Introduction The English language is a dynamic and influential medium of communication that holds a unique place in my life. This essay delves into my personal attitude towards the English language, exploring its significance, challenges, and the role it plays in shaping my interactions, education,…
Essays on Language and Linguistics
Introduction Culture and language are inextricably linked, forming a dynamic relationship that influences the way we perceive and interact with the world around us. This essay delves into the profound connection between culture and language, examining how they shape our identities, communication, and the very…
Introduction Languages, as vehicles of culture, identity, and communication, are cornerstones of human diversity. However, the world is witnessing a concerning phenomenon—the rapid disappearance of languages. As languages fade away, they take with them unique knowledge systems, cultural expressions, and ways of thinking. This essay…
Introduction Language is an intricate tool that not only enables communication but also molds the way we perceive and understand the world around us. The relationship between language and thought has been a subject of fascination for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists for centuries. This…
Introduction The preservation of endangered languages goes beyond the realm of linguistics; it is a means of safeguarding cultural resilience and empowerment. Endangered languages are not just linguistic entities; they are repositories of identity, history, and a sense of belonging. This essay delves into how…
Introduction The world’s linguistic diversity is at risk as numerous languages face the threat of extinction. Endangered languages are not just collections of words but repositories of culture, history, and human expression. This essay explores the intangible treasures embedded within endangered languages and the urgent…
Introduction Endangered languages are not just linguistic entities; they often hold the key to ecological knowledge that has sustained communities for generations. This essay explores the intricate relationship between endangered languages and ecological wisdom, highlighting the urgent need to preserve these languages to safeguard our…
Introduction Endangered languages are not just a collection of words; they represent the cultural heritage and identity of communities that have evolved over centuries. The disappearance of these languages threatens to erase rich cultural knowledge, traditions, and unique ways of thinking. This essay explores the…
Introduction The pursuit of learning a new language is a voyage that transcends linguistic boundaries, offering a gateway to diverse cultures, enhanced cognitive abilities, and enriched personal experiences. Whether driven by academic, professional, or personal aspirations, the process of acquiring a new language is a…
The first couple of years of schooling are crucial in laying the basic foundation of language development that will carry a person through the rest of his life. Research suggests that late bloomers in reading never really catch up (American Federation of Teachers, 2004). As…
All countries or all nations have their culture, lifestyle, and also their language. English language is one of the most necessary language which will be needed in the future. Because English language is used in most countries and most technologies. We can learn English language…
There are many species of life which may be more than in a position to talk, but human beings have a unique form of communication. We are the handiest species able to using language as a form of communication. Think approximately the number one humans…
Introduction When we hear the word “power” our first association is the power of one man over another or of one’s strength. In this research paper, we are going to discuss about the power of language. Even though many people do not think so, language…
‘The greatest art and most conquering weapon in the world is language. Human progress and civilization begin with language communication.’ People who have no voice in this world will become scientists and even experts, but they will not become a great leader. The civilization and…
Some researchers claim that slang has become a part of our daily language, especially among young people, and if we think about it, we will realise that it is everywhere (on social media, in conversations, in films, in TV series, etc) (Adams, 2009). In addition,…
Background of the Study In everyday life, spoken or verbal language is more widely used than non-verbal or written language. Spoken language as an interaction tool plays a major role in human life from informal to formal situation such as daily conversation, jokes, slogans, documentation,…
In her essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” (1987), Gloria Anzaldúa asserts that foreigners were treated as inferior because of their language. She does this by giving her readers insights into her own life, through the usage of imagery and description. Anzaldúa hopes that…
Introduction Human being uses language to interact with each other, especially in spoken language. Each language has different cultural backgrounds. These different backgrounds affect the way people speak the language a lot more than they use the language in a verbal context. One topic that…
The Philippine language Tagalog is declared and proclaimed by President Quezon in Executive Order No. 134, s 1937 that is based on the Tagalog dialect. Overtime, due to the vast number of immigrants that has brought great influence in different aspects of Filipino living, the…
