Second language acquisition

world exposed to multiple languages. These people have to communicate and proceed using different system than monolingual speakers. Some previous studies have been reported same advantages and disadvantages on bilingualism. Therefore some advantages for example are, the creativity and the quicker solving mathematical problem for some researchers. Also being bilingual speaker has some cognitive effects that domain such as the intelligence or knowledgeable and the language ability in children and…

learn a new language is part important on the life of everybody, in some country since children start kind garden they start learn new languages in order to open their mind to other cultures and could in the future be better professionals. According to John Archibald and a team of researchers at the university of Calgary conducted a study in 2007 that examined a number of questions relating to second language learning. They found that students who learn other subjects in a foreign language are…

(2015), the percentage of English language learners, ELL or duel language learners, DLL in almost double from about 22 percent to 40 percent of school aged students over the next 13 years! (Nemeth, 2016, p. 5). Children move through the stages of learning a language at different rate whether they are learning one language or more than one language. I was enlightened by finding how important it is to support a DLL in their own language as the learn a second language. It is worthy to note that,…

Keys To Use Foreign Language Like Mother Language Life is more and more development , it requires people have to advance their knowledge. Language is also one of the important things that people should learn more. Some think that it is hard to use the foreign language like mother language. However, it will be easy if you know the keys to studying it. There are some ways to help people improve their foreign language such as identify motivation language learning, speaking more with a native…

of the English language in these children is insufficient. Summary of the review of the literature When the majority of Chinese children are adopted, they have been exposed to their native language for at least a year up until their adoption when the native language exposure stops and the exposure to English begins. De Geer (1992) believes this experience should be categorized as the development of an additional “first language” as opposed to the development of a second language (as cited in…

bilingualism, we have similar and different language performance. Amandine speaks French as her first language, and English as her academic language. I can describe her as a balanced bilingual who uses two languages in a multiplicity of domains (2011, p. 3-8). Her academically-related language competence was highly developed during her education in the parochial school because the school curricula was only in English. Although she learned the language when she was in the fourth grade, her…

strongly believes that Ms. Maldonato, the immigrant whose success in two languages, English and law, was enhanced and supported by key figures in her life, and this is what helped to lead her to pursue her career as a paralegal. Such key figures included her professor, her academic advisor, and her employers, in addition to her determination. That made her career easier and more meaningful ultimately. Hoover’s depiction of the language learning process is clearly accurate. It is very essential…

variation of the language from person to person, many challenges arise. For those people who speak other languages than Spanish, the amount of tests available to their population is very low or even nonexistent. Some tests are only available in English, an example is the California English Language Development Test (CELDT). This test assesses the English listening, speaking,…

English language learners describe any student whose primary language is not English. The first thing teachers should do to help these students learn English is to never have a negative opinion on their heritage language. Encourage the students to continue their first language while learning English or any other language, this will prevent subtractive bilingualism. Though English is typically easier to understand…

often marginalized by politicians and citizens alike, is the growing demand for learning foreign languages. More and more people around the world have been taking second, third language classes for multiple purposes, especially professional advancement. Being multilingual has become so essential that many countries such as France and Switzerland, have made it compulsory to learn at least one language other than the speaker’s mother tongue. However, not everyone approves of this development.…