Lingua franca

The topic of this article is about change and dominance. The author of this article Tom Law, mentions that the English language is very dominant especially in the state of Wales. People from Wales do not speak their native language anymore, because the English language has been taken over. In 2011 only 20 % of the population of Wales could speak Welsh, which is a low number and much lower, then it used to be. Back in 1840’s 80 % of the population spoke Welsh as their native language and they…

What role does bilingual education policy have in the educational opportunity structure for English language learners (ELLs)? The study of X Public School District Bilingual program exposed all the deficiencies found in Bilingual education. The study was conducted in a district where the majority of ELLs were Hispanics who performed below the 50th percentile in the NJASK3 and NJASK4 Language Arts Literacy and Mathematics as well as below the 20th percentile in the GEPA and HSPA Language Arts…

TTYL: Translating Technology into Your Language The Analytical View of Technology Communication Derek Walcott once said, “The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself” (BrainyQuote, par 1). Language comes in many beautiful forms from every area around the world, summing up to about roughly 6,500 spoken languages today. One language that our generation has become familiar with is the language of technology.…

Stimulus The first pedagogical 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…

When infants are born, there are not much differences in their thought process and they practically come into the world with a clean slate. Although, it is the world, or should I say culture, they live in that influence and start to make variations between one child and another in terms of cognitive development. In the following paper, I will be exploring the cultural phenomena of cognitive development in early childhood. In spite of the variations, it is evident in many countries that…

Richard Rodriguez believes that the Americanization of a bilingual child will result in their public gain. “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez is a heart-wrenching piece of writing about the full Americanization of Rodriguez resulting in his native language of Spanish being forgotten and the full submersion into the English language. Many of the events Rodriguez faced in his life are present to many other bilingual students’ today. These events that bilingual students’ are facing will strongly influence…

English is the National Language Language is something that is inherent in every culture. The words might be different, but the purpose is the same: communication. Can you imagine what it would be like if you couldn’t communicate with anyone in the country that you live in? We use language every day, but have you ever thought about how important and powerful language really is? In America today, there is much debate on whether a national language needs to be established or not. Opponents say…

Nowadays learn a new language is part important on the life of everybody, in some country since children start kind garden they start learn new languages in order to open their mind to other cultures and could in the future be better professionals. According to John Archibald and a team of researchers at the university of Calgary conducted a study in 2007 that examined a number of questions relating to second language learning. They found that students who learn other subjects in a foreign…

The spread of English across the world have resulted in overtaking or replacing of other languages. In order to maintain the usage of these languages, many efforts were implemented. This was evident in Singapore where the overemphasis on English has led to children frequently using English at home thus decreasing the usage of their Mother Tongue languages (MT), such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil (Bolton & Ng, 2014). Hence, Ministry of Education (MOE) implemented a MT approach, also known as…

Research Question 2? Why English is used in Bollywood films? 1.The role of English in India and the world After India gained independence, the status of English was regarded as the equal importance of second language in India, particularly in education. It is even perceived as a preference for the instruction medium in school which enjoys the higher status than Hindi medium schools. Furthermore, English has been widely spoken by middle or upper class. In the 20th and 21st century,…