Writing is described as hard for most people. However, a common refrain for people chatting online is that tweeting is easy. That is the distinguish between formal and casual expression. Because people tend to stay in a less pressure and less responsibility environment, they like…
Everyone knows that Malaysia is a multi-cultural and multi-lingual country, and the common languages use in Malaysia are including Malay, English, and Mandarin. In Malaysia, there is also a version of English known as ‘Manglish’ which is a mixture of English with other local languages…
Cultural assimilation is a very powerful theme that many people can relate to or identify with. It is complex, composed of features that are heavily influenced by external factors (things we can’t control) such as location/geography, ethnicity, political motives, and societal pressures. It’s also affected…
In ‘How to Tame the Wild Tongue’, Gloria Anzaldua tried to grasp why society includes a negative perspective towards Chicano’s words still because of the living of Chicano at the border between Mexico and America. Starting her story, the tooth doctor said: “We’re going to…
Throughout the semester, I have been immersed in literature written by writers of different races and ethnicities. Although the plots and characters were diverse, they all searched for self-concept. Humans have an ideal perspective of their own culture identity, this often different than the identity…
When I started English course I had no idea that one simple class could change me so much. I decided to enroll in my English skills were poor and I had many problems with grammar. At the beginning of this class, I was no able…
Language is an inevitable, powerful tool for efficient communication of thoughts and ideas, building friendships, economic ties and ethnic relationships. However, how language is used varies from person to person: some view it only as a means of expression while others state that this ability,…
Have you ever been in a situation where you found it difficult to communicate with someone who speaks a different language than you? Or have you been in a situation where you were unable to get around in a different country due to a language…
Communication is how we as humans teach, learn and develop our world. With this communication, we have been able to develop our world through invention and advances in technology. The way in which we communicate has changed drastically with modern forms of communication being electronically,…
These days, environments that utilize English as an essential language of communication have extensive breakthroughs in education. Meanwhile, considering the number of chances offered to be viable in life, many students at institutions around the world continuously strive in competition in terms of having complete…
Does everyone consider English as a single language? There are inferences that English is a single language, but in reality, people develop diverse versions of English as their mother tongue such that it is very uncommon to discover two people that speak the same English…
Nowadays, it is a well-known fact that the English language is the of our times but many do indeed believe that this will change. It is impossible to be able to maintain such an undeniably strong and, most importantly, global position for such a long…
My first semester has come to an end. It just seems like yesterday I was a freshman here. Over this semester, I have learned many things such as: how to write an essay and improve on essays that I have already written, how to locate…
The study conducted by Yunus, Salehi, and Chenzi indicated that using social networking tools in writing classes in language learning and teaching contributes to leaners’ understanding and development and helps learners gain more confidence in increase motivation in language learning process. The participants of this…
With the passage of time after different circumstances and situations that we experience daily, little by little we learn to eliminate different and significant barriers that arise in life itself and one of them is the need to communicate, verbally, in writing, this premise gives…
The labels Inner, Outer and Expanding circles, as first identified by Braj Kachru , represent the global spread of the English language, also the functional diversity of cultural contexts. Within the Inner circle there are countries, for example America, where English is spoken as a primary…
In my country, English is taught from primary school to high school. However, if I think of my elementary and high school period, no teacher taught anything by combining English and literature or did not do any activity. We did not read short stories. We…
Brad Kachru identified countries making up what is now known as ‘the Inner, Outer and Expanding circles’ , demonstrating how English is used globally. Kachru also categorised five main countries that show where English is primarily the means of communication. Inner circle English is characterised by…
Guatemala means “land of forests.” From what I learned from the pictures shown in class, I noticed that Guatemala is a mountainous terrain, a tropical latitude, and small in size. Guatemala is located in Central America and is north and west of Mexico. It’s also…
Sweden contains a diversified culture that I analyzed by reading some journal articles from the internet. I also managed to interview my friend who comes from Sweden, for he came to the United States when he was 20 years old. I met my friend him…
My project is on learning a foreign language. The foreign language I selected was French and I started off with completely no knowledge of French. I had never taken a French course in my life, nor had I ever tried to be told the language….
