Politics and the English Language

Characteristics of CALL and How Times Effects Them. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is defined as the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning. CALL has existed for 35 to 40 years and originally was located within behaviorism and "tutorial CALL" (Levy, 1997; Taylor, 1980). Language learning and CALL have, until – arguably – the last 2or 3 years, run through parallel. In the early days, language was a behavior, student would learn this…

How you talk matters I’ll never forget how frustrated I felt when I couldn’t speak to my daughter’s friends fluently in English and because of that my daughter didn’t like to introduce me to her friends. Everything got worst when I had to speak with her teacher and explain about the reason for her absence. These situations were my biggest encouragements to learn English because in my country, I used to be active in her school and it was an important part in our lives. The society is not always…

Belonging: English Assessment Task 4 Created by: Celina Supurnami Yaputra 11.1 Sense of belonging. Like all human qualities, it is an abstract concept since no one could describe the meaning of belonging perfectly. The meaning varies from one person to the next but we all struggle in the same problem, and that is finding our real identity. For me, having a sense of belonging is the basis for emotional growth. With an identity, I am endowed with unique values, way of thinking and expressions…

Students experience language or are exposed to language uses either by native or non-native speakers. In this educational context, students come across the spoken English Language through listening activities run in class or by the interaction with the EFL Teacher. In this session representative, samples of the listening tasks of the coursebook of 3rd grade Think Teen will be reviewed in terms of the criteria set by Rost (2002, p.160-181). In particular, the listening tasks under scope derive…

Formal language or formality is one of aspect in style. In terms of formality, Dewaele & Heylighen (1999) stated that different situational and personality factors are examined which determine the degree of formality in linguistic expression. The differences in using languages, both formal and informal, is called a difference register (Thornborrow and Wareing, 1998). Cyrstal (1991) defines register as "a variety of language defined according to its use in social situations." So, register is…

their focus on what are ‘creole’ and ‘pidgin’ languages and what the public has generally understood by the two languages. Creolist do not agree with the precise definition of the two terms, nor do they specify that how many languages have been considered under the two categories. It is a language that represents speech-forms that do not have any native speakers and is generally used by the people, as a form of communication, who do not share a common language. The stage of development and…

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…

the distinction between students of English Philology and peer students of other specializations when it comes to the problematic aspect of learning a foreign language which is the presence of false friends within English and Polish languages. Previous researchers were focused on the false friends in English and Polish on the level of contrastive semantic analysis (Szpila, 2000). Chamizo (2002) investigated the origin of false friends in some selected languages to find out some conjoint rules…

Language with all its paraphernalia, opens its wings of expression and communication in to new horizons of aesthetic experience. In addition, there is the inherent nature of language itself, which ultimately represents, symbolises, expresses, and can even shape our experience, but it is not the experience itself .With in communication, there is a lot of translation that must take place to go from the essence of our personal experience to the communication of words. In order to…

Benefits of Learning a Foreign Language in High School How can learning a foreign language in high school over two years affect people’s different life they are living? The world is becoming global, and one big impact in becoming global is culture, especially different languages. People now have the ambition to learn other languages, and one example is English, which is globally famous in learning, from elementary until college. However, high school is the best time to learn it, not too old or…