Lingua franca

Excuses, excuses, excuses! I’ve been teaching Spanish at a local private school since September. One of the most amazing things that I’ve encountered is the numerous excuses for not turning in homework on time. One excuse was “I went camping so I didn’t have time to get it done”. As a brand new teacher, (I should say instructor, because teacher implies that I have been trained to teach. I have not.) to the school system I hadn’t given much thought to my own reaction to late homework. After…

As a result of economic and military domination of the British in the nineteenth century and the domination of the United States since World War II, English has emerged as the world's leading language or lingua franca, especially for doing business internationally. Some countries that have many linguistic groups, such as India and Singapore, have adopted English as the official language to facilitate communication among diverse groups. Similarly, a firm with…

celebrations is based on the same grounds - in memory of the deceased persons but the traditions differ in many ways. On the last day in October Halloween is celebrated not only in English speaking countries. Under the influence of English as a lingua franca it is known and partly celebrated around the word. The origin of the name comes from the words All Hallow’ Evening. Many traditions are connected to this day. The basic Halloween’s symbols are pumpkins, witches, black cats and bonfires.…

be in jennifer lee’s , “I Think, Therefore IM.” , which is a record of a 8th grade english teacher Jacqueline Harding recollecting a unfamiliar nuisance that has appear in her class this school year . That recent nuisance was modern online/text lingua franca that the modern generation has created and adapted to . Examples of this modern writing style would be 2 , b, cuz, wuz, ppl, r, ur , b4 , and etc . Why this writing could be seen as a drawback is because like Jacqueline states…

“Language is the capacity to gain and utilize complex frameworks of correspondence, especially the human capacity to do as such, and a language is a particular case of such a framework. The logical investigation of language is called linguistics” Estimating the quantity of languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. Common languages are talked or marked, however any language can be encoded into auxiliary media utilizing sound-related, visual, or material jolts. For instance, in…

always been a great desire for me. There is not one specific reason to explain this desire, but rather a collection of things that draw my specific attention to Paris. Perhaps my first visit to Republic of Congo and the French language being their lingua franca got me intrigued. I love to experience the original French cuisine, the art, the fashion, the architecture, and everything Paris has to offer and their smooth language. Also I have always brought up this ideal vacation with my wife and…

Next, the process of setting IFRS as the international accounting standard is restricted by the environment, regulation and culture of the country. Depending on its region, every country practices its own culture which eventually build the society’s behaviour. Nobes and Parker (2012, page 29) note that: “Culture in any country contains the most basic values that an individual may hold. It affects the way that individuals would like their society to be structured and how they interact with its…

Usually more than one factor are responsible for endangerment. But all the possible factors are examinable to make a correct result. The responsible factors and causes of endangerment are given with analyzing: 3.1. Domination of State language And Lingua Franca: The philosophy of the blood bathed language movement of 1952 in East Pakistan was for the right to speak in mother tongue. The people’s demand was the state language should be the mother tongue Bengali. They protested the proposal of…

Home conjures images of safety, security and sanctuary, a united front against the tyrannies of the outside world. In White is for Witching, The Bone People, and Her Sister’s Eye contend with domestic space as a site of conflict and antagonism, breaking down notions of familiarity, tolerance, and protection. This essay will argue that Oyeyemi, Cleven, and Hulme use domestic space to explore unspeakable acts that result from a colonial past remaining in a postcolonial present. This will be…

This is a period that I knew very little about, both theologically and politically. However, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, in Late Medieval Italy, proved to be extremely helpful in approaching the complexity of the events of the Reformation. From keeping Dante’s epic poem in mind, I approached this period with a knowledge of how the political element can cohere with the theological element, and with some knowledge of the continent’s deep concern with Purgatory, even though that concern was…