History of the English language

in English and Vietnamese In process of communication in a community, request is one of the most important speech acts. In fact, it is used a lot in all aspects of life such as social interaction, working, studying, language teaching, etc. Especially, when teaching and studying language, many Vietnamese teachers and students find difficulty in understanding the similarities and differences between requests in English and Vietnamese. They can not appropriately express requests in English…

point of view when you have only one language.” declared the psycholinguist, Frank Smith. This quote inspires people to learn foreign languages. Young people should learn a foreign language at an early age because of the advantages. When learning a foreign language at an early age, it helps people to focus, increase realization, and brilliance. Also, at a young age, the mind is new so the person can take in more information and can easily master a foreign language. In addition, most secondary…

accepted claim that language and thought socialize in many significant ways. Yet, a great predicament exists about the idea that every specific terminology has its own effect on the thought and action of its audio speakers. On the other palm, anyone who has discovered more than one terminology is struck by the various ways in which dialects differ from the other person. Yet on the other side, human beings everywhere are required to have similar ways of your world. Relationship of language to…

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 be disrespectful towards the person you are referencing too. Vietnamese was my first language because it was easier to communicate with my parents and grandma, who…

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…

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 learn the language…

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 look at and decipher, yet, my students write and speak in full sentences…

The New York Times dialect map pinned me, based on my use of language, as a New York City, Paterson, or Yonkers native. I find that extremely interesting because it is true – I spent the last eighteen years of my life in a New Jersey suburb an hour outside of the Big Apple. How did the Times know? Is it because I am familiar with the term “mischief night?” Is it because I call my Nikes “sneakers?” Whatever the reason, dialects, while understood by those who are familiar, can be lost in…

Immigrants Language In the essay “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan describes an important realization she had In 1989. Conducting a symposium in San Francisco where she discussed her well-known book “The Joy Luck Club.” 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…

department focusing on retirement. I thought it would be interesting to compare a position on the other side of Finance. When I first read about the project, I decided I would search for jobs in European countries as I am more familiar with European languages and culture. Having visited England before, I decided to look a careers and opportunities in England. I took several tests between both sites, I took the Cross Cultural…