English Mastiff

that my siblings and I should learn every aspect of it. Growing up, my siblings and I attended Vietnamese classes where we learned how to read and write Vietnamese. Vietnamese is not that hard to learn because the letters are similar to those in the English language, but the difficulties was in the accent marks on the words. A wrong pronunciation of the word meant another word. For example, the Vietnamese word for dad is ba, but the word for an older person is bà. The wrong pronunciation could…

During the 14th Century the English language was mainly spoken by the uneducated lower classes and the language began to see some of the grammatical complexities and inflections gradually disappear. The many genders that were used for nouns had almost entirely vanished. Adjectives that once had as many as eleven different inflections were reduced to just two used for singular and plural. However, in modern English today adjectives will often perform just one. Also pronunciation stresses…

Equal Protection for English Language Learners Equal protection is a right of the people including students in school. The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution is what has enabled this right. The Equal Protection Clause is considered and important law in public education and courts have invoked it to prohibit segregation of children due to race, stop sex-based discrimination in a school setting, guarantee school access to children whose parents are not legal citizens and protect gay and…

taken in school was taught in English? That might be a good thing for you, but for non-English speakers it’s a different story. It’s a given to not being able to understand material leading to struggling to keep good grades. This is what non-English speakers have to deal with through their schooling, due to language barriers and lack of knowledge of the English language. The only solution to this problem is to integrate Bilingual learning into classrooms, allowing non-English speakers to slowly…

For clarity, the students who attend the school are taught in Mandarin alongside the English language starting as young as preschool. I am able to observe my Mandarin colleague, whom I collaborate with, lecture our students in a language I am completely unfamiliar with. Characters besides simple numbers and letters are shocking for me to…

by those who are familiar, can be lost in translation and halt a speaker’s communication with his or her audience. While I may refer to my friends as “you guys,” it is important for me to recognize that in a professional setting Standard American English should be used in order to neutralize a message to an audience. Throughout grade school, I assumed grammar to simply be about proper tense and punctuation. After reading the essay “About This Course,” I realize that grammar’s role in…

This symposium was the first time that her mother was part of her audience. Not until then, Tan realizes that the academic English she is using to address the audience is different than the one she uses with her mother. Tan’s essay describes the exploration of languages and how it can be part of our identity. Tan begins her story by stating, “ I am not a scholar of English or literature” (633). Meaning, she is not a linguistic or literary critic; she can only provide her opinion about…

While the majority of the United Kingdom speaks English, other languages are still prevalent within the country including Gaelic, Welsh, Scots, French, and German. The ability to converse in a second language is highly beneficial within the United Kingdom as it is in many other countries around the world…

America is a “melting pot” for so many different cultures, it can be easy to walk down the street and hear a version of English not native to you. As you travel around the county and the world, you will observe that the language changes are very apparent and are easily identifiable because of their unfamiliarity to you. I feel that the different dialects, accents, and forms of the English language all help add to the cultural diversity here in America and make it a more well-rounded…

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki uses “In Praise of Shadows” to relate to the audience by talking about the multitude of differences between traditional Japanese aesthetics and modern Western inventions. He shows how these differences affect the past culture, causing it to fade away with the introduction of innovations that are more useful, beneficial, and efficient. Tanizaki explains the deeper meaning and significance of the simplest things. The author explains how there is a significance to everything…