Freedom was the most fundamental part of interaction between the Indians and the French-Europeans in the New World. Trade was so critical to the French that they adopted many of the practices set forth by the Indians. The French exploration was based almost entirely on…
Studying French to me, is not just about tackling grammar rules or improving fluency, but about the opportunity to explore a whole new world. Embracing francophone culture therefore, seems in my eyes, the only way to truly understand such a beautiful language. In taking my…
Olmen (2018) defined semantics as the field of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning. With the knowledge of semantics, we can apply suitable words, phrases and sentences in different contexts that bring about meaningful communication. In the recent SNC-Lavalin affair, Financial Post reported that…
The story begins in 1958 yet flashes back to the years 1942-1943 in the WWII era and it takes place within New Hampshire, primarily at the Devon School. There are no major changes in place (New Hampshire) but changes in time because even though the…
An elegy is a poem of lament, usually formal and sustained, over the death of a particular person; also, a meditative poem in plaintive or sorrowful mood. Through an elegy, authors are able to convey their deepest remorse and grief through the eloquent use of…
Language accusation is the method by which people procure the capacity to see and comprehend language. Dialect procurement includes structures, rules and representation. The capacity to effectively utilize dialect requires one to secure a run of devices counting phonology, morphology, language structure, semantics, and a…
Romanticism was an artistic and literary movement in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries which had a profound impact on English literature. English Romantic literature is characterized by revolution and reformation, emotion and its connection to nature, the supernatural, and by using…
Sign Language is a language in which we make use of hand movement and gestures to communicate with people who are mainly deaf and dumb. This paper proposes a system to recognise the hand gestures using a Deep Learning Algorithm, Convolution Neural Network (CNN) to…
Introduction and Background The relationship between language and culture essay delves into linguistic expressions and cultural norms, explores how language both shapes and reflects the beliefs, values, and traditions of a society. For example English, alongside with Filipino, is one of the languages of the…
The objective of this study is to establish the Effectiveness of Mother Tongue in Learning English among Primary Learners and identify the differences from the different respondents and investigate the correlation of the grades of MTB-MLE subject and English subject to the academic performance of…
Every language consists of a collection of numerous words where the creation of new words go on and on and it never finishes. The group of words denominates the vocabulary and its amount plays a very important role in communication, especially in expressing the ideas…
Language often heavily burdened by political populism and leftism in African Postcolonial Literature, which appeared to promote rejection. One of the literary ramifications of nationalist / anti-colonial agitation was an aesthetic based on race that saw even the new product of literary hybridity born of…
“Volunteering in the Dominican Republic at a clinic and not being able to communicate with a patient who spoke French was a very hard experience” (Alsharif). My dad told me this to emphasize the importance of knowing a foreign language. Every summer, my dad travels…
The following foreign and local studies are valuable resources that also disclose sources of information relevant and helpful to the present study. The study made by Berbardo, Aggabao and Tarun (2015) entitled “The Implementation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) Program in Northern Isabela,…
Abstract English is the most widespread and essential language today. It is a medium of communication and is important for education, understanding and speaking English fluently. The need for effective oral communication is essential in the modern world. Communication in English is becoming an increasingly…
An Igbo immigrant attended graduate school in Chicago, leaving Nigeria. He would soon be followed by friends and family, creating an Igbo identity in the United States. Although education in America causes culture change for Igbo Americans, Igbo Americans should integrate their native culture in…
There is a need to start with an explanation of the term sex and the term gender since there is a difference between these two. The term sex is a reference to biological characteristics, such as genetic differences and genitalia. To be more precise, it…
The discussions in this section are taken from the ideas of authors of books, journals and other reference materials that deal with code- switching as a language teaching strategy anchored on the grammar- translation method. Based on the extended body of research on code- switching,…
Code switching is a prevalent phenomenon that frequently involves bilingual speakers. Words from two languages are used within a single discourse when code-switching bilinguals. Code-switching has been differentiated from code mixing in some research code mixing is described as a practice of mixing languages in…
Communication is essential as a medium for people to express thoughts and ideas in order to be understood by others (Nurhezrin, 2017). People communicate and interact with each other through verbal communication and non-verbal communication. Verbal communication is the process of sending and receiving messages…
