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Procrastination in the era of quarantine

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“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” -Mark Twain     I n 2020, people faced Covid-19, a pandemic which forced the majority of the population to work from home, creating a certain amount of constraints and issues. In this context, it's only natural for a person to procrastinate; a major obstacle to one's productivity during the day. the main goal of this article is to understand procrastination and to provide strategies and solutions to deal with it.    Procrastination can be defined as the voluntary delay of an intended action despite the knowledge that this delay may harm the individual in terms of task performance or feelings. For many people, procrastination is a habit (an internalized non-conscious act). to understand this delay we need to identify the source of this hindrance to perform. Delays can vary from one person to another, some delays are procrastination, some aren't.  You should be conscious about your pro...

Language Acquisition

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A human being uses language as his main tool to communicate, send messages, understand utterances and keeping his social interactions alive, it what makes us different from an animal, it is the unique ability to control our language and having a variety of expression and thinking, language is the language of thoughts. Linguistics is concerned with discovering and defining the form and structure of human languages. All normal human children learn the language (or languages) that they hear around them. having a language or acquiring is a long process that starts from the day we were born, it starts with the first sound that we hear and stored in our minds, The study of language acquisition is the study of how and when children get a command of the thing linguistics sets out to define. it is how we acquire the ability to produce and understand language. Acquiring a language has stages, these stages have their unique characteristics, period and background, these stages are: From v...

Meaning: Pragmatics

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Meaning is what related to a certain context there is no meaning without a context, that what makes human's ability so unique and special from the other species, a meaning of a word or a concept can change according to context, culture and situation, the study of such meaning is called ''Pragmatics" In other words, Pragmatics deals with the meaning whether it is a contextual one, a hidden one ( a fuzzy one) or a complex one, deeper than just being a literal one, the word pragmatics derives via Latin pragmaticus from the Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikos), meaning amongst others "fit for action", Philosophers at that time like Aristotle tend to think about language from different aspects, meaning was an important aspect. Furthermore, Pragmatics tend to answer the question ''why''? in this respect, it tends to explain why individuals have a certain choice of words, why this set of words have been chosen to send a message or to deliver an id...