Second Triumvirate

growth and that while the difference between monolinguals and bilinguals diminishes as the bilinguals mature, the gap never fully closes. Bilinguals have the disadvantage, where you know the word but you just can't get it out. it’s also important that second languages can very well be helpful in the vocabulary. If we know many languages can be a useful tool because of the languages’ origins. knowing the word roots we can give a sense of the word’s…

A significant proportion of the world devoted to research based in bilingual people. In the few past decade’s childrens in the world exposed to multiple languages. These people have to communicate and proceed using different system than monolingual speakers. Some previous studies have been reported same advantages and disadvantages on bilingualism. Therefore some advantages for example are, the creativity and the quicker solving mathematical problem for some researchers. Also being bilingual…

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPREHENSION DIRECTIONS (51-60) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given. Certain words/phrases have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. Though it is commonplace to say we live in a globalised world, less well understood is that globalisation is taking place in stages. In the first stage as flows of capital and goods were liberated the benefits of globalisation e.g., technological advance-ments,…

in North America, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and South Africa. It is also used in many former British colonies as a second language; one of them is Nigeria. In line with the Kachru’s model of English users, there are three circles, namely; inner circle, users in this circle are endo-normative,…

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…

students are allowed to choose between the Chinese track (Hanwen ban) and Tibetan track (Zangwen ban). For example, should the student opt for Tibetan track, Tibetan would be their language of instruction for most subjects while Chinese is taught as the second language only. After six years of basic education in Tibetan track, the student’s Chinese proficiency would be equal to that of a third-grader . In fact, this has always been a recipe of minzu education for not only Tibetan minority but…

For example, schools in Spain offer English as a second language, and schools in Kuwait (government schools) require students to take English as one of their main courses. Most of the students speak Arabic as a first language and learn English in school. On the other hand, those who attend English or American…

included 20 participants with Hindi as L1 and Group 2 included 20 participants with Hindi/English as L2. All the participants were proficient and comfortable in using both the languages. All the participants were graduate students. The Australian second Language Proficiency Rating was administered for the…

speakers, it has become a lingua franca. A lingua franca can be defined as “a language widely adopted for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other’s and where one or both speakers are using it as a ‘second language’.“ English seems to be one of the main languages of international communication, and even people who are not speakers of English often know words such as bank, computer, hotel, hospital, piano, radio, taxi, television and walkman.…

The English language now days considered as Global language, because it is used in almost everything. It has been used in technology, education, employment and scientific communication. This essay will include three primary questions to answer it and analyze, Why English is a global language and when it started? Regarding to answer this question we will need to speak about numbers and some historical dates, starting in England moving to America, Canada, Caribbean and Africa and we are going to…