Englishas a SecondLanguageIt is a struggle to adapt to a new culture andlanguage‚ which may be completely different from the ones young child may have already learned. This can lead to inner conflict‚ confusion‚ and even anger. One way to handle the conflict is to cut ties with th...
This paper addresses the issue from the linguistic perspective. 4. English use as a strategy of persuasion It is difficult to define the target of persuasion; social psychologists (e.g., Murchison 1935) distinguish among attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Attitudes are feelings about something, ...
The German language is spoken by 95 million natively, 15 million as a second language, and about 90 million people can speak it as a foreign language. It’s an official language in many countries, but is mainly spoken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Here we have listed several ...
—From the time when the English language came over to this island, it has grown steadily in the number of its words. On the other hand, it has lost just as steadily in the number of its inflexions. Put in a broad and somewhat rough fashion, it may be said that— (i) Up to ...
(1994PastPaper) Women’s status has always been a controversial issue‚ especially after the Second World War ended. Since then‚ people from all over the world have noticed the importance of women and how much they have contributed as they have helped out a lot in the therapeutical work...
This paper explores task evolution in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing materials, taking, as an illustrative case, written commentaries on non-verbal material such as that found in tables or graphs. The choice of this family of tasks is motivated by the fact that they have regularly...
Of the infinite varieties, none is more generally useful than the experience that begins as a hunting expedition in a library and ends when the last period is typed on the finished paper. The library research paper is an inevitable academic assignment. Commonly known as theterm paper, it regul...
Afrikaans was considered a dialect of Dutch – known as “Cape Dutch” – until recognised as a language in the late 19th century. From the Dutch for “African”.Afrikaner (noun) –Afrikaans-speaking South African. From the Dutch Afrikaan (an African)....
independent works. Such manuscripts are found of as late a date as the end of the 12th century, showing that the more ancient form of the English language was in use long after the Norman Conquest, and even when the transition was far advanced from " Anglo-Saxon" to the mediaeval English...
Changes in English usage are neither welcome nor unwelcome simply owing to their status as changes; it is their effect on the powers of the language (when competently used) that determines the kind and degree of their welcome.Corollary: whether one will oppose or welcome a given change requires...