trace the origin of english in nigeria

... 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 ... Modern English Hie dygel lond 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 ... 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) PORTUGAL...

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... không…? Interestingly, in Vietnamese, to emphasis a confirmation, we can reverse the position of the tag to the beginning of the question (Thiêm, 2004) The tags can be put at the beginning or ... request for information The semantics refers to the close and intense relationship between the form and the meaning of a sentence (Thiêm, 2004) Comparing and contrasting questions in terms of their ... examples above, interrogative operators are placed at the beginning of the questions, accompanied by a rising intonation at the end of the questions when they are asked Moreover, interrogative...

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2013, 09:28

... Objectives of the survey: The questions in the survey questionnaire were divided into three main areas of study, including: the causes of disruptive behaviours, the reactions of discipline and the codes ... go further to explain discipline problems in the light of interpersonal relationships between teachers and learners In this exhaustive research, they investigate the different theories of interpersonal ... behaviours as one way of defining discipline His main concerns lie in the reasons for discipline and the trends towards the emergence of the disruptive behaviors: ‘At some stage of their lives, all...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06

... occurring in the students' tests *try blocked, *fail completing, *require to improve, *gain the right serving, * win a point continuing, *use the bounce passing, *prevent the ball touching 23 ... line instead of goal line, * two in zero instead of two the second verb into the V-ing or V-ed form They were found that to nil students chose *try blocking instead of try to block, *deemed having ... and writing Collocations run through the whole of the English language, - To point out of the collocational errors in the language of sports between English and Vietnamese as in any other languages...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:19

... Dictionary) Translation” is the transformation of a text originally in one language into an equivalent in the content of the message and the formal features and the roles of the original” (Bell,1991) Translation ... communicate the same message), while taking into account a number of constraints These constraints include context, the rules of grammar of both languages, their writing conventions, their idioms, and the ... the art of restraining power” (Henry Kissinger,Diplomacy book, 1994) Diplomacy is “more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:55

... Aims of the study - Giving the general overview of terminology and methods applied in translation of terminology - Helping the readers have more understanding of English law terminology in trade ... contract - Raising the reader’s awareness and effectively using on law terminology in the context Design of the study Part I: Introduction Rationale of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study ... translation reproduces the “message” of the original but tends to distort nuances of meaning by preferring colloquialisms and the idiom where these not exists in the original Eg : A word to the wise is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:55

... at the top of the page / of + N 24 at the end of the road at the corner of the street in the corner of the room at the front / at the back of a building, hall, group of people In the front / the ... (Manchester) in (the ocean) on (the beach) in (the desert) in (the mountains) at (the post office) on (MK Street) on / at (the corner) in (the street) on (the island) in (the west) at (the top of) on (the ... coat behind in the office (the office is considered as a building) • There’s a good film at the cinema (the cinema as a public place for seeing films) • It was very cold in the cinema (the cinema...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:04

... suggest that the choice is either to invest in language skills or in other forms of education In fact, one of the key findings in this paper is that knowledge of the foreign language, English, as ... existing results in the literature Our first innovation in the paper is to include English language knowledge in the regression As with Hebrew, we begin by including dummy variables for knowing English ... ending up just above the cutoff The growth in skill is likely to be less than the average difference in skill of those above and below the cutoff The current version of the paper replaces the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20

... hoping to raise awareness concerned with the translation of computing English Aims of the study The study is aimed at Pinpointing the prominent factors affecting the translation of computing English, ... the object of the verb in the active form in an active structure, becomes the subject of the verb in the passive form; while the performer of an action (the agent) – the subject of the verb in ... 2004), then bearing other meanings rather than the meaning in the field of computing, for example, post (g i - thông báo - lên) in the Internet context means (g i th ) in general or install (cài software...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:49

... rules in the inflection of English verbs C The determination of word-breaking rules as used in end -of -the- line practices in type composition D The determination of parts -of- speech assignments E The ... with the 22,568 internal consonant strings examined for the present study of the two vowel string words Finally, we have discussed only the question of determining the affixing strings The more ... with offering an operational definition of 'affix of English' , rather than with the detailed problems that arise in the application of the definition However, we must add a word about some of these...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... contrasting patterns China The Chinese Diaspora originated in the sea-faring communities of the southern coastal provinces and the trading outposts they established in the littoral cities of Southeast ... Engagement in Countries of Origin The dense web of ties between Diaspora and country of origin is, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the creation of individuals and groups acting on their own initiative, ... even the major player, in attracting Diaspora investors Writing of investment from Taiwan into mainland China, Hsing makes the point that the partners to the overseas Chinese investors in many...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... ―material to wrap things (A tiny dangling piece of paper-hanging chad-remains and can fall back to fill the hole in the card)… The denominal verb, though, only contains the sense of putting that material ... synonym in the language for the intended conversion-verb, as is the verb to ring, conversion of bell into to bell would not take place, since the meaning is already contained in the existing verb ... normal and the listeners still catch the main ideas, not misleading E.g.22: He puts the note in the pocket →He pockets the note E.g.23: He puts the ring in the pocket 26 →He pockets the ring E.g.24:...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20

... whose meaning does not follow from the meaning of the individual words of which it is composed In the English expression to kick the bucket, for example, a listener knowing only the meaning of kick ... out of the illusionary imaginings of lower mind Why is it that so few individuals have the courage to look within themselves for the source of their complaints? Why is it that so few are willing ... from the meaning of the word which constitutes it Eg: Dont teach fish to swim Vs Out of the frying pan and in to the fire - Very often the meaning of proverbs cannot be decoded from decomposing...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:21

... sounds in the second language than they in the first For example, the /b/ in English can be pronounced as either a /v/ or /b/ in Spanish, and the “i” in English as in the word “it” is pronounced in ... answering correctly on the word meaning posttest Higher levels of English proficiency were associated with more learning of vocabulary In discussing the findings, the authors note the importance of ... oral proficiency was positively related to reading comprehension for these children An analysis of line-by-line reading in English indicated that the low scores of the less English- proficient...

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