English Global Language Essay

“Basically they are in the middle between two different worlds and that’s the dilemma. That’s the struggle.” (Martha H. Bigelow; Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education in a New Land pg. 94). First generation immigrants are torn between multiple cultures, with their parents' views different from the views of the country they are raised in. Through this, first generation immigrants struggle with finding themselves in life and don’t feel as if they belong to…

Language barrier is another reason to considerable for the immigrants. Additional, the language barrier is a common reason and challenge for immigrant, but it also could affect a lot to individual's development in the new country. They might have to face prejudice in different way within the community where they live in. Many immigrants are a source of cheap labor because they don’t have the ability to speak a new language. Beside, others face bully and abuse in their community, especially…

political barriers. Barriers that have not discourage me from achieving my dreams but instead have only amplified my aspirations. To become successful in the United States, one has to be able to speak English as easily as one breathes air. For me, coming from a foreign country, learning this new language was not an easy task. When I first came to the US, I was the lowest ranked student in my class. My teachers struggled to help me because few of them spoke any Spanish. Without any help, I…

He is originally from Honduras, and lives in the United States for the past four months. Him and his family are living illegally in the U.S., but that does not impede an illegal immigrant child from attending school in the U.S. Juan cannot speak English to communicate, this lack of communication creates tensions between him and his peers in school. His peers are taking his silence and lack of communication wrong, and they began to bully Juan. Juan went to his school counselor, this learner, to…

The main idea of this post is how personal space varies from person to person. Everyone has a specific amount of space they choose to have around certain people. In this post, we get to realize the way people from other countries see our own culture. According to this post, people from Puerto Rico are a lot more comfortable around other people than we Americans are. “Puerto Rico paisanos keep a close distance when talking to each other.” Serafin Roldan-Santiago states this within the post,…

Scenario For this assignment, this referral plan is directed towards client who is a recent immigrant to Saskatoon. She is unfamiliar with Saskatoon and speaks very little English. Description of Agency The agency that would be the best fit for this client is the Saskatoon Open Door Society. Further information about this agency was noted during an interview with Ashfaque Ahmed. Ashfaque is a settlement and family support manager at the Open Door Society. The Open Door Society is a…

Molly’s areas of weakness are semantics, pragmatics, syntax/morphology. Semantics is one of her areas of weakness because Molly has a limited expressive vocabulary. For example, during her conversation with her therapist she was asked “tell me about this pet”, molly answers by saying “Got a pet”, she is unable to describe how her pet looks or what’s its name, the only thing she’s able to express to the therapist is that her family does have a pet. Many kids by this age have a vocabulary of…

men would give up everything just to have to move to different place they don't even know and have money. However, Pearce managed to become rich and famous while others didn’t. Second of all, Ernesto showed love by being being able to speak two languages even though it was hard for him. For example, Galarza explained in the passage Barrio Boy, in paragraph 16, “Miss Hopley and her teachers…

civilization in the world such as: The Roman, Greek, Babylonian, and Egyptian. Every culture can influence on the other cultures in different shapes. There are several reasons for the influence of the Arabic culture on the American culture such as: art, language, and food. The first influence of the Arabic culture on the American culture is art. Many of the Arabic art or specifically the Islamic have been collected and displayed in different American museums. The reason that made this…

The Anglo-Saxon vs. The Modern Era: Contrasting Religions of Then and Now The cultural values of the Anglo-Saxons from the early Middle Ages reflect a somewhat different mindset than those we possess today. We tend to see more mockery towards religion and beliefs now, as opposed to how they portrayed such perspectives in the Middle Ages. The Danes and Geats in the epic Beowulf considered God as an Almighty Lord worthy of man’s respect and worship. However, in the movie Beowulf and Grendel…