Multilingualism

published in the Wall Street Journal, it appeals to businessmen. Businessmen in particular need to be aware of the effects of multiculturalism in order to succeed in business worldwide. Boroditsky’s “Lost in Translation” describes the advantages of multilingualism toward a business industry point of view by utilizing scientific evidence, rhetorical questions, and anticipating objection. Boroditsky uses scientific evidence from credible studies to support the advantages of…

Comparative and Absolute Advantage This paper analyzes and compares the economic, political and cultural development of three countries; Australia, USA, and Canada. Further presents on measures of economic growth, comparative and absolute advantage in international trade. Economic statistics of the country, and reasons why their economy varies, and effects of international trade on their economic strength. Finally, analyze products that give the countries absolute and comparative advantage as…

tender age. In this paper, I wish to draw attention to the current, growing trend of dual language Immersion programs. Early childhood is a critical period for a child’s linguistic and cognitive development. Despite the well-documented benefits of multilingualism, the current educational practices in the United States reflects the deeply held belief that English should be the sole language of instruction. This belief was codified into law in the state of California via the 1998 passage of…

more parents have decided to introduce their children to one, or even several foreign languages in order to increase their opportunities in professional life. Parents are often uncertain whether or not their children could actually benefit from multilingualism and if an early acquisition of a foreign language could interfere with their child’s ability to fluently speak the mother tongue. To optimally prepare the little ones for their multilingual future, parents and educators increasingly hold…

Diversity is a complex term, but the simplest definition is differences amongst people. There are so many entities that fall under diversity, such as socioeconomic status, culture, language, age, etc. The main two types of diversity that I am going to discuss are linguistic and cultural diversity. These types of diversity are the focal diversities in an ESL classroom. In order to fully understand cultural and linguistic diversity, and how to approach the subjects of diversity, it is important to…

SLA Research As far as the research of major issues Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is concerned, a set of widely attested empirical, findings has been achieved in the past 50 years. Interest areas and priority areas have included age effects; effects of individual differences in language aptitudes and other affect and cognitive variables; the role of the broader social context and linguistic environment as sources of negative and positive evidence and of opportunities for input, output, and…

Multilingualism will be enhanced in the future since there will not be a language that dominates the world (1). This is why second language learning, or acquisition, is becoming a more and more intriguing topic today. One thing, among others, that stands in the way of successful second language acquisition is that there are negative transfers of learner’s first language (L1) on the second language’s (L2) syntax, while the bigger the syntactic differences between L1 and L2 are, the more negative…

Language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. The common trope “language in culture” has various contextual meanings and helps highlight several actions that language does: language creates culture, language gives identity, language brings people together, and language keeps people apart. The frequent use of the trope “language in culture” and the actions of languages do a significant job identifying…

One of my earliest memories is a nauseating blur of deafening screams, broken glass strewn across the ground, my hoarse wailing, and a compulsory one-day stay at Disneyland Resort to “forget.” Under a cracking veneer of perfection, my traditional Vietnamese parents desperately fought to keep the shame of their failing marriage and verbal and emotional abuse a family secret. Then, during my middle school years, social work became undeniably real to me. After being diagnosed with major depressive…

Annotated Bibliography Poni Kujjo Brown, Frank. "The First Serious Implementation of Brown: The 1964 Civil Rights Act and Beyond." The Journal of Negro Education, vol. 73, no. 3, 2004, pp. 182-190. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4129604. The value of the origin of Frank Brown’s article “The First Serious Implementation of Brown: The 1964 Civil Rights Act and Beyond” is that it is found on JSTOR, which is a fairly reputable research database. JSTOR has thousands upon thousands of quality materials…