... lots of names of disease were named by English, if she needed to check it, she had to search the English name not the Chinese translation because translation could not help her find the important information. The other area that uses English so often is computer. Because my major is computer ... There are lots of ways to create the China English. First is by transliteration, like RMB (Renminbi means Chinese money), Maotai, Putonghua (standard Chinese) and etc. Second is by Loan translation or calque, like the Spring Festival, One China policy, Beijing opera and etc. Because the China En...

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Bilingual ballots are not needed by numerous people. Why squander millions of taxpayer's dollars for ballots to be translated with a high possibility of translation errors? Who knows why? The focal ground in stopping bilingual ballot production is that they are unneeded. To become apart of the constituency you must be an American citizen. While ... positions of the candidates, how can they know who to vote for? Chances are that the translation doesn't come out to great either. In New York City's 1993 Chinese ballot erroneously printed the Chinese character for no as a translation for yes. Bu...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the Oakland, California school board: "In Oakland's majority-Black school districts, Blacks have a combined grade-point average of 1.8 on a scale of 4.0, compared with 2.12 for Whites and more than 3.0 for Chinese students. Blacks also accounted for far more than their share of students who flunked a grade, skipped school, or required remedial classes, and nearly one-fifth of the black 12th graders ... sentence positive. Smitherman's example is, "Don't nobody don't know God can't tell me nothin"." 3. The use of "to be" to suggest repetition. "The coffee be cold." Translation: the coffee...

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... classes in some English courses in Kediri-, a city far from my hometown where people from different cities around Indonesia come to learn foreign languages like English, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. I had learned Vocabulary, Grammar, Structure, Public Speaking, Accent, and Pre-TOEFL for about one year. A class that I liked most at that time was American Accent. It was tutored by my ... Expression, English for Kids, Learning English through Singing (Kid Songs in Indonesian that I translated into English), and Commonly Used English Expressions. Besides writing, I sometimes get a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , what would you suggest providing for the classroom? Please provide at least 20 specific examples: Dual language books IPAD- apps CDs/Tapes Worksheets in other languages Language translation dictionaries If not available online translation dictionary, maybe resource can be use of laptops for that child Displays which are interactive Additional staff to help support Games Alphabet map Interactive cd-roms with whiteboard ... . 5) SOCIAL NETWORKS Developed by Lesley Milroy to investigate the use of low-prestige varieties of English in working class communities in Belfast. Also used by Li We...

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... view of the world, which represents the fact of coming from different regions, countries and also representing different realities and showing their own origins at the same time. For instance, a Chinese person who learnt English as a second language and now is working as an educator in Chile owns a different background from someone who belongs to Chile. The cultures, the language, the ... a waste of time and money. However, she only used the English textbook given by the government, all her classes were based on the textbook and her methodology was still Grammar translation. Among the d...

• Word Count: 1822
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate