Second Life

Author of Th e Importance of Foreign Language Study in the General Scheme of American Education, C. M. Purin, says, “The study of a foreign language develops sympathy and understanding for the more fundamental aspects of the life and character of foreign peoples” (Purin). By creating a general understanding of people that are seen every day, relationships are built more easily and effectively. “Now, one of the real advantages of studying a foreign language, like one of the…

spoken or written language that has been produced in the course of real communication (Nunan, 1999). According to Kasper (1997), authentic second language input is essential for pragmatic learning, but it does not secure successful pragmatic development. Many researchers have stated that noticing or consciousness is a prerequisite for the acquisition of second language pragmatic features (Kasper & Schmidt, 1996 & Schmidt, 1990). According to Ellis (2003), noticing is a way through which input is…

Final Simone de Beauvoir starts Volume 2 of The Second Sex by stating “One is not born but becomes a woman.” Meaning of this quote according to Beauvoir is to convey how a woman creates her physical exterior and internal character as she is present in the societal environment. Beauvoir illustrates gender and sex are an entirely different from each other and demonstrates incomparable aspects. Sex is given by nature and created in the womb, and gender is determined hereafter. the writer believes,…

“Assuming” is a vague word of describing an English Language Learner (ELL) student in a classroom. Assuming can differ from one student to another, depending on the students’ knowledge of receiving an education in a classroom. The assumptions of how the host country’s classroom is portrayed also differs from one country to another. Thus, having a basic knowledge from an ELL student’s perspective from different sources that portrays a classroom from that host country can be abnormal for that ELL…

Present in many scholarly papers such as Bilingual Lives, Bilingual Experience, where they are seen “as an abbreviated way of referring to speech practices common in the life of bilingual persons “, they are extremely important in the understanding of the process of bilingualism and how it affects syntax, dialects and language styles. In Jelena Brezjanovic Shogren's paper, Analysis of Code-Switching and Code-Mixing Among…

According to Maastricht et.al. (2016), the research represents that native speakers may distinct second language learners based on their "prosodic features", such as intonation, rhythm and utterance speed. Especially, the placement of "pitch accent" are the key source to make difference between the native speaker and second language learners. These can be the cause of confliction on communication if non-native speaker unable to use "prosodic" properly. Secondly…

Nowadays learn a new language is part important on the life of everybody, in some country since children start kind garden they start learn new languages in order to open their mind to other cultures and could in the future be better professionals. According to John Archibald and a team of researchers at the university of Calgary conducted a study in 2007 that examined a number of questions relating to second language learning. They found that students who learn other subjects in a foreign…

a) In the late 1960s, Singapore government introduced a bilingual education policy. Mother Tongue languages such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil are known to be the students’ second language in Singapore. It is mandatory for each student to take up at least one second language. However according to an online news "Much Ado About Mother Tongue", students have not been coping well with their Mother Tongue language over the past years. Instead, the students are excelling in other subjects such as…

both reasons behind the author’s goals in life to be confident and successful in this English dominated community. He trusts that to fully fit into society and to be “publicly confident,” they must conform to the American lifestyle, even if it means losing their first language because “intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words” (Rodriguez 395, 399). With this as his current mindset, Rodriguez judges that there is no loss in learning a second language because actions can still…

Keys To Use Foreign Language Like Mother Language Life is more and more development , it requires people have to advance their knowledge. Language is also one of the important things that people should learn more. Some think that it is hard to use the foreign language like mother language. However, it will be easy if you know the keys to studying it. There are some ways to help people improve their foreign language such as identify motivation language learning, speaking more with a native…