... foremost objective ofthe study is for the sake ofthe students. Besides, the study is expected to serve as a source of reference for teachers ofEnglish on the teaching of speaking skills, ... province. Their level of proficiency in English can be roughly attributed to pre-intermediate, judging from their results ofthe tests in the first year. Most ofthe students from the city shows ... assessments during the terms. The mark ofthe assessment will be taken as the requirements for the final tests which account for 100% ofthe general semester score. The test are often designed...
... the futuredevelopment ofEnglish in the world is the ‘outer circle’ of thosewho speak it as a second language. English often plays a specialrole in their lives and the fate ofEnglish in the ... domains of English Will the growth of the Internet help maintain the global influence of English? p. 50What effect will changingpatterns of trade have on the use of English? p. 33 English ... a professional interest in the development ofEnglish worldwide. The Future of English? takes stock of the present, apparently unassailable, position of English in the world and asks whether...
... the futuredevelopment ofEnglish in the world is the ‘outer circle’ of thosewho speak it as a second language. English often plays a specialrole in their lives and the fate ofEnglish in the ... Although the structural properties ofEnglish have not hindered the spread of English, the spread ofthe language globally cannot beattributed to intrinsic linguistic qualities.2 The spread of English There ... future for global English. One ofthe unanticipated achievements ofthe twenty firstcentury was the rapid diffusion of Basic English as the lingua franca ofthe world and the even more rapid...
... lecturers ofthe Faculty ofEnglish and students ofthe Faculty of Agro-biology raised the quality of teaching and learning reading English for Biology with IT recently?In fact, the students ofthe ... genderA bigger number of students (58%) had 6 to 11 years oflearning English; 42% ofthe students had 2 to 5 years oflearning English. Most of them had learnt English before they entered HNUE. ... including the Faculty of English. The lecturers of English have often used IT to teach English- major students. However, they only sometimes teach non -English- major students with IT. Last year, they...
... unseen.Beowuef (printed in the modern alphabet) The history ofEnglish begins a little after A.D. 600. English is a Germanic Language of the Indo –European FamilyIndo – European English French Latin ... –gelid, there forge –steam Under naessas genipap, neither gaited Flod under foldan.Modern English Lonely and waste is the land they inhabit, Wolf –cliffs wild and windy headlands, Ledges of ... Modern English A Clerk that is an Oxford scholar – whoLooked hollow to his bones, and threadbare, too. •Modern English (1500-now) :the change was the elimination of a vowel sound and the Great...
... domains of English Will the growth of the Internet help maintain the global influence of English? p. 50What effect will changingpatterns of trade have on the use of English? p. 33 The global ... although the worldposition of French has been in undoubted rapid decline English in the 20th century8 The Future of English? The story ofEnglish in the 20th century has been closely linked to the ... future for global English. One ofthe unanticipated achievements ofthe twenty firstcentury was the rapid diffusion of Basic English as the lingua franca ofthe world and the even more rapid...
... skills in their own languages. Then our task will be twofold: to givethem confidence in English and to equip them with hitherto unknownskills in either their own mother tongue or English. At ... than they were when the first edition of this book waswritten.Despite all these additions and changes, however, the structure of The Practice ofEnglish Language Teaching remains essentially the ... language because they are attracted to the culture of one ofthe TLCs (see (c) above). They learn the language becausethey want to know more about the people who speak it, the places where itis...
... the object ofthe verb in the active form in an active structure, becomes the subject ofthe verb in the passive form; while the performer of an action (the agent) – the subject ofthe verb in ... ve huu – The General Retires” in The Other Side of Heaven”, 1995), which reflects the use of TL adjective in place of SL verb. The fourth type of transposition is the replacement of a virtual ... knowledge ofthe field and professionals, stating that the loan-word best conveys the meaning ofthe new concept and the use of loan words sounds smarter and high-class. Interestingly, in the translation...
... is the DP which is the daughter of IP and sister of I′ and the object is the sister of V. Given what we have saidabout the free word order and the c-structure of Latin, on the other hand, the mapping ... of the founding editors ofthe journal English Language and Linguistics.D. J. Allerton is Emeritus Professor ofEnglish Linguistics at the University of Basle (Switzerland), where he was professor ... LFG. The S category in (5b) does not have a head in the way that the TP in (3) had a T head or the IP in (4b) had an I head. Neither the NP nor the VP daughter is ofthe same category as the mother....
... number of N-bestIn the experiments, the training and testing setsare derived from the 25 sections of Wall StreetJournal distributed with the Penn Treebank II,and the definition of baseNP is the ... all the baseNPrules. “+1” and “+4” denote the number of beatPOS sequences retained in the first step. And“UID+R” means the POS tagging result of the given sentence is totally correct for the ... identification of English baseNP. It uses two steps: the N-best Part -Of- Speech (POS) tagging andbaseNP identification given the N-bestPOS-sequences. Unlike the otherapproaches where the two steps...
... be the object of a preposition. Here are some examples of that: [45] I gave the godfather the money in an alley. [46] They found the little koala on the road. [47] The boy ran with his father ... pitch (the tone—relative highness/lowness of a sound due to the frequency of vibration the number of times the object vibrates per unit of time); volume (the loudness of a sound due to the forcefulness ... end in the letter s. Then ask yourself: Is the s at the end of this word the morpheme /z/, or is it not?Example of how to proceed: X. (1) always: The s at the end of always is not the morpheme...
... data.There is a one way flow of data from the tracker consisting of frame by frame updatesto the position in the image plane ofthe centroid of uniquely labelled objects. The detec-tion of atypical ... ResultsA layer of 1000 leaky neurons was connected tothe output nodes ofthe networktrainedinSection 4.1, theoutputsof these neurons being connected to the inputs of a second compet-itive learning ... with slow decay rates to theoutputof thesenodes, atrace of the trajectory will be formed in the activation ofthe leakyneurons. By connecting leakyneurons to the output of every node in a trained...
... systemssince they better reflect the distribution of the phenomena being modeled. With the availability of large corpora of spo-ken dialog, dialog management is nowreaping the benefits of data-driven ... version of DAMSL (Core, 1998). The DAMSL scheme isquite comprehensive, but as others have also found(Jurafsky et al., 1998), the multi-dimensionality of the scheme makes the building of models ... InfoOpeningFigure 3: An example output ofthe chunk model’stask structure The goal of subtask segmentation is to predict if the current utterance in the dialog is part ofthe cur-rent subtask or starts...