English as a foreign or second language

report acknowledges that Standard Australian English is a second language for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, that attitudes need to change both of teachers and of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and parents, and the need for schools to adopt a culturally supportive framework. In addition best practice examples are discussed from the Strong and Smart documentary and three AITSIL Professional Standard mini viewings. The second part of the report discusses best…

The classroom is not a natural environment, and language learning in a Second Language Acquisition (SLA) class differs from language acquisition in the native speaker’s environment when a person lives as one of them. One of the features of language as learnt in a classroom is the teacher’s feedback, whose role in the modern theory of SLA is still much debated (Lochtman, 2002). Thus, the Universal Grammar approach in its strict form rejects any type of corrective feedback. Interactional-cognitive…

not unlike numerous other Americans, due to the ethnic background of my parents. My whole family is ethnically Russian. My mother was born in the Soviet Union, whereas my father is a second generation Russian. Despite being born in Columbus Ohio, Russian was the first language I knew, and I didn't even speak English until kindergarten. Being Russian is a big part of my identity, and when I was younger I would travel to Moscow regularly to visit my grandparents and relatives. As a child I…

Language is a key factor in cultural assimilation or representation. While the United States has no official language, English is predominate in most areas of the country. Despite this, there are a number of areas where a significant portion of the population is bilingual or trilingual. Parts of Houston have street signs in more than one language, and even ballots are translated into four or more languages. This is far from a unique perspective in most major metropolitan areas.. The…

the face of alien cultures with far fewer similarities, Asian cultural groups with shared geography that had formerly seemed more different than alike began to obtain a growing consciousness of their similarities in response to the imposition of foreign customs. An example of this response is evident in Korea, during its time under Japanese imperial rule as the Korean national identity was forged in protest to the assimilative nature of Japanese rule in the 1920s, as Japan sought to…

According to Richards (2008), the mastery of speaking skills in English is a priority for many second-language or foreign-language learners since it can demonstrate how much learners have improved in their spoken language proficiency. Through speaking, students are able to show a variety of English vocabulary, the use of grammatical features and different components that are part of a discourse in order to communicate. It is necessary to create spaces and opportunities within a classroom for…

parliamentary republic consisting of four provinces and four federal territories. It has many ethnicities and many languages that people speak in this country. Pakistan is a regional and middle power, and has the seventh largest standing armed force in the world. It is a nuclear power as well as a declared nuclear-weapons state. They are the only nation in the Muslim world and the second Country in Southern Asia to have that status. Pakistan has a semi-industrialized economy with a very…

following a small phonic interventions group was noted as the priority of the second observation. Therefore a detailed narrative observation was chosen to enable the evaluation of Thomas with regards to interaction both verbally and nonverbal; during child initiated activities within the morning session. It was also intended to highlight any improvement in language acquisition and understanding, in both first and second language, made over the previous weeks. However Stevens (2013) warns of the…

The French and English relations in Canada have always been in turmoil and of uncertainty, as my three topics and stamps will discuss. The French despise of the English began with the Conscription Crisis of World War One which proceeded to Quebec’s new ideas of ‘separation’ created during the Quiet Revolution, and finally the ‘saviour’ of Canadian identity within Quebec and on a whole, Pierre Trudeau and his efforts to create a balanced country. The first topic I will be exploring is the 1917 to…

individuality and separateness. Torn between two cultures, bilingual speakers struggle to find their place within the education system and the local American english-speaking community. In Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez expresses the difficulty of being educated in his second language and the how it caused him to be an outlier amongst a white, english-speaking community. Rodriguez grew up in the 1950’s, an era where the growth of suburbs was a trend amongst many middle to upper class…