English Global Language Essay

Samir Moussa shared one of his success stories by narrating how he came about his music band name called SANDFLY. While he was in a jungles in Costa Rica, filming a documentary titled The “Hidden People”, a sandfly unknowingly deposited two parasites into his arm which cause deadly disease called ‘Cutaneous Leishmanaiesis’. He only noticed this, when he returned back to D.C. This particular disease has caused large number of people’s lives in many part of the world like India, Bangladesh, Sudan,…

Introduction English is regarded as the most influential language globally, with more non-native speakers around the world than native speakers (Park and Wee, 2012). There are over 400 million speakers of English, and although there are a few languages with more speakers in the world, those languages owe their numbers to mother-tongue speakers. Whereas, English owes its prominence to how widely adopted it is in other countries, and the special status it enjoys in global affairs. Since the…

speak English in their homes that had a student at Washington Elementary School as if I was a scratched CD. Most of the families I would interpret for were the families that lacked the confidence that their student was behaving well during school. The majority of the time the parents “gut feeling” was the correct. At the same time, several parents knew their child was a model student, but requested an interpreter due to the child’s lack of ability to switch back and forth between both languages.…

A large portion of Americans will stay in the same state that they are born, but image if you were not even born in the country. There is a growing population of so-called “Third Culture Kids”, also known are TCKs, which are children born or raised in a country or culture different than their parents’. Unlike many other people, I had the opportunity of having an education as a TCK, opening up an array of experiences across the globe, and although some are negative, they all resulted in a…

students did not speak the same language and English is not their native language". Mike continue saying that “students behave and tend to behave differently because of their cultural backgrounds`. "In United States. English is the official language. Those students raised up in areas where English is not the first or even the second language", he added. Mike continue saying that" those students have to learn English before joining colleges. They are shy of their English. That is why they did…

dealt with during my academic life . However, the first thing that may come to my mind is language. For two many people, English is the second language. As, you know they take long time to master the language and some may take for the whole life ". Noah continued saying" I will say that the people who are dealing with the diversity should be very sensetive and they need to talk in a simple English Language and do not use too many slangs" . He explained " as you know, slangs are in a country…

English as a second language (ESL) is learned through-out our entire universe. Each student(s) may be effected in a different way in their course of learning. I interviewed an educator by the name of Salvatore Di Giallonardo, who is the creator, director, and a teacher for Languages for Communications school in Pescara, Italy. I was able to skype him several times during this process to gain as much knowledge on the effects teaching English to students who spoke a different language. During…

“Just cuz I not haole, no mean I can’t tok English” America was the last place I expected to live in when I was 9 years old. As much as I didn’t want to live here I wanted my family to be altogether. Kauai, Hawaii is no city like but just filled with mountains, beaches, forests, etc. and I absolutely didn’t like it because it seemed boring. It got difficult for me everyday having to learn a new language, which is English that I was certainly bad at, meeting people I can’t even understand and…

we move further into the 21st century we are seeing the hospitality industry’s labor force become more and more diverse with each year. The numbers of workers for whom English is not a first language within the industry is skyrocketing and one might expect the tools with which to train these new workers and the predominantly English-speaking workers already in place to change with the times. There is substantial evidence, however, that training programs now in place throughout the industry are…

“These standards communicate what is expected at each grade level, placing students, parents, teachers and school administrators on the same page” (Susan Neuman, 2013). The CCSS is a set of goals and expectations, adopted by 43 states, in Math and English Arts that the students should know to succeed in college and their career; it is not a curriculum for teachers. According to www.highereducation.org, 60 percent of first…