Influence Of English In The Japanese Language

Honours Project Proposal (revised) Name: Ngan Hung Yan Student no.: 11089726 Title: Presence of L2 accent in L3 Acquisition 1. Introduction: Second language acquisition (L2) has been often regarded as an important stage for language learning after acquired the first language. However, it is evident that Third Language Acquisition (L3) has become increasingly important and it is a new and hot topic for many scholars due to the multilingual culture in nowadays society. Over the past few decades

Abstract The current study looked at the phonological development of native Japanese speakers who speak English as a second language. Two subjects were given a word list of English words to read from and recorded. The recordings were then analyzed based on their divergence from English phonology. The recordings were also shown to native English speakers to rate the foreign accent of the subjects. The current study was conducted under the hypothesis that the speakers’ L1 would interfere with the

Psychology_Application Paper Chapter 9 Thinking, Language and Intelligence In this paper, I am going to write about how language and thought are closely related to each other. The reason I am highly interested on the topic “Thinking & Language” is because I speak 7 languages, and I realized that my personality, thinking, attitude and behavior change with the language I speak. I feel like there are many versions of “ME”. What I experienced in speaking 7 different languages is that there are certain things

work on second language (L2) acquisition has focused on the influence of the native language (L1) on L2 learning by providing phonetic interpretations of non-native production and perception. Researchers have suggested that the weight of a feature used in L2, but not in L1, may create difficulties for L2 learners. A classic example of this problem is the difficulty that Japanese listeners experience in distinguishing English /r/ and /l/ phonemes, which are both mapped to the Japanese /l/ (McClelland

explore the Japanese versus non-Japanese dichotomy looking at both the historical contexts, such as Japan’s self-imposed isolation from the rest of Asia, and the rest of the world, in the 1600’s to the 1800’s, and then looking at the more recent times marked by Japan’s ‘return to Asia’. An exploration of the deep roots of the defined ‘Us vs. Them’ way of thinking in Japanese society as well as its use in protecting the Japanese cultural and national identity will be discussed. English loan words (ELW’s)

Japanese Popular Rock Music Japanese popular music and Japanese popular culture is heavily influenced by Western culture through similar characteristics such as instruments, rhythm, style, and language. When listening to J-pop songs, most people tend to think that they might have heard these songs before despite ever listening to those songs. This familiarity is due to the fact that J-pop songs derive from many aspects of the Western music style. The individuality could come from the arrangement

more sophisticated person. A belief system helps develop a sense of one's effectiveness in interacting with the diverse cultural environment. Because of how strong the influence of a belief is, it can influence a person’s philosophy and temperament which in turn shapes the interactions with their peers. Cultural identity influences an individual’s perspectives in which in their systems of belief gives a background of the cultural identity, this system of beliefs help one interact with others through

to form their own. No other Nation on the planet, other than the United States, can rival the Philippines’ melting pot of different ethnic backgrounds, its rich culture, and languages. Derived from hundreds of years and many nations this comes to show that culture no matter who, what, why, where culture will always influence the ideas, developing and characteristics of a group of people. The Philippines, is a nation of 7,107 islands with a total area of 111,830 square miles (307,055 square

“My English” is an extract from a book by the same name, written by Julia Alvarez; a writer born in United States, who spent most of her childhood in the Dominican Republic. In this extract, she explains her experience of being a bilingual individual, trying to harness both her mother tongue of Spanish and her “biological” mother tongue of English. The author first describes her childhood, where she was raised in the Dominican Republic by her mother and father. During her childhood, she was taught

is the belief that some languages just aren’t good enough because they do not fulfill certain criteria. Criteria such as not being able to act as a medium of speech to express new ideas, to speak of science, to speak of high literature, and to be used internationally without having to borrow vocabulary from other languages. English is probably the most infamous case of this myth being false. As we know it English is probably one of the most widely spoken languages. English has the ability to clearly