PPT-GRAMMAR WORKSHOP Learning the ins and outs of the English Language

MONDAY Parts of Speech Noun person place or thing Pronoun replaces specific noun Verb shows the action of a noun Adjective descriptive word Adverb modifies or describes an action. Education 453:10. How much do you remember?. Were you ever taught the rules of grammar?. (Rate yourself using a Likert scale from one to ten on your knowledge of English grammar.). Learning/teaching grammar in context….. Richard Hudson. British Library, July 2014. or: Does English grammar have a future?. 1. Main points. Grammar is old, international and big. It’s an . important part of education. for first language literacy. VST2/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/EndlessSeries.vstVST3/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/EndlessSeries.vst3RTAS/Library/Application Support/Digidesign/Plug-Ins/EndlessSeries.dpmAAX/Library/Application Suppor Richard Hudson. Royal Grammar School, Guildford. May 2014. 1. My main points. ‘Language’ includes English as well as Foreign. Linguistics is the science of language. Linguistics can be. i. nteresting. Judith Lamers, Centre for Quantitative Methods, Einhoven, visiting China What is a sabbatical leave? What is a sabbatical leave? Kenji Hakuta, UC Merced, on sabbatical Association of University Profes 2. There are immigrants to the United States who acquire proficiency in English on their own. This is especially true of young immigrants.. 3. It is also true that learning particular grammatical distinctions requires a great deal of time even for the most skilled learners.. Craig Roberts, Physics Division. . Collaborators: 2012-Present. Rocio. BERMUDEZ (U . Michoácan. ). ;. Shi CHAO. (. Nanjing U. ) ;. Ming-. hui. DING (. PKU. );. Fei. GAO (. PKU. ) ;. S. HERNÁNDEZ. th. March 2015. 1 Approval of Minutes. 2 Presentation of Reports by the MATEFL Committee. 3 Any Other Business. 4 Election of . Committee . 2015-2017. 5 Break. 6 Workshop: Teaching Advanced Learners (90 . Presented by Amy, Dave. , . Rafi. , Tyler. September. 22, 2014. SLA Section 1. class activity: definitions. Some problems with definitions. prescriptive . descriptive. link with lexicon . link with pragmatics. First section of the ACT. 5 passages. 75 questions. . Grammar/Mechanics. . Style (good writing/voice). 45 minutes. Language of the ACT. The ACT likes . clear. , . direct. , . concise. sentences, not flowery language.. Introduction and historical background. Fayiz Alsani. Why English?. World . Englishes. Circles within circles. Language Varieties. Lingua Franca – who speaks it to whom?. http://www.languagemonitor.com/no-of-words/. Introduction to INS. INS is a . navigation aid that uses a . computer,. motion sensors . and . rotation . sensors.. The motion sensors such as accelerometers.. The rotational sensors such as gyroscopes.. Rolando Jimenez. Principal PM Manager. Office Extensibility. BRK2049. Agenda. Office Add-ins Intro. What/Why Office Add-ins? Where we are today?. What’s New. Summary of Announcements. Developing Office Add-ins. Prepositional Phrases Ed McCorduck English 402--Grammar SUNY Cortland http://mccorduck.cortland.edu prepositional phrase (PP) – a phrase (see slide 2 of the “Descriptive Grammar of English” chapter 2 lecture) whose head(word) is a member of the form class preposition (see the “Form Classes” chapter 2 lecture)