of people who speaking in the similar language. A person has accent depends on several factors; but, accents are typicallyassembled in the following way: - Regional Accents - such as, people who are from England different than people who are from America. - Foreign Accents - such as, a person who was speaking English will sound different than a person who was speaking Spanish and learned English as agrown-up. Accents are an ordinary part of pronounced languages. It is essential to understand that
journalists, teachers, writers, lawyers, etc. have good opportunities to use this method of communication in their workplace while others have very few instancesto resort to this method of communicating. Writing also fulfillsacademicfunction in second language teaching when used to fix the vocabulary and structures
English is known as the international language in the world that make a strong communication between the people of the world, which many developing countries attempt to use this language while their native tongue is not English. Speaking English may have some positive and negative effects on those countries which English is not their original language. Although in many countries English is thought as a foreign language in schools and universities, some other countries used English as the Medium of
absolutely! To successfully raise a bilingual child you might need to put more effort in than mixed-language couples, but this really depends on the language of your environment: A. Does your environment provide the same language you and your partner speak ? This will mean you will have to invest a lot of effort to expose your child to another language. B. Or is the dominant language of your environment (language of the country/school/nursery) different from yours ? In that case you will be faced with relatively
time is important for second language learners to understand that there can be grammatical differences between their first language and the English Language. For Dutch learners this can be especially tricky because, although Germanic languages generally adhere to the v2 rule, English is the exception. This can cause confusion for the Dutch learner as the Dutch language has a different word order. Although it is not necessary to learn the rules of a language to speak the language, it does provide the
“the age of our students is a major factor in our decisions about how and what to teach. People of different ages have different needs, competences and cognitive skills” and that “we might expect children of primary age to acquire much of a foreign language through play, for example, whereas for adults we can reasonably expect a greater use of abstract thought.” Many psychology course books or teaching manuals
research problem is based on the question: how does the Spanish language interfere in the English written production done by students in the course Written Communication III at the Paraiso Campus of the University of Costa Rica? From the foregoing, it is intended to assess and get results on the possible consequences of using structures of the Spanish language in the English written production and how the interference of the native language affects either positively or negatively on the student writing
but also having to face them in a completely different language than your own. In Harumi Kimura’s journal article, “Foreign Language Listening Anxiety: a Self-Presentational”, she explores the anxieties and the psychological repercussions faced by second language listeners. Using the Self Presentation theory as a basis for her study, Kimura discovered truth to her hypothesis, and created greater insight into problems faced by second language listeners. To begin it
FOSSILIZATION IN L2 ACQUISITION There are several differences between first and second language acquisition: L1 is intuitive, natural, complete and trigger by birth. L2 in general is a choice, depends on the motivation of the learners and the difficult relies in achieving native proficiency. Related to second language acquisition, Selinker introduced the term ‘interlanguage’: "the process of learning a second language (L2) is characteristically non-linear and fragmentary, marked by a mixed landscape
to master the school subjects better, and achieve the educational goals of the curriculum. 2.8.4 Mother-tongue Instruction ( MAI ) According to the Finnish Constitution, everyone living in Finland has the right to maintain and develop their own language and culture. In this regard the main objective of mother tongue teaching is to build a strong cultural identity and establishing a unique self-esteem for immigrant children. According to Guvercin (2011), mother tongue has a very powerful impact in