Introduction Learning English as a second language is very important to learn how words stress, when we use rhythm in each sentence and what for intonation it will be used. These are parts of pronunciation in English language. Learning English is not learning words and sentences. It is necessary to learn how to avoid the interference of mother language in order to improve the utterance near the native speakers. The role of mother tongue influences in a language acquisition for rhythm, stress ...
"Blog" is a term used to describe sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog can feature diary-type commentary and links to articles on other websites, usually presented in reverse chronological order. Many blogs focus on a particular topic and others are more like personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts. Blogs commonly have an archive to older articles, provide a way for people to leave comments, show a list of links to other related sites (thi...
Business is heading in a international direction and this means that there will be some changes in the work culture. Corporations are looking for doing business as easy as they can, but this multi-national business has created a new set of challenges. The most unavoidable of these new business challenges is a barrier in cross-cultural communication. When people do business, they need to be speaking in the same language. Even if two folks are not familiar of a particular language, there must e...
Oral presentation is synonyms with public speaking or speechmaking. Its may describe as a public speaking which is mean as delivering an address to a public audience. Public speaking also is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence or entertain the listeners. Oral presentation also means as a verbal presentation to a lecturer and possibly other students by an individual student. It may be on a topic researched by the student...
When we listen to understand someone speaking to us, we understand as much from the way the voice goes up & down as we do from the actual combinations of vowels & consonants. Certainly a dog trained to respond to certain utterances will continue to respond if the vowels & consonants are slightly changed but all factors kept constant. Many of us as children have played the game of talking without words-carrying on a fairly prolonged conversation of 'Mmmmm?' 'Mmmmmmmmm! & so on. Or we have list...
An all-you-can-eat buffet is free-form: customers pay a fixed fee and can then help themselves to as much food as they wish to eat in a single meal. This form is found often in restaurants, especially in hotels. This type of meal is really tempting to any guest who will dine in the restaurant. With all the scrumptious dishes served in front of them, and the appetizing smell of it would really make their mouths water, literally. Restaurants use this strategy to attract locals and tourists to d...
I have chosen as theme for this project "Leading strategic change", because I believe is amazing how a person can transform a company that is almost bankrupt in a very successful one, how a single person manages to orchestrate all the employees and operations of a company and accomplish a successful turnaround. More specifically, this theme is approached from the perspective of the case of Ferdinand Piёch, who took over as CEO of the Volkswagen Group in 1993. After almost a decade of his lea...
This chapter details the correlations in request and enquiry production strategies between native and Turkish speakers of English who have been living the UK for between 6 months and 3 years. Appropriateness, (in)directness and (im)politeness of the speech acts is considered, as well as the cultural and linguistic features that influence the results. Firstly, the head acts and supportive moves will be identified and compared for native and non-native speakers, then the head acts and supportiv...
Reading comprehension is one of the abilities which EFL learners should be prepared for. The grammar of foreign language and the knowledge of vocabulary are two important factors to reach that goal. In addition, the background knowledge of L1 can be helpful. Goodman (1967) describes reading as a "psycholinguistic guessing game" which requires ability in choosing the fewest, most productive cues needed to generate guesses which are right the first time. As mentioned in Carrell & Eisterhold (19...
For any kind of communication to be successful, it is essential that the receiver attributes the same meaning to the message as intended by the sender of the message. But all acts of communication are not perfect or successful. At times, some meaning is lost as the message encounters various barriers along its passage between the sender and the receiver. Such barriers may arise at any of the stages through which a message passes during the process of communication. This is also called miscomm...
