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 and weaknesses. The finding indicated that all students interviewed perceived that they have some difficulties in different skills but speaking is the hardest skill to learn among the four language skills. At first, six participants illustrated that among the common difficulties in speaking faced by students were related to grammar,
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
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, environment, where the school is situated and activities. Our overall aim is to prove that drama can
phenomenon is mostly abstract. Some people would define history as a consequence of dates when great battles took place and Monarchs finished their reigns with mysterious deaths. The history of the world is usually narrowed to numbers, names, toponyms and – what is significant – books. Not only textbooks on history, but literature itself represents history through words and pages. Sometimes this narrow of the concept is enhanced creating a strong stereotype of history. However, there are books that demolish
I am an American Airman of the United States Air Force with a Filipino descent and because of that I have been speaking two different languages “English” and “Tagalog” my entire life not counting another major Filipino dialect “Visaya”. And now, I would share some of my experiences using those languages on different communities which I belong to. For example, how did I manage switching or moving between language used in my job and language used with my family? How did it affect me, how it taught
Until the beginning of the 20th century there was no formal education available for Dalits. Dalit literature as a genre emerged only in 1970’s through some of the Dalit protest movements in Maharshtra and Andhra Pradesh. Dalit literature is the literature produced by the Dalit consciousness. Human freedom is the inspiration behind it. Dalit literature must be written from the Dalit point of view and with a Dalit vision. The “Dalit view point” calls for writer to internalise the sorrows and sufferings
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 is the natural characteristics of the human, is not a common capability, but it is a special gift that has been given to certain individuals. Therefore, for achieving a proper level of writing, an English learner should gradually pass different
teaching in primary schools in Hong Kong where the articles and references are mainly focusing on the influence to higher education. This essay is attempted to explore the relationship between globalization and primary school education in Hong Kong. The first part will discuss various definitions of globalization of different scholars views. The second part of the essay will be concentrate to discuss the pros and cons of how globalization affects teaching in Hong Kong. It will then be followed by a conclusion
This essay will be discussing and unpacking the issue around the argument made by Paul Gormley about the Black Realism and how that concept is shown through the two chosen films Boyz in the Hood and Tsotsi, and how although each film are different in context, they have similarities especially with the topic of black masculinity. This essay will argue the various layers that are tackled in the discussion of black masculinities, and how the characters within both films are portrayed as such to support
The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) is based on the Goals of the National Curriculum (MoEHr: 2006) taking into consideration the local and global conditions of its operationalisation and the need to ensure validity and currency (Ministry of Education and Human Resources,2009). The objectives were to create a link between the different types of learning areas. Due to this, the Overarching Learning Outcomes (OLO) was introduced. The first concern of the OLO according to the NCF, is about language