English-based creole languages

The spread of English across the world have resulted in overtaking or replacing of other languages. In order to maintain the usage of these languages, many efforts were implemented. This was evident in Singapore where the overemphasis on English has led to children frequently using English at home thus decreasing the usage of their Mother Tongue languages (MT), such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil (Bolton & Ng, 2014). Hence, Ministry of Education (MOE) implemented a MT approach, also known as…

According to the Washington Times, 21% of Americans speak a foreign language at home. While many of those Americans also speak english, a second language is essential to communication in today’s society. Luckily, I have been blessed with the opportunity to study a foreign language at Pekin High for four years. A foreign language has given me so much more than the opportunity to learn a second language. Taking a foreign language for four years has allowed me to experience cultures that I would’ve…

learning different languages is very important, people respect you by the way you speak, if the person is good in English for example they treat him as well as they could but if the person has a broken English they do not give him any attention and despises him. Unfortunately, the language is becoming that combine between people or separate them. It’s important to be good or perfect in English, English is the language of the world. Also, a lot of people are perfect in English some of them mock…

Indexicality of language and style-shifting in Kebab Norwegian “Kebab Norwegian” is traced to “Kebab Svenska” (Kebab Swedish, now “Rinkebysvenska”) and was imported to Norway in the mid-1990s. Kebab Norwegian was rapidly adopted by the media and by word of mouth, and generally refers to the vernacular, the most relaxed and least conscious way of speaking, Norwegian amongst young people with and without immigrant background in the multilingual urban spaces of Oslo. The term was first coined in…

Characteristics of CALL and How Times Effects Them. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is defined as the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning. CALL has existed for 35 to 40 years and originally was located within behaviorism and "tutorial CALL" (Levy, 1997; Taylor, 1980). Language learning and CALL have, until – arguably – the last 2or 3 years, run through parallel. In the early days, language was a behavior, student would learn this…

How you talk matters I’ll never forget how frustrated I felt when I couldn’t speak to my daughter’s friends fluently in English and because of that my daughter didn’t like to introduce me to her friends. Everything got worst when I had to speak with her teacher and explain about the reason for her absence. These situations were my biggest encouragements to learn English because in my country, I used to be active in her school and it was an important part in our lives. The society is not always…

Belonging: English Assessment Task 4 Created by: Celina Supurnami Yaputra 11.1 Sense of belonging. Like all human qualities, it is an abstract concept since no one could describe the meaning of belonging perfectly. The meaning varies from one person to the next but we all struggle in the same problem, and that is finding our real identity. For me, having a sense of belonging is the basis for emotional growth. With an identity, I am endowed with unique values, way of thinking and expressions…

Students experience language or are exposed to language uses either by native or non-native speakers. In this educational context, students come across the spoken English Language through listening activities run in class or by the interaction with the EFL Teacher. In this session representative, samples of the listening tasks of the coursebook of 3rd grade Think Teen will be reviewed in terms of the criteria set by Rost (2002, p.160-181). In particular, the listening tasks under scope derive…

Formal language or formality is one of aspect in style. In terms of formality, Dewaele & Heylighen (1999) stated that different situational and personality factors are examined which determine the degree of formality in linguistic expression. The differences in using languages, both formal and informal, is called a difference register (Thornborrow and Wareing, 1998). Cyrstal (1991) defines register as "a variety of language defined according to its use in social situations." So, register is…

Language immersion is a method of teaching language, usually a second language, in which the target language is used as both the content of the curriculum and the medium of instruction. According to Baker (2006; cited by: Pacific Policy Research Center, 2010), there are three major levels of language immersion education divided according to age: • early immersion, from age 5 or 6, • middle immersion, from age 9 or 10, and • late immersion, from ages 11 and 14. In programs that make use of…