relations, political theory, and the politics of countries such as China, Japan, Russia and the USA. Language is fundamental to everything we do: it helps us communicate ideas, express our feelings,persuade, and present ourselves to different audiences. English Language is therefore an ideal complement to subjects where an understanding of how language works is important. The English Language is becoming
There are roughly around six thousand five hundred languages worldwide. As migration increases these languages mix and create a combination of different languages. Humans use that language in a variety of ways to communicate their way of thinking. Amy Tan is a bestselling author who grew up in California as an immigrant and spoke the language of Chinese. Amy Tan in her essay “Mother Tongue” recounts her past experiences with her mother’s broken English. Tan’s purpose is to signify how her mother’s tongue
In Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue”, the author’s firm belief that a lack of strong language skills causes a deficit of power in society is shown through her use of rhetorical devices. The essay focuses on the experiences of Tan’s mother, a Chinese immigrant, facing challenges due to her poor English skills. Because of her mother’s lack of perfect English, Amy Tan, now an avid writer, tells of how she was affected. By utilizing contrast in the essay, Amy Tan depicts that spoken language can alter how
HEGEMONY OF ENGLISH IN CHINA? Zhou Yijie ID: 1405022 With the development of the society and technique，the finance and culture has been globalized. English has generally been considered as a global language by the first and second dispersal (Wikipedia.2014). Consistent with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (Oxford, 2010,p724), it means something is under control of another country or organization. Therefore language hegemony could refer to the phenomenon in which a foreign language enter
all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is always assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Of the 10 most-widely spoken languages in the world, only English has no academy guiding it. There are political reasons for this. The closest Britain ever came to having a language academy was at the start of the eighteenth century, when Gulliver’s Travels author Jonathan Swift was lobbying hard for an academy because “our Language is extremely imperfect’’…
Speak “Right” English: The Unconstitutional Standard English Language Ideology In this essay, I question the validity of Standard English Language Ideology. Moreover, I employ the research done by Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa, Samy Alim and other authors to support my argument that the enforcement of Standard English Language violates the rights of American citizens, especially those minorities whose first language is not English. This includes the right of free speech and the right of equality
2.1 Overview In recent decades, the issue of English writing was the center topic of many challenging and important subjects in second language teaching and learning. Many times, we have heard or even read that some of educated Iranians are unable to write their papers in English. This problem is not without a solution. There are people who can solve the problem and write an article in English for them, but whether it is a solution of the problem? Absolutely not. Writing, opposed to speaking that
Introduction Argumentative essay is one of the key text-types included in the English curriculum in Hong Kong. Students in Hong Kong first learn to write arguments in their first language in junior secondary and then move onto English argumentative essays in senior secondary. Many of them find it difficult to write an argumentative essay in English. Even in L1 context, writing an argument is a challenging task for a majority of students as they have difficulty in recognizing and applying argumentative
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Due to English is not the first language of many students in Turkey, students might face some difficulties when learning the language. Due to the fact that this study is small-scale research, it does not represent the population of Turkey. In this research, six adult L2 learners demonstrate outstanding levels of difficulties or challenges in certain fields such as speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Each of the six students is aware of their own difficulties
cultures, it is a fundamental human activity. Language acquisition is the process by which we acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as tom produce and use words and sentence to communicate. This essay will focus on how learners can acquire language through drama with the theme at the park. Firstly we will provide the definitions of the words “drama”, “language acquisition” role play and “park” secondly explains the context of this essay by including grade, number of learners