Consider (as a minimum) the following aspects in your essay: a) What is meant by 'intelligible'? ... (b) Which do you prefer? ... The context of learning a foreign language in a country like Costa Rica is a monolingual class. ... All the time, students struggle to gain a native-like pronunciation. ... Employers at interviews like listening to candidates whose pronunciation conform to native-speaker or nearly-native speaker norms. ...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay will examine some of the different kinds of linguistic sexism in the English language, some of the reasons why these forms of language are harmful and finally some ideas of how these forms of language can be changed for the better. ... Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." ... In fact Wardaugh (1992) believes that the fact that terms like "widower" and "spinster" have died out while terms like ...

• Word Count: 2723
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate