English language

My interviewee is a bilingual Swedish and English speaker, called Anna, that grew up in a Swedish household with a Swedish/British mother until she was twelve and then moved to America to live with her Canadian/American father. During this interview, I learned many things about Anna’s culture, there are aspects that point to the stigmas that come along with growing up two a multilingual household, the focus of this interview was linguistic stigmas, prestige differences, and linguistic identities…

the article, Politics and the English Language," argues that the "bad habits" of modern writing are influenced by lazy thinkers, especially in politics. Orwell supports his argument by listing passages that "illustrate various of the mental vices from which we suffer now". He believes this crooked way of language can be prevented, but only if six rules given by Orwell are followed. The authors purpose is to point out how bad influences over time has changed the English writing. The author…

The English language is continually and slowly being eradicated by the way society tends to manipulate the way they word their statements. People continue to switch their words around to make sure that it seems favorable while the meaning behind it is deceiving. George Orwell is an important writer who believes that our writing is problematic because of our thoughts, which is caused by the slovenliness of the language itself. This is both true and false because sometimes you have to get to the…

In George Orwell’s, Politics and the English Language, he claims that it is hard to write good pros, without out making major mistakes that could potentially lose the interest of the reader. Through the course of his text, Orwell proves that “Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided” (Orwell 2). With the problems that Orwell identifies as aides in making “Bad Pros”: Dying Metaphors, False Limbs, Pretentious Diction,…

one must wonder whether or not this form of communication is damaging the English language. An intrigued linguist known as John McWhorter set out to uncover the truth about texting, and it turns out he believes that texting is not harming the English language, but is modifying it. He believes that within the two forms of communicating, them being writing and speaking, one is used for more formal and sophisticated language while the other is just everyday chatter. McWhorter believes that texting…

Topic An exploration of Best Practices for teaching English Language Learners in an Early Childhood setting. The ELL population is steadily growing *quote*. Educators should continue to develop their skills and make sure they have skills to help these students. In a way, all early childhood students are English Language Learners, so many suggested practices for helping ELLs can also be found in suggested practices for any early childhood classroom. Target Audience The following program is…

Language is a civilized and friendly way of being able to communicate. Throughout history, this, the language has undergone many transformations in their graphics and sound expressions, due to the direct influence of the evolution of human beings and satisfaction of their needs. In these modern times, we have to communicate a lot of resources, and one of them is what is called "social media through the internet". This feature allows to communicate in a simple, fast, agile, and allows its…

Some people believe that texting is ruining the English language, and that it is penmanship for illiterates. People are bothered by the linguistic rules that it breaks. A lot of the time when people are texting they are not spelling out all the words completely that they usually would, or even using proper punctuation. When people write like that they may come off to other people as unintelligible. David Crystal successfully proves to his readers through facts and examples that this is not true.…

In George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language,” though it was written in 1946 it remains very relevant for modern students use of language. In this essay, Orwell argues that the English language has become very poor and is evolving in a bad way. It is becoming this way because writers are not taking it serious and are writing with foolish intentions. In his essay he gives a list of rules one should not break while writing. The first one is “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of…

institutions in addressing the needs of English language communication. However, the majority of the respondents agree that they have considerable difficulties in understanding lecturers’ spoken and written English as well as students’ spoken English. It is also noted that students experience low levels of support in university administrative dealings due to the low numbers of administrative staff who are proficient in English language. Table 6.9English language communication needs and support…