During the acquisition of english, Vietmese learner have to encounter many difficulties because of these two languages belong two different groups. One of the most difficult problems is passive voice. Take these sentences as examample: “ The rice is cook” and “ Cơm chín rồi”. We can see that these two sentences have the same meaning but one in passive form and the other in active form. Thus, It makes learners confused about using passive form properly when translating because sometimes an active sentence in Vietnamese can be a passive sentence in English. As a teacher-to-be of English, a Vietnamese learner, I want to do this paper to help english learner clear about all the similarities and differences of passive voice in English and …show more content…
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There are two voices in English : active voice and passive voice. While active is used to focus on the doer, passive voice is used to emphasize on the reciever or the act rather than the performer. Take this sentence as a example:
“ Her brother was captured by the police.”
“Her brother” is the recipient of the action “captured” was emphasized and the performer is “ the police.
As a matter of fact, passive voice is not widely used as active. However, in some cases like acadamic writing, passive is the chosen over active.
First of all, Amy Tan wanting to learn all different kinds of Englishes. In the essay, Tan demonstrates that
It’s amazing how much we learn about people from what they say. One way to achieve this is through carefully constructed dialogue. Work to create dialogue that allows the characters’ personalities and voices to emerge through unique word selection and the use of active rather than passive voice.
In Amy Tan article “Mother tongue”, Amy Tan was talking about her love and fascination of language in daily life. Amy Tan explores the various forms of English that people from around the world use as they immigrate to the U.S. and how they are classified by the way they speak. Her mother plays a big role in telling of how her perspective on language has been changed. The author’s analyze the purpose and evaluate the effectiveness in her writing using persuasive devices to influence her audience. Through the article Amy use the various different rhetorical strategies such as the pathos and logos.
As individuals, we are constantly learning what to say, do or think. Almost everything that we do is a result of learning it. Some things, we learn at a young age; while others may take years to obtain the knowledge. Assertiveness, is one aspect of learning and it is one of the toughest to obtain; but why? Is it not easy to stand up for what is right or say your own, opinion, maybe saying no, an easy two letter word? Well no, it is not easy, some people struggle with, this on an everyday basis. They try to figure themselves out and wonder why they weren’t honest or why did they let themselves be used. These are the questions I constantly had when I was growing up, not realizing that all I needed was to learn how to overcome my passive-aggressive
This essay will discuss the role of the early year’s educators in particular focusing on supporting speech, language and communication in early childhood. When a child is growing up, their speech and language gives them access to the world and people around them. They learn to communicate with other people, and shape their own thoughts with words. Language and communication skills include a child's ability to express himself or herself through words, gestures, or facial expressions, as well as the capacity to understand others. “Communication is an essential life skill. It is the basis on which all children learn, achieve and make friends. It is vital to the development of children’s social and emotional well-being”. (Lindon, J., 2002). The early years settings is concerned with emergent literacy. The early years practitioners need to provide a print rich environment to the children for example when they are ready a story hold the book up so they can see the words, having the childs name and photograph on the placemats. (NCCA, 2009).
For my first paper I'll talk about voice, and how it affects the conversations that we have with other people, and how we perceive certain voices to sound in stories, and other works that we read. I think that in general voice is a type of mystery, and that it is one of those things that we really can't understand. When looking at a piece of writing I think that a clear and concise voice is one of the things that makes a piece work. This is my own feeling, and it might not agree with others, but when I'm reading a story, and it is full of good stuff like conversation, and heart felt feelings, I feel that the author is able to tell me what he/she is trying to say, I think that it has a better impact on the reader compared to the writing that goes on about nothing, and seems to only have one monotone voice.
All of us have a singing voice, but not everyone has developed a proper vocal technique or how to use that voice. If you ever have a chance to head out to a Karaoke Bar one evening, chances are you’ll witness a variety of passionate singers. But let’s be honest, some are less pleasing to the ear than others. The point is, there are so many naturally good singers out there that just don’t have the right technique. Even those with the proper training could very easily raise their level of sound and reduce the amount of effort they involved in sounding great.
Speech errors serve as a window to investigate speech production and arrangement of language elements in the brain. Gary S. Dell and Peter A. Reich (1980) said that one of the best way to find out how a system is constructed is if that system breaks. Speech errors as a linguistic phenomenon has been the topic of many linguistic researches. It can be investigated as an evidence for linguistic change as well. Bussmann and Hadumod (1996) in the Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics defines speech errors as " (Latin: lapsus linguae), is a deviation (conscious or unconscious) from the apparently intended form of an utterance." (449).
It has been said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn: therefore it must be different from other languages. This paper explores the similarities and differences between English and other well-known languages.
Lecturing can be defined as “a speech read or delivered before an audience or class.” (Dictionary.com). On the other hand, active learning is defined by “a learning environment that allows students to talk and listen, read, write and reflect as they apply what they are learning.” (Meyers and Jones). There are many distinguishable differences between these two types of teaching/learning styles. Lecturing may be seen as simply reading as it is derived from the Latin word “to read” (Hanford). Active learning is different. It entails many different types of learning such as cooperative learning which is simply problem based learning and the use of case methods and simulations to promote active learning (Hanford). There are many other ways active learning can be used, such as one minute papers which entail students to answer a question given within a minute time frame so that the teacher may see how or if they are grasping the material (Paulson and Faust). Daily journals are another way active learning is used. They are similar to one minute papers except students record what they learned during the day (Paulson and Faust). Active learning stimulates critical thinking while lecturing only allows the student to listen and tune the teacher out.
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The students sometimes make errors on the use of grammar when they produce an English writing, also in writing essay texts. It is because Indonesian and English have their own grammatical system. This problem may occur due to their lack of knowledge of English grammatical rules. Learning English is a necessity for some people. Learning English cannot be separated from learning grammar. Students sometimes make errors on the use of grammar when they produce an English writing. The students cannot avoid the grammatical errors in their writing. Sometimes, they do not pay attention to the errors they make and they do not know how to correct the errors. In this essay, our tried to focus on analyzing the grammatical errors in essay texts.
Being able to project and vocalise effectively is vital in drama and in every day
All methods in language teaching are a pre-designed set of description of how the teacher should teach the learner and how the learner should learn obtain from a specific theory of language and a theory of language learning. These theories are attain from the parts of linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and are the origin of theory and applying in language teaching. Language teaching methods is divided into many methodologies. For example: The Direct Method, Grammar-Translation Method, Audio-Lingual Method, Total Physical Response, Audio-Lingual Method, The structural Method etc. Each method has its own rules, history, and different from one another. For example: The direct method was the reply to the disapproving with the
Solution: The sentence is in the active voice and it is a declarative sentence, stating facts or opinions In a declarative sentence, the subject normally comes before the verb.