Second Life

In the accompanying article, “Learning a Second Language”, the writer, Meg Butler, mentions that students learn a second language through making flash cards and spending hours memorizing verb conjugations. Although children may be able to gain a firmer grasp on second languages before the age of 10, I am not sure that they would be as receptive to the same method of teaching. The article points out that certain schools “like Language Stars capitalize on this window and are able to teach children…

The ongoing dispute between Israel and Palestine has been a constant struggle since the mid- 20th century. The novel, “The Attack” by Yasmina Khadra exposes the horrific reality of the brewing conflict between Israel and Palestine. The two groups lack understanding towards each other's views, have a strong hatred for one another, and the Palestinians pursue extremist acts to fight for their rights. The Israeli and Palestinian conflict has been arising for years, with no pause, declining to any…

The SIOP (sheltered instruction observation protocol) model is a program that helps address the needs for English language learners. Teachers learn how to integrate students and use specific content and instruction to address the students. From the SIOP model there are eight key components; lesson development, building background, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, practice, delivery, and review/assement. Under the eight key components teachers promote a healthy positive learning…

most of these second and third generations, Spanish is commonly spoken in the house and English is learned through schooling or just interactions with other English speaking people in one's community. A stigma that derives from this homemade language is that the person who speaks Spanglish might not know enough Spanish or they might not know enough English, therefore, they interchange, share, extended and do code-switching. This phenomenon leads to the person who speaks Spanglish to second-guess…

and reasons vary. For the sake of brevity, this article only touches on two reasons why we code-switch and these are (1) We do it to accommodate others, or (2) We do it to converse with someone who understands our dialect. The following are true-to-life examples but the names have been changed for anonymity's sake. (1) Examples of code-switching for accommodation:…

person migrating have a better quality of life. There are many reasons on why someone imagrating should learn the language and customs of the country including, basic survival, unites a nation if they all speak the same language, to be a citizen of a country and pass the citizenship test. The first reason why an immigrant should learn the language of the country they are immigrating to is for basic survival, this means that for one to have good quality of life where they live, they need the…

Why Good English Is Good for You (333-341) The audience is towards an educated class of individuals. The purpose for this writing is to reason that proper English is valuable. If one were to read the essay, one would soon discover that the essay is written in a scholarly manner. John Simon, the author, utilizes a higher than standard way of writing which comprises of vocabulary and sentence structure. The use of both of these led me to the conclusion that the audience is directed for an…

Languages have been vanishing from different regions. An endangered language is a language that is most likely to become extinct in the future. Most of the languages that have been disappearing are being replaced by other popular languages that are being widely used in nations, such as Spanish in Mexico and English in the United States. Many languages today have only one native speaker still living, and once the person’s death arrives, it will also be the death of the language. It will no longer…

Language played a very prominent role in Anzaldúa's life, as the Latino culture contains many variations of Spanish, English, and indigenous languages. Anzaldúa expands on these, mentioning that there are eight different varieties of language spoken by Chicano/as: standard English, working class and slang Spanish, standard Spanish, standard Mexican Spanish, North Mexican Spanish dialect, Chicano Spanish (primarily used in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California), Tex-Mex, and Pachuco or caló…

Whether it be elementary, middle, high school and college students they will speak to different history classes. They can tell students what life is like back in their home, explain some of the difficulties they face every day. They could tell us about their jobs or the lack of paying jobs and health care. Each immigrant would have to speak for 45 minutes and a minimum of once per week to practice…