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A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century pdf

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century pdf

... a history of the "liberal movement in English literature"; nor of the "renaissance of wonder"; nor of the "emancipation of the ego." Why not have called the book, then, "A History of the Mediaeval ... muster of the tenantry of the great northern Catholic houses of Percy and Neville; the high mass celebrated by the insurgents in Durham Cathedral; the march of the Nortons to Brancepeth; the eleven ... destroy them the other rows of elders and doctors of the Church, forming part of the array of heaven the uplifted hand of Christ denouncing the wicked at the day of judgment the daring satires...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

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Research report: "Writing in teams to improve writing skills for students of English Language at the University of Vinh" doc

Research report: "Writing in teams to improve writing skills for students of English Language at the University of Vinh" doc

... interest of each class on the part of the teacher Vietnamese classes of English are often very big In regular classes, students are often of the same age, female students are the majority; whereas, ... the majority of Vinh university teachers, about 70%, prefer their students to some remedial work within their groups or with other groups before they make their correction They believe that their ... discussion or exchanging of ideas between groups so that they all can see the right way of writing their final draft Due to the differences between the two systems of grammar in English and Vietnamese,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 13:20

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strategies to enhance the understanding of english intonation for the development of communicative language ability among second language learners = những chiến lược tăng cường sự hiểu biết về ngữ điệu tiếng anh

strategies to enhance the understanding of english intonation for the development of communicative language ability among second language learners = những chiến lược tăng cường sự hiểu biết về ngữ điệu tiếng anh

... includes the reasons for the study, the aims, the research questions, the scope, the methods and the design of the study Secondly, the development consists of three chapters Chapter one is the literature ... starting-point for the description of tonality The clause is the most obvious unit of grammar to handle a typical piece of information: the subject represents the theme- what the message is about, the predicate ... part of the message The function of the tonic is to form the focus of information: to express what the speaker decides to make the main point or burden of the message” Halliday (1970:40)) When the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:55

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Strategies to enhance the understanding of English intonation for the development of communicative language ability among second language learners

Strategies to enhance the understanding of English intonation for the development of communicative language ability among second language learners

... Literature Review 1.2 Theories of English intonation 1.2.1 Definitions of intonation 1.2.2 Systems of English intonation 1.2.3 Structure of English intonation 1.2.4 Basic tune shapes of English intonation ... Table of content iv List of tables vii PART A - INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale for the study 1.2 Aims of the study 1.3 Scope of the study 1.4 Methods of the study 1.4.1 Research ... 1.2.4.1 The falling tune 10 1.2.4.2 The first rising tune 11 1.2.4.3 The second rising tune 12 1.2.4.4 The falling-rising tune 13 1.2.5 Functions of English intonation 14 1.2.5.1 The organization of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW BEFORE THE TIME OF EDWARD i

THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW BEFORE THE TIME OF EDWARD i

... 492 The law merchant, 493 § The Jews, pp 493–501 General idea of the Jew’s position, 493 The exchequer of the Jews, 495 Relation of the Jew to the king, 497 large, 498 Relation of the Jew to the ... Enforcement of The borough’s income, 698 Tolls, 698 The gild merchant, 699 The formation of a gild, 699 The gild and the government of the borough, 700 and the burgesses, 702 Objects of the gild, 701 The ... goes on, of the general outlines of that part of English legal history which lies on the other side of the accession of Edward I In the Second Book we have tried to set forth at some length the doctrines...

Ngày tải lên: 07/12/2015, 01:31

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The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa potx

The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa potx

... al.(2006) study the profitability behavior of the south eastern European banking industry over the period 1998–02 The empirical results suggest that the enhancement of bank profitability in those ... banks as they become “too large.” The marginal statistical significance of the regression coefficient, on the other hand, adds further evidence to the hypothesis that, thanks to some degree of ... to risk and the performance of the domestic economy Public policy to encourage the presence of foreign banks may, therefore, not yield any advantage in terms of bank profitability There is clear...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

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Report of the Sub-Committee of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India to Study Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector doc

Report of the Sub-Committee of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India to Study Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector doc

... considering the fact that banks through the SHG -Bank Linkage programme and the NBFC-MFIs together cover over 90% of the microfinance sector and the fact that the Reserve Bank regulates both the banks ... irrespective of the amount of the loan However, the larger the loan, the larger the amount of the repayment installment, and a large installment may strain the repayment capacity of the borrower ... is due There has, therefore, to be a linkage between the amount of the loan and the tenure of the loan It is, therefore, suggested that for loans not exceeding Rs 15,000, the tenure of the loan...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Creation of a Corpus of English Metalanguage" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "The Creation of a Corpus of English Metalanguage" pptx

... filtering and sentence tokenizer The “Enhanced Cues” Corpus Main body text of articles The construction of the present corpus (referred to as the “Enhanced Cues” Corpus) was similar to previous ... frequencies of each category in the Enhanced Cues corpus, and Table provides examples for each from the corpus WW was by far the most common label to appear, which is perhaps an artifact of the use of ... some indication of the reliability and consistency of the Enhanced Cues Corpus, three additional expert annotators were recruited to label a subset of the candidate instances These additional...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data" ppt

... target noun vs the number of the head nouns of conjuncts (e.g dogs and mud = PLURAL,SINGULAR ) N of N constructions:2D the number of the target noun (N ) vs the type of the N in an N of N construction ... chose this because of its good coverage of different usages of English, and thus of different countabilities The only component of the original annotation we make use of is the sentence tokenisation ... agreement:2D the number of the target noun in subject position vs number agreement on the governing verb (e.g the dog barks = SINGULAR,SINGULAR ) Coordinate noun number:2D the number of the target...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

