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    Hung Nguyen Dinh Professor Rachanel Marshall COM 101 4/29/2018 Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Learning a new language General Purpose: To Persuade. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to learn one or more other languages. Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Visual Aid: PowerPoint Claim: Value INTRODUCTION I. Attention Step: A. Attention Getter: No offensive but I want to share with you guy a joke. If someone who speaks two languages is bilingual, and someone who speaks

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    next, through human actions, often in the form of face-to-face interaction, and, of course, through linguistic communication’, it is patently obvious that language, albeit a subpart of culture, plays a pivotal role. Bourdieu has emphasized the importance of language not as an autonomous construct but as a system determined by various socio-political processes. For him, a language exists as a linguistic habitus (see Bourdieu, 1990: 52), as a set of practices that imply not only a particular system of

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    Newspeak is the fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell. It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian state Oceania as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, and peace. Any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct is classified as "thoughtcrime". Newspeak is explained in chapters 4 and 5 of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and in an appendix to the book. The

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    A2. Special factors and issues involved in identifying if a problem indicates a special education issue or normal language acquisition English Language Learners face a variety of unique challenges when compared to their non-ELL peers. For example, when assessing new English Language Learners, once such challenge is the lack of effective assessment tools. Many of the available instruments are not culturally relevant to the ELL student’s background, nor created at an appropriate level for their developing

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    diverse society which enables them to broaden their thinking in every-day life. Language within societies can be broken down into two categories, namely Linguistic Determinism and Linguistic Relativism. “Linguistic Determinism proposes that different languages incorporate

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    1. Lightbrown & Spada examined the influence of form-focused instruction and corrective feedback on communicative teaching. What has previous research on this topic indicated? What do we learn about this important topic based on their results and conclusions? As Lightbrown and Spada(1990) suggested that language teaching went through a major change from focusing explicitly on teaching of language to teaching language in use. Language used to be taught through its grammar, then the focus shifted

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    University of Latvia Faculty of Humanities Department of English Studies Textbook Analysis 3rd year, group B student Kristaps Briedis Riga 2013 Introduction The “Focus on Advanced English C.A.E.” is written by Sue O’Connell and first published in Pearson Education Limited at the Edinburgh Gate, Harlow in year 1999, and the edition at hand is the thirteenth impression printed in 2006. The textbook is oriented for students preparing for the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English

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    The Influence of Age Factors on Second Language Acquisition Xu Bailin Abstract: In second language acquisition, age factors has always been the study focus and one of the most controversial issues of linguistics. Based on the Brain Plasticity Theory and the Critical Period Hypothesis, the purpose is to prove such a hypothesis that the younger the leaner who begins to learn an second language,the greater the probability that he or she will achieve a native-like command of it

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    Albanian Pride

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    Red and black runs in my veins Everyone fears that it does Because of you I am me And because of you I am Albanian Albanian is what I am It keeps me going And because of you A piece of me is apart you I am willing to die To see you fly The two headed eagle is in my heart The shqiponja is what I see And for you ill keep my head up high And for you I will die I’m proud to be Albanian Reflection 1 I chose to write about this because this is apart me who I am. And I love the

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    investigating the contemporary role of the author in architecture. Using linguistic construction as defined by theorists Noam Chomsky and Roland Barthes, this paper traces the various roles of the a​uthor​­ m​edium​­ v​iewers​have had to each other throughout the 21st century and how the evolving linguistic structures have affected the way viewers interact with objects and assessed meaning. The Authored Object will propose a new type of linguistic organization utilizing contemporary technologies to hypothesize

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