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American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...
English Club TV is a British-Ukrainian [1] [2] educational television channel dedicated to learning the English language, which first started broadcasting in August 2008.The author of the idea, the owner and general producer of the TV channel Oleg Naumov, a TV personality from Dnipro, [3] [4] where the Ukrainian division of English Club TV operates.
The mixed re-recording was created by students who played the sound of the word "laurel" while re-recording the playback amid background noise in the room. [4] The audio clip of the main word "laurel" originated in 2007 from a recording of opera singer Jay Aubrey Jones, [5] who spoke the word "laurel" [6] as one of 200,000 reference pronunciations produced and published by vocabulary.com in 2007.
In total, the texts in the Oxford English Corpus contain more than 2 billion words. [1] The OEC includes a wide variety of writing samples, such as literary works, novels, academic journals, newspapers, magazines, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates , blogs , chat logs , and emails.
Longman's New Concept English by L. G. Alexander is a popular English language textbook teaching the British rules of English. The course was first published on October 30, 1967. [1] A revised edition, which was "specifically prepared for Chinese learners", [2] came out in 1997. The course consists of four components: The Students' Book; The ...
Vocabulary learning goals help in deciding the kind of language to be learnt and taught. Nation (2000) suggests three types of information to keep in mind while deciding on the goals. 1)number of words in the target language. 2) Number of words known by the native speakers. 3) The number of words required to use another language. [1]
The test was intended for students whose best language was not English; who attend U.S. high schools, or who had studied in an international school where courses were taught in English; had completed two to four years of English language instruction in an English as a Second Language program or in English enrichment courses; or students who ...
The Listening section consists of questions on 2–3 conversations with 5 questions each and 3–4 lectures with 6 questions each. Each conversation is 2.5–3 minutes and lectures are 4.5–5.5 minutes in length. The conversations involve a student and either a professor or a campus service provider.