English-language education

Module Eight Paper Name Institution Date African American English (AAE) AAE is a variety of English that is formerly referred to as Vernacular Black English or Black English Vernacular among sociolinguists. While some attributes of AAE are apparently distinct to this variety, its structure and composition also shows many similarities with other dialects including several nonstandard and standard English varieties spoken in the United States (Bailey, Baugh, & Mufwene, 2013). AAE have been…

The problem for foreign language education in the United States is there is an unanswered need for comprehensive bilingual studies focused on practical conversation. The United States has been regarded as a dominant power in the global economy. However, the Chinese economy is predicted to overcome the U.S. economy in size after 2030, and Latin America and South Asia are growing as well (Council of Foreign Relations). In addition, while there are 527 million English speakers worldwide; there are…

The victory of Norman troops on English soil in 1066 represented a critical moment for the little archipelago’s communicative history. When William the Conqueror was officially designated as the ruling King of England at Westminster Abbey, a distinctive shift in language use suddenly intensified; redefining cultural models that had been making meandering progress towards interpenetration since the period of Roman occupation. It was a catalyst that initiated the production of an early trilingual…

rough to the civilians. They moved to America to seek a more comfortable and fulfilling lifestyle. It isn’t simple to sacrificed their dreams to fulfill another. They had a language barrier and realized they had to pick the language up as soon as possible to communicate with the customers. My parents supported my education severely whether I liked it or not. They would pay large sum of cash for after-school programs and saturday schools. I had a huge aversion towards reading and writing…

parents came to the United States in search of better opportunities for their children. Amber did not speak a word of English she Urdu and Hindi. In my case, my parents immigrated to the United States in the late 70’s from El Salvador. I was born in Los Angeles and raised in Whittier. My primary language was English but I did live in a bilingual household were we spoke both English and Spanish. Amber said that coming to the United States she felt that she need to assimilate to the dominant…

English, being the third most spoken language in the world, varies from each individual country that speaks it. In all English speaking regions, the vocabulary is different, the accent is different, the forms of grammar are different. When English varies in all three aspects there is a difference in dialect (Yule 243). The main focus of dialectology is to differentiate between two or more dialects of the same language, in this particular case, English. Focusing on American, there are radical…

her primary language. She learned English in school, but in the 8th grade she chose to take French instead, and then in 11th grade she changed again to German. As a result of these switches, she never developed a secondary language in which she could hold an extended conversation. So, when after graduation, she took a scholarship to play basketball at the University of Sheboygan Wisconsin, she left her home at 19 for a continent she had never seen, with rudimentary skills in a language that she…

Rhetorical analysis for “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Have you ever been in a situation that people around you were speaking a language which you do not understand at all, and they diminished your home language when you tried to speak out? If not, at least someone did experienced the awkwardness and feel outrages of being put in such a situation. The article “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” is written by Gloria Anzaldua who was the sixth generation Tejana. She wrote this article to describe how living…

Teddy Roosevelt exclaims, “We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people” (1). Roosevelt’s words reveal his thoughts in the article “Broken Borders: Teddy Roosevelt’s Words to Live By”. The English language acts as the foundation of the United States since the founding fathers establish a government in America. The documents that…

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…