... of the errors made by the students in their free writing and their final tests Items Type of errors No of writings Free writings No of errors Subject-verb Percentage Final writing tests No of errors ... Errors in verb tense • Errors in verb form Errors in noun endings • Errors in pluralization • Errors in adding morphemes Errors in articles Errors in using words 31 • Errors in prepositions ... final tests It can be seen easily from the figures shown in the tables that the total of errors in final writing tests and that in free writing are not the same even though the number of writing...
... through “the presupposed item is the presupposing item” relation In online news discourse inEnglishby Vietnamese translators, we sometimes see nominal substitution realized by items such as one, ... Vietnam in 2002, putting an end of the exclusive agency in providing the Internet connect infrastructure, the Internet in Vietnam really developed with increasing competitiveness One of the reasons ... support enterprises in conducing market research, organizing some seminars, selling products and offering training courses on sales skills in rural areas (VOVNEWS) 4.1.4.4 Temporal Online news discourse...
... Sie in einer Stunde dem dem Zeitplan voraus, frühervorgesehen, vorzeitig Zeitplan voraus, früher als als vorgesehen planmäßig, pünktlich, nach Plan hinter dem Zeitplan, später als geplant verhindert ... weitergehen, weitermachen kurz vorbeikommen, auf einen Sprung vorbeikommen in Wartestellung setzen, jemanden bitten zu warten beausichtigen, leiten, betreuen, Verantwortung haben, Zuständig sein ... beausichtigen, leiten, betreuen, Verantwortung haben, Zuständig sein in der Zeitnot sein, Spät dran sein, Zeit davon rennt Dali-Dali, in die Gänge kommen, sich beeilen, sputen, sich ranhalten K wie...
... after the speaker by ~66 PRONOUNCEITPERFECTlyiN ENGlislt UNiT TIlE SOUNds Itl, Idl • EXAMPLES NiNETEEN Ipl Ibl pin bin pet bet Introducing the Sound It! pack pole ... universe PRONOUNCEITPERFECTly UNiT iN ENGlislt Two TIlE SouNd (When the occurs before a word beginning with a vowel sound, the!; is pronounced liy I (See Unit Four, page II.) III Introducing the ... ends in the sound /t/, pronounceit either with or without the puff of air There is no difference in meaning Listen to the following sentences and repeat them after the speaker With the puff NiNETEEN:...
... articles, especially definite article, when producing noun phrases inEnglish Definite article does not contain any information in itself, its meaning is that the noun it modifies has a specific ... categorized in three groups: intra-lingual source (errors that are caused by interference between English items), inter-lingual (errors that are caused by the interference of Vietnamese into English) , ... when writing inEnglish How to cope with and when to give feedback to these errors are vital in teaching language as it may either result in motivation or discouragement in language learning Some...
... (2008) in his M.A thesis “A Study on the Language inEnglish Blogs Written by American People” investigates the language inEnglish blogs writtten by American people to find out its distinctive linguistics ... opening and closing salutions, paralinguistics cues and simplifications of language However, it limited itself within business e-mails composed by Vietnamese business people only, and the instances ... illocutionary acts such as informing, advising, offer, promise, commenting ● Perlocutionary act is what we bring about or achieve by saying something, such as convincing, persuading, deterring perlocutionary...
... states in “Cohesion inEnglish (1976: 143) “ellipsis is substitution by zero”; it is a form of substitution in which the item is substituted by nothing The information that should be inserted in ... belongs "Meaning" hereby refers to whatever should be captured by a good dictionary For instance, the word “bank” has several distinct lexical definitions, including “financial institution” and ... does so when in final position The meaning is ‘the information conveyed by this item in this context is new, but the item itself has occurred before 1.7.2 Verbal Substitution According to Halliday...
... a little 60% of the lecturers think that their students feel interesting and 40% of them think their students not find interesting in the texts There are many short coming in students‟ learning ... activities to help students improve their English skills It supplies many skills such as listening skill, speaking skill, reading skill and writing skill Each unit contains some reading texts with ... understanding and thinking in a logical way about thing; showing this ability) The consonant “t” in this adjective is dropped “Intelligence” means the ability to learn, understand and think in a logical...
