... Language plays an important role in human life. Everyone tries to
acquire, learn and use language as means of communication and
simultaneously as social symbol of humanity. By using language, ...
“As timid as a rabbit”
Rabbits are small mammals found in several
parts of the world. Rabbit habitats
include meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, de
serts and wetlands. Rabbits live in ... Encyclopedia indicates that bees are
flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role
in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. There are nearly 20,000...
... teaching making invitations in particular, and
raise the importance of applying cross-cultural activities to teaching and learning
English to English majors in Dong Thap University in general. ... Problems arise as
language learners are not competent and fail to understand the cultural- social
aspects of communication. Take speech acts of invitation as an example. Vietnamese
saying goes: ... plays an important role in communication in all
cultures. Wall (1987) indicated that many of our daily social interactions involve
making invitations and responding to them. In daily social...
... and describing situations are regarded as the main
functions of idioms in both Englishand Vietnamese.
1.1.3. Demarcation of Idioms
Words and groups of words including idioms make a vocabulary ... be paraphrasable as ‘It is a boring hard place to live and work’.
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(Fernando & Flavell 1981). Third, there is significant inter-language borrowing of
idioms across languages (Fernando & ... same point of view,
Cowie, Mackin & McCaig (1993) state that idioms are groups of words with set
meanings that cannot be calculated by adding up the separate meanings of the parts.
Fernando...
... paper aims to
compare and contrast the differences and similarities of various types of
questions inEnglishandVietnameseand thus, suggest some application for
language teachers and learners.
Nguyễn ... been talking about?
May I have a drink?
Can you pass me the salt, please?
As we can see from the examples above, interrogative operators are
placed at the beginning of the questions, accompanied ... 1970s, comparing and contrasting
linguistics has been playing a more and more important role to meet the
rising demand for language learning to communicate and scientific
developments in the direction...