Foreign language

Foreign Language Classes Learning new languages, such as German, French, or even Russian can be exciting for many students. However, Patrick Henry is a school that only offers one foreign language class for students to choose from. This is not fair to the students who might want an expansion on their choices. The majority of students at this school may not enjoy the only foreign language class that Patrick Henry offers. If this is true, why do we have Spanish as our only foreign language class…

1.2 Statement of the Problem In the history of teaching English as a foreign language, there have been a great deal of studies investigating motivational factors for learners and teachers. (Hiromori, 2009; Manolopoulou and Sergi, 2004; Amrai, Elahi, Azizi Zalani, and Parhon, 2011). These factors can be grouped into three types as followings: a) integrative / instrumental, b) extrinsic / intrinsic, and c) global / situational, and task". According to the teachers, six factors are identified as…

tongue, code-switching, pre-school, and foreign language and research on using of mother tongue on children L2 acquisition, its advantages and disadvantage and also the situations that a teacher allowed to use of mother tongue. 2.1. Mother Tongue Mother tongue is an integral part of human existence and tied him with stem cells. Mother tongue is a language we learned from mother, father and relatives. According to Nordguist (2017), mother tongue is a native language that human learned from birth;…

Learning a foreign can surely prove beneficial for future career, and avoiding prejudice ideas towards other cultures. As a student, I studied English, a foreign language for me, for nearly 10 years, and it proved useful. With English, I made several new friends from various areas around the world, and increases the chances of entering an American college. To prove the importance of foreign languages, I created an online survey consisting of seven multiple choice questions and asked various…

traveling and immigrating each year. People in the United States should learn how to understand and speak a foreign language because it can limit the barriers between different people and cultures and can also benefit themselves. The United Staes is a diverse nation with different ethnic groups immigrating or traveling. It can be a gateway to unifying people even more if people assimilate a foreign language. Also, it can improve America’s relationships to other coutries which can be an answer to…

Why learning a foreign language brings many advantages Every spring it’s time for High School students to decide which subjects they’re going to take the next year. Many High Schools have a wide spread possibility for their students to choose from, often there are many language possibilities, like French, Spanish, German... The students have to decide whether or not they will need to use the subject or language for their college application and profession. Almost every college requires two to…

learning a language other than the primary one. Quoting the research done by Dörnyei & Csizér (1998), Wlodkowski (1999) and Cheng & Dörnyei (2007) among others, Moskovsky (2012) claims that it has been a common agreement that motivated learners would always perform significantly better than unmotivated ones. With motivation students end up influencing, to a considerable extent, their self-confidence, aptitude, learning strategies and learning anxiety – the aspects crucial for learning a foreign…

topic. Many of them are categorized negative and called immigrants even when most of them are citizens of the United States. Instead of helping the students keep both of their family foreign language and English they instead talk down to the foreign language and tell these students that English is the only important language for them to learn. The quality that the rest of the students receive are usually lacking education, quality and time learning these topics that these students need to…

While music and language are both processed by the auditory cortex, language generally considered to be lateralized to the left hemisphere, and properties of music to the right. However, some features of sound are common to perception of both music and language. These common features include pitch, timbre, and hierarchical structure. In music, perception of pitch is important in identifying aspects such as melodies and harmonies in a musical piece. In non-tonal languages, variations of pitch…

The main argument in the article “What, When, How And Why? Theory And Foreign Language Teaching” by Shirley Lawes is theory vs. practice in teacher education. I, as a teacher, find this article very interesting because the gap between theory and practice is an important issue for teaching and teacher education. Shirley says, in this article, that sound theoretical knowledge is crucial for foreign language teachers, it must be in the center from the beginning of initial training and emphasized…