Essays on Language and Linguistics

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’…