English Global Language Essay

from watching other episodes in languages that I do not speak, with the use of subtitles. Coming from a country that has more than 150 languages, watching movies in languages that I do not understand is not uncommon. However, watching it in ASL was more exciting and kept my attention throughout the episode. While watching a show in ASL, the viewer needs to pay much more attention to the sign, the expression, and the context of usage. ASL is such an expressive language, that if you do not watch…

Intra Cognitive: Strengths and Weaknesses D.C. results indicate that she is an extremely well round individual. While her performance was consistent with her peers, none was deemed a statistically significant strength or weakness. D.C.’s strongest area was her Perceptual Speed. In this cluster she was ranked at the 86th percentile or exceeded 86% of her peers. While not statically significant this shows D.C. is fully capable of located targets in a timely fashion. D.C’s weakest area was her…

Lakeland at Mckeel Academy of Technology. This interview took place at approximately 10:15 am and lasted 2 minutes. I asked Maria what has helped her most in learning English. She replied watching TV and listening to music in English and speaking with fluent English speakers. Next I asked Maria what teachers could do to help English language learners more in the classroom. She explained that speaking slowly and more in depth of what the expectations of the students were would help the process…

Expanding on educational state guidelines, the Common Core Curriculum gives clear and predictable learning objectives to prepare students for school, their profession, and life. The measures obviously exhibit what students are relied upon to learn at every grade level from kindergarten to 12th grade, so that each guardian and educator can comprehend and reinforce their learning. The guidelines concentrate on central ideas and techniques beginning in the early stages of education, which gives…

When the immigrabts came ti the u.s., it was to change there lives and leave the past behind, some had good reasons to leave and some just wanted to escape from there govermnent. Coming here not knowing any english at all is bad enough but whats worse is racism and not being accepted in a place by other people. It makes you feel very uncomfortable and its not right. Some people come here and become so successful that know one can say a word to them, because they believed in them selves and cane…

‘A breath of fresh air’, ‘love is like a rose’, and ‘slept like a baby’, are all phrases that are immediately recognized as problematic clichés. Many words and phrases in the english language have either lost their original meaning, or have been replaced with something new and, at times, inappropriate. A classic example that will be looked at during the next four hundred and fifty words is one of Aristotle’s thirteen fallacies; “begging the question.” Begging the question is a fallacy in…

, & Al-Maamari, F. S. (2014). Exploring University Teachers' Understanding of Learner Autonomy. Theory & Practice in Language Studies, 4(10), 2051-2060. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.10/2051-2060 Chang, K. c. (2012). Fostering Learner Autonomy Through Empowering Students in EFL Writing. English Teaching & Learning, 36(3), 39-84. doi:10.6330/ETL.2012.36.3.02 English foreign language countries (EFL) often face challenges in teaching writing courses. In this journal, Chang, K. c. (2012) explained how…

Losing a language and culture will advantages the financial prosperity of its speakers to make a living. To avoid being poor and have jobs and salary, those people who left Kenya and came to the United States should learn American culture and language. For instance, I went to Miami in Florida last month, and I saw that the most taxi drivers are African American. Those drivers had to leave their real language and culture to find a job and have money to live. Another example is about our house…

Often times immigrant parents and children adapt differently to the American Culture. For example, because children are so young they are able to better absorb and adapt to the new culture that they are now apart of. “When I first arrived at Boston College, I immediately knew that my conservative cultural position would have to become more open-minded. I knew that not everyone had grown up with strict Bolivian parents, as I had. I would not have to lose my cultural identity, however.” This quote…

In 2008, the Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and the National Governors Association organized a meeting to discuss new education standards for the United States (Common Core Timeline). From that conference came the idea of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, often shortened to “Common Core.” About one year later, the United States officially adopted the education guidelines (Common Core Timeline). After the Common Core’s implementation, American parents and educators realized…