... study of politeness strategies in the conversational activities of the coursebook “Market Leader, Intermediate” (New edition)” is the result of my own work for the Minor Degree of Master of Arts ... employed in three types of speech acts of the coursebook “Market Leader, Intermediate” 34 Figure 7: The frequency of negative politeness strategies in terms of functions of utterances As we can ... LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES TABLES Table 1: The five general functions of speech acts Table 2: The frequency of occurrence of politeness strategies in conversational activities of the course...
... activities of the coursebook Inside Out (Pre-Intermediate) with the hope of improving the teaching of communicative English II Aims of the study The aims of the study are: - To study the performance of ... analyzes the performance of politeness strategies in the conversational activities of the coursebook (Book - Pre-Intermediate) in terms of the performance and frequency of positive and negative ... HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN THÚY HÒA A STUDY OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE CONVERSATIONS OF THE COURSEBOOK “INSIDE OUT”...
... of the Coursebook “Top Notch 2” Pre-intermediate (the First Edition) Is the result of my own research in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Art at University of ... strategies in the coursebook “Top Notch 2”.As for English learner of this course book, the research hopefully help not only raise the students‟ awareness of the importance of politeness strategies ... use of certain types of politeness strategies can be affected by the purpose of the utterances or the kinds of acts Whereas the illustrations of positive politeness strategies, especially of the...
... teaching Finally, major issues in coursebook evaluation such as definitions ofcoursebook evaluation, purposes ofcoursebook evaluation, types ofcoursebook evaluation are presented clearly ... Coursebook Evaluation………………………………………………… 12 1.4.1 Definitions ofcoursebook evaluation……………………………………….13 1.4.2 Purposes and the importance ofcoursebook evaluation…………………….13 1.4.3 Types of ... REVIEW…………………………………………… 1.1 Course books in Language Teaching and Learnin………………………4 1.1.1Definitions ofcourse book, text book and material…………………………… 1.1.2 Characteristics of a coursebook …………………………………………...
... Chart of strategies: Off-record politeness of Brown and Levinson (c.f Mai Dang [10, 40]) 38 CHAPTER II CLASSIFICATION OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE CONVERSATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE COURSEBOOK ... v) Off-record 34 CHAPTER II: CLASSIFICATION OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE CONVERSATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE COURSEBOOK “NEW CUTTING EDGE” I, II, III 39 2.1 Frequency of ... analyzed the coursebook in the light of Brown and Levinson theory which is considered as the most influential one In this thesis, off – record strategies are found in the coursebook beside positive...
... definition or explanation of the key terms is introduced 1.1 Discourse and discourse analysis 1.1.1 Discourse 1.1 Discourse and discourse analysis 1.1.1 Discourse 1.1.2 Discourse and Text 1.1.3 ... are extracted from six units of the coursebook EBS which are included in the ESPcourse level 2, the course designed for third year students at TUU This coursebook was chosen as the main material ... comprehension of BE texts Part B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND This chapter addressed a review of literature related to concepts of discourse, text, discourse analysis, discourse context,...
... strategies in the coursebook “Top Notch 2”.As for English learner of this course book, the research hopefully help not only raise the students‟ awareness of the importance of politeness strategies ... promotion of integrated language- skills practice as well as the inclusion of topical themes in interactive conversations In order to make better and more effective use of this coursebook series ... objectives of gaining insights into the positive and negative politeness strategies in the conversations of the coursebook “Top Notch 2” by Joan M Saslow and Allen Ascher -the third book in the...
... qualification ofESPteachers The capability of the ESPteachers has often been considered one of the factors affecting the effectiveness ofESP Without well-prepared teachers, ESP classes are often ... expectations toward ESP The interviews with five teachersof this course are conducted to explore teachers opinions and perceptions ofESP courses and their expectations of future ESP pedagogy II.2.3 ... effectiveness ofESP courses The significance of the present study, therefore, lies for its exploration of the students’ perceptions of their ESP learning, the teachers perceptions ofESP teaching...
... all of the following: • • Loss of appetite Nausea and vomiting • Weakness and fatigue • Abdominal pain, especially around your liver • Dark urine • Yellowing of your skin and the whites of your ... of the protection offered by current childhood (27) , most meningitis cases now occur in young (28) between the ages of 15 and 24 Older adults also tend to have a higher incidence of ... than young children The cause of most cases of meningitis is a viral (30) , but bacterial and fungal infections also can (31) to meningitis The severity of the inflammation and the best...
