English as a foreign or second language

are many factors that have changed the course of migration over the years. Globalization is defined as the development of an increasingly integrated global economy market especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labour markets (‘Globalization’ n.d.). The evolution of technology has helped to spur a rise in international trade, investment and migration (Globalization 101 n.d.b). Migration is defined as the process of the movement of people across or…

“Language is power. If you cannot understand, or be understood you have no power. You are at the mercy of everyone.” - Rudat 1995. Introducing a second language to children throughout their educational careers’ is becoming a new, yet controversial, trend in America. With commodities such as technological advances, urbanization, and international trade, along with the influx of immigrants, there is a higher demand for languages in the workplace as well as public settings. Ultimately, the goal…

PART: 11): 1) 46% of all advertisements (26/57) contain declarative sentence, it means that on average second add uses declarative statement. 2) 23% of all advertisements (13/57) contain imperative sentences, it means that on average nearly every four advertisements contain imperative sentence. 3) 7% of all advertisements (4/57) contain interrogative sentence, it means that on average nearly every fourteenth of advertisement contain only one interrogative sentence. 4) 25% of all advertisements…

Language is defined by Merriam Webster as “The words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community”. Language is one of the most powerful tools in human communication. Through words, people shape their identities, and via speaking, people can express attitudes, feelings, and experiences to one another. Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” (1990) as well as Deena Kamel’s Toronto Star article “A Language Without Limits” (2008) both express ideas involving…

in Government and Spanish Language. Coming from a family of educators, her mom is a retired high school Spanish teacher and her dad is a retired university professor, Julie did not initially want to become a teacher when she went off to college. However, upon graduation Julie knew that she wanted to use her language skills in her future career and thus applied to The Peace Corp, Teach for America, and a few jobs that would allow her to teach English to adults in a foreign country. When Teach for…

school subjects like math, science and social studies, language class teaches the most useful knowledge to us. To be honest with you, this class is not that hard to pass or even get A in both quarters, if you do whatever task you need to do and ask for help when needed. I thought I would have a hard time in English classes, because I am from a foreign country, Japan, and even though I’ve been here for some years, English is my second language and I usually take a long time to read passages,…

they can verbally harassed by the vendor 's attitude and body language to buy from their shop. The second scenario where at tourists can be or is being harassed by female or men approaching them to be soliciting an unwanted sexual relationship either by paying the tourists or on the basis of unwanted volunteered or untriggered acts of sexual harassment. The third scenarios where the tourist(s) is being harassed by the course use of language leading to verbal harassment or gestures. The fourth…

especially when it comes to language. In addition to many other things, psycholinguists study children and their language development. They are interested in “whether the capacity for language is a skill that is built into the brain or whether language acquisition is experience-driven” (McCabe 370). I believe that language development happens quickly in children because it is the focus of the adults around them. Due to the situations I have experienced, I think a child’s language expansion…

Empirical Study in Critical Language Classrooms”, Foreign Language Annals, vol. 48, Iss. 3, pp. 511-520. Summary: This article studies how the global influences of different countries are related to the learning of these countries’ language, in the classrooms of the United States. The researchers believed that there was relationship between global competence and language learning motivation, and therefore set global competence as an independent variable and motivation of language learning as a…

Language has no standard. This lack of standard means language cannot recount information the same way with every person. People have different communication styles based on where they live and grew up. Certain regions speak differently than other regions based on geographical differences. Amy Tan, in “Mother Tongue,” highlights these different communication patterns when she addresses stories about her mother (Mrs. Tan) and the way the made-up standards affects her interaction with other people…