Linguistics

individual learns a second language. The outdated theories of language acquisition are no longer considered valid. Based on Ovando’s research children are able to fully develop cognitively in language-affirming classrooms that build up the students’ linguistic foundational skills. According to Krashen, English proficiency only comes about when the student is taught the foundational subjects and literacy development in their native language. Good bilingual programs are able to guide students to…

Throughout time immemorial, Grammar has been among the utmost essential components in the English language. The English language would not similarly exist if grammar did govern the language. If grammar did not control the language, chaos would exist in the language: frequent misunderstandings would be quite common in the language, and individuals would have a certain amount of difficulty communicating to one another. Society as it exists would collapse without proper communication. Communication…

This is an essay especially created to illustrate the, quite few, but evident, the flaws of the English language. Though easy to learn, versatile and beautiful, the political evolution and the political power shift, have created a certain stereotype, and people tend to write, some sort of, robotic sentences, using a lot of words to express a short, simple message. Humanity didn’t do this on its own, politics and snobbery played crucial roles in this development. Instead of using simplicity, we…

that language. CLC aims to help students not only become competent in a foreign language, but to build a unique community of students that appreciate cultures in a way that cannot normal classes cannot teach. Kate, the founder of CLC and a senior Linguistics major, and…

painful. She had taught history at UCLA. She had done freelance writing. Now she couldn’t even read her own manuscripts” (Butler 250). Without the skill to read and write she lost the ability to perform her job. Most if not all jobs today require linguistic skills. Without language people no longer have the ability to perform and society falls. There can be no more corporations, no more schools, no more newspapers. Early in the chapter, while disembarking the bus, Rye thinks, “‘Buses are so rare…

At Boston University, the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP) is currently investigating the structure of ASL syntax, among other things that aren’t related to my proposal. One of the papers that addresses the research being done through the ASLLRP is Debra Aaron’s Doctoral dissertation…

Language immersion is a method of teaching language, usually a second language, in which the target language is used as both the content of the curriculum and the medium of instruction. According to Baker (2006; cited by: Pacific Policy Research Center, 2010), there are three major levels of language immersion education divided according to age: • early immersion, from age 5 or 6, • middle immersion, from age 9 or 10, and • late immersion, from ages 11 and 14. In programs that make use of…

Another translation scholar, Peter Newmark, defines culture as “the way of life and its manifestationsthat are peculiar to a community that uses a particular language as its means of expression” (1988:94). Consequently, each community has its own particular cultural patterns. The translator’s role becomes clearly a transcultural mediator between communities. Newmark sustains (1988:95) that language is not a component of culture, whereas Hans Vermeer remarks (2000:222) that language is part of a…

from the parents and its inherited. The theorist believes children have innate ability that enable them learn language. Children can only acquire language because they are born with the predisposition to learn language. He believes that specific linguistic structures, which children utilize so correctly, should be already imprinted on their mind. Each child has a language acquisition device (LAD). The concept of LAD is mental capacity that enables children to acquire and produce language, which…

A given instrumental performance exists as a gateway to the original work rather than being the work itself and as such a given performance is two works rather than one. In Thomas Mark’s Philosophy of Piano Playing: Reflections on the concept of Performance he makes the claim that a performance and a quotation are similar in concept, but performance requires an assertion. With the nature of assertion this account of a performance of an existing work becomes two works rather than one. However,…