Second Punic War

Defining Bilingualism: Baker (2011) has defined bilingualism is about being able to speak two languages. It is just an ability of a person to speak in two languages and not about competency in either. A bilingual person’s competency may be limited to one language which is his or her dominant language or the person may be competent in both the languages. Grosjean (2010) as quoted by Baker (2011) proposes that bilingualism is not just the knowledge it is rather speaking two languages regularly. A…

Global language does not have an official definition, but it is essentially a language, which is learned and spoken internationally. English is today the biggest global language with more non-native speakers than native speakers. Because of all these different countries speaking English there are many varieties, such as British, Australian, South African, American. The English Language is constantly changing. Around the 1600 century the English language as we know it today was created. Before…

has become the most used language in the world. Business companies, High schools, and many other international organisations and associations require English as an important exigency. HEM introduced a list of international training centers for the second year’s students: Calliope, The British Council, Wall Street and British Workshop in Morocco and several language centers in England, Malta, Dublin and Santa Barbara. The aim of this training is to involve students in a purely English setting…

Owing to the paradigm shifts in the teaching and learning of foreign languages, the focus of the area has been directed towards the social aspects of the phenomenon following the behaviorist and cognitivist stances. This shift in the paradigm has brought about the question of the individual, society and therefore, culture inevitably in relation to their effects on the learning process. Having words such as “international”, “intercultural” or “diversity” in the content of many courses nowadays,…

The benefits of multilingual language competency have an important influence on different spheres of life on personal, social and professional levels. Knowledge of foreign languages are beneficial every day, either you are communicating with foreign people for personal matters or dealing with professional business at work. Furthermore, multilingualism broadens career perspectives. Nevertheless, the main problem seems to be that people are unable to comprehend these facts, which shows the…

In the Indonesian context, Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) or public vocational school is educational system where students are prepared to be able to involve in many aspects of global contention. To fulfil that demand, one of the keys with which students should be equipped is the ability to use English since it is the language used in the global communication. However, as mentioned in Ministry of Education and Culture Regulation (2014 No. 60) the English that should be mastered by SMK students…

In the preface of the book, “Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development”, Anna Wierzbicka explains that the people who are bilingual, are facing problems every day, due to the sense of the meaning of an word or a frase. She is focusing on multilingualism and emotions, the things that make harder the meanings of understanding between people. Also, she gives examples from her own life, whice are accurate, and shows very clearly the differences between languages. She was born in Poland…

Introduction In recent years there has been an increase in research investigating monolingual and bilingual individuals’ cognitive development. In order to research this area more accurately scientist examine language acquisition (how it all begins) in monolingual and bilingual children. This allows them to get an overall better understanding into brain development but also to address the cognitive advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual and monolingual. Define monolingual and…

For example: We asked him for help. In the sentence, “we” indicates the speakers, which is considered as the first personal pronoun. Second personal pronouns refer to the listener of the speaker or the reader of the writer: You/you. For example: You should be aware of what you are doing. In this sentence, “you” indicates the listener, which is the second personal pronoun. Third personal pronouns refer to people who are not in the conversation: he/him, she/her, it/it and they/them. For example:…

Ireland and Phillipson come from England. Crystal´s different opinion might be affected by some historic events – for example the Easter Rising when the Irish Republic was claimed but it was not accepted by Kingdom of Great Britain, this led to the Irish War of…