English-based creole languages

through the repeated performance of language. Humans echo familiar language in a tessellation to project a holistic impression of the self to other people, who are able to relate to our identity through the shared use of these patterns and symbols of speech. Furthermore, language is sometimes performed in defiance of the normative language varieties, to reform the identity of the self. This is because it is possible to negotiate and stylise language itself, as both language and identity are…

essays. However, I believe that if writers expect their audience to understand their essay and in return receive a respectable grade from a professor, one should be capable of writing a formal essay in Academic Standard English. Having the ability to write in Standard Academic English will not only benefit students at a collegiate level, but also in their professional life. For example, when people as customers have an issue with the service provided at their local grocery store, one might ask…

The Impact of the French on Louisiana Dialects In Louisiana culture, the Creole and Cajun dialects dominate the language. In Connie Eble’s article “The Louisiana Purchase and American English”, she states that the event that has had the biggest influence on the dialects today is the Louisiana Purchase. In December of 1803, The Louisiana Purchase took place and America grew. Up to that point, areas in Northern America belonged to whomever was controlling the land at that time. In 1762, the…

identify ELL with their first language being Spanish. In pre-k, the students were introduced to 6 colors: red, blue, yellow, orange, green and purple. Prior to entering the classroom, the students must be able to identify all 6 colors. For example, if I hold up a picture of a banana the students can identify the color of the fruit to be yellow. The central focus of this lesson is to have students be able to identify colors in not only English but in two other languages, Spanish and French. They…

literacy requires students to read a document, analyze the writer’s stance and connect it to the subject at large. While this can be difficult with English speaking students, it can be made even more challenging when there are English language learning (ELL) students in the classroom. In order to study strategies that would benefit both ELL and English speaking students, Carpenter (2014) studied at risk…

Americanization of Rodriguez resulting in his native language of Spanish being forgotten and the full submersion into the English language. Many of the events Rodriguez faced in his life are present to many other bilingual students’ today. These events that bilingual students’ are facing will strongly influence their decision on struggling to learn two languages at a young age, stalling the development of one of their languages, or being forced to choose one language or the other in a full…

time, it would have been impossible for me to participate because of the cost and health problems in my family. I put that dream aside until I discovered the Literary London program with the English department, which I think I’m a perfect fit for. I’m a senior at the University of Washington completing an English major with a minor in History. This is my second year at the University of Washington, I came in as a first year junior transfer student last year. My expected date of graduation is the…

thought about a language being more important than the English language. I would hear people having conversations in English, billboards or signs are in English, articles or journals are written in English, everything surrounding me was in English. English had become the main communication tool in state and all over the world. Whether it’s business, communication, or education, the English language has taken over internationally. I think that the English language should be the main language used…

United States and most of them learn English to some extent, but in the U.S there is no longer just one English language; there is accented English, broken English, and mixed English. While the parents in immigrant families usually posses accents or speak English that is indecipherable to most people, the kids are the ones who speak in a mixed English language. People in the United States that came here from other countries, are not always able to learn the language adequately; they might not…

“Knowledge of foreign languages is particularly important today in the light of America 's responsibilities of leadership in the free world. And yet, the American people generally are deficient in foreign languages” (Shaffer). Spanish is the official language of more countries than any other language excluding English. With the rapid increase of Spanish speaking minorities, more employers are going to ask that potential employees be able to speak and understand Spanish so as to appeal to…