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Online Education Class
You may have heard about online classes, but you may not be aware of how popular and pervasive they have become. In the last few years, it seems as though everyone is online learning or researching something. The Internet provides unprecedented access to knowledge and education for people of all ages.
In addition to the over 3 million college students who are taking at least some of their classes online, there are online high schools, online career training schools and courses and continuing education for adults online.
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Neural Linguistic Programming – A Quick Guide
A writer’s life would be so easy If every time you wrote a document, or made a presentation to a new audience, they instantly understood the exact message you were trying to convey.
Unfortunately, it does not happen that way, most of the time your words are interpreted in an entirely different way than you intended. Alright, sometimes people misinterpret you words on purpose but mostly it is a genuine misunderstanding.
Research in Neural Linguistic Programming
Research has been carried out into these phenomena using the science called “Neural Linguistic Programming” and some remarkable discoveries so far on why sometimes thoughts seem to have trouble passing from the transmitter (the person talking or writing) to the receiver (the person listening or reading) without distortion.
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An overview on sign language linguistics
Sign language is a rule-governed language that has its own grammatical rules and symbol system. As such, it meets all the requirements of spoken languages abolishing any dispute as to whether it is really a language or not. The work of William C. Stokoe Jr. ‘Sign Language Structure’ (1960) is the first linguistic
analysis of sign language that has actually formed the basis on the later field of research.
Functioning exactly like human languages, sign language substitutes acoustic sounds for hand movements, facial expressions and body postures, forming individual signs of communication. In spoken languages, people use vowels and consonants to form parts and they identify with sound units to form minimal pairs. By using minimal pairs, in effect, they change sounds and they give different meanings to words. For instance, they can spell ‘fit’, ‘sit’, or ‘bit’ and mean three different, unique things. In sign language, instead of using vowels and consonants, parts are formed by hand movements, handshapes, and hand locations. To form a whole new word with a whole new meaning, signers change the location or the movement of a sign since they do not have sounds to spell. Therefore, the most important point that distinguishes sign language from spoken languages is the fact that each sign is formed by a unique combination of a hand movement, handshape, and hand location ranging from the use of simple to more complex ones.
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