The theory under discussion suffers a lot from the undesirable confusion in its terminology, because it lacks a consistent label that is acceptable to everybody. It has been given many undistinguished labels.
أكمل القراءة »THE CHOMSKYAN THEORY: Past and Present
Introduction It is widely known that Chomsky has brought about a revolution in the field of linguistics. He has postulated a syntactic base called deep structure that consists of phrase structure rewrite rules and a set of transformations. Those phrase rewrite rules generate base or kernel sentences. Then transformational rules …
أكمل القراءة »MOTIVATION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Introduction Many believe motivation to learn is the key to successful language learning. However, if we take a look at research on motivation, it is hard to say what motivation is. This section begins with a brief introduction to the field followed by a discussion of the definitions of motivation. …
أكمل القراءة »VIEWS ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
A DIFFERENTIATED ANALYSIS 1.1 Introduction Although there are several theories of language acquisition, this work briefly explains only three of them. The theories discussed in this chapter are the behaviourist theory, the Chomskyan theory and the interactionist theory. This discussion has shown that each of the mentioned theories can be …
أكمل القراءة »Coleridge and his Works
(1772 – 1834) British poet, born at Ottery St-Mary, Devon. Educated at Christ’s Hospital and Cambridge, he imbibed revolutionary ideas and left to enlist. His plans with Southey to find a communist society in the USA came to nothing, and he returned instead to teaching and journalism in Bristol. Marrying …
أكمل القراءة »The Romantic Poetry of Lake District
The great outburst of romantic poetry began in 1798, when two young men, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published a collection of poems, which they called “Lyrical Ballads”. It was a landmark in the history of English literature and had an enormous influence. For it was the first conscious …
أكمل القراءة »Kinds of Poetry
There are many kinds of poetry, and we divide them into: 1. Lyrical Poetry Short and intensely personal and passionate poems. Lyrical poetry is intended for recitation or singing, and it was originally accompanied with lyre. · sonnets: a lyrical poem of fourteen lines> · Ode: this is an elaborate …
أكمل القراءة »Libya: From King Idris Until Now
Libya: From King Idris Until Now After the independence of Libya in 1951, without ineffective institutions left by the Ottmani and Italian colonies, the shaky Sanusi kingdom found itself governing a small poor population. With the discovery of oil, Libyans, out of a sudden, became rich. In 1969 Qaddafi and …
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