Second Life

seventy percent of them work in agriculture. In the short story, “The Circuit,” by Francisco Jimenez, we are introduced to Panchito, a young migrant farmer who travels state to state with his family following the harvest. Young Panchito has a hard life and does not have access to a full year of education. He and his family do not speak fluent English and he has limited learning in an English teaching school. The absence of a proper home environment also speaks for his family’s financial…

themselves. For example, there are no top female chief executives or female railroad constructors. The second is in which women of third world countries still do not have the rights of those of their female counterparts in first world countries. A prime example would be Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to drive and under Sharia law they only count as half a witness and need a second female in case the first “forgets”. Aside from Sharia law, many religions promote the treatment of…

Language is an integral part of every distinctive culture. It represents a way of life and a way of communication among those that share similar traditions, values, and heritage. The Irish people have consistently been faced with foreign cultures encroaching on their land and threatening not only their culture but also the Gaelic language itself. In Brian Friel’s Translations, the language barrier between the Irish and the English people is explored. The characters are faced with the difficult…

1. Ability Can is undoubtedly the most frequently used modal verb. The general use of ‘can’  describes a general or specific ability to do something either in a natural or learned way.  E.g. I can swim. = I have the ability to swim. For the elementary level it is interesting to engage students by means of flashcards. They will describe what they can do and what they cannot do. 2. Permission When a speaker asks for permission he/she uses very likely the modal verb ‘can’. Furthermore, it…

interwoven so that one cannot separate the two without losing the significance of either language and culture.”. By knowing the culture, we can know why people think and speak the way they do. (David Elmes, 2013) In Malaysia, we learn English as a second language and therefore the learning of pragmatics of English is about intercultural communication. We do not teach culture of different races in the classroom because they might be more than three different races in the classroom and it is not…

The Uzbek case provides examples of ways in which their teacher preparation program targeted those needs perceived by both the trainers and the local teachers. In this second case, Snow et al. argue how important it is to resort to external specialists in the assessment of the current status quo of a teacher training programme at the Institute of English Language Teacher Education in Uzbekistan (IELTE) so as to tackle…

benefits of globalisation e.g., technological advance-ments, flowed primarily to the deve-loped world. As we enter the current newer age of mobility, people have begun to move across borders in great numbers in pursuit of economic security and a better life for them-selves and to keep their families out of poverty.…

in North America, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and South Africa. It is also used in many former British colonies as a second language; one of them is Nigeria. In line with the Kachru’s model of English users, there are three circles, namely; inner circle, users in this circle are endo-normative,…

students are allowed to choose between the Chinese track (Hanwen ban) and Tibetan track (Zangwen ban). For example, should the student opt for Tibetan track, Tibetan would be their language of instruction for most subjects while Chinese is taught as the second language only. After six years of basic education in Tibetan track, the student’s Chinese proficiency would be equal to that of a third-grader . In fact, this has always been a recipe of minzu education for not only Tibetan minority but…

included 20 participants with Hindi as L1 and Group 2 included 20 participants with Hindi/English as L2. All the participants were proficient and comfortable in using both the languages. All the participants were graduate students. The Australian second Language Proficiency Rating was administered for the…