Second Great Awakening

Language barrier. The difficulty of having an immigrant parent is the language barrier. My mother had to struggle when transitioning from Spanish to English. Being raised in a Spanish speaking home and attending an English speaking school was tough. I soon gave up on Spanish because I needed to translate for my mother in everyday life. Throughout elementary school, it was as if both my mother and I had to learn English. Slowly, but surely, we persevered and began to practice and master the beast…

Language is one of the most important component of civilization. The human race had evolved with time and so had language. Divided into different countries, races and ethnicity humans have innumerable languages all over the world and these languages are further divided into dialects. However, the English language has managed to make itself a global language. People from all over the world communicate through this language. When time evolves so does the language and it cannot be denied that this…

communication skills mainly no attention is paid to writing and reading activities .Secondly, much time, effort and energy are wasted in addition to illustrate the meaning of many abstract vocabularies in (L2) to not translate in (L1) .The method meets a great achievement in the schools of learning languages as Berlitz until these days because the classes consist of small groups of students but in larger classes, this method is not properly applied and teaching in this method wouldn’t meet the…

Speaking is one of four skills on learning English, it is being necessary in Indonesia especially, since the newer curriculum 2013 is emphasize on balancing the three principles is that affective, cognitive and psychomotor. Simply word, the curriculum is needed the students to increase their communication skill, thus speaking is being important to be research. Within the several approaches of scientific approach there is Discovery Learning, it is an effective method to enhance students’…

Foreign You can’t call yourself truly fluent in English, just because you can speak one-line English here and there. You are truly fluent in English only when you can speak English continuously. (Nair, 2005) At length, by giving supporting details, reasons, justifications, and illustrative examples of situations and events easily, clearly, confidently, without unwanted hesitations and by effectively managing all naturally occurring hesitations. This was proved in the book of Professor Kev Nair…

paragraph , isn't only to give the student a chance for language practice but it also help them to understand the cultural aspect of the target language. We also need to Identify any requirements we may have to create effective a school relationship. The second step is to introduce the program to the student in an interesting way and let them imagine how it will look. Students can also make a brainstorming about what activities they may do. In addition, parents should be informed about the…

The topic of this article is about change and dominance. The author of this article Tom Law, mentions that the English language is very dominant especially in the state of Wales. People from Wales do not speak their native language anymore, because the English language has been taken over. In 2011 only 20 % of the population of Wales could speak Welsh, which is a low number and much lower, then it used to be. Back in 1840’s 80 % of the population spoke Welsh as their native language and they…

Speech has been the most important and representative way in communication and we use it mainly in delivering facts and data. Speech was developed between 2 million and 500,000 years ago. After that, non-verbal communications were the main forms of conducting inner life of people including their emotions, moods, feelings and attitudes. Non-verbal communication / body language is the actions or attributes of humans, includes all the messages deliver in other way than words that we use in…

Firstly, the situation of English language education in Japan and characteristics of Japanese when they speak English is explained. According to Sankei newspaper article (2014), English language education in high schools is aiming at acquiring practical English skill. Board of education in Osaka is targeting their English language education as practical and put focus on communication for students to keep up with globalization. Also, they have a goal to increase the number of students who can…

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sociolinguistic variations of American Sign Language found across the United States. Variations of ASL based on regional, social economic background, and ethnicity will be discussed. Deaf Americans are as ethnically diverse as the general population in the United States. This is a multicultural group that differs in more than just skin color and ethnic heritage. They differ across a variety of dimensions like age, and extent of hearing loss,…