Phonology

The culture and pride found surrounding the Deaf community is a concept that remains foreign to English speakers. There are generalizations and misconceptions about those who identify as deaf of hard of hearing. Being truly proficient in American Sign Language (ASL) is not purely based on signing skills. Those who are considered fluent signers are those who understand the underlying concepts and conversational innuendos, such as idioms. American Sign Language is a visual-gestural language…

The Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the views on the cognitive benefits of bilingualism. “One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” In fact, this is a quote from Frank Smith, one of the most influential psycholinguist who performed outstanding researches in linguistic and cognitive psychology. In brief, cognition is the mental process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought,…

According to this measure, Gianna’s Academic Skills Battery (ASB) – a measure of overall academic achievement in reading, writing, and math – fell within the Below Average range (SS=85), with her performance being above 16% of same-age peers. Reading The Reading Composite is a measure of Gianna’s overall reading skills, which are based on basic word reading, word decoding, and reading comprehension. Gianna’s performance in this composite was in the Below Average range (SS=89; PR=23). The…

Making up more 13% of the entire population of the United States, African Americans therefore, play a significant role in shaping the American life style. Although the days of slavery and racism against black people is considered history, African Americans are still experiencing some type of discrimination against them. The most important type to discuss here is the overrepresentation of African Americans students in special education classes as a result of faulty assessment (Roseberry-McKibbin,…

Face is a term that explains a person’s image. Goffman tells us that we all live in a world that is full of social interactions (Goffman, 1967). Face is the positive and social value a person claims himself by the line others assume he has during a particular interaction. Through this people can worry about the future, know what feels good, bad, and so on (Goffman, 1967). Language ideologies are sets of ideas and values of why people speak and what it means (some examples, why is your accent…

ent years, English language classrooms are becoming more and more diverse. Having to deal with students’ that acquire the language in different ways, English teachers feel the necessity to change their teaching methods and strategies in order to help students accomplish better results in learning. In many cases teachers criticize that English textbooks often limit their activities or teaching style.Theachers face the the challenge of deveoloping different methods , approaches and tools in order…

non-initial position, has been considered as the accent all over the UK in recent years. Database (number of token, factors); the definition of T-glottalling and simple example; the characteristic of Manchester pattern; T-glottalling, in English phonology, a sound change that causes the phoneme is replaced by the glottal stop [ʔ] in certain position. The review of previous studies In sum, which area do t-glottaling, which area don’t Unsolved question Goal of this paper to explore the social…

Media Language In an increasingly globalized society, the power of mass media is evident in almost every aspect of daily life. Mass media, whether it be social media, broadcast news, journalistic writing, or even academic writing, has a wide and varied effect on the way people interact. Media writing, specifically journalistic writing, has unique characteristics that are not found in any other form of language. The benefits of studying these characteristics with a critical lens are numerous:…

In Australia, most of our daily activities include literacy practices to some extent. Competency in literacy is required when reading medication labels, understanding instructions, traffic signals and other practices. Commonly, Standard Australian English (SAE) is used as a first language in Australian schools (Hanlen, 2010). However, Standard Australian English is not a first language for Indigenous students and in fact the most common language spoken by Aboriginal Australians is Aboriginal…

Anthropology study of human beings throughout history, whether in the past or in the present. A simpler way to put it is anthropology is the study of human beans their origin, societies, and cultures. Anthropology shows us how human beings no matter how different they are from our society and culture give meaning to their lives. In chapter 1 we learn the different applications of anthropology from linguistic anthropology to forensic anthropology. There are so many different divisions of…