THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH
... The history of English begins a little after A.D 600 English is a Germanic Language of the Indo –European Family Indo – European English French Latin Greek Swedish Russian Hindi History of English ... bones, and threadbare, too • Modern English (1500-now) :the change was the elimination of a vowel sound and the Great Vowel Shift WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS FROM OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGES SPAIN ( mosquito) ... Lonely and waste is the land they inhabit, Warigeath, wulf –hleothu, windige Wolf –cliffs wild and windy headlands, naessas, Ledges of mist Where and mountain Frence fen –gelid, there forge –steam...
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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 ... Although the structural properties of English have not hindered the spread of English, the spread of the language globally cannot be attributed to intrinsic linguistic qualities The spread of English...
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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 ... Although the structural properties of English have not hindered the spread of English, the spread of the language globally cannot be attributed to intrinsic linguistic qualities The spread of English...
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The grammar of english grammars
... II Of Grammatical Authorship Chapter III Of Grammatical Success and Fame Chapter IV Of the Origin of Language Chapter V Of the Power of Language Chapter VI Of the Origin and History of the English ... Changes and Specimens of the English Language Chapter VIII Of the Grammatical Study of the English Language Chapter IX Of the Best Method of Teaching Grammar Chapter X Of Grammatical Definitions ... to the study of English grammar, if not to the authors in question The exposition, however, that I have made of the errors and defects of other writers, is only an incident, or underpart, of the...
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A STUDY ON THE USE OF CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE AS MOTIVATION FOR SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEAC
... Acknowledgements Abstract Table of contents PART I: INTRODUCTION Rationale of the Study Significance of the Study Scope of the Study Aims of the Study Overview of the Study PART II: DEVELOPMENT ... in the language classroom This may be a composite of the classroom itself, the lesson routines, the audio-visual aids, etc The triangle of the teacher, the learner and the environment are the ... attitudes • the extent of teacher’s responsibility • - the philosophy of the school the general pattern of staff behaviour The classroom itself: • • the temperature/ fresh air • the acoustics • the lines...
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The future of English - David Graddol
... but have fallen off the edge of an old one A world in transition But there are reasons why we ought to take stock and reassess the place of English in the world The future of the English language ... together Computers and the programs which make them useful were largely the invention of Englishspeaking countries The hardware and software reflected the needs of the English language The early systems ... communication, if only because of the massive traffic between English- speaking countries and other parts of the world The dominance of English in the telephone conversations of the world is unlikely to...
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Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life
... how living systems are able to sustain themselves against the downward pull of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and how thermodynamics affects the origin of information-rich, living systems Finally, ... life is one of the great unsolved mysteries in science (Radetsky1992; Wade 2000) At the heart of this mystery is the generation of the critical information that is necessary to provide the three ... described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics For them, the origin of life is nothing more or less than the emergence of sufficient biological information to enable a system of biopolymers to (1) store...
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The Practice of English Language Teaching
... with the right level of challenge Much of the teacher's work in the classroom concerns getting the level of challenge right: this involves the type of tasks set, the speed expected from the student, ... words, e.g 'The girl loved the man', 'The 29 American ate the hamburger', 'The artist painted the boy' In other words the sentence has changed, but the rule has stayed the same We can go further than ... skills in their own languages Then our task will be twofold: to give them confidence in English and to equip them with hitherto unknown skills in either their own mother tongue or English At...
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A STUDY ON THE TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TERMS INTO VIETNAMESE
... study, scope of the study, and method of the study are presented The Reason of the study mentions the reason why I choosing this thesis The Aims of the study lists all the aims that the paper has ... achieve The Methods describe the ways with which the study was carried out The Scope of the study clarifies the areas and subjects which was studied The Design gives the outline of the main parts of ... Design of the study This Graduation paper is divided into three parts, in which the second is the most important part Part I is the INTRODUCTION in which reason of the study, aims of the study,...
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A study on the translation of english important diplomatic terms in diplomacy documents
... TABLE OF CONTENT Acknowledgement PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale of the study Scope of the study Method of the study Aims of the study Design of the ... number of constraints These constraints include context, the rules of grammar of both languages, their writing conventions, their idioms, and the like 1.2 Types of Translation There are types of ... Embassy The residence of an ambassador In recent years, also inaccurately used to denote the building which contains the offices of the ambassador and other key members of his staff The proper...
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A study on the translation of english terms of law in trading contracts
... in the context Design of the study Part I: Introduction Rationale of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study Aims of the study Design of the study Part II: development Chapter I: Theoretical ... reproduces the matter without the manner, or the content without the form of the original The advantage of this type of translation is that the text in TL sounds more natural On the contrary, the disadvantage ... on the readership of the translation as was obtained on the readership of the original There are different levels of equivalence: equivalence in respect of context, of semantics, of grammar, of...
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