... questions of the study are: - What kind of politeness strategies are used in requests in the course book? - Which politeness strategies are used more in requests in the course book? Scope of the ... CHART 3.4: Off-record strategies in requests in the coursebook .39 PIE-CHART 3.1: Politeness strategies in requests in the coursebook seen from S-H relationship 43 TABLE OF CONTENTS ... the coursebook .35 CHART 3.2: Positive politeness strategies in requests in the coursebook .36 CHART 3.3: Negative politeness strategies in requests in the course book...
... forms part of the World Water Assessment Programme WWAP The course materials consist of a coursebook Course A Basics of Water Resources Pieter van der Zaag, UNESCO-IHE Delft & University of Zimbabwe ... contributes to runoff The sum of Qs and Qg is the total runoff Q of Eq (2.19) The total evaporation E consists of the sum of I and T At a monthly time scale, the storage S is the sum of the water ... Basics of Water Resources CoursebookCourse A C TA A LIC Av eadMngmn inIn rntioaCoe tio dic n aae et te a nl o pra n (SC-2003/WS/73) WaterNet, in collaboration with the Centre of Conflict...
... definition of ESP, characteristics ofESP discourse 16 CHAPTER 2: ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL COHESIVE DEVICES IN SOME WRITTEN DISCOURSES OF EC 2.1 An overview of the study As a matter of the ... written discourses of EC 2 The texts used for this study are taken from the EC coursebook used for second year students in Faculty of Chemistry at HNUE The coursebook was designed by our ESPteachers ... Repetition of Phrases As well as repetition of words, repetition of phrases also makes the coherence of the texts Repetition of phrases appears quite often in written discourses of EC The most often...
... course syllabus had been well followed by teachers In terms of types of activities carried out during class time, half of the surveyed teachers often went through almost tasks in the coursebook ... demand of the ESP end-term test Table 5: Teachers knowledge of and attitudes towards the ESP final achievement test of the second semester It is stated in Table that 100% of the surveyed teachers ... tests, teachers can also self-evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching methods, the appropriateness of the course objectives, the usefulness of the coursebook and the suitability of test...
... teaching reading of the teachers as well as learning reading of the students Significance of the study This study is of great importance to the author herself as well as to all teachersof English ... reading comprehension Aims of the study The purpose of the study is to find ways of developing the effective reading materials so as to improve the teaching reading skill of the teachers as well as ... discussion……………………………………………………………… 27 3.2.1 The teachers and the students‟ evaluations of the current textbook Business Basics……………………………………………………………………… 27 3.2.2 The teachers and the students‟ expectations of supplementary...
... written discourses of EC 2 The texts used for this study are taken from the EC coursebook used for second year students in Faculty of Chemistry at HNUE The coursebook was designed by our ESPteachers ... discourses of EC from which we analyze grammatical and lexical cohesive devices AIMS OF THE STUDY The aims of the study are: - giving an overview of theoretical background of discourse and discourse ... cohesive devices; concept ofESP and ESP discourse - describing and analyzing grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in the coursebookof EC for second year students in Faculty of Chemistry at HNUE...
... score of learners’ perception of problem solving course, b) the mean score of each cluster, and detailed mean score of items in every cluster The overall mean score of learners’ perception of problem ... statistics of the cumulative of items 14, 33 ………… 32 Table 4.14 Descriptive statistics of students’ perspective of the appropriateness of the material………………………………………………… …32 viii LIST OF FIGURES ... 2.2.3 Framework ofcourse evaluation…………………………… Figure 2.3.3.2 Framework of problem solving skill in language education course …………………………………………………… 19 Figure 2.2 Framework of cluster of questionnaire……………………...
... once delivered the goods goof- [to goof off] to waste time: -+ He will goof off if you don't watch him all the time [to goof up] to ruin; to spoil: -+ That soldier can goof things up faster than ... Book of Idioms Preface Objective The Book ofIdioms is designed to assist in the acquisition of current American English idiomatic expressions Intended Audience This book was written ... mountain- [a mountain of (paper) work] a lot of work piled up: -+ There was a mountain of paper work on my desk when I got back from my 39 Bookof Idioms vacation [to make a mountain out of a molehill]...