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…
Essays on Language and Linguistics
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…
English, alongside with Filipino, is one of the languages of the Philippines used for communication and instruction as provided by Article 7 of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines (Tan, 2014). It has become the second language of the Philippines and has been widely used…
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…
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…
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…
