Teaching English as a foreign language

Every language has its own intonation and rhythm due to its function as the media that people use to communicate. To understand a language, a leaner should learn that language at an early age. The language that they learn will be taught as the first language that is called as a mother tongue, and as the second language that is called as the target language. These kinds of language are also being applied in learning English. For example, when the learners from Indonesia want to learn English as…

INTRODUCTION Language is the celestial souvenir of divinity only to the mankind. A language lends a hand to an individual in the progress of his or her own personality that distinguishes a man from an animal. In fact it is the language which transports the people of different cultures, traditions and communities nearer. Language is a means of exchange a few words, thoughts and feelings to other. The purpose of language teaching is to facilitate language learning. Teacher has to understand the…

In this article Edwin L. Battistella approaches the idea of how the English language throughout history has been seen as representing the American identity and unity, and explores the attitudes towards other minorities languages and foreign tongues. The article focuses on why those who choose to speak foreign languages are seen as bad citizens and the fear of multilinguistic within the time line. Batistella also mentions the concerns for standardization of the founders of the United States, that…

Language is our primary source of communication. Some people even say that language is what separates us from animals and makes us human. Communication is the method through which we share our ideas and thoughts with others. Although there are thousands of languages in this world, the one of languages which obviously became the universal language, English language. There are several factors that make the English language essential to communication in our current time. The main reason why English…

English is known, spoken and read by people everywhere on the planet. Children in different parts of world speak this language in their school either as the mother tongue or as a foreign language. Most of the people of the world whose mother tongue is not English learn this language as a second language for its cultural and practical values. The people of India are no exception to it. English is established as the second language in India. In the words of Gandhi, “English is a language of…

Red means “happiness, good luck, flourishing and prosperous” in the future and people only wear white in funerals when one’s family member or relative is dead. White in China, is associated with “pale, weak and without vitality”. Thus, learning a language implies not only the knowledge of its grammar rules and the denotative meanings of words but it involves much more, such as the culture phenomena, the way of life, habits and customs, history and everything that is contained of culture. In a…

1.Introduction Language proficiency is the linchpin of nonnative EFL teacher competencies ( ACTFL, 2002; Andrew, 2003; Ben-Peretz, 2010; Butler, 2004; Elder & Ok Ki, 2014;Farrell & Richards, 2007; Murdoch, 1994; Richard, 2012; Richards, Conway, Roskvist & Harvey, 2013; Seidlhofer, 1999). For example, Murdoch called language proficiency as “the bedrock of non native EFL teachers’ professional confidence” (p. 254). In the same vein, research by Seidlhofer (1999) shows that language teacher’s…

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…

dependent on two components: principles, properties shared by all languages, and the parameters, the way in which these properties vary. Controversies abound with the UG model, but it does explain how all natural languages are similar in some respects and how humans are able to learn their first language as well as other languages. UG simplifies the ideas about learning a second language by claiming that "learning the grammar of a [second language] is not so much learning completely new…

When it comes to the topic of a foreign language being taught at an early age, specifically to children. Most of us will readily agree that it should, because it’s teaching children how to comprehend a lot more. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of is it too much for children to remember and understand at an early age? Whereas some are convinced that children’s brains can absorb a lot more information, which is the reason why foreign language should be taught to…