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Language is so closely related to culture since it is used to convey culture and cultural ties. It is almost impossible to understand a culture without using language to teach and educate others about it. There are various topics that relate to both language and culture which explain why they are interdependent and connected. Verbal performing arts, bilingualism, and political language are just some examples of such topics. These topics will be discussed to demonstrate the close ties between…

classroom, segregation, and taking on adult responsibilities. One challenge that immigrant youth face in the American public school system is segregation. Immigrant students are often placed into English-as-a-second-language classrooms, separated from their U.S.-born peers (Olsen, 2008). English-as-a-second-language classes, or ESL, are classes that incorporate a student’s native language in order to teach them English. Not…

Nowadays, an increasing number of worldwide people go study abroad to have a foreign higher educational experience. According to the research by Smith and Khawaja (2011), the statistics show the following: In 2008, there were more than 3.3 million tertiary international students
 worldwide (as cited in OECD, 2010). Over half of all tertiary international students choose to study in the United States of America (U.S.A.) (19%), the United Kingdom (U.K.) (10%), Germany (7%), France (7%), and…

Third World Countries Need Our Help Imagine our country is in great devastation, and there is barely any water for the majority of us due to the current global warming crisis. Our country is undeveloped and not a single person watching chooses to take concern over our dying nation. How would we feel? We would be scared and anxious about the near future. Unfortunately, this is how many third world countries feel today. Currently, they may not be at their highest points of development, but they…

She apologizes for her passionate, rapid-fire speech, but her excitement is understandable; she and Jack worked hard to establish a new method of language learning for Northwestern students. The club, Campus Language Connection, is the McCarter’s second foray into creating a language organization. This new group joins native speakers of a language with those who hope to learn that language. CLC aims to help students not only become competent in a foreign language, but to build a unique…

English as New Language (ENL) students benefit from direct reading instruction. Most schools and classroom teachers are not prepared to meet the increasing needs of the ENL’s. According to the National Education Association only 2.5 percent of the teachers who instruct students have a degree in ESL and about 12 percent have 8 or more hours of training to support their instruction (Denise McKeon, 2005). There is a rise in the number of the ENL population and most of the teachers that are…

Using L1 to Teach L2 in Classroom Simona Nissan San José State University Using mother tongue in classroom of second language (L2) or foreign language (FL) is a controversial topic for decades. On the one hand, linguistic approach supporters argue that target language should be the only language that teachers adopt in order to teach and communicate in class, since this is the only possible way to maximize the effectiveness of teaching and learning L2 and FL (Baños, 2009). However, on…

Study of Synonym Use/Acquisition” Dilin Liu1, and Shouman Zhong2 The article,” L2 vs. L1 Use of Synonymy: An Empirical Study of Synonym Use/Acquisition” by Dilin Liu and Shouman Zhong seeks to examine the use of four sets of synonyms by Chinese second language learners and native speakers of English by using a forced choice question instrument beside corpus data as reference. As it is clear from the abstract, the data analysis of this paper uncovers many leading findings. One of the…

Bilingual education has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. There has been debate among parents, teachers, school staff, lawmakers, and simply the people living in the United States. There are many different opinions on what should be done to address bilingual education. There are several program models that fit under bilingual education, so it is not as cut and dry as some people may think. Many laws have been created both for and against bilingual education over the…

In our mainstream culture Standard English is the proper and acceptable language to use. We are look down upon if we use our home language in an “inappropriate” setting. There many good reasons one should allow these beautiful languages to be spoken and show their potential. There is nothing wrong with other languages we are just scared of something new. We have this feeling of disconnect from all the languages we use, but one must take pride and be joyful that one can speak these languages. We…