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Applied linguistics: A twenty first century discipline (Grabe, 2004)
→ The text says that over the years, the term applied linguistics has been defined and interpreted in different ways.
1950→ A.L. the term was meant to reflect the insights of structural and functional linguistics that could be applied directly to Second Language teaching.
1960→ A.L continued to be associated with the application of linguistics to language teaching. Also it became involved in matters of language assessment,
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1. A firm characterized as a price taker
c. | has no control over the price it pays, or receives, in the market. |
2. All of the following are characteristics of perfect competition EXCEPT
d. | product differentiation. |
3. The perfectly competitive firm cannot influence the market price because
c. | the firm’s production levels are too small to affect the market. |
4. Each firm in a perfectly competitive industry
a. | is a price taker. | d. |
5. Which of the
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Chapter 5: Cultural Dimension of Glozalization
In chapter 5, Steger discusses 3 areas of cultural globalization: Sameness of difference, The role of media, The globalization of language.
Culture is a learned set of shared interpreatitons about beliefs, values, norms, and social practices, which affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people. Culture is dynamic, it’s in process and is adaptive.
Culture and cultural practices are moving beyond local areas of communities, towns, cities and
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Summary
On a frigid, foggy Christmas Eve in London, a shrewd, mean-spirited cheapskate named Ebenezer Scrooge works meticulously in his counting-house. Outside the office creaks a little sign reading “Scrooge and Marley”–Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s business partner, has died seven years previous. Inside the office, Scrooge watches over his clerk, a poor diminutive man named Bob Cratchit. The smoldering ashes in the fireplace provide little heat even for Bob’s tiny room. Despite the harsh weather
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Scollon & Scollon, Discourse and Intercultural Communication
- Discourse analysis as a polysemic term:
Discourse analysis is considered as polysemic because on the one hand it makes reference to the close linguistic study, from different perspectives and focusing on the analysis and interpretation, of texts in use. On the other hand, discourse refers to socially shared habits of thought, perception and behaviour reflected in different texts belonging to different genres. In this latter sense,
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Stave two
Scrooge awakes at midnight, which leaves him baffled–it was well after two a.m. when he went to bed. Initially, he thinks he has slept through an entire day or that it’s actually noon and the sun has merely gone under some sort of cover. He suddenly remembers the words of Marley’s ghost. The first of the three spirits will arrive at one o’clock. Frightened, Scrooge decides to wait for his supernatural visitor.
At one o’clock, the curtains of Scrooge’s bed are blown aside by a strange, childlike
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