Category: Languages

Assessment as an essential part of MFL learning processAssessment is an important issue to Reflective Teaching in Modern Foreign Language Education, too. The aim of this essay is to dive into a featured topic of Modern Foreign Language teaching in the UK, specifically to investigate assessment activities in the MFL schoolroom. In order to do so, this essay will focus on different research papers that have been produced on this issue. The essay will first provide the issue of Assessment with general definitions which are necessary to understand how Formative and Summative Assessment are working in MFL classroom. Then it […]

Spain  Spain is one of the country that speak English as Foreign Language, where their first language is Spanish and most probably they have their own mother tongue as for their second language. Research says that, due to their first language they might have some influences in the other languages too, especially English. Spanish have five vowels in their language, so most commonly they will have problems is pronouncing in other language, for instead they will mispronounce in English though we have 12 vowels all together. They use more high vowels, meaning that long vowel as for the short vowel. […]

Storytelling is a phenomenon that dates back to the history of the mankind. Since they first stepped on the surface of the earth they have been telling stories. They used actions when they had no idea about oral languages. Slowly and gradually, they discovered language and started to speak and eventually write down their experiences in order to covey them to others. Storytelling connects the humanity at a point where they could relate to each other on the basis of their life experiences or shared thoughts that are conveyed through stories even to the farthest places. Stories, as a matter […]

ONE ARTICLE ABOUT THE XIAOMI THERMOMETER HYGROMETERIntroductionOnce again, the Xiaomi introducesa smart thermometer hygrometer into the electronics market which incorporates diversetechnology from long lasting battery to facial expression display.For the city?Of course, this Xiaomithermometer hygrometer device is useful in medical room, colleges, office desk,sitting rooms. Others are kitchenette, bathroom and many other locations youmay think of that needs coldness or hotness and humidity observation. For thosewho travel a lot, and want no more luggage, it’s small, compact and light inweight.Features and BenefitsThis Xiaomi device is manufacturedfrom a PC/ABS and PMMA materials. They are eco-friendly, this means less or no pollution. […]

Dalit autobiographies written in the late 1990s retain the belligerence and the anger of the autobiographies written in 1980s yet they turn overtly self-conscious in their expression and attitude. They belong to what may be termed as the late phase of post-Ambedkarite aesthetics of dalit expression or ‘post-Ambedkarite aesthetics II’. During this phase dalit expression is no longer as spontaneous and organic as it seems to have been influenced by a host of other ‘extraneous’ considerations. First there is an underlying desire to sound positive, affirmative and autonomous. Instead of decrying their wretched destinies vis-a-vis the privileged position of the […]

A.   Python  Python is a general purpose highlevel programming language. It emphasis on code readability and its syntaxallows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code then would bepossible in languages such as C. 2 B.  Web Cam We have used two megapixel web camera for capturingframes.                                                  III. MOTIVATION  The concept of hand gesture recognition has manyapplications include:  automated homes,sign language translation, mouse controlling, gaming interface, robot control,medical systems etc. They are as follows: 1)  Robot Control  Controlling the robot using gestures considered as one ofthe interesting applications in this field proposed a system that uses thenumbering […]

·         Carolyn Ashley Kizer is an American poet,translator, and essayist whose writings are a strong reflection of her views offeminism and her thoughts of the importance of encounters between two people. Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington on December 10, 1925 to two distinguishedparents- Benjamin Hamilton Kizer and Mabel Ashley Kizer- who infused herchildhood with poetry, often reading to her the works of John Keats and WaltWhitman. Her mother, Ashley Kizer, was a professor of biology and a Stanforduniversity graduate, while her father was a successful attorney that Kizer oncedescribes as “authoritarian and severe” and often spoke of his inability to […]

Besidesthere is Contrastive Analysis, in CT there is also another discipline namedContrastive Linguistics. In Contrastive Analysis we learn about a way toidentifying a word, phrase, clause and sentence differences and similarities.While in Contrastive Linguistics it is a kind of linguistic approach which has contributionto describe the differences and similarities between a pair language. Thispaper will discuss about CL and other discipline TS (translation studies), howthe relation between this two discipline and the effect of corpora whichapplied in CL and TS. Contrastive Linguistics isdefined as “the systematic synchronic study ofsimilarities and differences in the structure and use of two or more […]

Contrastive linguistic or contrastive analysis is a study of the elements of language. According to Lado (1975), contrastive analysis is a way of describing the difficulties or ease of language learners in both languages and languages. The contrastive analysis is not only to compare linguistic elements and linguistic systems in the first language (L1) with the second language (L2), but to compare and describe the background of the two languages so that they can be used in a second language or a foreign language. The study of linguistic elements is done by comparing two linguistic data, first language data (L1) […]

 According to Terigan (1990:59), contrastive analysis is an activity to compare the structure of L1 with L2. This contrastive analysis is expected to help the learners of L2 to learn more easily. To make it easier to understand the notion of contrastive analysis, we must understand the meaning of two words that arrange the phrase of contrastive analysis. Analysis is defined as a description that aims to know something and it is possible to find the core problem. While, Moeliono (1988:32) explains that contrastive is defined as the difference between two things and the word of contrastive is more well […]