Language proficiency

A language teacher in elementary school helped to diversify my reading and introduced the power of critical thinking. She would have us read a chapter from a literature and discuss it in detail for weeks before forming any kind of judgment. Every now and then…

English level. Without adequate vocabulary knowledge, a second language learner’s conversational fluency and reading comprehension will meet difficulties. Vocabulary is the foundation of a language. In language learning and teaching, vocabulary has always been a neglect and weak point. Therefore, the advances of computer-assisted language learning in educational applications have offered a new resource of authentic language input for language classrooms. The rapid growth of multimedia…

I know all the vocabulary I teach should be useful for learners. In general, time should be spent on high frequency words or words that fill a language need that the learners have. (Nation & Newton, 1997) As Camaron (2001) explains young learners of a second/foreign language are still building their first language vocabulary, which is tied up their contextual development. That’s why the number of the vocabulary I teach in a lesson is also important. Approximately three to five…

Language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written. However, language is not easily attainable, you have to work hard to achieve any kind of proficiency. Sometimes life itself shows you a deferent type of language. For “the deaf and the blind find it very difficult to acquire the amenities of conversation” (Keller, p. 148). Helen Keller was able to surpass her obstacles: being deaf and blind, a status she acquired after a bout with scarlet fever at a young age and eventually…

2.2.2.2. Speech Acts According to Searle (1969) it is a subfield of pragmatics which is concerned with the ways in which words can be used not only to present information but also to carry out actions. According to Searle's view (1969), there are only five illocutionary points that speakers can achieve on propositions in an utterance: assertive, commissive, directive, declaratory and expressive illocutionary points. Speech act is the use of speech focusing on the speakers’ intention of…

The use of proper language, a skill so difficult to learn, but when mastered, reaps a great deal of power. As hyperbolic as it sounds, incorporating proper language in our writing and speaking can be very influential in advocating ideas towards a community. “As a speaker, [you] have some influence on the extent to which others see you as having authority (Smith 13). To gain authority over an audience, one must write and speak with confidence, to be skilled enough to use proper grammar, complex…

grammar. (Lingualy, 2015). A good example of this would be, "You can't have your cake and eat it too." This idiom is saying that in some situations in life, you cannot have it both ways. On the other side, Slang vocabulary is informal street language words (Lingualy, 2015). Slang vocabulary is the words you will not find in a dictionary because most of the time they are created through different cultural groups. People make up new Slang s every day (Real Life Blog, 2015). 2.…

When I moved to the United States, I was only sixteen years old, and beginning my junior year in high school. I come from Dominican Republic, where the native language is Spanish. In my country most of the young citizens learn the basic of speaking, and writing in English. For example, my friends are able to understand, and interact with a movie in English, even if the movie does not have subtitles in Spanish. I have only been studying English for two years, and I successfully completed high…

different parts of the country . For this there is great need of translation. “Translation” is defined as the process which convert a text of source language (SL) in to convert and understandable version of target language (TL) without losing originality. For this 3 requirements are must: • Familiarity with the source language • Familiarity with target language • Familiarity with the subject matter to perform the job successfully…

the Iceberg Analogy it broke town the 6 parts of the Common Underlying Proficiency. Also within the chapter the book did a great job of discussing the distinctions between basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive/academic language proficiency (CALP). One of the themes of this chapter that caught my eye was the idea…