Teaching English as a foreign language

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…

The Open University also recently used mobile phones for language learning • A project in Ireland used MALL for Irish Language learning and assessment • The Learning Federation (TLF) used MALL for Indonesian Language learning across three states • The first mobile phone language learning service, http://www.language2yourphone.com opens for business in English providing lessons in Italian, Spanish, German and French, providing 60 text message (SMS) lessons…

born in Hong Kong where my father was an engineer at the time. In those days, China was closed to the outside world and had only just opened its doors to the rest of the world. I wasn’t wealthy enough to be able to afford a holiday in China so teaching English was a way of earning money and seeing the culture that had so fascinated me for so…

in English and Vietnamese In process of communication in a community, request is one of the most important speech acts. In fact, it is used a lot in all aspects of life such as social interaction, working, studying, language teaching, etc. Especially, when teaching and studying language, many Vietnamese teachers and students find difficulty in understanding the similarities and differences between requests in English and Vietnamese. They can not appropriately express requests in English…

Paradowski, M.B. (2011) Language is a rational and social tool which helps in accessing concepts and meanings, solving problems through logical system, is the basis for organizational knowledge, supports in human interactions and determination of social status along with defining educational opportunities. Talking about multilingualism, it is the ability to speak more than one language. Multilingualism doesn’t require…

In this scenario Japanese people can start to learn about Western society as young as elementary school. He said that the current Confucian teaching was lacking two things; number and reason studies and independence in spiritual culture (Fukuzawa, pg. 215). He also believed that Japan’s shortcomings stem from the old Chinese Confucian teachings. Fukuzawa’s modern type of schooling began soon after his first volume of his book was released. The Fundamental Code of Education (Gakusei) was issued…

writers in Indian writing English in present scenario, depicts the role of language in a cultural scenario and consideration of identity in link with the contemporary generation. The modern writers focus on the present issues and problems connecting to a reformed India of recent scenario. He has created a place for himself in Indian literary field by presenting precise quality to his portrayal of the young generation of the country. He is one of those writers in Indian English, who celebrates…

Language Salvador J. Santiago-Martinez Mrs. Mcquiggan Abstract The importance of learning a new language is almost as essential in becoming closer in the ever changing world as communication itself filled with many people and tourist who may not be able to communicate with you. Language ¿Hola como estan? By now most of us have maybe heard that phrase and learned what it meant. Although I'm sure many rather learn the swearing instead. Being bilingual not only is helpful…

especially when it comes to language. In addition to many other things, psycholinguists study children and their language development. They are interested in “whether the capacity for language is a skill that is built into the brain or whether language acquisition is experience-driven” (McCabe 370). I believe that language development happens quickly in children because it is the focus of the adults around them. Due to the situations I have experienced, I think a child’s language expansion…

In Chapter XXIV – “With Buffalo Bill in England,” Luther Standing Bear becomes an excellent leader and performer in establishing his duties with the Wild West Show. He becomes so dependable that Buffalo Bill respected him in many areas. Just for example when the time Buffalo Bill and Colonel Cody exclaimed about the “misused or neglected” way the Indians were treated at a dinner, giving them left-over, cold pancakes; the incident never happened again. Moreover, supervising seventy-five Sioux…