English-based creole languages

In The Mother Tongue, author Bill Bryson asks a variety of questions about English. These questions range from wondering about how we can be overwhelmed and underwhelmed but not whelmed with to why colonel is pronounced with an r when one does not exist in the word.The overall purpose of Bill Bryson’s book is to determine why English is the way it is today. Bill Bryson dives into the history and evolution of English through the appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos, the best example starting with…

Once phonological awareness has developed in any language, it transfers to other languages that are learned. Therefore, students who are literate in their native language will not need to develop this skill again in English; they will only need to become familiar with the sounds of English and to learn to discriminate sounds that are different between their native language and English. Phonics can be problematic because ELLs often have difficulty discriminating between similar Phonics can be…

In George Orwell’s work, Politics and the English Language, Orwell makes many points as to why the English language is collapsing, especially in political writing. Impropriety in the English language has been passed about much like tradition and has not seemed to have stopped. Ambiguity in political writing has made it dry with no imagery in the words or metaphors used, which is often done incorrectly. Orwell uses several phrases from other professors and politicians as examples to explain why…

Mingyu Wong are two 8th grade students in the English class. Both students are immigrants who came to the United States at a young age. Vincents’ first language is Spanish, which he also speaks at home with his parents. Currently proficient at the 2nd grade level, which puts him six levels below his current grade level. This could be attributed to the fact that his education was interrupted and he did not start school until he was 5 years old. The first language used by Mingyu is Chinese.…

professional student to bring immediate effects of the globalization. Interpersonal skills are a part of soft skills. English being accepted as globalization language gone beyond the boundaries of six nations used it as their mother tongue and became the language of necessity for entire globe. English is worlds ways of communicating inter and intra culturally, became a language of technology. Wonderful developments in the field of soft skills and communication technology, globalization of…

narrative it sustains, unravels the interplay between competing discourses of power .To transcend the boundaries of marginality infused in the supremacy given to certain languages over others, voicing minorities plight of exclusion can only be maintained through the re- appropriation of their own linguistic medium .In the same way that language creates and determines discourse, identity is re-constructed; it is manifested in the very act of writing and narrating the shared experience of a given…

Lewis model and people’s character Richard Lewis is a British linguist and he wrote a book “When Cultures Collide”. In his book, he plotted countries in relation to three categories. The first one is linear-active, the second one is multi-active, the third one is reactive. These categories conclude lots of countries. On my opinion, to a certain extent, his points were right. But some details in this article, I disagree with him. I also have my own point of view. First of all, the model of…

The Norman French language was used by the residents of Normandy. Originally, the Normans were descendants of Vikings and throughout their escapades; they had settled in northern France. William the Conqueror, or other known as Duke of Normandy, had invaded an island of Britain and settled a new acquisition. During the new settlement, the Normans had abandoned their old language and had adopted a dialect of French with Germanic influences; this language is known as Norman French. Throughout…

daily language use (Bortfeld, 2003). In this regard, Moreno (2011) explains three principal reasons why it is so important to teach idioms. Moreno (2011) argues that because of high frequency of idioms, special attention should be paid to them and language instructors should not relegate them to a secondary state in the curriculum. According to Moreno (2011), the three principal reasons why it is so important to teach idioms are as follow: First, repeatedly use of idioms change language…

When learning English as a foreign language there are some challenges that could face a learner towards learning the language's receptive skills. When we speak about the listening skill we would say that the point of learning listening in English is to be able to understand and communicate in real-life situations, sometimes learners feel the need to understand every word in the context otherwise they will be lost in the conversation and they believe that every spoken word carries an important…