The medium of instruction is that the language being employed within the field of teaching and it should or might not be the “official” language of that country. in line with UNESCO or The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, it considers that “providing…
English is possibly the most complex language in general. The English language has so many rules, if one is not exposed to it at an early age as their second language, the person learning the second language may find it frustrating when trying to learn…
Since the very beginning, human beings have needed to communicate. At first, they communicated by grunts and gestures, but humans kept progressing and created words, which allowed them to communicate more explicitly. As time passed, humans ended being spread all around the world, but their…
A young Madeleine Albright grew up learning English, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, French, and Russian. She continued learning these languages all the way up to college, and this knowledge greatly helped her as she started her career in International Affairs, and using this, she became the…
In the contemporan world all the things are in a continuous change and progress. Educational system also suffers a lot of changes almost every year: new strategies, new techinques, new ideas and so on. Idioms seem to be very difficult to be learned by the…
The debate regarding the necessity of language for consciousness has been ongoing for centuries, and across many disciplines, including psychology. This paper will explore the relationship between consciousness and language, focusing on the necessity of language for consciousness, and the importance of inner speech. Inner…
English has an international status and its utilization is no longer restricted to a couple of nations now, the United States of America, the United Kingdom. One of the first to consider this was Kachru (1985). His core interest was the ‘global diffusion of English’…
As a result, these colonized countries have accepted the language which then makes the language essential to them. Following this situation, globalization has caused the English language to become greatly powerful and its usage becomes important across the globe. The uncolonized countries realized the significance…
When a person is asked about identity, the most common response that you will get is a name, but an individual’s identity is so much more complex than that. Norton (1997) defined identity as “how people understand their relationship to the outside world, how that…
Many people dreaming to learn the English language. Everybody wants to learn it quickly and easily, do it in a couple of months, preferably in a dream. But unfortunately, there are no miracles. My way of learning English was thorny. I started learning it when…
In the poem “Bilingual Sestina,” Julia Alvarez expresses her feelings for both the Spanish and English languages. Language is not just a part of people’s culture but a reflection of their identity as well. So, what occurs when two languages come together? It is easy…
I want to study this topic because I find it quite interesting. I’ve seen people troubled to speak with somebody foreign or unable to talk their language in tv, movies, and reality however I never knew that it was known as a language barrier, even…
Introduction According to PingWu, Garza, and Guzman, worldwide students, mainly from Asia, consider pursuing their education at thousands of institutions among all 50 United States; these students play a crucial role in the variety and globalization of their classes and communities, as they incorporate distinctive points of view within…
Advances in technology, increased mobility, and globalization have facilitated the development of multiculturalism across the globe yet some deeply ingrained cultures persist to date. Indeed, many countries have maintained an official language, yet their inhabitants may have different first languages, or what is commonly known…
The United States of America gave lodging to millions of Immigrants from all over the world but especially from Latin/Central America. Thus, with such a heterogeneous population, Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas had to design a bill to change the legislative history of specialized education…
In our globalized world, it is becoming vitally important to be bilingual to understand what is happening around us. The process of learning a foreign and second language is going lighting fast because of the demand in communication to exchange ideas with other countries’ citizens….
Current bilingual training supporters in the United States regularly feature the significance of the the1968 Bilingual Education Act (BEA) on its now semi-centennial commemoration. In any case, this article demonstrates the BEA’s entry was never intended to completely bolster the 1960s Latinx activists’ goals for…
Language has always been associated with the evolution of humans as intellectual beings. Its role in a functioning society is indispensable since it sets the grounds for discourse and development. Other than that, language is considered as a driving force in the expansion of knowledge…
Noam Chomsky who is a noted linguist has contributed immensely to the field of linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, history and social criticism. He postulated the transformational generative grammar for which he obtained his PhD. His book titled, Syntactic Structures that was published in 1957 brought…
Noam Chomsky is an erudite scholar who has rendered enormous support in the field of linguistics, philosophy, history, and cognitive science with his groundbreaking innovations which include the theory of transformational generative grammar. Besides his contributions in academia, he is also a prominent author and…
