English-language albums

skill of writing. Every person has an individual unique style of writing; however, everyone progressively develops its own style over time. This semester I’ve have seen an improvement in my personal form of writing, learned history about the English language, and learned how to set goals…

I feel very strongly about my social issue and my views have not changed in the slightest bit. In Writing Assignment 2, I discussed the rising tensions between the public and the police. Throughout my every day life I had begun to notice that instead of being seen as heroes the police were becoming villains in the eyes of the public. By observing and talking with police officers I have seen first hand that they are struggling to work with a public that sees them as an enemy. While the media is…

Her dad had learned English but he only used it when he needed it. Mary explained to me that her parents thought it was important and beneficial that they were going to be bilingual. Her parents’ ideas about bilingualism was similar to the Language as a resource model that argued that not only is fluent bilingualism associated with positive educational outcomes but that fluent bilingualism…

communication. She has not yet mastered the English language. Her sentences are characterized by pauses of “ummm” and a mixture of foreign and English words. This limits her understanding of the songs and games that she is involved in. this also limits her ability to express herself. However, the extent that the language barrier limits Nora 's participation in classroom activities is not known. According to Davids, a child who speaks her native language in a foreign place may develop feelings of…

Necessary Peace in the Language War Author Bryan A. Garner, in his article “Making Peace in the Language Wars” (published in Garner’s Modern American Usage 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2009), seeks to negotiate a cease-fire between two fighting countries, the prescriptivists and the descriptivists. According to Garner, the two camps engage in warfare because they each desperately cling onto their specific views of how language should be used. Prescribers tend to be more conservative…

up my English-language school is Singapore. The reason that I chose to establish an English-language school in Singapore is because they are a small island country that relies heavily on international trade and treaties to continue growing their economy. Their economy is fueled by imports and exports. The reason I think Singapore is a good location to establish an English-language school is because they need to maintain strong ties with major economic powers of the west. The English language is…

to truly put into syntax. Many individuals detest language structure on account of how much linguistic use was constrained upon them growing up, I was one of those individuals. When I got to school, I understood, that I give careful consideration to linguistic use than I suspected. Punctuation is truly essential to the English dialect, we utilize sentence structure, each day without acknowledging it. All the more essentially, we utilize language structure mistakenly without acknowledging it, so…

achievement. (Berger, 2014). Erickson states that identity foreclosure is, "when an adolescent adopts parents’ or society’s roles and values wholesale, without questioning or analysis" (Berger, 2014, p.458). My hope is to one day become a high school English teacher, but a part of me has always wondered if that is what I really want to do or if it something that has been chosen for me. As stated previously, I am the oldest in my family and as of now, I have 2 younger siblings and 19 younger…

experience intense ostracization. Language barriers epitomize the obstacles that those of other cultures must overcome in order to reach true conformity to the American culture, in order to acquire the respect of the masses, a…

In this article, Stevens starts off by informing his audience that the contraction ain’t is at the moment very disapproved in language. Just like other author, Stevens mentions the word ain’t has little evidence of when it was first recorded. Stevens argues, we cannot be confident of the time when the contraction ain’t was formed. Yet, probably it has been around much longer than…