Australian English vocabulary

Sort By:
Page 6 of 24 - About 231 essays
  • Decent Essays

    China, France, etc., as there is no need for translators. Australians speak English, although it does have a distinctive accent and vocabulary. The first step in conducting business with Australia is making an appointment. Appointments are easy to

    • 654 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    teaching children reading skills and strategies, teachers start with explicit instruction before gradually giving students responsibility and independence in using these strategies for reading. Teachers must understand the importance of oral language, vocabulary, concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics and comprehension within the reading process to ensure that children are well equipped with these elements prior to learning to read. Knowledge and understanding of these concepts give teachers the

    • 1096 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    According to the Australian Curriculum, Years 3 and 4 students are to become independent readers that are able to describe “complex sequences of events that extend over several pages and involve unusual happenings within a framework of familiar experiences” through complex language features. This includes varied sentence structures, unfamiliar vocabulary, significant high-frequency sight words and decoding of words phonically, and a variety of punctuation conventions, illustrations and diagrams (ACARA

    • 1570 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The text To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960), may pose certain difficulties to students who speak languages or dialects other than the Standard Australian English (SAE), referring to students from a language background other than English (LBOTE) known as EAL/D learners (ACARA, 2014). These difficulties may be lexical semantics, vocabulary, language techniques such as metaphors and pronunciation, which are factors that need to be understood for students to make meaning with the text or the

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    continent. In land area it 's the sixth largest for a country and the smallest continent.<br><br>Australia is a very dry, thinly populated country. Very few coastal areas receive enough rainfall to support a large population. The largest group of Australian people live in two large cities, Sydney and Melbourne. The vast interior is mainly desert or grassland and there are very few settlements. As a whole, the country has a density of six people per square mile.<br><br>The down under is famous for vast

    • 2100 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    2008 National Assessment program, where Chigeza reveals the “poor results” from Indigenous Australians in comparison to Non- Indigenous. Masters reports (2009) blame the “gap” on the environmental factors of Indigenous Australians. However, Klenowski (2008) expostulated, claiming the reason behind this gap is due to socio-cultural reasons. As the standard assessment was taught and written in pure standard English (Malcolm, 1998) Thus, standardized intellectual and cognitive assessments within schools

    • 1173 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Communication can be performed through the utilisation of languages, such as English. Presently, English has become a favourable and prominent tool for interaction among people of different cultural backgrounds. The high demand in acquiring English for fields such as international politics, science and technology has led to the global spread of the language. Consequently, English is recognised as an international language, and its ownership is considered to be denationalised and renationalised. The

    • 1033 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    point to do want to make in this paragraph about both texts? Different text, vocabulary types and camera techniques. * Evidence 1: (Key quotation/scene/technique) The techniques of text and vocabulary that are directed by Russell Mulcahy, uses the Australian dialect, which is common English mixed up with Australian slang, “Coppers came out “-‘Harold Fingleton’, Swimming Upstream 2003, This quote illustrates the Australian slang word for Police or Policeman. The camera view of ‘Harold Fingleton’

    • 708 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    created differences among the same language within different places. English for example exits in many different forms around the world. The variances in Englishes began to emerge as a result of colonisation. The colonization of America for example, led to the creation of American English, a transformation which took only weeks, as American settlers had to evolve the language to adapt to their new experiences, which British English could not accommodate as the culture in England did not include these

    • 1680 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    kangaroos to school, it leave many australians with one question. Are we being represented as the raw product, or are texts twisting the facts to make us seem far from the normality? Australia is one of the worst countries for having pointless and prefabricated ideas of "Aussiness" that basically has no real relation to our true ‘culture’ or the way in which we really see ourselves. We, however, reach for these stereotypes when trying to find some expression of our Australian identity. However, sometimes

    • 773 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays