From the very first day on university, all students realize that plagiarism is something that they must avoid but are everyone completely known what plagiarism is? Most of us think of plagiarism as copying someone`s else work and claim it as your own by borrowing the exactly ideas. That's correct but terms like `copy` and `borrow` can be disguised to several forms; to steal and pass off ideas of another as your own, to use the material of another without crediting the actual source, to presen...
St Jerome, father of the Latin Church once implied “Virginity can be lost by a thought.” This quote stresses on the real definition of losing virginity. Generation Y (people that are born between 1977 and 1997) looks at losing virginity before marriage as something that is ubiquitous for this era. But Generation X (people that are born between 1964 and 1977) and Baby Boomers (people that are born between 1946 and 1964) consider of teens that lose their virginity before they are married as to ...
As we all know, word are the most important unit in one language. We use words everyday, in many various fields of life: from work to studying, form informal situation to formal situation. From word, we can create phrases, sentences to communication with each other under many forms. Amongst words, noun is a rather crucial part. Nouns have several functions in sentences. "They can be the subject, an object, an appositive, or a complement" (Rakoczy). Therefore, noun-formation can be recognized ...
Speaking regarded as the most important and difficult micro-skill of the four skills in foreign language learning. Most adult non-native students of English in the UK particularly Asian students face a lot of difficulties when they speak English and they sometimes get frustrated when they could not understand or be understand by native speakers of English. Therefore, they encounter the same problems that confront any students studying in a foreign culture, such as grammar, pronunciation, list...
Introduction The delivery of teaching at AeU is using the blended learning system as described in Chapter 2. The blended learning system employs a variety of learning modes to achieve the highest level of learning. Therefore, it is crucial that the Academic Facilitator fully understands his/her role. The role of the Academic Facilitator in the online mode is mainly to provide learning support for students. The specific roles and responsibilities are spelled out below. Objectives The objective...
AEvaluating semantic similarity of concepts is a problem that has been extensively investigated in the literature in different areas, such as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, databases and software engineering. Semantic similarity relates to computing the similarity between conceptually similar but not necessarily lexically similar terms. Currently, it is growing in importance in different settings, such as digital libraries, heterogeneous databases and in particular the Semantic W...
At the beginning of the book, Fowler finds out that his acquaintance that he has been waiting for has been found dead. The murdered man, Pyle, stole Fowler's love Phuong and police are looking for answers. Fowler does a great job of being innocent. After he breaks the news to Phuong who does not understand the policeman due to language barriers, he asks her to stay the night with him and she does. From this point, Fowler begins to reminisce about the first time he met the young American Pyle....
The study investigates the use of Lithuanian and English and code-switching between the two in a family of Lithuanian-English bilinguals living in London. The data was collected by means of recording in the family home. The recording was then transcribed and analysed, allowing me to identify a number of features of the features of the language choice and code-switching patterns. These included convergence or divergence from the viewpoint of the previous speaker, lexical need, translation to a...
Identity and the cognate terms in other languages have a long history as technical terms in Western philosophy from the ancient Greeks through contemporary analytical philosophy. They have been used to address the perennial philosophical problems of permanence amidst manifest change, and of unity amidst diversity. Wide spread vernacular and social-analytical use of identity and its cognates, however, is of much more recent vintage and more localized provenance. Language on the other hand expr...
The absolute threshold is the point where something becomes noticeable to our senses. It is the softest sound we can hear or the slightest touch we can feel. Anything less than this goes unnoticed. The absolute threshold is therefore the point at which stimuli goes from undetectable to detectable to our senses. Difference Threshold: Once a stimulus becomes detectable to us, how do we recognize if this stimulus changes. When we notice the sound of the radio in the other room, how do we notice ...