Lingua franca

If Only We Spoke Two Languages By Ariel Dorfman is an editorial which explains the importance of knowing two or more languages. Ariel Dorfman is a human rights activist and A professor of literature, he has written many books, and writes for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and many others which would make him a credible source. Dorfman has credentials in the area he is discussing because he is an immigrant who experienced the lack of multilingualism in America when he had to move to…

Educated has no limit even if you spent whole life studied, you cannot be that person who knows everything; however, we still need to study and research and teach to develop this world where we are living in. Study abroad that students learn from other country by travel, and you can learn from other country without travel as study online, but we cannot called that study abroad. Nowadays, most of students prefer to study abroad than study in their country or study online, it is not because their…

The Republic of South Africa, according to its first democratic constitution, officially speaks 11 languages, of which there are two West-Germanic languages (Afrikaans and English), and nine Bantu languages (isiNdebele, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, isiXhosa and isiZulu). Due to such diversity, South Africa represents a highly valuable source of information for studying the phenomenon of multilingualism. The essay will first focus on South Africa’s peculiar historical…

INTRO: The social structure in Sierra Leone before imperialism was very well structured. However once imperialism hit the social structure fell apart. But once imperialism was over Sierra Leone tried to pick themselves up to try to evolve their social structure to a more modern standard. BEFORE: There are somewhere around fifteen and twenty ethnic gatherings in Sierra Leone. Relations have been by and large warm among them, and Sierra Leone has to a great extent kept away from the racial…

definition , this is for grade 5 kids in elementary school. I wanna go in - depth to applying it in real life situations to everything we do. Today for this speech , I will speak to you guys in a language that all of you can understand: English , The Lingua Franca of the world. When someone speak in the language you understand and are familiarised with , it automatically connects and binds…

In what ways does globalisation affect nationalism? 1. Introduction Broadly speaking, there are two schools of thought about the relationship between globalisation and nationalism. One school holds that globalisation points towards a “post-national, post-ethnic or post-racial future” – a new era of cosmopolitanism in which the atavistic nationalist passions of the 19th and 20th centuries come to seem positively quaint (Brubaker, 2009, p. 24). According to this reading, globalisation and…

69 years had passed, but not forgotten, the time of the Dutch Colonization. After a terrorizing 347 years, Indonesia is finally free. Free, but affected. Dutch had left an imprint in Indonesia in so many ways you can't even imagine. The tactics of the Dutch on taking over Indonesia were very intelligent and the impacts it had made in Indonesia both intellectually and economically were very drastic. To discuss in-depth about the thesis above, the following topics would be explained in the…

to master them. Larsen-Freeman (2009: 522) emphasizes that pedagogic approaches in different parts of the world vary, depending on both “grammatical complexities” and “pedagogic traditions”. In today’s globalized world, English has become the lingua franca for many fields, like economy, technology, and science. Non-native speakers use it to communicate with both native and other non-native speakers in numerous contexts. They are motivated to learn grammar because it will help them send clear and…

Ghosh, a native of India, spent his childhood all over Asia. An Oxford-trained anthropologist, he’s intimately familiar with the study of cultures and personally acquainted with the exchanges among disparate peoples. He has long divided his time between the U.S. and India, and now in his mid 50s, he’s pronounced the Ibis trilogy his life’s project. It seems, at first glance, that he’s taken quite the departure from previous work. (Missing is the fiercely postmodern style that characterized…

people out of poverty. In some areas such as Bangalore, India, the poorest of the poor had, for the most part, some level of schooling. Basic literacy doesn’t get you to college nor even through high school. It is a known fact that the current lingua Franca in the world is English, and for children looking to elevate themselves and their families from poverty, it is a disservice of instruction not to be given in English. Often times the schools Braun builds are in the rural villages, but one has…