... Award 2011 for his book A Practical Guide to Business Writing, a helpful Business English guide for non- nativespeakersofEnglish in the region He has also been nominated Author of the Year ... Registered office John Wiley and Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services and for information ... Cornwall, UK A Practical Guide to BUSINESS WRITING Writing in Englishfor non- nativespeakers Khaled Mohamed Al Maskari Contents About the Author Foreword by Dr Clarence Emslie Preface by Michael Doherty...
... Chia-Ling & Chen, 2005; Dang, 2006) Others study the refusal strategy use of non- nativespeakersofEnglish and nativespeakersofEnglish or focus on pragmatic transfer (Beebe & Takahashi & Uliss-Weltz, ... Vietnamese learners ofEnglish (VLEs) differ from nativespeakersofEnglish (NSEs) in their strategies of refusal to invitations in terms of frequency, order and content of semantic formulas in relation ... Spanish and in English and ofnativeEnglishspeakers in English Annual Meeting of the Teachers to Speakersof Other Languages Report – Research (143) Leech, G N (1983) Principles of Pragmatics...
... Research questions (i) How nativespeakersofEnglish express gratitude in the situations studied? (ii) How Vietnamese learners ofEnglish differ from nativespeakersofEnglish in expressing gratitude ... …………………………………………………………………… 2.2.3 Selection of subjects The subjects are one group of 45 nativespeakersofEnglish and one group of 45 Vietnamese learners ofEnglish The first group consists of subjects coming from ... gratitude by Vietnamese learners ofEnglish and nativespeakersofEnglish is systematically studied Finally, the data of this study are collected from two groups of subjects aged between 18 and...
... written Englishof a group of non- nativespeakers (NNSs) and that of a group ofnativespeakers (NSs) It is hoped that the identification of similarity and difference between the learner English ... are learned as a second language: for example, to what extent does the Englishof non- nativespeakers reflect the influence of their native tongue? For this kind of investigation, it is very useful ... learner English and the NS English in the aspect of the width and depth of verbs? (By the width of verbs, I mean the size of vocabulary in verbs By the depth of verbs, I mean the range of senses of...
... Grammar for Teachers Andrea DeCapua Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American EnglishforNative and Non- NativeSpeakers Author Andrea DeCapua, Ed.D College of New Rochelle New Rochelle, ... paper springer.com Preface Grammar for Teachers: A Guide to American EnglishforNative and Non- NativeSpeakers is a result of my frustrations over many years of teaching graduate-level structure ... are a non- native speaker of English, ask a native speaker to complete this activity Compare your responses If they are different, think about why this might be so For many nativespeakersof American...
... enormous information about the author of the song, the root of it and even the words of the song So there are no reasons for not making advantage of such a useful and potential source of teaching ... well on all of these fields Grammatically, songs can be used as a form of reinforcement for the particular structural item that had been taught in the previous lessons, and alternatively songs ... toward English songs in general Question and worked out the favourite activities that students often when they listen to English songs Question clarified students’ awareness of effectiveness of English...
... techniques for improving reading skills to non- major students ofEnglish at Haiphong Foreign Language Center, Haiphong University.” Aims of the study The purpose of this study is to examine the areas of ... unfamiliar items of vocabulary and grammar Learners at advanced levels of foreign language proficiency will be able to 30 choose from reading materials written fornativespeakersof that language ... follow: • Students’ interest • Level of difficulty • Variety (variety of the topic, of the of text, of rhetorical organization, and of reading purpose) • Types of reading activities and exercises...
... Aims of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study Design of the study Part two: Development Chapter one: Literature Review 1.1 An Overview on the Nature of Reading 1.1.1 Definition of Reading ... Reading Skill to Non- major Students at HFLC 3.1 Techniques for Reading Interest and Motivation 3.1.1 Making English Reading Fun 3.1.2 Making English Reading Useful 3.2.Techniques for Training Students ... Students Aware of the Nature of Reading Process Promoting Students to Be Fully Aware of Their Purpose of Reading 3.2.3 Activating Students to Work Willingly in Different Stages of Reading 3.2.4...
... the success of communicative approach With the attempt to improve the ability ofEnglish communication for the Vietnamese, particularly for the non- major, second year students ofEnglish at Hanoi ... mastering English grammar and vocabulary Most of them, however, have difficulties in English communicating For these reasons, at the tertiary level where the source ofEnglish teachers for the ... Thus, the first and foremost objective of the study is for the sake of the students at Hanoi University of Business and Technology, where the researcher worked as a teacher ofEnglish Although any...
... recommendations for teaching language in general and teaching English grammar in particular 1.4 Scope of the study This study mainly focuses on communicative activities fornon - English majors in English ... grammar of a language may form part of the knowledge of it However, there exist some controversial opinions about the teaching of grammar One of the biggest challenges to the necessity of grammar ... this type of activities, a group of students has the necessary information for the performance of a task Without showing them these instructions they have to enable another group or groups of students...
... elements of facial expression can convey the feelings of the presenter, anything from passion for the subject, to depth of concern for the audience Unfortunately, under the pressure of delivering ... (Please give further information about how you get prepared in terms of skills at the end of the paper) Investigation in the forth-year students ofEnglish who have a lot of chances to practice ... interpreting Aims and Objectives of the Study The study aims to indentify the current situation of the public speaking skill in interpreting for forth year students ofEnglish at Vinh University by...
... L stands for the possibly empty list of left constituents, X for the (possibly empty) head of the phrase and R for the (possibly empty) list of right constituents The possible values for X are ... described by means of procedural rules Those rules are stated in a pseudo formalism which attempts to be both intuitive for linguists and relatively straightforward to code (for the time being, ... take the form of boolean functions, as described in (3) for left attachments and in (4) for right attachments, where a and b refer, respectively, to the first and to the second constituent of a merge...
... apply the correct formulas to get the right answer For standard multiple choice questions, you have the advantage of the correct answer being right in front of you You KNOW it is one of the five listed ... Don't waste a moment of valuable time on your test day reading the directions Directions for problem-solving questions: For each of the following questions, select the best of the answer choices ... question: A survey of 50 people revealed that 42 of them had eaten at restaurant B and that 37 of them had eaten at restaurant G Which of the following could not be the number of people in the...
... y observed that forof the non- associative loops of order 5, P (Q) has order whereas Q = Q′ (see Figure for one such example) [19] At the time of this writing, we are unaware of any other loops ... study of A-loops [3] Before proving Theorem 2.4, we make several additional observations about the sets k P (Q) While none of these results will be used directly in our proof, we hope they are of ... detailed in §2, we prove a number of related results including a generalization of the D´nes-Hermann e theorem and provide an elementary proof of a weak form of the Hall-Paige conjecture We begin...