If we aim at enabling our students to communicate in English, our approach to the study of the so called Four Skills must be comprehensive, global and integrative, as far as possible in the context of statutory education. In the hand if we have in...
Since language plays an essential part in the development of any culture, if we want to understand the way other people live, work and understand the world they living in, we also need to know their language. Learning different languages is not an easy task,...
In the first one , we are going to talk about the different contributions of the linguistic to the teaching process , named the traditional approach as Grammar. Translation , Direct method and Structural method. From the current method we are going to talk about...
Perhaps, the most important difference between writing and speaking is related to the need for accuracy. Native speakers constantly make mistakes when they are speaking: they change the subject in the middle of a sentence, hesitate and say the same thing...
In relation to the written foreign language we have to bear in mind we can find three different styles according to writing purpose; the expressive style focuses on the expression of the writers personal feelings; the transactional style focuses on logical statements...
Phoneme is a family of sounds consisting of one important sound of the language. A phoneme is defined in a given language only in terms of its differences from the other phonemes of the same language:...
One of the greatest characteristics of human being is his ability to communicate complicated messages concerning every aspect of his life. We all achieve this exchange of information mainly by means of either visual or auditory stimuli. In this theme we are concerned...
In English there is no a univocal system of orthographic reference for all the different sounds such as in Spanish. This is due to the evolution of the phonological system and the evolution of the written system which took place in different centuries....
No deben ser considerados como definitivos o excluyentes del lenguaje oral, sino que se ofrecen como una herramienta de sustitución del mismo, aunque en algunos sujetos si se pueden convertir en la única forma de comunicación debido a su grado de deficiencia...
An ability to manipulate grammatical structure does not have any potential for expressing meaning unless words are used. We talk about the importance of “choosing your words carefully” in certain situation, but we are less concerned about choosing structures...
