It is probably best to see the situation not in terms of accuracy work or fluency work, but accuracy work and fluency work. ... As these languages usually are not spoken any more we can study them in different written texts and literary works they preserved in. ... Teachers should vary the materials used in the classroom, e.g. articles from newspapers on different topics, selected literary passages, texts from the Internet, advertisements, etc. ... Whereas grammar is taught deductively in Grammar-Translation Method (grammar rules are presented with examples) Direct Method uses an inductive way...

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Diction The poet uses quite a lot of literary terms, in order to make the poem smoother and easier to understand by the reader. ... "Characters cramped" for example is a personification which shows how the letters were squeezed together in order to fit as much as possible onto a letter. ...

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His theory also has profoundly influenced other disciplines, especially anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism. ... At least two other terms are used for signifier and signified: Signifier = signal = significant Signified = signification = signifié Saussure actually saw the division of the sign into sound image and concept as a bit ambiguous. ... An example of this is the fact that there are different words, in different languages, for the same thing. ... The easiest example of this is a sentence, where the words come one at a time and in a line, one after the other, a...

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For example, among psychologists "psychologists' definitions are often abstract, highly conceptualized, academic, and technical" (Rucker, 2006). ... In contrast, concrete language "identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter" ("Literary Terms", n.d.). ... For example, "education" is an abstract concept - there are no words in the concrete language that can substitute the word "education". ... Nida (1992) calls technical language "a kind of cognitive shorthand, in which semantically specialized terms c...

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It refers to cases in which the attributed status of a language or variety is changed, for example, the designation of a language as the Official or National language, Language of Wider Communication. It also encompasses reaching decisions regarding particular societal functions that languages might have, for example decisions about what language should be used in school, in the courts, in hospitals, in the armed forces, in police and fire services, on traffic signs, in the official work of the legislative and executive branches, etc. ... For instance, the use of "Ms" as against &q...

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