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  " language variety on cadbury’s choc " ( CC BY-NC 2.0 ) by  nofrills Everyday use of language involves several different senses. At it’s most specific level, it may refer to the concrete act of speaking in a given situation. Language however is a distinctive human system of communication based on oral and written symbols. It is a pan human development, a behavioral aspect of human being which serves as a point of differentiation from other animals. Language is purely human and non-instinctive of communicating ideals, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily-produced symbols. • It is also defined as a system of arbitrary vocals symbols which permits, all people, in a given culture to communicate and to interact. • Any language is fundamental, a series of sound which become meaningful only when there’s sounds are grouped together in certain definite arrangements. • Language is a learned behavior. A child learns the language of the community I which he is born, by...

   " Artist reading a book at home. " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by  shixart1985 What are Reading Skills? Reading is very important. Where there is little reading, there will be little language learning. Only by reading can students acquire the speed and they skills they need for practical purposes when they leave school. In any literate society, it is hard to imagine any skilled worker that does not require the ability to read. Professional competence depends on it. Efficient reading depends on, first of all, having a purpose for why you are reading a text. The purpose could be a very general one like reading a novel for pleasure or escape on the other hand; it could be very specific like looking up a telephone directory for somebody’s number or address. The purpose will usually determine the appropriate type of reading and the relevant skills to be used. For instance, if the purpose of reading is to find out a specific piece of information in a chapter of a textbook, slow ...

  " Listen " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by  ky_olsen  Listening and it’s Techniques Introduction In this article, efforts are made to expose you to a very important skill that is needed in the school and that is listening to oral teachings delivered. In your situation, what you are being trained for is the ability to listen attentively, follow a teaching that is delivered orally and a respond to activities after the lecture. No doubt, you need significant skills that you must develop in order to make a success of your studies at the school and life in general. As we all know, listening is an important day to day activity. A person who can not listen Lives a Life of a fool and unintelligent and thus cannot be what a speaker is saying. It is useless to listen and not comprehend. A general fault of many people, even the highly placed is to pretend to listen and comprehend what people are saying, while they do not. Some people always want to talk and too proud to listen. The aim...

   " Reading a Book " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by  XoMEoX Intensive Reading What is also called Study Reading. It involves close study of the text. As the amount of comprehension should be high, the speed of reading is correspondingly slower. So, here is a guiding principle of any reading activity, you should know the purpose for reading before you actually begin to read. However, simple and obvious as this may seem, it rarely happens. Cognitive skills of comprehension The competent reader- the fully literate person- uses not one skill but many, which have been acquired through specific practice. Among the cognitive skills of comprehension are: I. Ability to anticipate both the form and the content II. Ability to identify the main idea III. Ability to recognize and recall specific details IV. Ability to recognize the relationship between the main ideas and their expansion V. Ability to follow a sequenced events instructions, stages of argument VI. Ability to interpret the ...

  " Words. " ( CC BY-ND 2.0 ) by  charcoal soul  Word Formation The most interesting thing to know about the forms words takes in English language is that words can be made from three principal parts. The parts are called morphemes. There is the core part that can form meaningful words on its own. When all three parts are not present(that is, if only two are found) then, the core part may either be at the beginning or at the end. For example, in the words educate, education, educational, un-educationally and educationally, we find that educate is the core. All others are affixes. “Educate” being the core, “un” being the parts before the core, and “-ion”/”al” being the parts after the core . This two parts are called affixes. Affixes are of two kinds; those that come before (such as in our example), are called prefixes and those that come after are suffixes, (such as ion/a/Al) are called suffixes. Therefore, the most common word Process to be found in the product...