Second Lieutenant

understanding in the United States peaks when discussing other countries. If every American is required to learn a second language this cultural confusion would cease to exist. Employers love when possible employees can speak other languages and communicate with customers in a more direct way. Being bilingual is becoming more and more essential to being part of the global economy. Speaking a second language is great for traveling. It can help give one confidence to travel too. When one can…

can have its’ own issues and drawbacks. Every individual desires to speak and express themselves with no problem and what greater asset than knowing a second language? Speaking more than one language is an advantage for many professionals as the world becomes increasingly globalized. Learning a second language has become an essential. To learn a second language is becoming a necessity, as other languages are used in almost all areas of the working industry. People use different languages to…

most states have the same requirements for their bilingual education personnel. Teachers are required to have coursework relating to bilingual education and bilingual populations. The instructors must be certified in bilingual education, English as a second language educator, or the specific language that will be taught other than English. Educators are also required to attend professional development activities and trainings in order to stay up to date on teaching culturally and linguistically…

experience the chosen participants were divided in 2 language experience categories higher English Experience (HEE) and Higher Spanish Experience (HSE). Age wise they differed orthogonally; younger and older children, (Appendix, A. Figure 1). Similar the second study aimed to examine lexical organization in 12 mandarin – English bilingual and 12 English monolingual children between the ages of 5-8 years. Lexical semantics is a field of semantics that looks at meaning of words and the…

Despite the importance of the grammar instruction in any language, I believe that grammar should not be included in second language classes for beginners who just start to learn a language. The beginners should learn how to understand the language first. The grammar instruction will be not useful for the students unless they understand the meaning. After they become in the intermediate level, they are eligible to study grammar. Then, when the students become in advance level, they should no…

Between “Hear Her Roar” by Rana Foroohar, which in 2009 was published in Newsweek and “Life on the Global Assembly Line” by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes, among the first readings to recognize the importance of working women globally, we are able to realize how women in different regions of the country face everyday reality. The undeniable fact that women in the workforce, globally, have not yet reached a level of equality to men is at the heart of both “Hear Her Roar” and “Life on the…

English purists study and theorize how English would sound without any foreign influence. English was and is a Germanic based language, but has over its lifetime bred with non-Germanic languages to create Modern English. “Pure” English is what English would sound like without the foreign influence, which includes any non-Germanic tongue, and purists pursue this for a variety of reasons. Regardless of why purists study “pure” English, the influence and change of English is best studied by looking…

There is so much information that I have learned throughout this class on Language Development. The language acquisition part that I learned is that the LAD which is the physiological part of the child’s brain operates on the linguistic data of a child’s language to produce grammar of the child’s native tongue. The LAD is a word processor in the brain. The Children can learn any language because the knowledge that the children absorb and process. To refer to a child as a cryptographer because…

Throughout centuries, people from all around the world have experienced a change in the way they communicate. Communication has always been part of our lifestyle and it has changed as generations adapted new cultures, moved to other countries, etc. The article, What the World Will Speak in 2115, gives us a better explanation of how communication has varied from time to time. As well as how languages differ from one another and the different languages that have been revolving the world in the…

Globalization and free trade in regards to the United States and the world has produced a significant challenge. The biggest for the United States for instance, is the off shoring of factory jobs, many of which used to be middle class status type jobs. Cities like Detroit have been decimated by this, whose job market and economy relied heavily on automobile assembly factories, which have been shipped to Mexico. Not only has the United States suffered with globalization but so has the third world…