Category: Language Use

             It is agreed that language is a primary means ofcommunication that people use in daily life. In the Algerian workplace, likeeverywhere else, communication is an essential tool to interact with others.Algerian workers ensure that their messages are properly interpreted and thatis why they try to make their communication as simple as possible. Observingtheir communication, it is noticed that sometimes they use more than onelanguage in an expression or a statement.             Thisresearch is chosen to know more about Algerian workers’ code switching. Therefrom, our motivation in choosing a company is the use of code switching in anormal situation. The […]

The pragmatic analysis makes the ground fertile to know the basics of content analysis with the specific issues that arise in using language in different contexts and situations.  A linguistic approach differs from the way of understanding of the listener and the way of speaking of it in the different contexts. From a pragmatic perspective, considering the particular interactive strategies and the social meaning generated in the content analysis in its original sense studies the relationship between linguistic signs and speaker, these phenomena should be understood as the result of speakers’ adaptation to changing socio-cultural circumstances. The pragmatic study in […]

In my quest around the Luxembourgish territory andwith what I already had in mind through the bibliography, I came to realize, ona rather sensatory level, that the linguistic landscape of Luxembourg is atleast polymorphic, if not convoluted. For this reason, I have tried to locate different types of “bottom-up”and “top-down”1,”linguistic instances” in my effort to capture the hidden messages of what mymobile lenses were trying to digitally decipher. Interestingly enough, aftergathering all the photos together, I was able to easily decide on the very onesI was to include in my portfolio for very specific reasons.  The social hierarchy of languages and […]

               1.   Literature Review1.1.   Nativenessand Intelligibility in Pronunciation ResearchAccording toLevis (2005) and echoed by Harding (2017), teaching and, by extension,assessing second language (L2, henceforth) pronunciation can be characterizedas the tension between two ‘contradictory principles’— ‘nativeness’ and ‘intelligibility’. The nativeness principle positsthat nativelike (or unaccented) pronunciation is both a primary goal of pronunciationlearning and a standard for pronunciation assessment. However, theintelligibility principle holds that the chief goal of pronunciation learningis for learners to be understood by their interlocutors, and consequently intelligibility,instead of nativeness, emerges as an appropriate assessment criterion. Thenativeness principle has held a strong position in pronunciation teaching andassessment for […]

While thelinguistic research practice theories offer some promising avenues as toinvestigations on the extent of language, I maintain that attending closely tolinguistic structures and practices can shed even more light on practicetheorists’ main dilemma: Appliedlinguistics is grounded in real-world language-driven problems and issues(primarily linked by practical matters involving language use, languageevaluation, language contact and multilingualism, language policies, andlanguage learning and teaching). There is also, however, the recognition thatthese practically driven problems have extraordinary range, and this rangetends to dilute any sense of common purpose or common professionalidentification among practitioners.(the idea of a ‘smart pill’ is likely to bepopular with students […]

   In a study of the Process Writing Approachconducted by Onozawa (2010), the perspectives of several authors on theadvantages of the Process Approach was cited. To begin, the process approach isadvantageous to students because it stresses the process that writers gothrough in composing texts (Nunan, 1991). Also, Brown (2011) statedthat it lets students manage their own writing by giving students a chance tothink as they write. That is, students convey their messages to the readers inwritten form through the writing process; prewriting, drafting, revising, andediting. Another point is that it motivates students intrinsically allowingthem to better learn language skills. Likewise, […]

Translation is a process of rendering written or oral informationor expressing sense (words and text) from source language to a foreign one as aremedy of making feasible the communication between the members or users of thetwo or more foreign diverse languages or cultures. Among many factors which aremajor in the field of translation, the ideology having interference ontranslation practice has gained significant attention. The ideology itself is aset of ideas upon which a political or economic system is based and beliefswhich are held by a certain group. The fuzzy life of ideology in translation isundeniable and it is completely unfeasible […]

Name: Beebee Jayboonnessa NAYECK BUSAWON 1 Describe, use and evaluate two different assessment activities used to check the learning of either individuals or a group of learners. My first assessment activity was to write a paragraph on a topic sentence which is ???water is essential??™. I informed my learners of the set criteria to be considered for attempting this written test. It should be in 100 words and it was an assessment to be completed individually. The set criteria were as follows: Assessment Criteria | Mark 10 | Text focus and Organisation | 3 | Grammar | 2 | Creative […]

Assignment Module 2Select an assessment cycle from a course on which you teach. Using appropriate assessment terminology and relevant theories, critically evaluate the assessment cycle in terms of: – the overall purpose and type of assessment used – the appropriateness and effectiveness of the assessment methods – how assessment is recorded and used to promote learning – how inclusivity is maintained within the cycleCritically evaluate the effectiveness of the scheme to determine whether it is fit for purpose. Explain your reasoning and justify any improvements you would make. 2000 wordsIn this essay I shall explain the different types of assessments […]

Assignment Module 2Select an assessment cycle from a course on which you teach. Using appropriate assessment terminology and relevant theories, critically evaluate the assessment cycle in terms of: – the overall purpose and type of assessment used – the appropriateness and effectiveness of the assessment methods – how assessment is recorded and used to promote learning – how inclusivity is maintained within the cycleCritically evaluate the effectiveness of the scheme to determine whether it is fit for purpose. Explain your reasoning and justify any improvements you would make. 2000 wordsIn this essay I shall explain the different types of assessments […]