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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…

Communication is one of the most important thing in today’s world. As we all know English is a global language. Knowing English helps us to communicate with everybody. Right from a small kid to an old person, from the shopkeeper to the company owner. English has risen to become the medium of instruction in most of the countries. English is one of the easiest language to learn and speak. It is one of the very few things in the world that is effective and easy to learn at the same time. Unlike…

Nowadays, English language has an important role of our life. Edward Finegan summarizes this by said that “ [t]hough Chinese is spoken by a greater number of people, English is spoken around the globe and has wider dispersion than any other language” ( Finegan 1989: 77) English has about 400 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as 2 billion speakers as Crystal and David explains (March 2008), there are many people use English languageand…

Sociolinguistics refers to the study of language that relates with the society and the social factors. Language and dialects are both two different things. Taking into account Linguistic Variation, a language and dialect is differentiated based on mutual intelligibility. Mutual intelligibility refers to two speakers who speak the same language and understand each other but in different dialects. Dialects can be based on regional dialects which means with regards to geographical locations or it…

Many people think of cultures and habits of their own country when they hear the words “Cross Cultural”. Communication can be one of the example for it. According to Wikipedia, Cross cultural communication is a field of study which looks at how people communicates who has different cultural backgrounds. Sure, this affects those people to have troubles for communicating with other people, and for that, there is a way to solve this problem called the “6 stumbling blocks”. First is the language…

Language, a term that derived from the Latin word lingua meaning tongue, can refer to a variety of concepts such as word formation and speech used by people of different countries, areas or social groups. Language is possessed by human beings and is a clear indication of the difference in human communication system when compared to those of the animal kingdom. Language helps us as humans in so many ways. It enables us to collect and preserves knowledge so that we can pass it along to the next…

confused me. For example, we were browsing Etsy together and he pointed out one of his competitors and I said, “that wallet looks nice too!” Ciro immediately replied, “this wallet is disgusting,” and I did not know what to say. After a couple of seconds went by in silence, Ciro chuckled at me. I was a little…

Analyzing Native Language Diversity Preface: The Public Schools of Robeson County is diverse in demographics and populations vary from school to school. The schools are primarily triracial and include White, Black, and American Indian populations. However, we do have a population of Latino families that reside in rural areas where farming is dominant and offer opportunities for employment. For the purpose of this assignment, I will focus on a plan of action related to creating a…

Persuasion Pursuit: Viewpoints on Multicultural Communication What precisely is multicultural communication? It is a form of communication that consist of different languages and cultures. This nation is loaded with a huge number of multilingual people. A considerable lot of the people experience serious difficulties with multicultural communication in their homes, school, and other open settings. In these cases, a large number of the people whose first language is not English are judged on…

This paper discusses the ineffectiveness of English language learning as implemented in English medium schools. I believe that by adapting multi skill approaches and communicative approach effectively in Differentiated Instruction, the English language could be learned without any stress. These methods will motivate the student to improve their four skills, enhance their knowledge and build confidence in them. These approaches will be a valuable guidance and an excellent activity to the learner.…