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evidence suggests that the ability of a child to learn a second language does not suffer if the primary language used for instruction in the entire primary school is the first language. The fluency in mother tongue lays a special foundation for the learning of other languages. If mother tongue is used to instruct a child in the primary schools and then he or she gradually adopts learning using the second language, their rate of learning the second language increases (Benson, 2005). This…

The reading this week gave a brief insight into the developmental sequences and milestones during the first few years of life. The chapter introduced three major perspectives that may help explain how language is acquired and developed. The three perspectives that were addressed were the behaviorist perspective, the innatist perspective and the interactionist/developmental perspective. Contributions from key theorists such as F.B Skinner, Chomsky, Vygotsky and Piaget were included on 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 language are likely to gain fluency and competence. English is the second important language on the word, according to SIL Ethnologue 400 million people on the world speak English as the first language, while 800 million speak as second language the process…

life spread out in front of me, I have never forgotten my country. Also, although Nepal and the U.S. share some similarities as to religious freedom, my life experiences are different in terms of language, lifestyle, and job opportunities. The first major difference of life between the US and Nepal is the language. In fact, all different countries…

The “Affective Filters” refers to the factors that affect the acquisition of second language and it includes motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety. It is believed that learners with high motivation, self-confidence, and low anxiety tend to acquire and perform well in second language. Affective filters do affect the communicative skills of the learners. Learners with high level of anxiety will have poor performance in listening…

language credits that are required of them. Some may go one to major in a foreign language in college so as to give them an edge in the today 's job market. A student majoring in a Foreign language, especially Spanish, can find careers specific to their major, take the classes and gain training necessary to succeed, and receive monetary gain as well as have an impact on consumers.…

Bilingualism has recently become a major issue and a valuable one because in comparison with monolingualism it allows people to live between two worlds, two cultures, adopting the specific ways of thinking and feeling of the people they come into contact. To be bilingual involves more than speaking another language than your own, it is all about the inner significance of words apparently similar in two languages but deeply different, this is a major issue analysed by Anna Wierzbicka who strongly…

perfect a foreign language they are studying for their degree plan. Learning a second language is more probable when the student is immersed in a country, where that language is the only one used.…

studies looking at anxiety and specific language skills, in which the emphasis was mainly on second language (L2) speaking. 2.1.1 FL Anxiety in the Listening Skill FLLs are facing a big sufferance when listening to foreign language. In this regard, Krashen (1982) claimed that when listening or attempting to extract the message from messages in L2 was the major procedure in the evolution of a second language, in this juncture; he supposed that anxiety formed an “affective filter…

in North America, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and South Africa. It is also used in many former British colonies as a second language; one of them is Nigeria. In line with the Kachru’s model of English users, there are three circles, namely; inner circle, users in this circle are endo-normative,…