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ENGL E101F Wk 10 Ss 2_L31
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ENGL E101F
Week 10 Session 2
L31
Copyright by Gladys Luk 2021
- Warm up exercise
- Recap
- Citation and referencing
- Examination practice: Reading and Proofreading
Warm up exercise
Some interesting statistics about languages
How many languages are spoken all over the world?
Some interesting statistics about languages
What is the most spoken language in the world?
Some interesting statistics about languages
https://www.berlitz.com/en-uy/blog/most-spoken-languages-world
The top 5:
1.132 m
379 m
universal language in international business, tourism, etc
753 m
English
Lingua Franca of all Chinese dialects
Mandarin
918 m
199 m
1.117 m
615 m
Hindi
341 m
274 m
Spanish
534 m
74 m
460 m
203 m
77 m
280 m
French
Some interesting statistics about languages
The other 5 include:
Arabic (274 m); Bengali (265 m);
Russian (258 m); Portuguese (234 m);
Indonesian (198 m)
Mind your language
A UK TV series released in 1977
It was set in an adult education college.
The teacher was a man named Mr Jeremy Brown.
Mind your language
Mr Jeremy Brown taught a group of foreigners to speak English.
They included German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Indian and so on.
Many funny things happened because of their ways of speaking English.
Recap
Recap
- Listening practice
- Citation and referencing: Preparing references
- Academic grammar
Report
- Organization
- The pace
- Volume
- Clarity
- Pronunciation and language use
Report
- Organization
- Generally fine
- contain a proper opening
- some have ended the report too abruptly
- Don't forget to end it by saying at least 'that's all'
Report
- The pace
- Generally fine
- make sure that you do not speak too slowly or too fast or non-stop
- speaking fast does not speaking fluently
Report
- Volume
- Generally loud enough
Report
- Clarity
- Generally clear
Report
- Pronunciation and language use
- Pronunciation: room for improvement
- language use: generally fine
Report
- Other comments
- a quiet environment is of utmost importance
- should speak in a more formal way with confidence
Report
- Reminder
- a proper opening and a proper closing
- include an overview and transitions to guide your audience through your speech
Report
- Reminder
- check pronunciation, intonation, grammar
- listen to it at least once before submitting it
Online sources
Any differences between printed materials and online materials?
- Do we need to mention the author?
- Year/Date?
- Title of the article?
- Name of the book/ journal/ newspaper/ magazine?
Online sources
Do we italicize them? How about publisher?
How do we know that it is an online source?
Online sources
Compare:
Online sources
DOI: Digital Object Identifier
What is DOI?
A unique alphanumeric (alphabets & numbers) or numeric string assigned to an article in a scholarly journal
doi (DOI): 10.1037/a0019441
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019441
Online sources
Why DOI?
To uniquely identify objects in the digital environment
Information about a digital object including its location, may change
But not DOI
Online sources
What if there is no DOI?
The following must be provided.
1. Retrieval information e.g. date, web page name, etc
2. Full URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for the article after the retrieval information
Online sources
Compare
Online sources
Articles from online newspaper or magazine
Online sources
Wiki or other related encyclopaedia entries
Wiki: usually without an author
Can be edited so provide retrieval date
Ecology. (2016). In Wikipedia. Retrieved March 9. 2016, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology
Online sources
Date of publication:
Year > month > day
Date of retrieval:
Month > day > year
Pay attention to punctuation
Exam practice:
Reading and Proofreading
Time allowed:
20 minutes