prosodic features of english language

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:20

... Testing Some Suprasegmental Features of English Speech Mehmet Celik Testing Listening Stress and Tones Listening skills in English require an ability to identify stressed ... tape-recorded list of words. The teacher can have the option of supplying testees with the written form of words. In either case, the test sheet can have squares to represent the number of syllables ... in an utterance, and tones. While the testing of the identification of syllables can be done on individual and unrelated words, identification of tonic stress and tones are more appropriately...

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... Practice of English Language Teaching deals specifically with the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). It is not focused especially on English as a Second Language (ESL) although much of ... users of a language are proficient in a range of language skills, though not all of them have the same range of sub-skills. It will be our responsibility to see that the students' language ... subconscious knowledge of language use, and of language as discourse. Communicative competence involves not just language competence (grammar, vocabulary, etc.) but also a knowledge of how language is used...

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... published studies of the English literacy of children in Canada who are English language learners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the read- ing development of ELLs and characteristics of reading ... experienced in one language will be experienced in other languages. LIPKA , SIEGEL, AND VUKOVIC: LITERACY SKILLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS 43 with measures of English rhyme detection and English phoneme ... 2 years in full-day English language schools by the time of the study. ELLs had continued exposure to and education in their native language, although English was the language of instruction in...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20

... expelled from modern language, or…it will be replaced with some new popular word with two “o”s. You never know… I’m a students of faculty of English, so I’m very keen on exploring English. And I think ... every wedsite. TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction Title English slang” Reasonable Development  Definite of slang  Defining slang  Extent and origins of slang  Varieties of slang  Definitions Conclusion References ... technical vocabulary of a particular profession. Jargon, like many examples of slang, may be used to exclude non–group members from the conversation, but in general has the function of allowing its...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 09:20

... consists of the following 4 elements: ã Selection of application domain. ã Development of a manually-bracketed corpus (tree- bank) of the domain. ã Creation of a grammar with a large coverage of ... broad but not unrestricted range of sentence types and the availability of large corpora of computer manuals. We amassed a corpus of 40 million words, consisting of several hundred computer manuals. ... incorrect, since two of its part -of- speech labels and one of its bracket labels differ from those of the treebank parse. Grammar writing and statistical estimation: The task of developing the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... number of times b follows a in the corpus. 2. Divide this value by the number of times a occurs in the corpus. Such a model is clearly insufficient for expressing the grammar of a natural language. ... this class may expand into the class of all nouns. Once word classes are found, lexical features can be extracted by assuming that there is a feature of the language which accounts for each word ... results and see that the lexical features found seem to be correct, but how can we judge that the features are indeed the correct ones? How can one set of hypothesized features mean- ingfully be...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... variety of needs of English were often “on call” for the variety of needs of English were often “on call” for the variety of needs of English were often “on call” for the variety of needs of English ... assess the English language profi ciency of all California’s English language language profi ciency of all California’s English language language profi ciency of all California’s English language ... teaching of English language learners. improve their teaching of English language learners. improve their teaching of English language learners.  eir top choices included second language...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 07:20

... understanding of the need and 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, ... group of regular classes consists of students of both sexes and group of in-service classes are of students of different ages, occupations and sexes. VŨ THỊ VIỆT HƯƠNG THE USE OF GROUP ... sè 4b-2008 37 correction of students' papers helps teachers consolidate their knowledge of their English language. 3.3. Advantages and disadvantages of using group writing Table...

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... headlines of a range of English newspapers. She identifies the following linguistic features as typical of headlines in English newspapers: the omission of articles; the omission of verbs and of auxiliaries ... overall picture of the structure of English and Vietnamese headlines, a description of syntactic features of headlines including structural and functional headline types of the two languages will ... studies of headlines will be reviewed below. 1.1.1. Language of headlines Straumann's (1935) study of English headlines is pioneer work. His approach is to treat the language of headlines...

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... number of students studying English in your school: Grade 6 . Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 2. The number of English teachers: 3. The average size of your classes: 4. What percentage of English ... Years of teaching: 4. School: 5. Tick which qualification you have: CDSP/CQ in English  CDSP BA in Russian + CDSP/TC in English  CDSP/TC in English  DHSP BA in Russian + CDSP/TC in English ... What the students hear is usually out of their control and often unclear. Their knowledge of situations and topics help them make sense of it. Using English in the classroom as much as possible...

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