English Speakers
British ‘Bollocks’ versus American ‘Jerk’: do native British English speakers swear more –or differently compared to American English speakers?
... of English observing violations of sociopramatic norms by fellow users of that ...British English that would make for catchy headlines without any offensive word such as Don’t mind your language, no one ...
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Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of the Filipino English Accent to Hong Kong English Speakers
... the English spoken by Chinese people to Filipinos has been explored in past studies, but the intelligibility of Filipino-accented English for Chinese English speakers is rarely ...the ...
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Differences in Communication Between Native English Speakers and EFL Saudi Female Speakers
... EFL speakers and native English ...EFL speakers with native English speakers? 2) What are the most and the least influencing factors that affect the cross-cultural communication between ...
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He_unc_0153M_17108.pdf
... advanced speakers with short exposure on Item Type 3 ...native English speakers ...intermediate speakers with short exposure, four of the participants did not take any standardized ...
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English As A Language Of International Communication
... Chinese speakers. However, another 600 million people speak English at a decent level and use it as a second ...the English language, which in turn has a semi-official or official status, and this is ...
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An Analysis of Phonological Processes Involved in Spoken English of Hong Kong Primary Pre-service Teachers
... the English phonological processes and speech articulation of adult Cantonese-English speakers residing in Hong ...Cantonese Speakers of English (PTCSE) was developed to assess ...
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An acoustic articulatory study of bilingual vowel production:advanced tongue root vowels in Twi and tense/lax vowels in Ghanaian English
... whether speakers use the same acoustic and articulatory cues in order to pro- duce cross-linguistically similar vowel ...bilingual speakers of Twi, an Akan language of West Africa, and Ghanaian ...
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Language barriers
... language(s), English or French, do you know well enough to conduct a conversation?” Given that French is the main language spoken in Quebec, “English only” respondents were categorized as having language ...
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Experimental Results on the Native Language Identification Shared Task
... In the earliest treatment of this problem, Koppel et al. (2005) used stylistic text features to identify the native language of an author. They used features based on function words, character n-grams and er- rors and ...
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What does cross linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal? : evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking
... American English speakers all regularly represent the lateral direction of the cat's change of location in their gestures, despite the fact that the content of these gestures is also shaped by the ...
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Compliment and Compliment Responses: A Comparative Study between Dari and English Native Speakers
... native English speakers contained 50% acceptance, 45% percent mitigation and 3% rejection while the compliment responses produced by Syrians contained 67% acceptance, 33% mitigation, and 0% ...and ...
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ESL Teaching and Learning Background in the United States of America
... 4. Two-way, dual-language or bilingual immersion programs. An additive or enrichment model designed to achieve bilingual in minority and majority languages, ESL students and English speakers. The model ...
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A Comparative Study of the Use of Disagreement Strategies Among Iranian EFL Learners and Native Speakers of English
... their English classrooms to help the EFL learners improve their communicative abilities to use English appropriately for their communicative aims including making a request, making a promise, giving thanks, ...
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A comparison between malay and american responses to compliments in english
... of English produce target-like compliment responses in English and whether, while communicating, pragmatic transfer can take ...native speakers of English that affect the way they reply to the ...
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Understanding the Body Paragraph: A Handbook for EFL Teachers & Students
... native speakers of ...spoken English are necessary for the successful transition to life in the United States for those coming from non-English-speaking ...than English at home (United States ...
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An Account of Iranian EFL Pronunciation Errors through L1 Transfer
... of English will be helped to become proficient speakers of English with rare or no residue of foreign accent in the pronunciation of target words, phrases, or sentences, thereby leading to more ...
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Cross-Cultural Differences and Pragmatic Transfer in English and Persian Refusals
... native speakers (PNSs) and English native speakers (ENSs) in terms of the frequency of the semantic ...and English versions of the same discourse completion test (DCT), ...the English ...
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An intercultural study of euphemistic strategies used in Saudi Arabic and American English
... some English euphemistic expressions to refer to death like ‗He is not with us‘, ‗he passed away‘, or ‗he met his ...informal). Speakers tend to use taboo utterances in the informal situations, whereas ...
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The use of English as a lingua franca in translation
... on English in its role as a global lingua franca. English is often being used for ‘interculturalizing’ native languages but it is also true that English texts are written by speakers who use ...
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Beliefs about Non-Native Teachers in English as an International Language: A Positioning Analysis of Iranian Language Teachers’ Voices
... as English teachers in an EIL setting can be seen as a result of their poor awareness of the legitimacy of ...perceptions. English teachers‟ ideologies are reshaped through their interaction with this ...
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