Linguistic rights

To start, let’s take a look at some commonly confused terminology in the language services field: 1. Translation versus Interpreting Translation is the process of converting written text from one language into another language. Interpreting is orally translating one language into another. The Main Difference: Translation Is Written While Interpretation Is Oral. 2. Translation versus Transcription While translation is the process of converting written text between languages, transcription is…

Swales (2004) describes Move in genre analysis as "a discoursal or rhetorical unit that performs a coherent communicative function in a written or spoken discourse" (Swales, 2004, p. 29). As Swales (2004) indicated, a Move, at one end, can be recognized by a clause; at the other by various sentences. It is a functional not a formal constituent. Ding suggested that writing genres can be explained as a functional constituent in a text, being pertinent to the whole task, which is applied to…

learners are required to use their own linguistic and non-linguistic resources, which will ultimately produce an outcome that displays the use of language (Richards, 2013, p. 17). Classroom activities are therefore constructed around the students’ need to use specific interactional strategies and may also require the use of specific types of language such as skills, grammar and vocabulary. Through this the students are producing language, even though it may not be right, the teacher can…

rewarding as well as difficult and challenging process, a large number of students have met cultural shock problems in their life in English-speaking countries. Previously, Chinese university English teachers generally emphasized on demonstrating linguistic features in English language teaching, and Chinese students could hardly adapt to foreign cultures, and did come up with many problems mainly cultural problems in their academic career or daily activities. Nevertheless, the importance of…

Poetry has been around longer than most would think, Homer the author of one of the most epic poetry The Odyssey has been around since the 12Th Century B.C and that’s just for him poetry goes further than that. But what does this have to with why poetry matters. Well think if something like this has been around for as long as it has it must matter somehow, but why and how? Well poetry to this day still influences many things like rap, and allows anyone to get out what they want in a very…

Rhetorical Analysis Introduction What is a rhetorical analysis and why is it important to understand the meaning of this term? ‘Rhetoric’ is the art of persuasion through language in any subject, which could be implemented by speaking and writing. ‘Analysis’ is the processing of breaks the whole concept into smaller pieces and then examining how these parts fit together into one compelling idea. Therefore, if we refer to our case as student in LLD100A class, rhetorical analysis is the ability…

The definition of culture in the Cambridge English Dictionary is as follows, “The way of life of a particular people, especially shown in their ordinary behavior and habits, their attitudes toward each other, and their moral and religious beliefs.” So the fact that no society exists without the culture has made the learners to be motivated to learn about the culture as well as the language of the target language to achieve pragmatic competence in the target language. As an EFL instructor, I have…

Until the age of five, I was only exposed to the Spanish language, but when I started school, I quickly learned how to read, write, and speak English. When my mother gave birth to my younger brother, doctors advised us, as a bilingual household, to teach him one language at a time to avoid confusion. It would be interesting to examine this advice with a deeper understanding of language and its manifestation in our brains. Introduction: Language in the Brain The understanding of language has…

make sense of the world. The assimilation process will usually take some times, and people of one culture will often find it hard to find a common ground of understanding. However, it’s still possible to grow close ties regardless of cultural and linguistic differences. My roommate, Humberto, from Mexico has proven this notion by his own story. When people are open to personal disclosures, they will develop more mutual trust, and their relationship are more likely to last. Humberto developed…

sense of what it is like being an immigrant in the U.S. and have a foreign name; the struggle of wanting people to accept them turns immigrants to change the biggest part of their identity, their names. Right from the beginning, Dumas states that people in America need to open their linguistic horizons and give learning new sounds and names a chance. The people who do not attempt to learn these names are limiting themselves to the simplistic names that have become the norm in American…