A Contrastive Analysis Of The English And The German Sound System
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A Contrastive Analysis Of The English And The German Sound System
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Author : Nermin Bastug
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-06-08
A Contrastive Analysis Of The English And The German Sound System written by Nermin Bastug and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-08 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 14, University of Marburg, course: Problems of English Grammar, language: English, abstract: This work is titled “A Contrastive Analysis of the English and the German Sound System. Problems and Suggestions for Teaching.” The features of sound in a language are systematically structured. They are divided into two main branches: (a) the branch of segmental features including consonants and vowels, and (b) the branch of supra-segmental features including stress, intonation, pause, juncture, and rhythm (Nasr 1997: 2). My paper refers to branch (a) and illustrates the differences between the English (RP) and German consonant and vowel systems. The resulting contrasts reveal the main difficulties German learners of English are confronted with, therefore, these need to be exposed in teaching (Kufner 1971: 36). After contrasting the sound systems, I will comment on the aim and importance of learning English pronunciation, and then I will explain the error degrees caused by the sound contrasts. Later, there is an overview of the most important qualifications of a phonetic teacher, and finally I will provide suggestions for teaching the pronunciation difficulties caused by the differences between the two languages.
Contrastive Analysis English German
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Author : Catharina Belinghausen
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-10
Contrastive Analysis English German written by Catharina Belinghausen and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: Speaking English in a "native-like" way does not only consist of the abilities of speaking fluently and gramatically correct. Pronounciation and the proper use of the right sounds at the right time play an important role just as well. This paper outlines the English and German sound system, alludes to the differences between the systems and points at possible resulting problems for the German English learner. Before comparing English to other languages it has to be advised that English occurs in many global and local variations. Similar to the German "Hochdeutsch", two main standards had been established: "Received Pronounciation" (RP) of todays's British English and "General American" (GA). Since the chose literature basically deals with the latter, this paper is limited to "General American". To supply an introduction and a basis for the subsequent chapter a short overview of general sound production and the taxonomy of characterizing sounds is provided. Following this taxonomy Englih consonantes are firstly described and thereafter opposed to their German counterparts. Based on the determined differnces, possible phonemic and phonetic difficulties for the English learner are shown and adequate tasks to overcome those obstacles are introduced. Analogue to the previous, the presentation of the vowel systems, their differences and resulting problems completes the paper.
A Contrastive Analysis Of The English And The German Present Perfect Tense And Their Main Declarative Clauses
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Author : Jenny Streb
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2018-06-20
A Contrastive Analysis Of The English And The German Present Perfect Tense And Their Main Declarative Clauses written by Jenny Streb and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-20 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: This paper is going to provide an insight into contrasts between the English and German language. Due to a shared origin from the Indo-European languages, the two languages are perceived to be similar enough to have sufficient things in common in order to establish comparability but are at the same time also distinctive enough to show significant contrasts. The essential theme of this paper argues that English and German may exhibit formal parallels on the surface, however, accommodate very different underlying usages and internal structures. Due to a limited length of this paper the discussion of contrasts is restricted to the resultative and narrative usage of the Present Perfect tense as well as to declarative main clauses in the syntax.
Politeness In English And German A Contrastive Study
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Author : Svetla Rogatcheva
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2004-10-11
Politeness In English And German A Contrastive Study written by Svetla Rogatcheva and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-11 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.7 (A-), University of Bayreuth (UB Bayreuth), course: Contrastive Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Almo st all linguistic research views politeness as a universal feature of civilized societies, regardless of their background culture, or their language. Politeness is thus seen as an important social or ‘urbane’ value, inherent to successful communication, although its realization may vary across the different speech communities. Politeness offers a good way of emotional control of the individual (House and Kasper, 1981: 158), and is typically means of preserving and maintaining good social relationship between the speakers of one or more cultures. Polite behaviour generally protects the individual, as well as their addressee, and often becomes subject matter of self- help books on etiquette, especially in cases when people belong to a specific hierarchy (roya l court, business company etc). The verbal realization of politeness poses even greater problems when the interlocutors belong to different cultures and try to communicate, transferring their pragmatic knowledge of polite behaviour into the foreign langua ge. Lack of practice and the learners’ concern with rendering correctly the foreign language’s grammatical structures in the first place often lead to misunderstandings, or the so-called ‘socio-pragmatic failures’ (Thomas, 1983)- ‘ errors resulting from no n- native speakers not knowing what to say or not saying the appropriate things as a result of transferring incongruent social rules, values and belief systems from their native languages and cultures’. These types of errors are likely to cause a downright insult for both the non- native and the native speakers of a certain language, the native speakers misunderstanding and misinterpreting the intentions of the non- native speaker, and the nonnative speakers being over-sensitive to ‘distinctions of grammatical form’ (Brown and Levinson 1996: 35), in a way the native speakers are not. In any case, being polite is essential to maintaining healthy social relations within a specific culture, and even more so, for the communication across cultures. Cross-cultural communication offers a wide field for research, as the socio-pragmatic failure of one speaker of a certain community tends to be stereotyped for the whole community (Knapp-Potthoff 1992: 203), consequently labeling a nation as rude, over-polite, insincere etc. [...]
