Non-native pronunciations of English

Arguably one of the important decisions people have to make upon becoming parents is picking a name for their newborn child, a handle he can proudly use for the rest of his life. As the naming paradigm seems to be shifting towards more variety and creativity1, the artisans of new names have to pay attention to the thin line between unique and odd, culturally representative and obscure and powerful and offensive. If the impact of their choice was limited to themselves, the state would have no…

everyone speaks the same dialect, type or form of English as everyone else. Depending on what purpose language is being used for, a person will quite often change from using standard English, mainly used for academic and formal purposes, to a less standard form or dialect for informal purposes and professional purposes, as some professions have their own dialect…

in another city because of a job requirement, this boy will activate his love to his girlfriend and reject the temptation from other girls who dress in provocative clothes. Likewise, when people feel to belong to one culture and identity from their native countries, he or she will love all aspects of this culture and identity and automatically overlook others. This phenomenon has the similar and specific expression in Rodriguez’s essay. She says that “Being Latino means you are a part of one or…

Introduction Learners in classrooms across America possess a variety of English dialects, creoles, and accents. However, not all of these students are aware of the differences between their way of speaking and Standard American English or SAE. Although one’s English dialect or creole is valuable and functional in their home and community, increasing one’s proficiency in SAE for use in the educational setting will add to their “toolkit” of skills but may also require support. Explanation of…

Growth through Concentric Diversification: Expanding the product by opening classroom or audio books. Doing this way, the company can target to across many people from non-smartphone users to elders. The classroom will create an interactive environment for everyone to learn quickly as well as marketing its product. In the other side, new services will come with new costs and other unpredicted problems. For instance, the…

4 NON- ENGLISH SPEAKER INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION Comment by vgiroux: Let?s hyphenate Non-English in Heading and throughout the paper Non - English Speakers Interpersonal Communication Lisa A. Bonilla University of Miami 1 Running head: NON ENGLISH SPEAKER INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION [Type text] [Type text] [Type text] 1 Running head: NON- ENGLISH SPEAKERS COMMUNICATION ABSTRACT Comment by vgiroux: Keep verbs in the present tense. not the future tense when…

Incident 2 : I thought I speak a very good English until I came to England. I was at the supermarket once and a man approached me , thinking that I work in the supermarket, and asked me about something he was looking for.I asked him to repeat his words and he did , but again,I did not get what he said.I was embarrassed and so I said “ sorry I can not understand what you say , my English is very bad”. He replied “ only if you have an American accent”. My English was not bad because I was…

“¿Qué estas diciendo?” To a native English speaker, this sounds like gibberish. The Spanish phrase which translates into “What are you saying?” has no meaning for non-Spanish speakers. Similarly, the English language sounds like a harmony of “th” and lazy linguistics to immigrants of foreign countries. Richard Rodriguez writes Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez about his life as a Mexican-American immigrant and how being an immigrant impacted him when he was growing up.…

semantics, morphology, lexis, syntax and other features of language. More than 360 million people speak English as a native language (Crystal, 2006). The majority of these people live 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…

Mi Amigo Luis: Learning English in America Luis Camacho majoring in civil engineering at Saint Martin’s University. He was selected as one of ten for the Benedictine Scholarship program at this University. It is not uncommon to spot Luis roaming down the halls of any dorm on campus singing and strumming his guitar. Welcoming to anyone, Luis’ spirit boomerangs off the walls. With energy and excitement there is never a quiet time with Luis. He is also one of my closest friends. In my process of…