1. The difficulties of learning several languages
However, when other children started forming complete sentences and were able to express themselves, I was unable to string a coherent sentence together until the age of five. ... In order to compensate for my speech delay, I started to use art as a channel to project my thoughts, feelings, and ideas. ... Though there were many moments when I felt lonely and misunderstood because of my speech delay, there were many more irreplaceable moments that I could have never experienced had I not gone through what I did. ... However, when other children started forming complete sentences, I was unable t...
Delayed vocabulary development leads to further delay in the start of sentence formation. ... It's like everything they learn takes extra long and the older they get the easier it is to communicate because they've learned more over the years. ... Many conversations are not completely grammatical sentences. There are slips of the tongue, changes of topic in mid-sentence, forgetting of earlier words or phrases, sentences fragments, and so on. ... Over the years people experimenting with the animal world have concluded that animals cannot be taught the human language since human sound...
This sentence is a juxtapose, which categorises images for effect. ... He uses lots of other persuasive techniques, in short sentences, to create effect. ... He does this because, it grabs the people's attention, and it makes them believe that, he has the confidence to be their president, and to be able to deal with the big issues. ... Short sentences are used at the end as well. ... The last line of his speech, ends in, one word sentences, and a confident high. ...
Because the meaning of the original poem is unknown, one can't judge a translation on its proximity to the original. ... The poem possesses a specific rhythm where sentences end after completing a specific thought. ... " Reavey's style of writing creates a start-and-stop rhythm which one would expect to see in a bullet-point-list or an encyclopedia. ... The sentence "She wears earrings," just does not seem to belong in the poem. ... Since the original poem is unknown, once can't deem one translation superior in meaning or coherence with the original, but Kunitz&#x...
They know how to parse a sentence which nobody else can do it. ... English teachers read the papers, they will know exactly where and which punctuation should be used, where the sentences start and stop, or which words spelling are wrong. ... They have fun with their students who came from different countries around the world. ... Other types of teachers can not compare with English in its importance. ... They are eager to share with many people about their language, culture, and traditional. ...
They use different signs and different rules of sign formation and sentence structure. ... It appared because of the deafs' communication necessity. ... This happened because of many factors, but principally because of the description of the American Sign Language (ASL) structure, made for the first time in the world. ... In Brazil, LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language) started being investigated only in the eighties (Brito, 1986), and its acquisition started in the nineties (Karnopp, 1994; Quadros, 1995). ... Because of this, I have decided to focus on their difficulties first and, thro...
Although Genie scored at the level of a one-year-old on her initial assessment and spoke in one-word snippets, she started to enhance her vocabulary. ... Finally, after a year of treatment, she started putting a few words together the way children do. Genie never went past this stage, and was never able to put real sentences together. ... This really affected Genie, because she had such a strong connection to her mother and needed to see her regularly. ... The most extreme example of this that comes to mind: Because of her obsession, she would notice and covet anything plastic that anyone had....
Although Genie scored at the level of a one-year-old on her initial assessment and spoke in one-word snippets, she started to enhance her vocabulary. ... Finally, after a year of treatment, she started putting a few words together the way children do. Genie never went past this stage, and was never able to put real sentences together. ... This really affected Genie, because she had such a strong connection to her mother and needed to see her regularly. ... The most extreme example of this that comes to mind: Because of her obsession, she would notice and covet anything plastic that anyone had....
In the first week of class I was over whelmed because of many different parts of signs and how complicated the sentence structure was to learn because it was different than English. ... After time ASL started to become standardized and was used in schools across the country as the means of communication, and this was the birth of modern ASL. ... All this time I thought that ASL was only picture symbols used to communicate English with the deaf. ... The deaf has a common characteristic because they all share the same language. ... Now I feel that I was able to learn ASL, not because it w...
We can demonstrate with pictures or drawings because it might help those who are visual. ... I also like giving about ten sentences for translating as homework or sometimes checking the new grammar during the lesson because they help my students practice the specified grammar or sometimes revise the old one. ... The next difference between the two methods is the dealing with grammar. ... In the Direct Method there is much less attention paid to memorising because the purpose of the language learning is communication. ... In the Direct Method vocabulary is the most significant and as for the sk...
However, because of the limitations of the syllabus, games often cannot be used, as much as they should be. ... So games are seen as an activity with rules, a goal and an element of fun. ... Demonstrations also can be very helpful because it can help students understand the game and help them follow the rules. ... In playing games, competition is very important because it can stimulate and encourage students to participate in the activity since naturally they want to beat the other teams. ... They acquire new vocabulary along with its spelling and pronunciation. ...
Language changes and develops constantly with time to adapt to the users' needs. ... With the war a meeting point of numerous nationalities and people brought together under stressful conditions, German had a significantly different influence with its loanwords to English that mainly refered to vehicles and weapons. ... For instance, the way some sentences were structured in WWI can be associated to older forms of English while WWII English is more related to the present-day English. ... The spelling of words before WWI, a period in which the number of literate people was relatively fewer...
Today, with greater recognition and celebration of cultural differences, people are more likely to maintain and share their primary language with their children and to promote bilingualism as a reflection of ethnic pride and identity. ... Children can be expected to go through some periods of mixing the two languages and borrowing vocabulary to express ideas, sometimes within the same sentence. This occurs because vocabulary may exist in one language but not in the other. ... The opposite occurs with a change in the environment. ... As long as people are regularly speaking with the child in ...