Language acquisition

social and economic opportunities as they move into adulthood. There is one glaring impediment to realizing the aims of bilingual education: children who are placed into these programs are less likely to be transitioned from foreign language instruction to English language instruction. Children are being segregated into bilingual education curriculums indefinitely; which creates a disparity in terms of quality and access to education. This…

Code-Switching In order to effectively use the home language as a tool in the classroom it is imperative to understand the different language practices. Children growing up bilingual use their linguistic resources in a variety of ways, and one of these many ways is code-switching. Code-switching is the alternate use of two languages. It can occur within the discourse, between sentences or even within sentences (Brisk & Harrington, 2007). One of the most common types of code switching is…

obstacle in teaching a language is the motivation that drives the student, and the effect that motivation can have on the student (Yu, 2014, p. 24). Yu’s research identified that “learning motivation is one of the most important factors influencing learners’ success or failure in language learning. “A foreigner attending the University of Tennessee’s English Language Institute who is in his or her 30’s has different motivation than a 19-year-old person attending the English Language Institute…

several factors, both positive and negative, that shape her English language acquisition abilities. Factors that can be seen as negative influences regarding her development in English are that she has moved around a lot, during her many moves been exposed to a variety of different languages, and Spanish being the primary language in her home and neighborhood. Positive factors that might influence her English language acquisition abilities are her motivation to learn English, Anale likes going…

Abstract: English has become the international language in the world; it has become the one of most used in every level of aspect in communication. Because of its important, English should be taught since early stage in order to make them familiar with the English words. Teaching English to Young Learners has become primarily need especially in non-native English country. Teaching young learners is different from teaching adults, because young learners tend to get new information through fun…

Language Diversity Language Diversity The diversity of languages is a fact of life There are about 6,500 different, mutually unintelligible languages, which belong to 250 large families. There is immense diversity in terms of contrastive sounds (phonemes) from a dozen to 100; in word order - Subject-Predicate, or Topic-Comment; some use inflections while others use particles. Linguistic diversity is related to the diversity of life—humans, animals, plants, and microbes. Every being communicates…

Sally Shaywitz & Bernard Shaywitz, Virginia Beringer, and Bruce Pennington believe that certain parts of the brain are more important than other parts of the brain for language acquisition. For example, areas such as Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area, the temporo-occiptal lobe, the thalamus, and cerebellum are most important for language and literacy. The development of these areas are due to biological factors such as genetics, and in George’s case, his mother drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes…

title is not only meant to intrigue the reader, but it also gives us an idea of what we will find when we click on this section. This section’s primary focus is the invention of new words and the way language is a social phenomenon. In the subsection titled, “ Sez Who” Walt Wolfram says that language changes, “not by the media; it’s the middle class.” Within this section we also find “The Power of Slang.” Not only is slang described as establishing a sense of commonality, but it is also a core…

brief interviews I conducted with him in English and Polish indicate Kamil’s quick acquisition of the second language. According to several research studies, children who are taught to read and write in both their first and second languages at the same time, were successful in learning the second language (Slavin & Cheung, 2005). When Kamil moved to the U.S., he had already had a strong foundation of his first language, and what is more, he speaks, listens, and reads in Polish every day. Those…

fundamental function of language underpins most everything that the 21st-century learner engages in; including, multimodal mediums such as; visual, written, symbolic, and oral representations; language is consequently seen and heard. The contextual components of language cement meaning and understanding for the diversity of participants, while the malleability of language has witnessed the growth of dynamic capabilities (Emmitt, 2010, p. 54). The ever-evolving nature of language has been heavily…