MET 2 - CHAPTER 5 - Language Analysis

It is easy for students to follow when teachers give lengthy grammatical explanations with complex language.

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We can help students better understand meaning in context by translating each component of a collocation.

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English uses some particles at the beginning of a word and some other particles at the end to create new words.

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When analyzing the meaning of lexical items, do so by looking at the meaning in relation to other words.

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Did Ana buy a present for her mother? is a suitable concept question to delimit the grammatical meaning of the structure: “Ana should have bought a present for her mother.”

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A function is a reason why we communicate. Every time we speak or write, we do so for a purpose or function.

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The pieces of language (sentences or phrases) we use in order to express a function are called “exponents.”

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Would you mind if I borrowed your cell phone? is the exponent for the following function: Asking a friend to do something for you.

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A lingua franca is a language adopted for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other’s and where one or both speakers use it as a “second” language.

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When words commonly go together with certain words, we call them meaning of words. 

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