Language acquisition

Vocabulary acquisition is one of the largest elements in reading success. There are two types of vocabulary a student must acquire in order to become a successful reader: content and high frequency. Content vocabulary refers to words that have a specific meaning. These words can act as nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. High frequency words do not carry a specific meaning but occur the most in the English language (Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company, 2013). While it is imperative…

Language immersion is a method of teaching language, usually a second language, in which the target language is used as both the content of the curriculum and the medium of instruction. According to Baker (2006; cited by: Pacific Policy Research Center, 2010), there are three major levels of language immersion education divided according to age: • early immersion, from age 5 or 6, • middle immersion, from age 9 or 10, and • late immersion, from ages 11 and 14. In programs that make use of…

Paradowski, M.B. (2011) Language is a rational and social tool which helps in accessing concepts and meanings, solving problems through logical system, is the basis for organizational knowledge, supports in human interactions and determination of social status along with defining educational opportunities. Talking about multilingualism, it is the ability to speak more than one language. Multilingualism doesn’t require…

6500. 6500 is the number of languages spoken in the world today. New Zealand is becoming more and more multilingual with many different races living here. Take a look around the room, it’s obvious that we have many different races amongst us. Learning a second or a foreign language can help us communicate with the 6 billion people that are unable to speak english across the world. Learning a foreign language provides us with opportunities that we could not otherwise have by only speaking…

Puede tu dice Espanol, Ingles, y Aleman? Language. One of the fundamental differences that separate people from each other, beside nationality, race, and country. Over thousands of years people became numerous enough to warrant the need of written language and even after that there were ancient civilizations, like the Incas, who relied on beads to communicate messages instead. The spoken word is how parents communicate with their children, and it is how their children learn how to communicate…

second language become more productive and earn higher wages. Even though foreign language classes improve academic scores, not very many states require students to take a foreign language class to graduate. Students who study a foreign language tend to score higher on standardized tests. Studies show that test scores have been dropping. The study of foreign language helps to improve academic scores. With the exception of special education students, students required to take a foreign language…

study. The purpose of this study does not only show the attitudes of the EFL students, but also revealing whether peer assessment is an effective language tool in the context of higher education in Vietnam. This study is designed as a survey research. The participants in the survey are 250 final year students who are studying English as a foreign language at a DN university. Investigators participating in the two courses: English teacher training course and business English. They have…

1.1. Background of the Study Speaker recognition is the process of automatically recognizing who is speaking [4][24] on the basis of information obtained from the speech waves[13],[18],[20],[21][22]. It should be noted that this process of recognition is different from speech recognition which is not [5][16] biometrics and it’s defined as the process of recognizing what is being said, e.g., dictation of words by an individual for computer understanding (speech to text recognition). The goal of…

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…