Linguist John Swales describes discourse communities to be people who share the same set of goals, use specialist vocabulary, and use appropriate language relating to a shared interest within a certain subject or activity they expertise in. ... The English language I use day to day conflicts depending on who I am among and the activity or task I am accomplishing, my language and communicational vocabulary may not make sense to others however within each discourse community the vocabulary used helps to make each situation easier to manage and understand for all involved. ... As a student spec...

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On the other hand, an estimate of the present vocabulary consists of more than a million words. ... The English vocabulary is more widespread than that of any other language around the world. ... English vocabulary is composed of a majority of Latin, French, Greek, Scandinavian and other small languages. ... In the Old English period there were many Latin words introduced to the English vocabulary. ...

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If a young child uses the expression "I've drinked my milk all up" it is considered acceptable because of the limited vocabulary a child has. ... Again this is because of their limited vocabulary. ... A two-year-old's limited vocabulary is acceptable. The same vocabulary in a 40-year-old is not. ...

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Delayed vocabulary development leads to further delay in the start of sentence formation. ... They pronounce words differently, they use different vocabulary words and they use different grammatical forms. ... I've heard grown people with a complete range of vocabulary usage continue to pronounce words the way they think sounds right to them. Lexicons refer to vocabulary and word meaning. ... Over the years people experimenting with the animal world have concluded that animals cannot be taught the human language since human sounds combined form a huge vocabulary that in turn allows us to ...

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At this time, the vocabulary of Old English consisted of an Anglo Saxon base with borrowed words from the Scandinavian languages (Danish and Norse) and Latin. ... French became the language of the Norman aristocracy and added more vocabulary to English. ...

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"The main difference between the two was actually the vocabulary" ( Davis 168). ... However, this lead to the loss of grammatical gender of the language and therefore mixed the vocabulary. ... (West 166) After the battle of Hastings, and the ascendancy of an Anglo - Norman throne, the English language went through dramatic changes, shifting from a majorly inflected language with a word stock of relatively average to a heavily French influenced grammatical structure with a heavily use of French vocabulary (internet I) The language usage of Chaucer , middle-English greatest poet, still sounds ...

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I had learned Vocabulary, Grammar, Structure, Public Speaking, Accent, and Pre-TOEFL for about one year. ... Some that I remember the titles are Grammar for Beginners, Speaking for Beginners, Vocabulary and Expression, English for Kids, Learning English through Singing (Kid Songs in Indonesian that I translated into English), and Commonly Used English Expressions. ...

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The blend was successful because the students were able to use a subject such as science and use the content as to read and write using academic vocabulary as well as learn the science concepts. It was so successful that the students were heard around the school using their expanded vocabulary and saying how they were no longer in ELD classes. ...

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The blend was successful because the students were able to use a subject such as science and use the content as to read and write using academic vocabulary as well as learn the science concepts. It was so successful that the students were heard around the school using their expanded vocabulary and saying how they were no longer in ELD classes. ...

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As an academic writer, audience plays a major role in what I do. Every word must be chosen with careful, but confident thought. For this course my main audience is Ms. Brummond. She is the determining factor in what processes in my head onto my paper. I know my audience must not be bi...

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The playwrights combined the rich vocabulary and poetry and charmed voices of the courtiers with the slang and sensation and vulgar quick-fire action of the commoners. ... Shakespeare had a vocabulary of at least twenty-one thousand different words in all his plays. ...

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Slang worries Conservatives the most because it affects the vocabulary of English. American English, especially, is always adding new words to its vocabulary for social, scientific, or artistic reasons. ...

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English, well what is English? We all know that it is a language. But, what is the study of English? People attend English classes. This may be to learn the English Language or to learn about English literature or writing. An English lesson would teach us how to write creatively, based on fact and i...

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There are quite a few reasons why we, the Laurel High School, need another language taught and offered in this school system. And the school board needs to recognize this need and want by students and teachers alike. I have surveyed the students and heard our teachers" response to the survey after I...

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As I stroll down the aisle and up the stage to acquire my diploma, I will have the same exhilarating feeling that I had experienced three years ago. When I graduate next June I will have graduated from two schools: high school and Chinese school. Subsequently, I will be fluent in three languages: ...

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American Tongues is an interesting documentary that chronicles and demonstrates the different varieties of spoken English in the United States. It portrays some of the regional, social, and ethnic differences in American speech and presents various attitudes that people have about these differ...

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Every person has some limitations. It is a very common limitation for a non-native speaker in the United States that speak with a very limited English. Limited English ability affects an immigrant's life in several ways: having a non-bright academic achievement, not obtaining a good job, and not h...

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Yeah, Right, Whatever! A young teenage girl dressed all in black turned the corner. She had chains hanging down the side of her black, baggy jeans. What's the first thought that went through your mind? Have you ever seen a nicely dressed young lady surrounded by a group of teenagers who have mult...

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Yeah, Right, Whatever! A young teenage girl dressed all in black turned the corner. She had chains hanging down the side of her black, baggy jeans. What's the first thought that went through your mind? Have you ever seen a nicely dressed young lady surrounded by a group of teenagers who have mult...

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Language is very difficult for myself and others like me. My parents and the generation before me had a hard time learning other languages and to communicate well with others. During my twenty years of growing up I have seen many difficult situation and problems that I have encountered. One of th...

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English, this sole word describes more than just a country, a type of people, or their language. When it is read, it's like if you where reading through time, its incredible to think, that the language English, as we know it today was completely different two hundred years ago. Even more so five cen...

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Richard Rodriguez is a Mexican-American or a "chicano" as he says others called him sometimes. This book tells about his life growing up in America, and it tells a lot about the discrimination he dealt with growing up. He started school in America with a very small English vocabulary which made i...

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I came to the United States and was enrolled in the educational system of this city early in the 90s; coming from the Dominican Republic with a first grade education and very learned in whatever first graders are suppose to know, however, the lack of a vast English vocabulary and trying to communicate proved to be a difficult task when trying to function in school. ...

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Mark Twain is an author with the ability to write renounced novels, captivate an audience, and in the process stir major amounts of controversy. Of course, most critics will agree, his most controversial novel would unanimously be Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; a story about a run away boy and his...

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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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate