Language education

Domestication is to reduce the foreignness or the strangeness of the foreign text to be used in target language. When a foreign text is domesticated, the reader of target language easily understands it as if it is a part of their literatures, then they are not defamilarized from the text. As indicated by Venuti, domestication is an ethnocentric reduction of the foreign text to target language cultural values. On the other hand, foreignization is to demonstrate how the…

In this book she wrote, “It is possible and desirable to make the actual study of language diversity a part of the curriculum for all students” (Delpit 1998). This idea reflects my experience because Seymour is a dual language school that fosters to both English and Spanish speakers. Therefore this quote is pretty much the philosophy of this school. They believe that if a child speaks two languages that their education should reflect that. When it comes to me helping the students we do not…

broader heading of teacher cognition, which also involves related concepts such as attitude and knowledge. However, in this literature review, key components of this section are the study of teachers the development of teacher cognition and language education research, definitions of teacher cognition, the relationship between teacher cognition and behaviour, appraisal of data collection methods in teacher cognition research, and the selected studies on teacher cognition about EMI in university…

University authorities have introduced the new instructional policy, the so-called “English as a medium of instruction” or EMI. In this study, the general working definition of EMI is “the use of the English language to tech academic subjects in countries or jurisdictions where the first language (L1) of the majority of the population is not English (Dearden, 2014, p. 2).” Additionally, EMI has two basic constituents of its own, which are contents…

The Philosophy of Education “On Education for Children” by Erasmus and “The Education of Children” by Montaigne both authors explore the function education plays in society and present their view on the features which constitute a suitable education. In terms of the role education plays, Erasmus presents education as a way for humans to organise themselves in a way that separates their society from that of the beasts. While animals possess highly developed instincts in order to survive, as a way…

bilingual education within schools has been a controversial topic throughout the years. In 1998, Ron Unz, set out to abolish bilingual education in California. Fueled by an anti-immigrant climate, Unz spearheaded a statewide campaign for Proposition 227, a highly controversial state initiative that required schools to teach language-minority students almost entirely in English. California was thus became the first state to prohibit bilingual programs in schools, radically altering the education…

foreign languages. Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Russian, and even Arabic, these classes should be considered core classes, as they are basically a de facto requirement for entrance into college. We have accepted this fact, but we should ask, why is this the case? As a student who has taken Spanish, I have asked this very question while I am supposed to be doing my Spanish homework. The main arguments for it, such as communication and wages, simply don’t hold up. Foreign language education…

Education is one of the most important aspect of our life, Cambridge University Press(2016) suggests the definition of education is the method of acquiring knowledge and distributing information, especially in study environment such as high school, university. For example, lecturer will distribute knowledge to the university students while having a lecture and other example will be tutor are having a tutorial with students that seek for help , both lecturers and tutors are distributing…

Russ Rymer, distinguished author and freelance journalist, describes in his article Vanishing Voices the threat of a dominant culture in a region eliminating minority cultures and languages through the rapid rise of globalization and technology (Rymer, 2012, pg. 6). The minority population of second generation children in Canada and the United States also face a bicultural identity crisis as a result of being submerged in a different dominant culture in which their old heritage culture (HC)…

Educational Psychology JiYoon Lim, M.S. Purpose of Study: In education, we intend person’s transition. By education, a little kid experiences and faces things that he might never have faced in natural settings. That process not only includes various areas and subjects to study, but it also includes social interaction. At the end of this intended process, a little kid becomes an adult; a part of the community. Therefore, the education is important in both ways; in an intellectual and…