Beowulf exercise

Read the following abstracts of an essay. One sentence is missing in each case. How would you fill the gap? How would you write the first (introductory) paragraph?

A Literature

Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage, E.H. Young's Miss Mole, and Ivy Compton-Burnett's A House and Its Head are inter-war, middlebrow, domestic and detective novels characterized by narrative ambiguity and illusion. Through the voice and gaze of their spinster protagonists, socially marginal, yet potentially transgressive figures, these novels covertly query power and gender relations, while simultaneously upholding the status quo.

…..The technique of narration is used to show that there is a typical model of family or relationship. ...

During cataclysmic events like murder or the death of a mother, ways of seeing are pushed to the fore. Yet in each case, once the cataclysmic event is resolved, the conventional order is restored by the effective surveillance of these spinsters.

B Methodology

Besides perceptions, beliefs and metacognitive knowledge, teachers’ attitude has been recognized as a significant factor in the learning process and ultimate success in a classroom (Breen & Littlejhon, 2000). However, what teachers express as their attitude cannot guarantee whether they practice what they think or preach. The present study tries to find the discrepancies between what teachers believe about the tenets of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and what they think they do in the classroom regarding those principles on the one hand and what they actually do on the other.

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However, observation of some of their classes did not show a rosy picture as far as practicing those principles was concerned; i. e. discrepancies were observed. In the post -observation interview with some of teachers, they put forward their reasons for these discrepancies.

C Linguistics

This article combines a history of the concept and ideology of monolingualism [the condition of being able to speak only a single language] with an outline of directions for future research. While multilingualism has advanced to the status of the undisputed guiding principle of language education in Europe, monolingualism has not only been exposed as an obsolete, nationalistically tainted ideology; it is now even being portrayed as a disease that must be eradicated.

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