Morphology Jinwoong Lee American Samoa Community College Morphology Communication functions delivering idea and thought from one person to another. There are various categories of communication such as verbal, non-verbal, written, and visualization. All kinds of organisms communicate with each other. Animal communicates each other through a howl and gesture, and even plant communicates each other. However, human is the only species that use symbolic communication system which is a language
1. Introduction Every language carries certain features that distinguish it from other languages although the languages descendent from the same origin portrays greater resemblances than the ones descending from different families, the similarities and differences are what make learning another language an easy task or an exhausting one. In the field of linguistics, the study of the internal structure of words- since words are the elements constructing any language and they are generally accepted
is a branch of general linguistics that aims to compare from a descriptive point of view two different languages noting their similarities and differences. It can be said that two languages are socio-culturally linked when they are used by a considerable number of bi- or multilingual speakers, and/or a substantial amount of ‘linguistic output’ (text, oral discourse) is translated from one language into the other. In general terms, mention can be made of a theoretical contrastive linguistics and of
writes in her books that England has always welcomed the alien and hundreds of words of non-English origin are part of English vocabulary indistinguishable from the native ones. More than sixty percent of English words have Latin origin while it is the case in more than ninety percent of the words with respect to technology and science domain (Green, 1990). While containing 178 Anglo-Saxon roots, the English language consists of 280 more roots out which almost all are Greek and Latin (Skeat, 1917). Henry
Introduction “A Scientific analysis of Language is carried out systematically on the basis of objectively verifiable observations and within the framework of some general theory of Language Structure“ S.K. Verma Linguistics is a scientific study of the systems / principles underlying human languages. It is scientific because it follows the general methodology
to find that the the bewildering phrase is the same language that is being read right now: English. How this all came to be can be understood with a brief glance at the history of the language. The English language has experienced four major phases. They are Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English. Old English was the language spoken in England from about 500 to 1100. It is a Germanic language derived from a common Germanic which was originally spoken
The evolution of language The study of language evolution has been the concern of many scholars over the time. It was considered like storytelling and has played a crucial part in developing other fields that are connected to it. Scholars have been aware that language change over time. In addition, it was known that many of European languages are originated from ancient languages such as English, which is descending from Anglo- Saxon. This change did not happen by chance but through a long period
Teaching Grammar in Southeast Asia How important is the study and understanding of English Grammar from a Southeast Asian perspective? Opinions are often divided, from chief academic bodies, down to the journeyman foreign English teacher. Students are taught “English Language” for a variety of reasons, many of which, stem from the global quality it seems to possess, and the belief, that a good grounding in the language, will provide better employment opportunities in the future, thus improving the
thousand five hundred million people worldwide speak English, of whom three hundred seventy five million are native speakers (McKay 2016). Therefore, English language is now considered as an international language, and it is often taught as a foreign language accompanied by teaching both American and British Cultural studies. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), in simple words, means the teaching of English language in a non-English-speaking region. Education in American and British cultures
conducted in which the researchers argue that many ESL students face difficulties in learning English language at various levels and with different skills (e.g. McCardle and Hoff, [15] Hoffman, [10]). Other examples are Abdul Haq (1982), Harrison, Prator and Tucker (1975), Abbad (1988) and Wahba (1998). But, we hardly come across with the researches that cite the problems that Arab students face in learning English literature. Al Shumaimeri (2003) opined that “Teachers have pointed out that students leave