1 ORAL COMMUNICATION 2 way process between speaker and listener involving the productive skill or speaking and the receptive skill of understanding. SPEECH AND WRITING There is a tendency to give priority to speech over writing (1st stages) to develop automatic speech habits. Arguments...
Davies and widdowson state that “reading is an activity made up of a large number of skills of both and motor cognitive type”. The students are not usually aware of this composite nature. If possible (depending on the cognitive level of the student, the student...
Diphthongs are single syllables and therefore consist of a single impulse of breath. Diphthongs are defined as glides, that is, a quick transition between two vowels...
According to the organs of articulation / manner of articulation...
In English the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables is much stronger than in some other languages, this is one of the reasons why English spoken by Spanish sounds so flat to an English native speaker...
Teacher Notes (TN): after this evaluation test, the teacher will ask every student (it is an all together activity) questions related to the topic. Students will be elicited to answer with the previous structures. The questions will be of the type: ‘ Are you Spanish?’,...
Once a base has undergone a rule of word-formation, the derived word itself may become the base for another derivation; and so, by reapplication, it is possible to derive words of considerable morphological and semantic complexity...
Process by which a base is somehow modified to produce a new lexical item...
But what is a word? And do all natural languages, in fact, have words? These questions are not as easy to answer as they might appear to be at first sight. One reason is that the term ‘word’ is ambiguous, both in everyday usage and...
Saussure used the term SIGN to refer to the symbolic entity which consists of signifier and signified (although many linguists nowadays prefer to use sign to refer to the signifier alone). The relation between these two elements form the nucleus of the semantic...