English as a foreign or second language

The following voice project will discuss second generation Vietnamese Americans struggling with cultural expectations. In this assignment of exploration of literature, I will be discussing the first chapter of Growing up American: The Adaptation of Vietnamese Children to American Society. The first chapter is entitled The Children of Vietnamese Refugees. Growing up American tells the story of largest group of refugee children, Vietnamese children and sheds light on how they are negotiating the…

In the late 1960s, Singapore government introduced a bilingual education policy. Mother Tongue languages such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil are known to be the students’ second language in Singapore. It is mandatory for each student to take up at least one second language. However according to an online news "Much Ado About Mother Tongue", students have not been coping well with their Mother Tongue language over the past years. Instead, the students are excelling in other subjects such as…

Although English is not Nabokov’s first language, not even the second, he is known for his impeccable English prose. However, paradoxically, when Nabokov is asked whether he feels he has “any conspicuous or secret flaw as a writer,” he replies it is “the absence of a natural vocabulary” (S.O., 106). Specifically, he bemoans that his English is “stiffish, artificial thing, which may be all right for describing a sunset or an insect, but which cannot conceal poverty of syntax and paucity of…

communication that consist of different languages and cultures. This nation is loaded with a huge number of multilingual people. A considerable lot of the people experience serious difficulties with multicultural communication in their homes, school, and other open settings. In these cases, a large number of the people whose first language is not English are judged on the grounds that they experience difficulty speaking with the individuals who communicate in English. In Amy Tan’s article,…

Hispanic or Latino. 5.4% of Hatboro are foreign born, and 8.4% speak a language other than English. 92.1% of 25 years and older residents of Hatboro are high school graduates or higher. 31.2% of Hatboro residents 25 years or older have a bachelor’s degree or higher. The median household income is $65,974, and…

demographics of Hong Kong reflect that its population is rather mono-cultural. According to the government’s 2016 Census, ethnic minorities constitute a mere 8% of the whole population, whilst 92% is Chinese. When this 8% is broken down, the majority are foreign domestic helpers of Filipino (31.5%) and Indonesian (26.2%) origins; followed by South Asians (including Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis and Sri-Lankans) which take up 14.5% (Census and Statistics Department, 2017). The…

Travel has allowed cultures to develop and flourish outside of their origins, a critical step in achieving the diverse world in which we live. While some people choose to maintain their native culture after crossing borders, others decide to integrate foreign elements into their daily lives. Some even start completely anew. It is not uncommon to hear of people who receive backlash for ostensibly abandoning their heritage and turning their backs on their supposed “identity.” But identity is a…

1. what it means to “ speak” ? The English language is a foreign language in Arab countries, where most of the students of the senior high schools are not familiar with it and they use only in the class. Moreover, most of the students have no much time to learn it, in addition, there is no supporting to practice it outside their classes (Hetrakul, 1995) . Teaching speaking indicates helping the learners of the target language to enhance their ability to interact successfully with. Howarth…

Age, Orthography, and Language Maturity Effect of age on language development, cross-linguistic influence, and orthography are one variable worthy of consideration. However, the focus of this research segregates age from language maturity, that is, we measure the orthographic understanding of the mother tongue, or first language (L1), against the second language (or additional new language). Therefore the issues that I believe need consideration are the ability for individuals to read,…

insecurities for this girl. She tries to be a Nigerian woman in America, but her fears of assimilation, losing the original culture, and trying to fit in, hinder this process.While in America, Ifemelu faces many obstacles,ranging from her appearance to language, which cause her to pause in development as a human being. In Americanah Ifemelu's hair plays a very important role and creates her first major insecurity. This anxiety is the main factor for whether Ifemelu keeps her culture and…