Adaptive grammar

Error types for corrective feedback. Research on the error types that need corrective feedback has reported mixed findings, indicating that while corrective feedback influenced the improvement of linguistic knowledge, its effects depended on the types of errors. Ferris (2006) categorized errors into five major groups (verb errors, noun errors, article errors, lexical errors, and sentence errors) and reported that students who received feedback only reduced the incidents of verb errors. Van Beuningen

In today’s work places correct grammar is very important. How does texting and using modern technology to communicate with each other affect our grammar? I believe texting and instant messaging has screwed us in communicating. According to articles written by Susan Adams and Kyle Weins they believe younger generations are struggling with skills necessary to survive the modern workplace. There are many skills needed in work places many of these include communication, editing, listening, and writing

influential to the modernist imagism that was prevalent in early twentieth century literature. This style of writing and the poets’ approach to it can be seen in the poems Identity, a Poem by Stein and Meeting-House Hill by Lowell. The way syntax and grammar are used in these poems differs greatly between each according to the poet’s personal style and intention. While Lowell has clear imagery that is created in her poem, it does not challenge as many grammatical rules of English as Stein’s has. However

SLI is a disorder diagnosed when oral language lags behind other areas of development for no apparent reason (Bishop & Snowling, 2004). Many studies report that SLI affects a relatively large percentage of the child population, around 5%- 10%, (McArthur et al., 2000). Furthermore, McArthur et al. (2000) showed that more than 50% of children with dyslexia also meet the criteria for SLI (see also Marshall, Harcourt-Brown, Ramus & Van der Lely, 2009 and McArthur & Hogben, 2001). Bishop and Snowling

No Need for the Lex-Syn Parameter: The Case of Reflexivization Reinhart and Siloni (2005; R&S hereafter) claim that two distinct patterns are observed across languages regarding reflexivization; and this crosslinguistic variation, according to R&S, can be attributed to the setting of the Lex(icon)-Syn(tax) Parameter in each language, which determines whether arity operations like reflexivization should apply in the lexicon or in the syntax. Specifically, according to R&S, in languages like English

Omar Alharthi Prof. Hagstrom LING 408 12.7.2014 Final Exam Part 1 Discuss briefly any four of the following topics (about 100-300 words each). Provide examples to illustrate your discussion. a. Aspect: Aspect grammatical category of verbs denotes the flow of time related to the event they express. Unlike tense that is semantically rather related to the event in time, aspect is about time moving through the event (Riemer 314). The difference between, for example, “I walked” and “I was walking” is

Group: Intermediate Date: Nov 29/2012 Time: 2 hours No. of Students: 20 Recent topic work: Students have learned coordinated conjunctions – this is a review of target language Recent language work: n/a Aims: Functional: Learning to express ideas with joining words Grammatical: Coordinating Conjunctions Objectives: Students should be able to write a simple paragraph using coordinated conjunctions, and to understand how to use coordinated conjunctions correctly. To engage and motivate students to

My friend Ling asked me to help her with her English pronunciation at the beginning of this year. I tutored her for two weeks and we did not have very official tutoring time; so mostly, we communicated in English and I corrected her whenever I spotted a mistake. She is a Chinese girl who comes from Chengdu, and she has problems producing some of the sounds. For example, she always pronounces “six” as “sex”, which ultimately made her come to me since it kept embarrassing her. I first taught her some

using examples of clever gambling advertisements. These components strengthen her argument on the surface by creatively appealing to emotion and reason. Jimenez unfortunately fails to create a convincing argument by implementing several improper grammar techniques and a couple of fallacies, weakening the credibility of her argument. Gloria Jimenez’ essay, while emotionally appealing, is incapable of withstanding the criticism produced and created by a lack of grammatical expertise and writing practices

Exploring the interaction between animals and humans, the poems “Traveling through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” both analyze this relationship with unique insightfulness. William Stafford, the author of “Traveling through the Dark,” depicts an accidental encounter with a dead deer on the road, while Maxine Kumin, the author of “Woodchucks,” invites the readers to witness a hateful holocaust against woodchucks. Although focusing on similar topics with regard to human’s reaction towards the death of