Second Mate

Attitudes, Quirk VS. Kachru The monocentric school, led by the British linguist, Sir Randolph Quirk, wanted to unify English variations by selecting a standard that would be used by users of English worldwide. Quirk encouraged native and non-native speakers to acquire and use the standard British English. He wanted to globalize the British standard because the rest of the English varieties are, according to him "neither liberal nor liberating to permit learners to settle for lower…

Society today has affected many people lives across the world with post colonialism in place. It has an impact on people who don’t speak English properly that struggle to find sanctuary on where they live. In the poem, Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou and also Autopsy by Sherman Alexie have similarities on how postcolonialism is applied to on to both of these poems and how it implies to our society today. Also, these poems talks about how the authors overcame their struggles no matter what was…

The play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, is written taking place with a very powerful and rogue ruler, Julius Caesar, and focuses on Brutus' struggle between the adverse demands of patriotism, honor, and friendship. Within the play, Shakespeare sympathizes with Caesar’s conspirators and is very much in favor of a democracy rather than one, powerful ruler as depicted in the play. And, as Shakespeare was writing this play, he was trying to convince the audience to…

To start, let’s take a look at some commonly confused terminology in the language services field: 1. Translation versus Interpreting Translation is the process of converting written text from one language into another language. Interpreting is orally translating one language into another. The Main Difference: Translation Is Written While Interpretation Is Oral. 2. Translation versus Transcription While translation is the process of converting written text between languages, transcription is…

FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Page 1 Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to analyze how the needs of the students will be met, while researching how to teach. Nowadays students of the entire world are learning to speak English, but their reasons are different from student to student. The purpose students have for learning will have an effect on what it is they want and need to learn1. In…

Growing up speaking out loud was always difficult; people would stare and whisper. Their whispers would make us feel like we were invisible and they did not know that we could hear them. Raffaela Zanuttini is an advocate for grammatical diversity within the English language. In Zanuttini’s article, “Our Language Prejudices Don’t Make No Sense,” she explains how negative comments directed to minority groups, about their English language, appear to be inappropriate. For example, Zanuttini writes,…

Ben Zimmer’s article entitled “Chunking” from the September 2010 issue of the New York Times, raises the question: should collocation education be used to teach English? The article focuses on the importance of chunking and how useful it is in teaching and developing others in the language of English. Zimmer uses his son as a prime example of how kids of his age unknowingly pick up myriads of chunks, “or idioms,” throughout the span of their childhood; he explains, “As Blake learned these…

In this intriguing novel, speech and language give the impression of being the more significant issues. Language is crucial, it is constantly illustrated throughout the novel. The rest of the world has made up their mind about what it truly means to be a native speaker. However, Chang Rae Lee has other ideas. With that said; being a native speaker doesn’t just mean the language you speak, but rather who you are as a person. Henry, the narrator, grew up speaking fluent English; he also spoke…

Mark Edmundson states in his writing “The Ideal English Major” that becoming an English major is “pursuing the most important subject of all--being a human being” (1). Edmundson describes English majors as readers who are born again and again through reading. According to Edmundson being an English major makes you more alive by allowing you to see the world as “bigger, sweeter, more tragic and intense-- more alive with meaning than you had thought” (4). Edmundson attempts to persuade us by…

Once upon a time, there was a girl whose first language was Arabic. When she was a kid, she admired anyone who could speak English. She had a dream of speaking English one day. As a result, she had a strong desire to learn English. This girl is me, Eman. I am starting my language learning autobiography as a story because stories always have value, and are worth a lot to someone. My English learning autobiography expand several stages of my life: elementary, middle, high school, college, and my…