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influence was the introduction to gentility to North America. Through the use of the courtesy book, drinking tea, speech, dress, beauty, and so on, the colonial towns and people started looking more and more like England (AH, 138-139). This type of English influence started to shape the colonies into more like their overseas counterparts which helped Britain maintain a sense of…

author contends that English is not unfamiliar to the region due to its historical relationship with the United Kingdom, as well as current political and economic relationships with English speaking nations and popular culture. English is also the primary language of tertiary education in the UAE. However, Arabic is the…

parents, government, and businessmen. Much has been written about the topic which has made it a bit confusing. The Common Core State Standards or CCSS, are a set of expectation or standards that students should be capable of performing in math and English language arts for every grade level. There are currently 45 states that have fully adopted the CCSS. (ABC ) The Common Core State Standards have the potential to significantly improve the outcomes and equity in our state’s educational…

Upon arriving to the United States, many of the Swedish immigrants not only remained Lutheran, but they kept their “diasporic nationalism” (Tweed 110-111). Although they moved to a new country, they still considered themselves as Swedish. The push for their immigration was centered on having a better life economically and have freedoms that they did not have in their homelands. The move was never to forget about where they came from. For those purposes, they kept their diasporic nationalism.…

Gapminder is a non-profit venture that provides free statistics in visual forms of animated bubble chart, bubble map and mountain chart known as Trendalyzer. The Gapminder team creates surveys online using the survey software called SurveyGizmo to collect their data. It helped portray the data in a way that enable users to understand without being confused by the complicated conventional lines and bar graphs. Users can access the data straight from the website or download an offline version into…

The English language has and will continue to be the unifier of worldwide linguistic diversity. As a result of its globalization and its relative status symbol, the spread of the English language has facilitated the decline of several smaller languages such as those discussed in Russel G. Rymer’s article “Vanishing Voices”. Containing what is arguably the densest concentration of English speakers, the United States population speaks the language with a distinct vocabulary and accent. The form…

In recent years, bilingual education has become a controversial issue in the United States. While, some people believe that they have the freedom to speak the language they prefer, others believe that the use of any language other than English in the United States created the loss of their identity, and their native language. However, because exist many people from various nationalities in the United States the number of bilingual people is increasing through the years. A bilingual person had…

Karen and Kazami Nagano are raising a two-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter in Tokyo. Karen is a native speaker of English and Kazami is a native speaker of Japanese; each speaks the other’s language well enough to manage an everyday conversation, though with some effort and with a foreign accent. Karen and Kazami would like their children to be bilingual, but they are not sure whether this is a good idea or how to achieve it. Give them your advice. My suggestion to Karen and Kazami is…

English is the National Language Language is something that is inherent in every culture. The words might be different, but the purpose is the same: communication. Can you imagine what it would be like if you couldn’t communicate with anyone in the country that you live in? We use language every day, but have you ever thought about how important and powerful language really is? In America today, there is much debate on whether a national language needs to be established or not. Opponents say…

parts of the world, English seems to be the “default” language – almost everyone knows it. In fact, according to linguist David Crystal, there are more non-native speakers of English than native. Has English become a “global language”? And if so, why is that? What parts of history congealed together so tightly that English, a confusing mish-mash of roots, grammar, and culture, came to be the one global, essential tongue? Finally, what does this mean for the future of both English and the many…