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time but to date. His plays and poets have made their way across the globe and countless languages. However, the idea of the works of Shakespeare in a global sense is more than just the words of a man being read and heard around the word. It is how every culture takes his words, his plays and creating something that relates to them and yet is still, at its core, undeniably Shakespeare. It transcends language and stage, becoming an all-inclusive experience that generations of people can adopt as…

segregation between English and non-English speakers. The lack of capable teachers to provide a multicultural education was one of the greatest problems in Chicago’s public education system. It was a daunting and almost impossible task for teachers to be able to teach English speakers and non-English speakers in the same environment. In many cases, immigrant children would fall behind, or all of the teachers time would be focused on helping the non-English speaking children; therefore, English…

My experience as a language learner in my high school was more or less similar to the CASE STUDY 1. The teacher A reflects my high school language teachers and most of other English language teachers in my country at present. I have chosen this case study because I can relate to this and this is a common problem in my country. The medium of instruction has been a major issue in Nepalese education. I have included my personal experience, suggestions from my colleagues from the forum posts and…

To me, the English language has sometimes felt like a non-topical subject; the ever-present facet of the daily lives of people across the world. In my years before higher education, language did not really have an impact on how I viewed the world, because it felt like a part of standard living; English and Korean at home, English at school. Even with the study of English in Advanced Placement classes, I always felt that the study of English was even sometimes stress-inducing, reading the works…

A sentence is a gathering of words which begins with a capital letter and closures with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!). A sentence comprises or involves a verb phrase and a subject. Sentences comprise statements. Simple sentences have one statement. Compound sentences and complex sentences have two or more than two statements. Sentences can comprise subjects and objects. The subject in a sentence is for the most part the individual or thing completing an…

CLASS The three texts I have studied are ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan, and ‘The King’s speech by Tom Cooper. Through my study of the cultural content of these three texts, it is clear that there are clearly embedded values and attitudes that can be difficult to change. These attitudes are clearly seen looking at class, family value, religion, the role of women, and war in these texts. In ‘The King’s Speech’, it is evident that there are deeply embedded beliefs and…

Unity in diversity’ is the motto of our nation. India is a diversified country with many languages with many cultures and the people also different from one state to another. India’s is called as ‘Hindustan’ as it was full of Hindus once upon a time. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni employs myth in her novels to show the people how culture, tradition, religion and ecology play an important role in the lives of man. Myths are the stories that are based on tradition, culture and religion. They are not…

Is teaching, and more particularly, the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), a political domain of professional practice? There are two aspects to this issue: first of all, is teaching a professional practice, and secondly, is such practice political. This essay is going to focus on the second part and discuss the politicalness of teaching practice under the presupposition that teaching is a profession. It will argue that teaching, and especially TESOL, are highly…

identity which contribute to respecting the local characteristics of other societies and trying not to erase them. This leads to the enrichment and promotion of human civilization. Whereas "Figures of speech are the ways to make the language more colorful. So when we are using the non-literal words, we are in fact creating an imagery sense. " (Richards, 2000). And whereas a translator is a mediator…

The author Samson Occom was the first Native American author to publish his works in English. Today, He is considered the father of modern Native American literature. Occom wrote the first Indian autobiography and made it a genre. His hymns and sermons were influenced by his religious life. Also, Occom wrote his works due to Christianity, betrayal, and inequality. Samson Occom was born in 1723 at Mohegan near New London, Connecticut. He has little communication with the colonists for fifteen…