Second Mate

of content and valid evidence. Furthermore he believes that students lack the ability of using proper grammar and instead focus on self expression of their ideas. The evidence that he bases this claim on is his own statement in which he states “The second reason so many of our students are incapable of writing intelligible sentences or linking one bad sentence to another is something that approximates an argument. They have been allowed to believe that their opinions – formed by nothing,…

Translation is more than just replacing words between languages; it was and is still used to transfer ideas, inventions, stories, cultures between people and generations. Nida was the first translation theorist who emphasized the role of a translator as a cross-cultural facilitator. “The role of a translator is to facilitate the transfer of the message, meaning, and cultural elements from one language into another and create an equivalent response to the receivers" (Nida 13). It means that the…

The first reason is that the plasticity of the brain is lost and various functions of the parts of the brain cannot be reorganized. The second reason is the lateralization of language functions in the left hemisphere which is regarded to be perfect after puberty. So the learning of L1 and L2 becomes difficult. Another observation is interesting to quote here is by, Lenneberg, (1967) who…

Halliday is the first who set up the core basis of Cohesion in English. Thus most of this research is based on his views and studies. If a speaker of English hears or reads a passage of the language which is more than one sentence in length, he can normally decide without difficulty whether it forms a unified whole or is just a collection of unrelated sentences ( Halliday and Hasan, 1976, p. 1). Cohesion is what distinguish between the both. The concept of cohesion is a semantic one , it refers…

This is an essay especially created to illustrate the, quite few, but evident, the flaws of the English language. Though easy to learn, versatile and beautiful, the political evolution and the political power shift, have created a certain stereotype, and people tend to write, some sort of, robotic sentences, using a lot of words to express a short, simple message. Humanity didn’t do this on its own, politics and snobbery played crucial roles in this development. Instead of using simplicity, we…

Much research showed the benefits of bilingualism in many aspects. The most important benefit is bilingual children can use languages for traveling, learning the other culture, making new friends, and working. Bilinguals have better social understanding than monolinguals. Also, bilinguals show cognitive advantages. Research showed bilinguals have a little better performance than monolinguals on tasks that involve switching between activities and inhibiting previous learned responses (Bialystok,…

After reading “A Priceless Lesson in Humility” by Felipe Morales from NPR’s This I Believe series, I found that this piece of writing would be beneficial for students who would read and analyze it. This essay effectively explains how the writer was reminded of why he came to believe in humility through a series of past personal experiences, and later, in an incident with an elderly blind woman. In his sightseeing trip to Washington, D.C., Morales acted with prejudice when an elderly blind woman…

When Kayla was questioned by the assessor for the first comprehension question, “What was Sara looking at?” Kayla replied a book, but the answer was the big tree. For the second question “What did Sara want from her mother?” Kayla replied to learn to read, but the answer was string. It was after the second question that the assessor chose to stop the Oral Reading Inventory. Kayla’s comprehension level ranked at frustration, with 4 or less question answered correctly. Overall, Kayla scored…

in September, Wetherell briefed the class about an upcoming research assignment. A boy asked the due date and he immediately replied, “December 19th.” The class murmured quietly in confusion over why the one page analysis would need so much time. Seconds later, he…

The world is connected through a variety of languages and cultures. There are 7 continents on Earth. Each is broken into countries, states, cities, and regions. Each differs from each other in multiple ways. In the united states alone is made up of 50 states, all culturally different. Although all the millions of people who live in the United States are all interrelated due to the fact that we all live in the same country, but we all differ in the language we speak and our culture. Text such as…