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    Nashabre Payton Favorite Restaurant Thesis Statement: I enjoy eating at Red Lobster because it gives me the opportunity to socialize with friends and family, serves great food, and it’s inexpensive. Topic Sentence #1: I enjoy eating at Red Lobster because it gives me the opportunity to socialize with my friends and family. Topic Sentence #2: I also enjoy eating at Red Lobster because they serve great food. Topic Sentence #3: Finally, I enjoy dining at Red Lobster because it’s inexpensive. Has someone

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    significant incident. During this lesson plan I wanted to keep in mind the one ELL student at field placement. I had gotten to know her very well through interviewing her, and knew from previous conversations that she really struggled to understand grammar. When students were working individually on their writing assignment, I made sure to visit this one student in particular to be sure that she understood the concept fully. This student works very hard, and I know she is doing twice the amount of work

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    importance of English can’t be denied and ignored because it is widely used everywhere in the world. If learners want to learn better English, they not only develop skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, but also should have knowledge of grammar and semantics. One of the factors to learn good English that is semantics. Semantics helps the students to understand the basic concepts of meaning of the words, sentences and utterance. Understanding the meaning of the language is important in learning

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    Survey Analysis Introduction: As someone who has a fairly unusual writing method, I set out to find other students’ methods of writing styles and compare them to mine and each other’s to see if my methods are unusual or if they are actually common among my peers. My survey consisted of five simple questions that asked about the writing process, the difficulties of writing, and how the process of revision. When I write, I dive right into the paper; I do not outline, and I do not write with a

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    fact a genius with music but at the same time learning disabled due to his problems with semantics, grammar, and pragmatics. It is stated in Yolanda’s Genius that Andrew took a while to talk (Fenner, 1995, p. 38) and now at seven years old tends to speak very infrequently. Andrew might have had a delay in speech because of his family upbringing. Andrew was babysat until he was old enough to go to school and since his father died when Andrew was a baby his mother works to support the family. Although

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    As I look back, College Composition has improved my writing techniques and skills by directing me through tons of practice with writing, readings, and examples from the textbook, in-class discussions and helped me notice my strengths and weaknesses as an English student. Some of my strengths that can be shown in my previous essays are: my ability to free-write with lots of detail, structuring an essay correctly, constructing a very well organized and detailed essay, and manage time and use it to

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    actual development of the child’s knowledge of the grammatical structure of their language. Parents/carers generally react positively to any attempts at spoken communication by their child, encouraging them to persist, but not correcting them for ‘bad grammar’. In fact, ‘mistakes’ are sometimes viewed as ‘cute’ by parents/carers and the child actively encouraged to repeat them for others! Another theory that has been proposed is learning by analogy – hearing a sentence, internalising the structural rules

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    His fifth claim is that different forms of speech do not equate to differing levels of achievement in school. As a sixth claim, he argues that ethnographic assumptions offered by Deutsch, Bereiter, Engelmann are wrong. His final claim, is that training a child to learn the logical manner of Standard English doesn’t guarantee that he’ll succeed. Nonstandard

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    structures because my previous writings were limited in some simple and dull structures, making my writing mediocre. After participating in this course, I really gain a lot. Many unclear concepts in sentence patterns that I have had since my secondary school are cleared now. For instance, in making some complex sentences, I always make grammatical mistakes and use erroneous subjects but do not know why they are wrongly used. The

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    THE ERRORS ANALYSIS OF USING THE PREPOSITION MADE BY ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT’S STUDENTS ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010 A. Background Preposition is one of function words in English. It had introduced from elementary school till university, one way to introduced and learned the preposition is by asking students to make a writing paper. Sekolah Tinggi keguruan dan Ilmu pendidikan (STKIP) PGRI Banjarmasin have many programs to increase their students writing ability. STKIP has two programs that can make their

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