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Syntactic complexity of EFL, ESL and ENL  evidence from the international corpus network of asian learners of english

Syntactic complexity of EFL, ESL and ENL evidence from the international corpus network of asian learners of english

... compared the use of “make” in the International Corpus of Learner English (The ICLE) and a small part of the International Corpus of English (ICE) 35 (student writing and exam scripts) to examine the ... construction of the Singapore 42 component of the ICNALE under the guidance of my supervisor In the remaining part of this section, some basic information of the ICNALE and the construction of the Singapore ... Although the corpus size of the ICNALE is not as large as some of the other learner corpora like the ICLE (Granger et al., 2009), the number of participants 43 involved is still large enough On the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/10/2015, 17:28

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A STUDY ON THE STRUCTURAL FEATUES OF ENGLISH NEWS STORY.DOC

A STUDY ON THE STRUCTURAL FEATUES OF ENGLISH NEWS STORY.DOC

... two parts: the topic and the controlling idea - The topic sentence is the subject of the paragraph Eg: The color yellow is the color of mental activity The topic: the color yellow - The controlling ... newspaper Neither the advent of television nor that of internet could affect the importance of the newspaper The reason for it is the width, breadth and the depth of news provided by the newspaper, ... from the beginning of the sentence 2.1.4 Sub- title in English news story There is a separated part from the body part of the news story discourse, the sub- title It is recognized easily by the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/09/2012, 11:12

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The future of English

The future of English

... for the future development of English in the world is the ‘outer circle’ of those who speak it as a second language English often plays a special role in their lives and the fate of English in the ... What have been the heroic failures of the past in predicting the number of English speakers? p 18 q Is the Internet the electronic ‘flagship’ of global English? q Will the growth of global satellite ... valuable English in the 21st century The position of English in the world today is thus the joint outcome of Britain’s colonial expansion and the more recent activity of the US Any substantial...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 16:27

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The future of English 2

The future of English 2

... for the future development of English in the world is the ‘outer circle’ of those who speak it as a second language English often plays a special role in their lives and the fate of English in the ... What have been the heroic failures of the past in predicting the number of English speakers? p 18 q Is the Internet the electronic ‘flagship’ of global English? q Will the growth of global satellite ... valuable English in the 21st century The position of English in the world today is thus the joint outcome of Britain’s colonial expansion and the more recent activity of the US Any substantial...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 16:27

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How group work is used in speaking lesson of the first year major students of english at viet nam university of commerce

How group work is used in speaking lesson of the first year major students of english at viet nam university of commerce

... understanding of using group work in the speaking lesson at VUC 1.2 Aims of the study The purpose of this study is to explore the reality of the use of group work in the speaking lesson of 1st- year English ... For the former, 83.3% of the teacher often grouped students of the same sex while only 20% of the students chose it and for the latter, group students of different sexes was the choice of 80% of ... Concerning the factors that caused the difficulties, 85% of the students supposed that they were because of their low English proficiency The subject added that when they were at high school, they...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50

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An evaluation of the material “basic english iii” for the second year non- english major students at bac giang teachers’ training college

An evaluation of the material “basic english iii” for the second year non- english major students at bac giang teachers’ training college

... appropriateness of the material to the aims of the course, the author has based upon the analysis of the syllabus objectives and that of the material 3.1.1 Syllabus objectives analysis The course “Basic English ... to the students’ age, knowledge of English, interest and so on - Aims of the materials: the evaluator has to check if the materials match the aims and objectives of the course - Content of the ... Significance of the thesis The findings of the thesis will be useful not only to the researcher, and the course book designers but also to the teaching staff and the second year non- English major...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50

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An english-vietnamese cross-cultural study of keeping face at the first encounter

An english-vietnamese cross-cultural study of keeping face at the first encounter

... by English informants to their business partner about work in the office at the first encounter From the table, the English informants use PPSs, NPSs and MPSs in the way they ask/ talk with their ... influence in the communication at the first encounter 25 Situation a To business partner of higher status in the office b To their business partner of equal status in the office C To their business ... for the authors aim to get results to design the DCT, also the other part of the survey questionnaire The MCQ consists of 20 suggested topics The informants are asked to put a tick (v) in the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

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Incorporating english cultural elements into english training with the comparing - contrasting approach: A case of tourism students at haiphong community college part 3

Incorporating english cultural elements into english training with the comparing - contrasting approach: A case of tourism students at haiphong community college part 3

... into the situations, in terms of both theory and practice, the study will improve current situation of English culture learning of Tourism students at HCC 1.3 Scope of the study The focus of the ... separate the two without losing the significance of either language or culture Language, then, is the trace of the development process of civilization The language is contained in the culture and the ... records all the activities as they are the most reliable data, or to check the reliability of the data collected from other sources- the survey questionnaire The author of the study observed the C.QDL...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:06

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The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language

The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language

... north of the equator From the middle of August till the middle of October (including September), rainy; the sun being then come back to the equator From the middle of October till the middle of ... sometimes of i long, as in either and neither, pronounced with either the sound of e long or i long, the latter being the English usage; ie has the sound of i long, as in lie, and of e long, ... sounds The most important variations are as follows: C and G have each a soft sound and a hard sound The soft sound of c is the same as s, and the hard sound the same as k The soft sound of g is the...

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