Even though at this stage a child can make sounds, they actually start learning language long before this stage. ... Together, words make sentences. Sentences are put together to make paragraphs, and then stories. ... From this starting point the techniques and skills which are taught in the classroom programme need to be further extended. ... Because children develop at their own rate, particularly with language development, ongoing assessments that continue throughout a year, and further on in a child"s schooling, are probably best. ...

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Language is an important aspect in our day to day life because it enables us to communicate. The effective communication is made possible with the help of language. ... By changing the word order in a sentence, you can change its meaning, and even make it meaningless. ... The starting point for a particular problem is determined by the systems previous experience. Metaphorically speaking, the further away a solution is from the starting point in problem hyper-space, the more difficult it will be to find. ...

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Anzaldua hints near the start that language gives people their identity, specifically Mexican, Anglo and Spanish languages and heritage. ... "Language is a male discourse," is supported with the example of "nosotros," (74). ... Academic styled papers give a clear topic sentence and thesis, giving readers the answer before the evidence, whereas Anzaldua's approach gives the evidence leading up to the answer. ... Yet, Anzalduas' work defy this because the layout of evidence is a process and thus, anyone who reads it have an engaged understanding. ... It enforces th...

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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...

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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...

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Properties of Human and Animal Languages Since the time when fiction stories started, many stories have been told about animals that are able to communicate in different ways as human by talking, gestures and signalling. These stories are not true because animals and humans can only communicate with their own kind which can be related to communication. ... In the case of the bee, there is an exception because they can exhibit displacement of a limited type which tells workers were it has found nectar (Nieh and Roubik, 1998). ... Productivity Productivity is a linguistic term used to refer to ...

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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 ...

• Word Count: 5919
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate