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speakers, it has become a lingua franca. A lingua franca can be defined as “a language widely adopted for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other’s and where one or both speakers are using it as a ‘second language’.“ English seems to be one of the main languages of international communication, and even people who are not speakers of English often know words such as bank, computer, hotel, hospital, piano, radio, taxi, television and walkman.…

Languages have different aspects and characteristics that may establish their own identity from other languages used all around the world. One of these aspects is the phonological properties of these languages. Languages share a content common to all people; however, they differ with regard to their specific and nation-dependent phonetic means used to express it. These phonetic means grant a particular sound to each language. A phonetic system is usually based on segmental units: phonemes,…

assessed 565 million people use it on the internet” said Tsedal Neeley (Neeley). There are nearby to 385 million native speakers in countries like Australia and United State (Neeley). Also, millions of people around the world who have studied it as a second language. Many may feel at a disadvantage if their English is not good as others. English will almost be the common ground to survive and prosper in a worldwide economy and companies must overcome language…

“Language is the capacity to gain and utilize complex frameworks of correspondence, especially the human capacity to do as such, and a language is a particular case of such a framework. The logical investigation of language is called linguistics” Estimating the quantity of languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. Common languages are talked or marked, however any language can be encoded into auxiliary media utilizing sound-related, visual, or material jolts. For instance, in…

1.6.3. Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication No one can deny the fact that the study of cross cultural communication contributed to the field of applied linguistics and offered a plethora of examples of different aspects of communication. Deborah Tannen (1984), in her article: The Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication has identified eight levels of differences in ways of speaking that differ from one culture to another and which represent the essence of language (ibid, 189).…

Wh-questions formation in English 1. Interrogatives in English According to Fromkin, Robert, Neil, & Harry (2001), one of the linguistic universals is that all languages have a system of asking questions. In English, there are two main kinds of interrogative sentences, close-ended sentences and open-ended sentences. Closed class interrogative sentences have yes/no answer while opened class interrogative sentences having many possible answers. 1.1. Yes/No questions Yes/no question in English is…

Early bilingual refers to someone who acquires two languages in early childhood. Those especially learn two languages as “first languages” at the same time can be termed as simultaneous bilinguals. Simultaneous bilinguals are commonly exposed to the languages since birth or shortly after. Generally speaking, learning two languages in early childhood does more good than harm. This paper will first discuss the benefits of bilingualism including advantages in metalinguistic awareness, and…

1. what it means to “ speak” ? The English language is a foreign language in Arab countries, where most of the students of the senior high schools are not familiar with it and they use only in the class. Moreover, most of the students have no much time to learn it, in addition, there is no supporting to practice it outside their classes (Hetrakul, 1995) . Teaching speaking indicates helping the learners of the target language to enhance their ability to interact successfully with. Howarth…

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 of a language with its complex vocabulary and special “laws” of grammar.…

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…