The present study aims to show the importance of ESL reading ability in acquiring English as a second language. The study involves 92 college students (males and females) from the Department of English at Nizwa College of Applied Sciences, Sultanate of Oman. They represent two groups, the foundation year students and the first year English majors. A number of tests were used to measure students’ overall proficiency in English as well as their reading ability (i.e., the ability to contribute to the main idea of the text, scanning, skimming, to derive word meanings from context, to use a dictionary to find meanings, definitions, to identify prefixes, antonyms and synonyms). Students’ ability to read was correlated to their proficiency level in the second language. It was found in the study that good readers were better users of the dictionary, derived meanings of words from the context and contributed to the main idea of the text better than poor readers did. Good readers were found to be high achievers in the second language.
The flexible joint robot manipulators provide various benefits, but also present many control challenges such as nonlinearities, strong coupling, vibration, etc. This paper proposes optimal second order integral sliding mode control (OSOISMC) for a single link flexible joint manipulator to achieve robust and smooth performance. Firstly, the integral sliding mode control is designed, which consists of a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) as a nominal control, and switching control. This control guarantees the system robustness for the entire process. Then, a nonsingularterminal sliding surface is added to give a second order integral sliding mode control (SOISMC), which reduces chartering effect and gives the finite time convergence as well. S
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The Turks used the Ottoman Turkish language from the thirteenth century to the twentieth century. During this period and under the influence of Islamic civilization, a large number of words and structures were used from the Arabic and Persian languages, Therefore, many Arabic grammatical structures were used in the Ottoman Turkish language, such as the definite article simply because it was widely used.
The paper is concerned with the use of the Arabic definite article in the Ottoman Turkish language, and the aim of this contrastive study is to find out the similarities and differences between the two languages in terms of meaning and structure. Since linguistic studies depend on the practical side or applied approach, two
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Türkiye türkçesinde ''Anlam bilimi (Semantik)'' tezin ana konusu ve dilin adlandırma ve sınıflandırma incelemesini ele alır. Türk dilbilimcilerine göre bu dilbilimlerin şubesine bir tanım sunar. Semantik, tarih bakımından başlanlangıcı, oluşunu ve geliştirmesini de inceleniyor.
Bu konu ile ilgili yayınlanmış olan bazı tezlerin de alındı. Türk dilbilimcilerin görüşünu Mehmet Hengirmen, Konay Karaağaç, Sezai Güneş, Fuat Bozkurt ve Hüseyin Atay ve diğerlerdir.
Bu tez anlam bilimi dalların özellikleri ve anlam değiştirmesi
... Show Moreزمانةوانة بونيادطةرة ئةمريكييةكان لة نيَوانى سالاَنى ( 1925 – 1945 ) بةتيَثةرِبووكات تيؤرى ( فؤنيم)يان ضةسثاند ،بةم جؤرة زمانةوانةكان ئاراستةى كاريان بةرةو مؤرفؤلؤذى طؤرِى بؤية ماوةى نيَوان سالاَنى ( 1940 –1960 ) ليَكؤلَينةوةى مؤرفؤلؤذى بووة خالَى بنةرِةتى (1 ) . جيَى ئاماذةية كة ئةو كةم و كورتيانةى كة لة ثيَناسةى وشةدا دةركةوت هؤكاريَكى سةرةكى بوون بؤ ئةوةى بةدواى جيَطرةوةيةك بطةرِيَن ، كة ئةويش ضةمكى مؤرفيم بو
... Show MoreThe Arabic language has always been and still is the preoccupation of our scholars, both advanced and late, because of the amazing secrets that this language holds. What distinguished it from the rest of the languages is that its owners speak with sounds that others are unable to pronounce, except by vigorous attempts, and these voices include za’, middle and extreme hamza, and ha’.
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Pretendemos hacer con este trabajo un breve recorrido sobre lo que han dicho algunos gramáticos de las construcciones condicionales, a la par señalaremos los criterios que los mismos establecen y siguen para diferenciar entre distintos tipos de estructuras condicionales o entre las construcciones que ellos entienden o consideran como tales y las que no, atendiendo fundamentalmente a dos criterios; formal y semántico-pragmático. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo la clasificación y la descripción de las construcciones condicionales, demostrando que no todas las condicionales son hipotéticas ni todas las hipotéticas son condicionales.
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We intend to make this work
... Show MoreL'ouverture des frontières et la mondialisation des échanges,comme les projets de l'intégration font de la connaissance de langue un enjeu essentiel ,professionnel et culturel,pour le citoyen de demain.
L'Irak est un pays Anglophone où domine l'anglais,le français est considérée comme deuxième langue étrangère en Irak.
Notre mini-mémoire se compose de deux parties.Dans la première partie nous essayons d'examiner la place du français en Irak qui nous dirige à savoir pourquoi on apprend le français en Irak et qui l'apprend?Est –ce qu'il y a une coopération française?
Dans la deuxième partie nous examinons les problèmes du français en Ir
... Show Moreيتناول البحث دراسة الأصوات في العربية وتقسيماتها بناءً على طبيعة جريان الهواء وانحباسه في مجرى النطق هي الأصوات التي لا ينحبس فيها الهواء انحباساً تاماً في مخرجها، بل يضيق المخرج بشكل يسمح للهواء بالمرور والاستمرار في الجريان وإحداث صوت "احتكاكي" مسموع.أمثلة على الأصوات المستمرة (الرخوة)
لطالما كانت وما زالت اللغة العربية الشغل الشاغل لعلمائنا متقدمين ومتأخرين، لما تحمله هذه اللغة من أسرار عجيبة، فمما امتازت به من بقية اللغات أنَّ أصحابها ينطقون بأصواتٍ لا يتمكن غيرهم من النطق بها، إلا بمحاولات حثيثة، ومن هذه الأصوات الظاء والهمزة المتوسطة والمتطرفة والحاء. وذكر مكي بن ابي طالب أنَّ الاصمعي قد ذكر أن صوت الثاء غير موجود لا في الفارسية ولا في الرومية وليس عند السريانية ذال. أمَّا العين و
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