English language

One’s native language is a foundation for future leaning. If we think of language development as the concrete foundation of a building, it makes sense that it needs to be strong to sustain the stress of many tons of building materials that will be erected on top of it (Nieto, S., & Bode, P.,2008). As a Puerto Rican teacher, teaching in the United States to Spanish speakers and native English speakers it is important to know each students background, especially its culture and home language.…

4.3. Some ways of disambiguating ambiguity in the English language 4.3.1. The students’ ways of disambiguating lexical ambiguity Question 9. How can lexical ambiguity be disambiguated? Students’ responses (S=40) Number Percentage Provide additional contexts or any pieces of information to the ambiguous word of a sentence 26 65% Change the vocabulary collocation 14 35% Analyze the context to understand the correct meaning of the word. 17 42.5% Table 8. The students’ resolutions for…

just how important language is in the world. English is the only language that I speak and I learned this language from my parents. English is the only language that my parents know how to speak. Although, interestingly enough, when my mother was a child, her mother and father would speak Italian throughout the house. They soon stopped speaking Italian when my mother began to catch onto their private conversations. My mother lost her ability to understand the Italian language quickly after that.…

beginning of the 21st century, the year 2000 to be exact language laws in Quebec were still ever changing nevertheless French had established its dominance and many businesses complied with bill 101 and it soon became the norm. This however would all change when a couple merchants named Gwen Simpson and Wally Hoffman, owners of a small antique store located in Montreal were hit with a massive $500 fine due to violating the language law because the English and French words on their sign were the…

by Jonathan Culver, “The English language is a work in progress”. This is indeed the case, as to this day, new words are still being introduced. Moreover, the English language is a combination which originated from different languages. These include Sanskrit, Gaelic, Latin, Old English (Anglo Saxon), Norse, French, Greek and Hebrew. The earliest influence on the English language is from Sanskrit. Many simple English words are derived from this Indian-European based language. For example, the…

The introduction of English immersions programs are claimed to raise performance and result in higher test scores. For example, Ken Noonan, a superintendent of schools in Oceanside, California, and founder of the California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE), which for years actively campaigned for bilingual education, he states “After one year of implementing English immersion, the district achieved amazing results in English-administered state tests. Specifically, Spanish-speaking…

her English language acquisition abilities. Factors that can be seen as negative influences regarding her development in English are that she has moved around a lot, during her many moves been exposed to a variety of different languages, and Spanish being the primary language in her home and neighborhood. Positive factors that might influence her English language acquisition abilities are her motivation to learn English, Anale likes going to school, her grandparents value learning English and…

important role in learning a language, one of which is attitude. Attitude is defined as one of the most important factors that impacts in learning a language (Fakeye, 2010). It is also characterized by a large proportion of emotional involvement like feelings, self, and relationships in the community (Brown, 2001). It is said that language teachers, researchers, and students should recognize that positive attitude and high motivation help language learner in learning second language. Therefore,…

A few years ago I was asked by my department chair to teach an English Language Development (ELD) class. As I had only been teaching for a year, I was unfamiliar with the full requirements of the class and nervous to take on what I felt was a BIG responsibility. Once I accepted our dean of curriculum asked me to be the ELD advisor. I took two days to decide that with my family background, my grandfather picked fruit for a living and my mom picked and packed growing up, I could make the students…

CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing. “CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers.” College Composition and Communication. 52.4 (2001): 669-674. Print. In response to the increase diversity of the student population and the increase of second-language students in writing programs, CCCC urges writing programs and teachers to recognize the increasing presence of these students and “to understand their characteristics, and to develop instructional and administrative…