Search Of The Second Language

To learn a second languages is very important because people have better opportunities in life. For children from ages five and under it is the best time to learn as many languages. Angele Sancho Passe, the author of “Dual-Language Learners (Birth to Grade 3)”, talks about techniques for teaching English in a multilingual classroom and how reading in english to dual-language learners helps teach them oral language skills. Patton O. Tabors, the author of “One Child, Two Languages”, talks about writing case studies of children displaying different second language abilities. In the article, “Ways to Introduce Your Kids to Foreign Languages” by Grace Hwang Lynch, believes two-way bilingual immersion is a helpful way to introduce foreign languages

The Cummins model is a second language acquisition is a process of learning language stated from infancy. Baby goes through the silent period by he/she listens to language spoken to him/her and process the sounds, without attempting to produce any of their own. As child grows and becomes more comfortable with the language that he/she begins to produce sounds. The child moves two letter syllables and finally to words. They begins to put the words together into short phrases and eventually, sentences. The stage of development takes one to two years called BICS. I went over the research of LEP children will move from the silent period to language production in one to two years. A child has BICS are not at this stage capable of meeting academic challenges in their new language. The child has to learn English from infancy enters school having to then learn academic concepts. LEP child needs one to two years in school simply to develop the verbal language that a native English speaking child possesses upon entering school. Educational have the lack of time for LEP children are forced to move to production much more quickly. Cummins vision will take a minimum of five to seven years to reach native proficiency in CALP and to be able to function successfully without help in a monolingual English classroom. During the developing CALP, Teacher should be working with LEP students on reading and writing techniques and

Do we really belong to language or do language belongs to us? There has been many debates lately regarding if we control language and do language control us. Language is an object we mankind has created can not see it but we hear it everyday. It can be put into many different ways and said countless amounts of ways. Language was created for a purpose of communication, we use it as a tool and have manipulated it so much over so many years that we now have different varieties of language. Some of these varieties is english, spanish, german etc. People may argue that we belong to the language which derived from the land but I personally do not agree. People may speak a certain language depending on where they live but that does not mean that language control us. The argument of us belonging to language may be because certain people talk a certain language

The way I would answer my research question is by finding information on bilingual people and whether or not they had any struggles knowing or speaking two languages. I can also look up articles in social justice and literacy to give me a vivid background on both topics to tie it to my topic I chose. I will also be using the two articles by Tan and Anzaldua because they were both bilingual and both having interesting experiences they shared with the readers and these articles will help answer my question. I plan on finding all my resources through the library’s catalog and also looking up online to find articles, personal stories, statistics, or any website that will provide me more information on my topic. Some fields I can use are psychology,

As a son of Mexican immigrant parents to the United States, I was privileged to learn an additional language of English. However, I did not begin to learn English until my scholastic years began because I was immediately taken back to Mexico. During the four years I lived in Mexico, I was exposed to what became my mother tongue of Spanish. Everyone around me was monolingual, so I was never exposed to the flavor of the English language; but once school began, I was exposed to an unknown world of English, my second language. Like many English learners as a second language, I was placed in the ELD (English Language Development) program where I soon acquired a distaste towards English. The reason for my dislike for English was because I spoke it

With the many different cultures in the world comes many different languages. While languages are very interesting, they can make communication between two people of different backgrounds difficult. There have been multiple instances in my life where I could not effectively communicate due a language barrier.

On February 26, 2016 I attended to PS 246 and I observed a Pre-K; English Second Language (ESL). The class was interested because it engage to all the children. Each child needed to develop a non fiction book. The book needed to include a beginning, a middle and a final sentence. The children were given instruction of what to do and how to do the non fiction book. For instance; the teacher wrote and draw the instruction in the blackboard. Also, the teacher gave to each child a rubric paper in order for them to follow up in the instructions. The teacher provided double of the instructions. Thankfully, 80 % of the class was able to follow the instructions.

The moment when the plane landed to a stop, I did not know what I was getting myself into, and this significantly changed my life forever. The moment I stepped out of the plane I could feel an overwhelming stress upon me that I felt responsible for, from the stale-stuffy scent of the air, realizing how massive the earth truly was. The “big giants” with differentiating skin colors, and the amount of stress that I had to deal with in order to be become accustomed to this striking world.

In the Washington State Region, there is a multitude of diversity. This state is swarming with individuals from Asian descent, there is also a vast majority of Native American, Pacific Islander, Hispanic peoples, and many other individuals from different races. To compensate for all the diversity, Washington state has multiple ESL and ELL programs located all over Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, and other major cities.

Language in society is constantly being spoken in several different ways—whether that consists of speaking in different languages, or communicating differently when speaking and writing. Furthermore, language is often described as words used to communicate amongst others around you. As you become older, you quickly realize that language comes with much more than words. Many languages; if not all, have several different dialects—some to the point where the words can’t be recognized whatsoever. Consequently, it’s not only important to recognize the innumerable different forms of language varieties, but to understand what language varieties you command in different daily situations.

Have you ever listened to someone from another country speak English? A lot of times, people speaking a second language will pronounce things a little differently than native speakers, or they will talk at a different rhythm. Languages have their own pace, places where you expect people to pause or speed up or articulate more clearly. We call this part of language an accent. People speaking a secondary language may have a foreign accent, while those speaking a native tongue have a local accent. Music is a lot like this. Musical rhythms tend to have natural accents, emphases on certain notes within a meter. Just like fitting in with a new culture requires learning their accent, accents are essential to understand musical conversation.

Humanity has an unashamedly nature to be curious about life and all things it touches. We long to break each idea down to the smallest part and then scale back and see how it all fits together. It is innate to us from our 1st breath. “Mathematics manifests the freedom of the human ‘image-making’ relation to the world, which is an indicator of the ‘specific difference’ in human nature among the animal kingdom.” We crave this freedom, this knowledge. And for that reason, it is at the heart of storytelling.

* In the educational field, the teaching learning cycle is a model used in contemporary teaching in both school and adult educational settings. Rothery (1996 in Derewianka & Jones 2012, pg 43) who originally developed the model used this to aim at disadvantaged children for teaching literacy and writing in the KLA (Key learning areas) who were from socially disadvantaged areas. Over time the model has been phased across other areas of the English language such as listening, speaking, reading as well as writing. The key involvement of the teacher also known as ‘expert other’ in the teaching learning cycle is guiding the learner to understand key concepts in academic literacy through use of scaffolding strategies to transform students

“Is Language powerful?” It certainly is, but is it powerful to an extent that effaces any possibility of controlling it? The answer to this question varies from perspective to perspective, but in order to give a more solid response to this question, we have to acknowledge that the importance of comprehending the influence of language is critical because it is one of the most essential things in humans’ lives, which automatically makes it a topic of major relevance. This paper will be focused on the perception of language within the texts How to tame a wild tongue by Gloria Anzaldua, and Politics and the English language by George Orwell. These texts present divergent points of view in regards to the power of language. Anzaldua supports the idea that language has a lot of power over humans, while George Orwell believes that humans have power over language; however, both authors use their texts to support that idea that humans should defend their language.

Many people are unaware that there are more than six thousand languages in the world today. Imagine if a person could learn to read and write them all, picture the possibilities. It seems like an impossible feat, doesn’t it? Well you guessed it, it is. But it still remains a linguists’ dream to master as many languages as possible in a single lifetime. Language is one of the major systems of communication. So, is trying to learning to learn to write in a different language on a top of a first language a difficult and daunting process for the learner? I for one, strongly believe that a language learner’s first language challenges and hinders his or her ability to learn to write in a different language.