Language acquisition

In the late 1960s, Singapore government introduced a bilingual education policy. Mother Tongue languages such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil are known to be the students’ second language in Singapore. It is mandatory for each student to take up at least one second language. However according to an online news "Much Ado About Mother Tongue", students have not been coping well with their Mother Tongue language over the past years. Instead, the students are excelling in other subjects such as…

that sign language presents to an audience is the mode in which the language makes itself perceived. Bochner et al. (2011), noted that the only true difference that sign language has opposing an oral language is the fact that the signed languages transmit ideas and linguistic concepts through the visual channel of the brain as opposed to the more commonly used auditory channel of the brain. There is an assumption that people do not use sign language in the same manner that oral languages are…

2.3 LANGUAGE BARRIERS 2.5.1 Phonology Phonology is related to the sounds of language; thus, phonology is an important part of the communication. People from different countries possess different phonology system. The differences in phonology can affect the way communicate in different language. For instance, Japanese and Korean learners do not have l and r in their language, therefore, they will have difficulty in pronouncing it (Lightbown, P., & Spada, N. M., 2006). Same as in Thai language…

education students within its district. For Yoshikai specifically there are 56% of English Language Learners with up to nine different languages spoken. Of the 56%…

understand and ask questions about different aspects of the story. Sometimes students in the class can help each other to figure out how to understand difficult words or content parts of the text. Meaning-focused input also means raising awareness of language features and in “The Last Spin, ” I can do that, e.g. in a sentence like this “Tigo was studying him with large brown eyes. The eyes were moist-looking. He was not a bad-looking kid, Tigo, with thick black hair and maybe a nose that was too…

The Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Language can unlock many doors, but our world can also be limited to what we know about it. This is the cruel reality that many of us face when arriving in a new country, not being able to speak the language. One feels as everything around us has broadened, but our world has shrunken. One feels impotent, unable to communicate with the people that surround us. For this reason,…

in their common traditional languages (Duff and Li, p.3). These differing languages remain important for diverse cultures in aboriginal communities. Unfortunately with the global economy pushing small communities to choose between the lingua franca and their traditional languages, many aboriginals have no choice but to choose the dominant English language (Duff and Li, p.1). Consequently, Globalization is leading to the end of geography as traditional aboriginal languages across Canada are…

Introduction In recent decades there has been attention to how spacing has an effect in first and second language reading, for which the development of eye-tracking technology has allowed a deeper understanding. The importance of these findings are linked to information on how readers process language and its implications to language teaching. Some researchers have explored spacing and word boundaries within writing systems, focusing on its effects on readers’ landing positions and saccades (e.g…

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 for them to continue to speak their native languages as well as the others’; their children will pick up on it and learn…

Should Student’s Use their Language in School? The article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” provides an argument regarding a resolution arrived at by the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee (CCCC) concerning students’ dialects. From the article, this became an issue due to an influx of students with foreign dialects in American schools. Thus, the significant argument in the article regarded whether students should uphold language variety, modify or eradicate it…