... following items: • Language: Linguistic difference between two languages students' level of proficiency inthe native language and their knowledge ofthe second language, the dialect ofthe native ... Objectives ofthe survey: The questions inthe survey questionnaire were divided into three main areas of study, including: the causes of disruptive behaviours, the reactions of discipline and the codes ... needed 2 Scope ofthe Study The study mainly deals with the practical issues of second language acquisition inthe classroom, therefore only the main theoretical aspects of linguistics shall...
... understanding ofthe reading process, including reading failure Since the concept of learning disability was first outlined by Samuel Kirk (1963), investigators have concentrated on identifying the ... students in grades and who were either native English speakers, Chinese -English speaking, or Spanish -English speaking For both the Chinese and Spanish ELL groups, English was thelanguageof school instruction, ... exposure to English, literacy instructional methods, the proportion of ELLs inthe classroom in which the child is being educated, and the specific characteristics ofthe first languageofthe student...
... sounds inthe second language than they inthe first For example, the /b/ inEnglish can be pronounced as either a /v/ or /b/ in Spanish, and the “i” inEnglish as inthe word “it” is pronounced in ... children inthe lowest reading group were relatively orally proficient inEnglish (after two years of schooling in English) , but still couldn’t read well In summarizing the findings, the authors ... schools) Furthermore, only 40% ofthe studies took place in secondlanguage or immersion settings The other studies took place in foreign -language settings Notable in examining the effectiveness of strategies...
... on the combination of individual writing assignment; if students not joining this activity, their final mark reduced The final mark being the average ofthe marks of group papers, individual ... writing accounts for 30% of all the writing assessments Commenting on the value of group writing and making it a compulsory writing task Paying more attention to the role of group leader and the ... Though these techniques are the same as with any kind of writing when employed in group writing, their strengths are much intensified thanks to the participation of more individuals in contributing...
... in science Competing interests There is a growing debate around theworld about the rapid penetration oftheEnglishlanguage into various expressions of human activity, including science [6-9] ... an Englishspeaking international conference Finally, it is possible that the organizing committee ofthe studied conference might have invited the use ofEnglishin an attempt to increase the ... written in English, indicating a significant penetration oftheEnglishlanguage into a German national multidisciplinary conference We believe that the results of our study merit attention from the...
... Evaluating materials 276 Bibliography 285 Index 289 Preface Since the publication ofThe Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching in 1983 much has happened intheworldoflanguage teaching: new ... possibly ?' 15 THE PRACTICE OFENGLISHLANGUAGE TEACHING Much of what we say, then, is conditioned by the purposes we have, e.g apologising, greeting, denying, warning, offering etc Using language ... be proficient at all the skills in their own languages Then our task will be twofold: to give them confidence inEnglish and to equip them with hitherto unknown skills in either their own mother...
... soothing sympathy which he was always fond of imagining between the soul of man and the things of nature.[20] Or take again the "Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle," an incident inthe Wars ofthe ... power of exciting the sympathy ofthe reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination The thought ... Douglas, the combat of James and Roderick Dhu, the summons ofthe fiery cross, and the kindling ofthe need-fires those romantic equivalents ofthe lampadephoroi inthe "Agamemnon." Inthe series of...
... experience in this kind of coding operation The rules take the form of simple questions, answerable with either "YES" or "NO" Coding indications depend upon these answers Can the noun, inthe singular, ... question of consumer reaction to it With these thoughts in mind, a close examination of several texts, in English, was undertaken to determine something about the patterns of occurrence ofthe articles ... question is meaningful only in terms ofthe incrementing of consumer appeal ofthe product, and it would be difficult to answer without research in that very area From the point of view of an MT research...
... evident in and of themselves with minimal positioning on the part ofthe authors The demonstrable increase inthe use of adjectives with the potential to bias the reader may indicate that the interpretation ... examined in tandem with the changing role ofthe impact factor in assessing the merits of a body of work and the "impact" this has had on the scientific community Briefly, the impact factor of ... The use of biased languagein clinical journals was infrequent, with no increase inthe use of value-laden words over the twenty year interval (figure 3) When the fundamental journals and clinical...
... purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2007, 4:49 Varying the infecting dose The outcome of viral infection, in general, is thought to be related to the size ofthe infecting dose ... can either slow or accelerate the progression of infection – depending on the structure ofthe network [614] There are rich traditions of modelling centered specifically on the dynamics of infections ... Av (t), inthe population was the integral ofthe mean viral load from the beginning of a given simulation (time 0) until time t, and was used as a proxy for the final size and severity of an outbreak...