Understanding Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition

Applied Linguistics

Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related, real-life problems. The academic fields related to applied linguistics are translation, language technology, computer-assisted language learning, second language acquisition, educational linguistics, critical discourse analysis, language policy, situated language practices, rhetoric, and terminology.

Language Variation

Variation in language use among speakers

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Understanding Literary Devices in Writing

Literary Devices: Definitions and Examples

Phonetic Level

NAME

EXAMPLE

EXPLANATION

ROLE

Alliteration

It remains an open question how stammering…

Repetition of a single vowel or consonant phoneme.

Onomatopoeia

Uco, uco, uco, uco

Bee-eater.

Imitation of real sounds through the use of certain phonemes.

Rhyme

1. Assonant

2. Consonant

Filled with water lilies (Assonant)

He hit the back (Consonant)

Repetition of sounds from the last accented vowel.

Assonant: Vowels and consonants

Consonant: Only vowels

Morphosyntactic Level

  • Paronomasia:
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Effective Communication in Teaching: Techniques for Clarity

Exaggerated Intonation and Stress

  • a) Teachers use exaggerated intonation partly to show their students the importance of intonation, but also because the exaggerated intonation will help their facial expressions.
  • b) Teachers place very clear stress on the most important words in the sentence.
  • c) Intonation and stress carry a lot of meaning in spoken English.

Structurally Simplified Language

  • a) Teachers speak in short, simple sentences. They pause at the ends of sentences. They look around the room before
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Handwriting, Reading, and Speaking Skills Development

Features of Handwriting Development

When a child first puts a pen or pencil on paper, she begins the journey with a highly conscious participation in the writing process. Slowly, with time and experience, the shaping of letters into words and sentences becomes automatic. Initially, children move through the space on paper, making letters one after the other. This motion is called praxis. Scientific studies have sought to describe the features of handwriting movement, rather than advocate one method

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Effective Language Learning: Subskills, Techniques, and Activities

3 Specific Reading/Listening Subskills + Examples

  • Identifying topic
  • Recognizing specific words/sounds (decoding – look and say)
  • Confirming predictions or guesses

Intensive and Extensive Language Practice

Extensive listening/reading: is the action of listening/reading a language in real life (outside the classroom) by yourself and for pleasure.

  • News, films, songs, series, podcasts, magazines, newspapers.

Intensive listening/reading: is the action of listening/reading a language in a classroom. The aim

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Language Origins, Functions, and Evolution: A Comprehensive Analysis

Origins of Language

Origins of Language: Communication (animal-innate-specialized), Human Language (abstract and symbolic).

Core Aspects of Human Language

CARTS human language: sign language arbitrariness, displacement, dual articulation, productivity, prevarication, reflexivity, discrete units, creativity.

Language Functions

Representative: statements assertive, indicative mood, denotative language, 3rd person. Predom context.

Conative: hortatory statements, the imperative or subjunctive second person

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