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The Writing Skills Teaching of this skill should proceed through controlled, guided to free writing Function of writing: - reinforcing and consolidating what has been learnt orally 9 store in learners` minds more easily) - needed for correspondence notes, essays and in situation where oral commu...

Total Physical Response (TPR) This method is also known as Learning Another Language Through Actions and was originally introduced by James Asher (1974). It is a language teaching method in which items are presented in the foreign language as orders, commands, and instructions requiring a physical ...

Traditional Grammar Traditional grammar is a type of grammar that is usually based on earlier grammars of Latin or Greek and applied to some other language, often inappropriately. For example, some grammarians stated that English had six cases, because Latin has six cases. These grammars were often...

Types of grammar practice, from accuracy to frequency awareness: students have been introduced to the structure and they do a task that focuses their attention on its form or meaning. Students are given extracts from newspapers and they are asked to find and underline all the examples of a certain ...

COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS CLASSICAL STRUCTURALISM Structuralist semantics worked under the at the time novel hypothesis that meanings are decomposable, and proposed two compelementary methods of semantic analysis: componential analysis (a paradigmatic method) and distributional analysis (a syntagmatic ...

EXPANSION OF THE LEXICON We know that lexical items become moribund (dying) and obsolete, whilst new items are formed and join the lexicon. There can be many reasons for wanting to have new words. Sometimes, when users sense that a particular word has acquired a meaning that is embarrassing in so...

Lexical Semantics vs. Historical Semantics Linguistic Structuralism Meaning may be investigated from a historical perspective: two disciplines dealt with this problem: historical semantics (lexicology) - the evolution of meaning, the typology ...

Lexicology is the study of lexis in a language. We will also use the word vocabulary interchangeably with lexis. Take note that lexis and vocabulary are non-count nouns (although occasionally, you could talk about vocabularies, this would be unusual); if you need to refer to individual items, you ...

Linguistic Structuralism The central issue is that every language is a unique relational structure and that the units of the system which are identified derive both their essence and their existence from the relationships with other units in the system.

Process of amelioration This is then words improve, or are elevated, in meaning. The word luxury originally meant `lasciviousness' or `lust'. This then got watered down to refer to an indulgence in whatever in classy or expensive. Today, the stro...