express yourself well in another language? How do you deal with the frustrating situation? How is yours similar to or different from Tan’s experience? While reading Tan's essay "Mother Tongue". I found a lot similarity between Tan and her mother as well as myself. what they have experienced is what I am experiencing right now. I started learning English when I was 16. To be honest, I am not a fast learner at language, so I do speak and write in broken English all the time. Living in a country
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living for me. At first, I identified myself as a new English learner, which means I could not communicated with others in English successfully. In this case, I decided to make friends with others who speak the same language to me. Today, when I review my experience, I notice that the reason is because I
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shaped by the standards set by the state and mandated by the federal government. These standards serve as an instrument for the definition of the language and the content that all students including English language learners (ELLs) are expected to achieve (Fenner, 2012). In this article, Fenner and Segota tackled the importance of the English language proficiency (ELP) standards, professional teaching standards and Common Core standards, their impact on ELLs and the interrelation between them.
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thing that is essential for all humans is the ability to be able to communicate, I realized that I would not be so great at that since I didn't really practice English at my home country.
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class. He or she must begin with the definition of attitude survey and the usefulness of the survey to understand better the reason for attitude survey. According to, the Oxford English Dictionary “attitude survey is an assessment of the feelings of a population toward a particular brand, product, or company” (Oxford English Dictionary,
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REACT, 1998(2), 18-23 APPROACHES TO DIGLOSSIA IN THE CLASSROOM: THE MIDDLE WAY David Deterding INTRODUCTION The concept of diglossia was developed by Ferguson (1959). It describes a situation where two languages or language varieties occur side by side in a community, and each has a clear range of functions. One of these varieties, the Hvariety (standing for 'High'), is adopted as the standard variety and is used in official situations, such as government broadcasts, religious services, and
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OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE DURING THE DARK AGES ABSTRACT This period extends from about 450 to 1066 A.D. The sources of Old English literature, as we know it, are rooted in their Teutonic origins and were evolved by the spirit that drove the times. In addition to reflecting the violence of the age, however, Old English literature also provides insight into the hearts and souls of a culture that had a strong attachment to nature; where loyalty and honor were more important than life. And for a
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English 1020-L22 November 3, 2013 Cultural Analysis-“From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle” “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle” is an essay written by Min-Zhan Lu, in which she describes the effects, both positive and negative, she experienced while trying to obtain somewhat of a balance, between the learning techniques and language forced on to her and her sisters by their parents, and the education and language taught and enforced by their country, China. Lu describes the emotional
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Why do we teach English? On his article “What is the second most useful language?” of May 29, 2013, Michael Skapinker, an Assistant Editor and Columnist at the Financial Times tells about this anecdote that he had: “The day before I was due to interview a leading French industrialist some years ago, I got a call from his press officer to discuss the arrangements. At the end of the conversation, she said: ‘By the way, the interview will be in French.’ I spent the afternoon in London anxiously
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English Language Forrest Partlow Unemployment HUMA215 Unit 2 Individual Project October 20, 2013 English Language I am choosing to use the English language of Britain for this paper mainly because I can speak it, read it, and understand it. Well modern English I can speak, read, and understand. I was in the Navy for 12 years. My job in the navy was a Hospital Corpsman. In the medical field we still use a lot of words that have Latin origins.
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