Essays on Language Learning Page 6

For this assignment, I chose to use a well-known passage, Philippians 4:12-13. Read this passage in King James Version, New King James Version, English Standard Version, Holman Christian Standard Bible, and the Amplified Version. Each translation rendered these two verses well and there was not a large difference between the five translations. In the KAVA…

If you are learning English because you intend to travel in England and wish to be understood there, do not try to speak English perfectly because if you do, no one will understand you. Though there is no such thing as perfectly correct English, there is presentable English which we call ‘Good English’, but in…

English is a widely spoken language worldwide, with over 360 million native speakers (Nationalencyklopedin, 2010) and 750 million non-native speakers (Future of English?, 2011). It has become a global language and an invaluable tool in today’s world. Despite the belief that learning English may not be essential in non-English speaking countries, it is important to…

Coherence plays a significant role in making a piece of writing effective. According to Walters, “Literally, the word means ‘to stick together.’” (para.1) Coherence ensures that each paragraph sticks to a single idea. All the sentences of a paragraph should compliment each other and appear to be different ways of putting forward a single point…

Introduction  The practice of translation dates back some two thousand years and ever since has existed until present days. It is generally believed that translation plays a key role in the universalisation of human knowledge. It helps improve international understanding, socio-cultural awareness, professional communicative activities, implementation of technologies, and so much more. Many well-known translators…

The software we will be using is called ‘Derivative’, which has been specifically developed for the Hull et al (2014) textbook. You can download the software from the Model unit site under the ‘Additional Resources’ section. Software Installation Installation instructions for the Derivative software are quite straight forward. Please follow these simple steps. Step 1…

So, foreign language acquisition is a very complex psychological process. For the learners who have already mastered the basic lexical items and basic grammatical structures of a anguage, foreign language learning is proceeding on the basis ofthe existing linguistic knowledge (of the mother tongue, of general learning strategies, or of the universal properties of language)….

Rhetorical analysis in Obama’s inaugural address Presiden’s inaugural address,besides aiming to elucidate his politics and position, mainly aims to insipre and educate the public. Obama’s inaugural address” Renewing American’s Promise” once again displayed his incomparable eloquence and fluency. Appropriate employment of rhetoric can express thoughts and emotions accurately and create the desired emotional impact. First,the…

Rhetorical Analysis: “Against School” In the essay, Against School, John Taylor Gatto, expresses his strong belief in middle diction of how students in the typical public schooling system are conformed to low-standard education in order to benefit the society much more than the student themselves; causing schooling to be unnecessary as opposed to education ….

    I recently received feedback in regard to a paper I was writing for an English class. The paper was written about the book The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. During class, we were given first drafts of the papers written by fellow students in order to find spelling and grammatical errors, as well as…