A Contrastive Analysis Of German And English Morphosyntactic Features
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Author : Jenny Streb
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2018-07-24
A Contrastive Analysis Of German And English Morphosyntactic Features written by Jenny Streb and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-24 with Literary Collections categories.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: In this thesis, the accuracy of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is explored with the help of a study investigating the German L2 morphosyntactic competence of 15 English L1 speakers in two settings: a language assessment test setting as well as in online processing. Within this thesis L2 morphosyntactic competence was limited to the two investigated areas of subject-verb-agreement (SVA) as well as the distinctive verb placement in German main and subordinate clauses. Previous research has identified these two linguistic areas as being especially prone to error in adult L2 acquisition of German. Since all test takers varied in their German language proficiency levels (encompassing a range from A2 to B2 according to the CEFR) it was hypothesised that L2 learners of a B2 language proficiency level generally outperform L2 learners of a lower language proficiency level (B1 and A2) in all investigated areas. However, this hypothesis could not be affirmed since the study did not find significant differences in the morphosyntactic competence of English German L2 learners between test takers of distinctive CEF language proficiency levels.
The Contrastive Grammar Of English And German
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Author : Walter F. W. Lohnes
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Contrastive Grammar Of English And German written by Walter F. W. Lohnes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Research In Education
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Research In Education written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Education categories.
Resources In Education
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Resources In Education written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Education categories.
English Linguistics
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Author : Thomas Herbst
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010
English Linguistics written by Thomas Herbst and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book introduces the reader to the central areas of English linguistics. The main sections are: the English language and linguistics - sounds - meaning-carrying units - sentences: models of grammar - meaning - utterances - variation. Notably, the book is written from a foreign student's perspective of the English language, i.e. aspects relevant to foreign language teaching receive particular attention. A great deal of emphasis is put on the insights to be gained from the analysis of corpora, especially with respect to the idiomatic character of language (idiom principle, valency approach). In addition, the text offers basic facts about the history of the language and elaborates on the differences between British and American English. The author demonstrates that a linguistic fact can usually be described in more than one way. To this end, each section contains a chapter written for beginners providing a broad outline and introducing the basic terminology. The remaining chapters in each section highlight linguistic facts in more detail and give an idea of how particular theories account for them. The book can be used both from the first semester onwards and as perfect study aid for final B.A.-examinations.
The Linguistic Toolkit For Teachers Of English
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Author : Rolf Kreyer
language : en
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2023-10-23
The Linguistic Toolkit For Teachers Of English written by Rolf Kreyer and has been published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
In contrast to literary or cultural studies linguistics is not taught in the EFL classroom, yet, it plays a major role in any English language teaching degree. Given this discrepancy it does not come as a surprise that students sometimes ask: "I want to be a teacher! Why do I need all this?" The main goal of this textbook is to demonstrate the relevance of linguistic expertise for the EFL classroom. It explores a wide range of topics (phonetics/phonology, lexis, corpus linguistics, text linguistics and the power of language) with a clear focus on providing a convincing answer to the question above. With its highly accessible style and layout, a wealth of examples and exercises as well as a large range of additional innovative online materials this textbook sets out to convince its readers that they will be better teachers if they are good linguists.