaching more naturally the usage of the target language as well as source language, discourse ... superordinate of “China and India” In contrast, China and India are hyponym of Country 1.4 General Information about VOA Special English VOA Special English communicates in clear and simple English ... detailed analyses of these industries and provide a certain amount of idea regarding their potential for growth It also provides information on companies that form an integral part of that particular...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... this approach They maintain that language is the totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community According to the third approach to language started by Noam Chomsky, language is a ... mosquitoes are usually larger than males Females have fine threadlike antennae with few hairs, whereas males have bushy antennae In particular, the females of many species of mosquitoes are blood-sucking ... there are certain elements of culture that are universal They are known as cultural universals, in which there are certain behavioral traits and patterns that are shared by all cultures around...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 10:15

... read with a partner, choral readings of the same passages Have students tape record their oral reading, listen to it, evaluate and then repeat Daily oral and silent reading practice of at least ... end up stammering away Instead, share what you know and what you are certain about Great 22 conservations are not unavoidably about world affairs An informed talk about gardening can make your ... language Almost all verbal communication is digital and practically all body language is analogue Spoken language and body language go mostly hand in hand When someone says something, information...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 10:15

... for 1d., and an acre of meadow mown for 4d., and an acre of waste meadow for 31/2d And know that men can well reap and bind acres a day of each kind of corn, and where each takes 2d a day then ... communication than today, and many streams now silted up and shallow were navigable according to Domesday Water carriage was, as always, much cheaper than land carriage, and corn could be carried from ... Staffordshire 21/4 acres To-day the Cheshire acre is 10,240 square yards As, however, an acre was and is a day's ploughing for a team, we may assume that the most usual acre was the same area then as now...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20

... contrastive analysis is based on the following principles and aspects: - Contrastive analysis of signs and appearances - Contrastive analysis of meanings of components - Contrastive analysis of forms ... many definitions of verb phrases in every aspect Firstly, it is necessary to understand what is verbs and phrase According to Fundamentals of English Traditional Syntax adapted by Tran Huu Manh ... all the similarities and differences of the verb phrase in English and Vietnamese so that they can avoid making mistakes in their translation between these two languages Scope of the assignment...

Ngày tải lên: 28/01/2015, 16:17

... discussed in any branch of grammar apart from in Traditional Grammar as the background and in the light of Functional Grammar as the focus An overview grasp of modality in Vietnamese is also mentioned ... discussed taking the view of traditional grammar As a part of M .A program, I had chance to study Functional Grammar, which caused a number of troubles for me in the beginning but caught my fancy at the ... lights of traditional grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar 2.2.1 The traditional view of Modality As far as the traditional view of modality is concerned, the definition, types and markers of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:17

... 3 -A 3 -A 3 -A 3 -A 3 -A 3 -A 3 -A 3 -A 3 -A 3-B 3-B 3-B 3-B 3-B 3-B 3-B 3-B 4 -A 7 -A 4 -A 4 -A P4 7-B 7 -A 4-B 4-B 4 -A 4 -A P5 4 -A 7 -A 7 -A 4 -A 7-B 4-B P6 7 -A 4-B 7 -A 4 -A 7-B 7-B 4-B 4 -A 7-C 8 -A 7-C 8 -A 8-B ... 3‟ -A 3‟ -A 3‟ -A 3‟ -A 3‟ -A 3‟ -A 3‟ -A 3‟ -A 3‟ -A 3‟ -A P5 3‟ -A 4‟ -A 4‟ -A 4‟ -A 4‟ -A 4‟ -A 4‟ -A 4‟ -A 4‟ -A 4‟ -A 5‟ 4‟-B‟ 4‟-B‟ 5‟ 4‟-B‟ 8‟ -A 4‟-B‟ 5‟ 4‟-B‟ 31 4‟ -A 5‟ 8‟-C‟ 4‟ -A ... company Hence, after reading, reflecting and evaluating the corpus many times and also basing on the format and communicative purposes of an English resignation letter, the analytical framework of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:17

... paragraph was analyzed to draw out topic of each one After that, descriptive and analytic methods are utilized to describe and analyze the database so as to find out the grammar, vocabulary, field and ... VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN THỊ HÀ MY A DISOURSE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH SALES PRESENTATIONS: AN INTEGRATED ... assumed that this (discourse analysis) can be carried out grammar – or even that it is somehow an alternative to grammar But this is an illusion A discourse analysis that is not based on grammar is...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:20

... longer A real language teacher talks so I can understand what he or she means to say - A real second language teacher can make mistakes and admit it - A real second language teacher can show his ... (what characteristics should a good language teacher have?) as explanations: “I think that we, language teachers,, are sometimes out of control in class That means that we not manage class activities ... explain vocabulary and grammar clearly Maybe from the fact that Vietnamese teachers who teach English often pay too much attention to teaching grammatical structures and vocabulary, Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:27

... the aims of the study Fourth, each paragraph was analyzed to draw out topic of each one After that, descriptive and analytic methods are utilized to describe and analyze the database so as to ... Halliday, M .A. K (1978), Language as Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning London: Edward Arnold Halliday, M .A. K, Hasan R (1976), Cohesion in English London: Longman ... relational, evaluative, and a miscellaneous topical class Adverbs: In a clause, adverbs can either be integrated in to an element of a clause (modifiers) or function themselves as an element of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... Interpretation of Language and Meaning London: Edward Arnold Halliday, M .A. K, Hasan R (1976), Cohesion in English London: Longman Halliday, M .A. K (198 5a) , An introduction to Functional Grammar London: Edward ... averages and other statistical calculation of variables of register and coherence’s relevant factors of discourse of sales presentations References In English Biber, D [et al.] foreword by Randolph ... Logic and conversation in (eds.) P Cole & J Morgan (1975), Syntax and semantics 3: Speech acts New York: Academic Press Halliday, M .A. K (1978), Language as Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... participants and methods which are applied to collect and analyze the data Chapter – Analysis of Discourse Structure in English and Vietnamese Resignation Letters In this chapter, the author analyzes ... 10 Duszak, A (1994), “Academic discourse and intellectual style”, Journal of Pragmatics, 21(3), 291-313 11 Halliday, M A K and R Hasan (1976), Cohesion in English, London: Longman 12 Harris, ... discourse analysis of English and Vietnamese resignation letters I only concentrate on analyzing English and Vietnamese resignation letters in terms of discourse structures Research Question: What are...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... discussed in any branch of grammar apart from in Traditional Grammar as the background and in the light of Functional Grammar as the focus An overview grasp of modality in Vietnamese is also mentioned ... Jackson, H (1990), Grammar and meaning: a semantic approach to English grammar, Longman, London 17 Jacobs, R A (1995), English Syntax – A Grammar for English Language Professionals, Oxford university ... discussed taking the view of traditional grammar As a part of M .A program, I had chance to study Functional Grammar, which caused a number of troubles for me in the beginning but caught my fancy at the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46