English Channel

As an adult, a wife, a mother and a librarian, I practice written language every day. At no time had anyone raised attention to my writing style, I was positive I communicated properly. I was sure I practised correct grammar and punctuation consistently. My only concerns with writing had been my confidence with abstaining from being 'wordy' together with applying proper referencing. 'Wordiness' is part of my colloquial language, ‘long-winded’ as my family says. It occurred likewise in my written…

In recent years, bilingual communication has become widespread all over the world because of some factors such as globalization, technological advances and migration. It might express that people who speak different languages use various ways to communicate with each other. Commonly, this bilingual conversation is full of language strategies that enhance meaning. One of these language strategies is the use of code-switching (Velásquez, 2010). Over the last twenty-five years the study of…

Education Act of 1968, has been one of the most important act throughout the history of Bilingual Education. (Mazanares, 1988), stated that the act is seen as one of the first official federal recognition of the needs and rights of students with limited English speaking abilities. The act has gone through four reauthorizations, 1974,1978,1984 and 1988, with amendments based on a change for students and society. Senator Ralph Yarborough introduced a bill in 1967, the bill proposed to assist…

but for many centuries to come. The reformation occured during the 16th Century. It created a schism within the Roman Catholic Church to create different groups of Christians, not connected to the Roman Catholic Church or the Pope. This led to the English establish the Church of England, which is considered the "Middle way" between Catholicism and Calvanism. This was credited to King Henry VIII. The Catholic Church had been the centre of power throughout Europe for many centuries. Its and…

play The Tempest for that one. He single-handedly shaped the English language more than anyone else. Not only did this affect the words that people use, but it helped to diversify English culture. Merely learning English words and their meanings isn’t enough to learn the language thanks to Shakespeare. He made phrases that mean something different than you’d expect. He even created new words by combining existing ones when the English language constrained him. His diligence to create words and…

The idea of understanding that certain cultures like (African American) and (Latino/a) can communicate in a way that is understandable and relatable for them does not surprise me at all. As a teacher, I can see what Danny Martinez (2015) is talking about in his observations. Teenagers and youth in general have always communicated in ways that sometimes adults can’t understand and therefore they question the validity of the language that is being used. However, this language is functional and…

The main idea of this post is how personal space varies from person to person. Everyone has a specific amount of space they choose to have around certain people. In this post, we get to realize the way people from other countries see our own culture. According to this post, people from Puerto Rico are a lot more comfortable around other people than we Americans are. “Puerto Rico paisanos keep a close distance when talking to each other.” Serafin Roldan-Santiago states this within the post,…

scrutinizes her mother’s language, her own use of English and society’s response to different peoples English usage, to show us the power of a language. It’s not very often that we see Asian- Americans writing books and getting big hits, because some English that they write or speak is not fully understood. Tan uses her own personal experiences to get us to realize that language is so broad. She uses a lot of examples of her mother’s “broken” English, how people can’t understand her and how she…

speak chinese as their first language. Mandarin Chinese should be taught in American high schools because it would help further our social connections, improve business, and give Americans a better perspective of the world. For years and years, english has been the lingua franca; but it hasn’t always been. Greek was the lingua franca during the Classical Period and Latin was the language of the Medieval Period. Lingua franca translates to “french language” because French was the lingua franca…

Scenario For this assignment, this referral plan is directed towards client who is a recent immigrant to Saskatoon. She is unfamiliar with Saskatoon and speaks very little English. Description of Agency The agency that would be the best fit for this client is the Saskatoon Open Door Society. Further information about this agency was noted during an interview with Ashfaque Ahmed. Ashfaque is a settlement and family support manager at the Open Door Society. The Open Door Society is a…