Second language acquisition

Review 1.1 Language effect With globalization, multilingual skill has become a language advantage in many industries. Millions of people are using more than one language on a daily basis to communicate and to work. In general, first language appears to be more proficient than second language. Given that first language is developed throughout an individual’s daily life, while the second language is often required in a classroom setting. Despite the bilingual individuals who master two language…

Intelligence tests are usually based on cognitive skills and learning that are needed in a Western society in order to succeed both in an educational and occupational setting. Intelligence tests usually are formulated under a Western ideal of ‘clever’ and can not account for various other ways in which ‘clever’ might be idealized in other cultures. It also usually relies on strong verbal content and the products of western schooling. Behaviour or intellect surrounding certain subjects may not…

In The Day the Crayons Came Home, Drew Daywalt writes, “[Duncan] built a place where each crayon would always feel at home.” These words are meant to appeal to children and adults with eyes towards a message of belonging, of knowing that they have a place where one is accepted no matter how different. The first book in this series by Daywalt entitled, The Day the Crayons Quit, is filled with crayons that share no difference other than color as seen in Appendix A and B. Each page is filled with…

children English but also teaching it in their primary language that isn’t English. Many parents have been opposed to the idea of their child learning a foreign language. Why you may ask? Some parents believe that by their child focusing on two languages it will pull away from the English language as well as delay the learning of the English language. However, this may be true but many parents fail to realize the benefits that speaking two languages hold, the role that bilingual education plays…

find that helping CLD students who are learning English as their second language also fits for what I plan for the future. With high schoolers, some of the students that just came to America would not understand English well. When students starts to learn English around the ages of 15-18 years old, it can be frustrating and difficult for them. One of the things that I would like to do is try to connect to the student’s language. I believe there if there is a way to connect with the students,…

The purpose for the bilingual education is to help the kids that need to have access to that language barrier that they want to knock down for awhile. However, there have been some cases around the globe that have said that bilingual education is not appropriate for this certain school. A lot of the students in some school for today are complaining about not being able to communicate with their peers. But, in some cases that this type of education has helped with most of the students to be able…

For example, stereotypes are one. The number one factor associated with emergent bilingual’s abilities to develop their language and literacy abilities is the common disbelief that if you live in America you should speak English. Although English is the number one language in America, not all Americans are fluent in English. Having this stereotype on their shoulders may negatively impact student’s affective filters. When a student’s affective filter…

Classroom Language Analysis Teacher’s Role in Questioning and Error-correction Introduction As Raymond Wlodkowski (1986:144) stated, “Any learning activity can become satiating; it happens to everyone, often without any intention on our part. Satiation is what lies behind the ‘divine discontent’ of human existence.”, it is true that learning a second language is an happy but arduous process. To keep pace with this “human nature” as well as the changing educational realities and functional…

“Language is power. If you cannot understand, or be understood you have no power. You are at the mercy of everyone.” - Rudat 1995. Introducing a second language to children throughout their educational careers’ is becoming a new, yet controversial, trend in America. With commodities such as technological advances, urbanization, and international trade, along with the influx of immigrants, there is a higher demand for languages in the workplace as well as public settings. Ultimately, the goal…

According to John Myhra (n.d.) “A problem some teachers are noticing is that students no longer know how to punctuate correctly. Text messages often contain run on sentence and don’t contain any punctuation; students are carrying this poor habit to the classroom. Another concern is the use of lower cases letters”. Teenagers makes mistake by constructing a run on sentence and doesn’t contain any punctuation because of text messaging. They make themselves used to text in…