... major findings above, some following suggestions are made to improve the quality of teaching and learning SVA inEnglish writing at high shool 3.2.1 Suggestion for teaching SVA inEnglish writing ... common indefinite pronouns + Singular indefinite pronouns: anybody anyone anything each either everyone everybody everything neither nobody noone nothing one somebody someone something + Plural indefinite ... Implications 3.1 Major findings 3.2 Implications for teaching and learning SVA inEnglish writing to Vietnamese high school students 3.2.1 Suggestion for teaching SVA inEnglish writing 3.2.1 Suggestion...
... the preposition and its linguistic context, especially between the preposition and its argument For instance, we cannot think of the meaning of a spatial preposition without bearing in mind some ... relations: at, in, after, before, for, during, since … - Recipient, goal, target: for, to, at - Support, opposition: for, with, against … - Agent: by, with… - Instrument, means, manner: in, by, with, according ... Pattern 5: in + the + rooms / an area of a room; buildings: • They were sitting having dinner in the restaurant Pattern 6: in + containers • She kept the cards in a little box Pattern 7: in + a/the...
... p.52) In the first instance, it saves time, it refers to curtsey[ing] while youre thinking what to say In this case, it is of extended reference In the second instance, to disbelieve it, the it ... comparison is in terms of quality, it is expressed in either of two ways: (i) In the Epithet element in the nominal group, either by a comparative adjective (eg: easier, more difficult in easier ... suggestions in teaching and learning English reference For all the above-mentioned reasons, in this thesis, the writer focuses on an error analysis of using reference in written Englishby secondary-school...
... verbs (Including the ordinary verb do) but not with other auxiliary verbs Do is followed by the infinitive without to Eg: I dont like football not I like not football In addition, we can find in ... for pleasant actions Eg: Its lovely to have children playing in the garden again 30 The difference between infinitive and ing form is that infinitive form is used for things that happen(ed) and ... it is usually used in negative and interrogative sentences We can use itin the present and the past simple but it is more common in the present than in the past, and it is more common in British...
... commit in using ellipsis in English? What might be the causes and sources of the errors in using ellipsis in English? What suggestions can be made in the learning and teaching processes in order ... verbal groups systems are: (1) Finiteness: finite or non- finite If finite: indicative or imperative The principal If indicative: modal or non- modal (2) Polarity: positive or negative, and marked ... possibility of "filling out" with any other items In (b), "studying" can be interpreted as "I have been studying" or "we have been studying" It cannot be replaced by "I will be studying" or "we...
... a cold wind began to move in the wind There were clouds in the sky, and it began to rain Soon the wind and the rain to Port au Prince (15:30) b) Ghost/ Apparition (Ma) Ghost is an entity on the ... the evil in the world that coincides with the purpose of the writer when writing about this type of ghosts An interesting thing in this horror novel is the lack of a clear protagonist In "Dracula", ... driving purpose of Bram Stoker in writing this well- known horror novel I think that reading ghost stories does not mean that we wing ourselves for the superstition In fact, we find an exit for...
... “showing or helping someone to learn how to something, giving instructions, guiding in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or understand.” Teaching is also defined ... English, they comprehend English language by listening, switching into their native languages and then translating or changing into Vietnamese and then English again Limited literacy or Vietnamese ... discussing the nature of speaking To Brown (1994), Burn and Joyce, (1997), Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving and processing information; Its...
... example: Outlining: 5-7 minutes Drafting: 13-15 minutes Reading again and editing: 5-7 minutes Rewriting: 5-10 minutes Among the causes leading to the failure of students in gaining a coherent ... types to practice writing, such as filling in a form, writing about people background, writing a letter, describing information from a table, writing a profile, etc and writing an English paragraph ... picked up by exposure.” It means that writing is a productive skill we cannot acquire it without being trained Seeing writing in a different point of view, Leki (1976) states that: “Writing is communicating...
... swept on by the people behind him and borne on by the current He went down the Boulevard de Strasbourg, seeing nothing, bumping awkwardly into the passers -by He had eaten nothing since morning The ... good price for it Christophe only half understood him; knowing nothing of the conditions of life in Paris, and with his shoulder aching with the weight of his bag, he accepted everything: he was, ... purse At last in a side street he saw a dirty inn with a cheap eating-house on the ground floor It was called Hôtel de la Civilisation A fat man in his shirt-sleeves was sitting smoking at a table:...