Pract 5
Pract 5
2. Study the following paragraph from an article titled ‘The mobile revolution’ in the journal ‘Development
Quarterly’ (Issue 34 pages 85–97, 2009) by K. Hoffman. p. 87.
According to recent estimates there are at least 4 billion mobile phones in the world, and the majority of these are
owned by people in the developing world. Ownership in the developed world reached saturation level by 2007, so
countries such as China, India and Brazil now account for most of the growth. In the poorest countries, with weak
transport networks and unreliable postal services, access to telecommunications is a vital tool for starting or
developing a business, since it provides access to wider markets. Studies have shown that when household
incomes rise, more money is spent on mobile phones than any other item.
Summary
Hoffman (2009) stresses the critical importance of mobile phones in the developing world in the growth of small
businesses.
Quotation
According to Hoffman, mobile phone ownership compensates for the weaknesses of infrastructure in the
developing world: ‘In the poorest countries, with weak transport networks and unreliable postal services, access
to telecommunications is a vital tool for starting or developing a business, since it provides access to wider
markets’ (2009: 87).
Hoffman points out that most of the growth in mobile phone ownership now takes place in the developing world,
where it has become crucial for establishing a business: ‘. . . access to telecommunications is a vital tool for
starting or developing a business, since it provides access to wider markets’ (2009: 87).
In such countries the effect of phone ownership on GDP growth is much stronger than in the developed world,
because the ability to make calls is being offered for the first time, rather than as an alternative to existing
landlines. As a result, mobile phone operators have emerged in Africa, India and other parts of Asia that are
larger and more flexible than Western companies, and which have grown by catering for poorer customers, being
therefore well-placed to expand downmarket. In addition Chinese phone makers have successfully challenged
the established Western companies in terms of quality as well as innovation. A further trend is the provision of
services via the mobile network which offer access to information about topics such as healthcare or agriculture.
Write a summary of the main point, including a citation.
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4. Study the reference list below, from an essay on the effects of age on second language learning, and
answer the following questions.
Find an example of:
What are the main differences in the way these sources are referenced?
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5. Write a list of references for an essay that uses the journal articles shown below.
6. Write a list of references for an essay from the information given below.
1. We don't know who wrote this newspaper article. It was in the Guardian newspaper on Saturday
November 6th this year. The title is: Divorced couple fight for frozen embryos. It is on page 18.
2. Someone called Andy Gillett wrote this web page, which is very useful, and he worked at the University of
Hertfordshire. It was published on May 6th this year. The title is: Using English for Academic purposes.
The URL is http://www.uefap.com/ and I copied some information from it for this exercise on Sunday
November 7th at 11.00 at night.
3. This was published in 1991 in Oxford and is a book by Professor John Sinclair. The tritle of the book is:
Corpus, concordance and collocation and the publisher was Oxford University press.
4. This small book is called: learning purpose and language use. It was written by Henry George Widdowson
and published in 1983. Like all his books it was published in Oxford by Oxford University Press.
5. This newspaper article was written by Jane Martinson in New York. The title of the article is: Microsoft
faces defining moment, and it was in the Guardian on page 10 on Saturday November 6th, 1999.
6. This book, like many dictionaries, does not say who wrote it. The title is: Collins COBUILD English
language dictionary and it was published in 1987 by HarperCollins in London.
7. An article in the journal: Applied linguistics. It was written in 1985 by E Bialystock and M Sharwood-Smith.
The title of the article is: Interlanguage is not a state of mind: An evaluation of the construct for second-
language acquisition. It was published in volume 6 and it is from page 101 to page 117.
8. An article in a collection of articles edited by John Lyons. The title of the article is: the study of language
acquisition, and it was written by Robin Campbell and Roger Wales. It was on pages 242 to 260. The
book of articles was called: new horizons in linguistics and it was published in 1970 by Penguin in London.
9. An article by Robert Cooper called: What do we learn when we learn a language? It was published in
1970 in the journal TESOL Quarterly. It is on pages 303-314 in volume 4.
10. A very important book written in 1965 byW F Mackey. It was called: Language teaching analysis. It was
published in London by Longman.
11. A book written by Noam Chomsky, who was professor of linguistics at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts.
It was written in 1965 and the title of the book is: Aspects of the theory of syntax. It was published by his
own university.
12. A book by Lyle F Bachman and Adrian S Palmer written in 1996. The title is: Language testing in practice.
It is published by Oxford University Press in Oxford.
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