Purpose Statement
The intended audience for this essay are who born in foreign soil and lean a second language, then who don’t speak a second language parents. This is an assignment for my online English composition course at Ivy Tech Community College, at Indianapolis, IN. I’m taking this class because this is required for Business Degree. The first draft writing assignment requires a minimum of 1000 words. The writing project topic that I have selected is about ‘the second language learner’ who struggle with the language and faced a difficulty in life. And yet how important to keep the language alive for our future. What will have happened when the child forgets their language and can’t communicated with their parents. This is the biggest …show more content…
Because keeping the language means to protect the culture, race and generations. There are many ways to keep language viable, such as education, use the of language in your house, community activities and implementing technology. All are important because a living language must grow and change with time the same as people do. Language is important part of the culture, because of that we need to keep the language alive wherever we are. For the immigrant people their culture is how they keep their sanity in a new and different country. Keeping their language alive altering it with new experiences and discoveries lets them pass on the culture while keeping the language relevant. A large number of their children are born in the new country. They don’t grow up immersed in the language so to speak their parent’s language they must be bilingual from birth. They go to school with native speakers, watch television and play games with the new language. Oftentimes the parents face difficulty communicating with their children as they adopt the language they are immersed in and do not understand why they should keep their parents and grandparent’s language. To remain fluent children, need to speak their own language every day. Even native speakers who spend extended time overseas begin to struggle for words in as little as six months. Teaching the language to the children and speaking it with them is very
The intended audience for this essay are who born in foreign soil and lean a second language, then who don’t speak a second language parents. This is an assignment for my online English composition course at Ivy Tech Community College, at Indianapolis, IN. I’m taking this class because this is required for Business Degree. The first draft writing assignment requires a minimum of 1000 words. The writing project topic that I have selected is about ‘the second language learner’ who struggle with the language and faced a difficulty in life. And yet how important to keep the language alive for our future. What will have happened when the child forgets their language and can’t communicated with their parents. This is the biggest …show more content…
Because keeping the language means to protect the culture, race and generations. There are many ways to keep language viable, such as education, use the of language in your house, community activities and implementing technology. All are important because a living language must grow and change with time the same as people do. Language is important part of the culture, because of that we need to keep the language alive wherever we are. For the immigrant people their culture is how they keep their sanity in a new and different country. Keeping their language alive altering it with new experiences and discoveries lets them pass on the culture while keeping the language relevant. A large number of their children are born in the new country. They don’t grow up immersed in the language so to speak their parent’s language they must be bilingual from birth. They go to school with native speakers, watch television and play games with the new language. Oftentimes the parents face difficulty communicating with their children as they adopt the language they are immersed in and do not understand why they should keep their parents and grandparent’s language. To remain fluent children, need to speak their own language every day. Even native speakers who spend extended time overseas begin to struggle for words in as little as six months. Teaching the language to the children and speaking it with them is very