Received Pronunciation

avoiding eye contact with my teachers, eating lunch alone, and refraining from engaging in conversations other than mannerly greetings. Fearing my broken English would result in prejudices against my competence, I viewed corrections on my grammar and pronunciation as patronizing insults and relied on my proficiency in math and science as a compensation for my weakness. By the end of junior high, my peers conferred the title of “math god” on me, and I enjoyed my newfound sense of…

The book mentions how Biafra, however, received no real support from the world, except support from China and France – they supported Biafra’s claims and praised their patriots but offered very little real support. David Burmingham mentions how France wanted to extend help to Biafra to gain easy…

The story of my search “How am I going to pull this off?” This exact question I asked myself seconds after I received this project, in a one thousand words essay. I would have thought it a daunting and boring task at first, how can I write a 1000 word essay about my name. Personally, I did not think that I would be able to find hardly any information on the subject. I thought I knew enough about my name to begin with, it is mine, my own, and no one can take it from me; However, as my research…

In what ways does music affect cognitive abilities? For many years it has been believed music has an ability to affect, develop and improve multiple cognitive abilities and brain functions. Modern forms of technology such as comprehensive brain scanning has allowed for such a theory to be tested and studied providing the information needed to understand the ways in which music affects cognitive abilities. Multiple types of sources have been gathered to develop understanding of the affect of…

input information to create simple training programs in the form of exercises. The technical advantage of teaching English with the help of multimedia technology is that sound cards allow users to record their speech and then compare it with the pronunciation of native speakers. Graphics capabilities of computers can represent any type of activity in the form of pictures or animation. This is particularly important when learning new vocabulary, as images on the monitor allow students to…

matter of feces. That is when I began to be self-conscious of my speech. I had been in the English as a Second Language program throughout elementary school, and in the fifth grade I realized my biggest errors in the English language were the pronunciations of the “th” and “sh” sounds which slurred into my speech. The former explained my prior difficulty in the third grade. Growing up speaking both French and English has been a double-edge sword, creating…

towards me. His knowing grin reminded me of when he and I would dress Barbies in matching wedding gowns my mother had sewn. My family carries a tradition where parents buy Playboy magazines for their son after his bar mitzvah. My brother and father received their subscriptions mere days after reciting their Torah passages. Neither remembers their parashah verbatim,…

2.2. Speaking and the Role of Vocabulary in the History of Second Language Pedagogy Speaking in a second language is regarded as important as the other skills; however, it has not received as much attention in the history of language learning. In the last two decades, speaking emerged as a distinct subdivision of learning, teaching and testing (Bygate, 2002). Historically, learning structural language, memorizing sentence patterns and literary language was prioritised over practicing spoken…

History and Summary of Current Situation Realizing that a lot of countries around the world open their doors for globalization to grow their economy and languages become more important to communicate between individuals, Rosetta Stone wants to help people to learn languages quickly and effectively. According to The Nielsen Company in the textbook, they find out that “the language-learning industry produced over US 83 billion in consumer spending.” The founder, Allen Stoltzfus, used his own…

At a professional interpreter conference in 2013 a presenter stated, "The interpreter is the sole holder of all information in an interpreted encounter." The information that the interpreter holds is linked to the language and culture of the parties involved. Sociolinguistics is the study of how language interactions between members of social networks and between different social networks. This field also studies how language and culture are perceived by the interlocutors or the audience of the…