The Second Coming

Pfeiffer was presented a child who had very little exposure to writing or reading, little to no knowledge of the alphabet, phonological awareness, or concepts of print. Whatever her strategies were, she found a way to get through to me and send me into second grade well prepared. From that point on, my grades were always As and Bs, and positive…

Questions In this study, the authors addressed three research questions regarding L2 fluency. The first research question was: “Do learners of Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish improve their L2 fluency after a semester of language study abroad?” The second research question was: “Is there a difference in gains made by learners of…

meaning. Also, by considering the effect of task type on the low incidence of negotiation of meaning, the researcher claimed that, although the task was one-way in nature but, in resulted in the high rate of modified output. Next, in relation to the second question regarding the possibility of other interactional process in the absence of overtly signal of communication problem, the data…

“Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.” Language is the intersection between human interaction and distinct cultures. Our species rely (depend) on language to communicate one’s thoughts to one another. For decades, language has carried one culture to the next. Before the world had anything else like technology or material gain, the modes of communication confided in face-to-face interaction. It has been a life-long debate whether the…

In these two stories “Finding Her Way” and “Kylie’s Project” both are about how they had to deal with something like Angela in “Finding Her Way” had to deal with trying to learn to speak English and how to deal with getting teased on. Kylie in “Kylie’s Project” had to deal with being disabled and not being able to walk, she wasn’t really made fun of but she couldn't things that other people could do. They both were going through a hard time but they learned how to deal with it. How do these…

of content and valid evidence. Furthermore he believes that students lack the ability of using proper grammar and instead focus on self expression of their ideas. The evidence that he bases this claim on is his own statement in which he states “The second reason so many of our students are incapable of writing intelligible sentences or linking one bad sentence to another is something that approximates an argument. They have been allowed to believe that their opinions – formed by nothing,…

Translation is more than just replacing words between languages; it was and is still used to transfer ideas, inventions, stories, cultures between people and generations. Nida was the first translation theorist who emphasized the role of a translator as a cross-cultural facilitator. “The role of a translator is to facilitate the transfer of the message, meaning, and cultural elements from one language into another and create an equivalent response to the receivers" (Nida 13). It means that the…

The first reason is that the plasticity of the brain is lost and various functions of the parts of the brain cannot be reorganized. The second reason is the lateralization of language functions in the left hemisphere which is regarded to be perfect after puberty. So the learning of L1 and L2 becomes difficult. Another observation is interesting to quote here is by, Lenneberg, (1967) who…

Halliday is the first who set up the core basis of Cohesion in English. Thus most of this research is based on his views and studies. If a speaker of English hears or reads a passage of the language which is more than one sentence in length, he can normally decide without difficulty whether it forms a unified whole or is just a collection of unrelated sentences ( Halliday and Hasan, 1976, p. 1). Cohesion is what distinguish between the both. The concept of cohesion is a semantic one , it refers…

This is an essay especially created to illustrate the, quite few, but evident, the flaws of the English language. Though easy to learn, versatile and beautiful, the political evolution and the political power shift, have created a certain stereotype, and people tend to write, some sort of, robotic sentences, using a lot of words to express a short, simple message. Humanity didn’t do this on its own, politics and snobbery played crucial roles in this development. Instead of using simplicity, we…