The English Language in Singapore and Malaysia Vincent B. Y. Ooi (ed.) TIMES ACADEMIC PRESS First published 2001 by Times Academic Press An imprint of Times Media Private Limited (A member of the Times Publishing Group) Times Centre, I New Industrial Road Singapore 536196 tel: (65) 284 8844 fax: (65) 285 4871 email: te@tpl.com.sg Online Book Store: http://www.timesone.com.sg/te Contributors Introduction Vincent B Y Ooi 1. The Voices of English-knowing Bilinguals and the Emergence of New Epicentres
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The English language has many branches of pronunciation. It is a unique language and often, in today’s time, people come up with new slang for it that become the hype of the school. As a teenager, it is understood that having this sort of different way of communicating with fellow teens is different, modern, hip, and cool to society. This is honestly something that you don’t need in your life. If you aren’t with the crowd and caught up on this discrete way of communicating, it doesn’t mean you should
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years for him. In his essay, “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”, Rodriguez uses anecdotes, strong arguments, and his own voice to successfully argue that bilingual education is impractical, and a child using their native language as well as English in school and public life is not needed. In the first chapter, Rodriguez talks about the struggles of growing up in a Mexican home but when he leaves his house, he enters a whole new world. Using anecdotes Rodriguez states, “I was a bilingual child
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ethical standards.) I did not see any outward indications of how ethical issues were addressed. That being said, it seems like the researchers were quite interested in finding connections that would enhance a non-academic learner’s ability to learn English. This alone would suggest that they have high standards for an inclusive environment which would provide insight into helping these students and others learn the language skills necessary to function in American society. 10. What questions might
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At the beginning of treatment, it became evident to the family based team that Gustavo’s mother’s limited English undermined her hierarchy with the children. She came to United States 14 years ago at the age of 24; however, it appears that due to depression, memory problems, and some cognitive challenges, in addition to being immersed in the Hispanic Culture, she hasn’t learned English. When she would struggle to understand something, the children would point out that the information was basic and
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I picked scene from the movie Pulp Fiction, this movie is mainstream example. My attention draws the dialogue between Butch and the cab driver. -So Esmeralda Villa Lobos, is it Mexican? –You mean Spanish, but I’m Columbian…and what is your name? –Butch. -Butch, what does it mean? - I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit. Butch covered Americans perspective to the name purpose, by saying the name doesn’t mean anything, but in other hand we have Columbian cab driver and she where
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The literacy movement along and the desire to break away from traditional cultural views was continuing to increasing because of the difference of colonization between the different colonies. Globalization and technological advances was allowing the views of colonies to be broadened. It was also allowing the different colonies to interact more with each other. “Science and technology also came to be questioned with a new intensity, both in terms of their intrinsic nature and in terms of their
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two kinds of motivation, the instrumental and the integrative, with much importance on the former. The instrumental motivation refers to more functional motive for learning the language such as studying English is important because it will enable me to better understand and appreciate the English way of life. The integrative motivation refers to learners’ desire to at least communicate or at most even assimilate with the members of the target language.
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years ago Saudi Introduced teaching English to the curriculum because of the importance of learning languages in the development of the country and spreading Islam,as result of this interest in teaching English,Applied linguistic (AL)was one of the majors Saudi students began to learn later on. There were Various reasons behind Saudis studying AL, to my knowledge,one is the purpose for teaching in higher education.In the present time Saudis studying AL or English related majors in local universities
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have a crucial role in children’s achievement in English learning, the present study is to explore and evaluate the impact of Iranian parents’ involvement in and attitude toward their children’s foreign language programs for learning English. In other words, the effectiveness of their high level of involvement and strength of attitude will be evaluated. Besides, this study is to explore whether some factors as parents’ gender, knowledge of English, income, and educational background are related in
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