Introduction Actually writing an essay to some people is fun but to me it's an odious task, especially when you want to write something you are not familiar or versed in. The course had being very challenging and interesting. At times I know what to write but I don't know where to start from. This makes me to stay longer in the library or on the internet looking for research materials to back up my argument. Often when I get to this stage I walk away from the essay to come back and start all ...
Both criticize and justify the process of communication for a multi national business, with respect to the interpretation of verbal and non -verbal communication across gender and different cultures via different mediums suggesting improvement. Process of communication It consists of the following elements: Sender: The `sender' initiates the process of communication by sending a message. The sender is sometimes also known as 'encoder.'Â Encoding: Encoding is the process wherein the sender sel...
Many Swahili words are built up by using roots and affixes. Affixes may be described in terms of the class or category of the word they combine with, and the category of word found by the root and affix combination. Whereas roots do not change, many affixes do. Swahili morphology is summarily described under the main headings: pronouns and pronominal prefixes, verbs and noun classes. (Safari & Akida, 1991) 3.1 Free and bound morphemes Whether a morpheme is bound or free, can be defined by con...
What is involved in knowing a word? Is it significant for learners of a second language to manage a great amount of vocabulary? How can teachers help vocabulary learning? In this essay, I am firstly going to analyse, what really a word is, and the aspects involved when knowing and using vocabulary. In the second section of this paper, I am going to discuss and analysed some authors and linguists' point of view about lexicon and its importance in learning a foreign language. Finally, I am goin...
Introduction Swahili is an example of a Bantu language. Bantu languages belong to the South Central subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family. These languages are closely related to languages used in central, east-central and southern Africa (Sands, 2009). Due to the colonial history of the countries in this area, Swahili contains many loanwords from English, Arabian, Persian Indian languages, Portuguese, German and other Bantu languages. Their origins are often hardly recognisable. The rea...
Introduction To refer to the status of the Arabic Language, Allah mentioned it in his Holy Quran saying that "Verily, we have sent it down as an Arabic Quran in order that you may understand'' ( Surrat Yousef, Ayyah 2) انا انزلناه قرانا عربيا لعلكم تعقلون" صدق الله العظيم ( سورة يوسÙ, اية 2 )" Arabic (العربية al-Ê¿arabÄ«yah or عربي Ê¿arabÄ«) is one of the widespread spoken languages among Arab speakers, especially in the Middle...
Puerto Rico: The 51st State Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean Sea. It is 3,515 sq mi and has a population of 4 million. It is currently a territory of the United States. However, Puerto Rico is like a state in many ways. The government is set up like a state in the U.S. would be, the federal court system is incorporated in to the Puerto Rican legal system, and the U.S. military has an active presence on the island (Paulose). Because of the relationship with the United States and the p...
Almost every one of us has a mobile phone; on average we change our mobile phones every eighteen months. There is always a new phone on the market, for example the first iPhone was released in 2007, it's now 2012 and there have already been six different versions of the iPhone. This isn't because of new technologies, its due to the competition in the market, the battle of who can create the most innovative phone; manufactures don't want to be left behind. Have you ever thought what happens to...
2.1 Structure of phone and speech recognizers. Any phone/speech recognition system can be seen in simpliï¬cation as three main blocks, as in Figure 2.1 - feature extraction, acoustic matching (classiï¬cation) and a decoder. signal decodedfeature extractionmatching speechdecoder acousticphone/word sequence Figure 2.1: Block diagram of a phone/speech recognizer Feature extraction is the process of extracting a limited amount of useful information from speech signal, while discarding redundant...
The present paper is devoted to the developing of adult learner`s speaking skills. The theme of this research is important because nowadays the basic tool of the communication is speaking. It is significant that one could communicate freely, express thoughts, emotions and attitudes. However, to the best of our knowledge the topic has not been sufficiently studied. Therefore, the following research question has been raised: What are the most effective strategies of the developing ones speaking...
