The Importance Of Language

The positive effects of adult support for children can be witnessed as children gain confidence and show an increased level of self-esteem. These positive effects are reinforced when encouraged and given praise for their achievements from teachers, parents, carers, and other adults.

Language can be described in three main ways. Clark (1996, cited in Gee & Hayes, 2011, p.6) called it a 'cognitive phenomenon, and talks of it as being the way we think or something that is in our heads. The second view of language is that it can

Being from an immigrant household, I understand the value of language. Growing up Bengali was my primary or ‘private’ language,I wasn’t introduced to English until I was 6, and since I went to a catholic school with American nuns I mastered the language fairly quickly.I would speak in English in school and return to speaking bengali with my family at home. Because most people in Bangladesh spoke Bengali which resulted in me not having to speak English as a primary language until I moved to the United States. After we moved it was hard for me to keep up a conversation in English as I was not used to speaking it so often and so fast, but my mother always encouraged us to speak to her in english so that all of us got some practice.

Language is a key ability required to communicate with others and if someone lacks this expertise they encounter countless obstacles. At the end of 2010, my family and I immigrated to the United States of America. At the time, I had mixed emotions about the move, I was unable to process everything. I did not know how I was going to survive in a new country with a completely different culture. For the first ten years of my life, I had been brought up in an Indian household where I had been instilled with Indian values and spoke Punjabi. Much to my dismay my largest obstacle would be the language barrier, because I wasn't fluent in speaking English. When I started to attend school, everything began to intimidate me. I needed to get accustomed to a completely different schooling system compared to the one I had just come from. I wasn't fluent in English which hindered my ability to communicate with my teachers and my peers. On the first day of school, I had difficulty navigating through my elementary school because I was unable to figure out where I was supposed to go. I tried asking other students for assistance, but no one was willing to help me. When I finally found my class, my teacher gave the class an introduction and assigned the class an assignment which we were given twenty minutes to complete. I looked at the assignment which had the words "about me" printed on top. I quickly glanced through the rest of the assignment and found that I did not understand any of it. At

It was during the 1800s that a decision was taken which had ended up being the turning point for the language in education scenario in India and changed the orientation of language priority in Indian education. The decision was taken to ignore the vernacular medium education and concentrate entirely on English as the single language for instruction (Paranjpe & Prasad, 2010)(Sridhar, 1989). It was made clear that those who had attained education in English would be preferred over the vernacular educated class. English had become the language of higher education and with the establishment of the prestigious universities in the major cities like Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Lahore, Allahabad and Punjab, English had achieved its supremacy (Sridhar, 1989) (Krishnaswamy & Krishnaswamy, 2006). From this point onwards education came to be equated with English education and those who studied in vernacular medium were put permanently in the background (Sridhar, 1989), a mindset prevalent in the mind of Indians even today. Despite the changes which were made in the language policies in the 1900s to make space for vernacular languages in the educational setting did not meet with the expected success (Krishnaswamy & Krishnaswamy, 2006) (Sridhar, 1989). By 1970s and 1980s about one-third of the India had its schools using English as their medium of instruction (Paranjpe & Prasad, 2010). Hence the language in education policy during the colonial era had created two different media of

As with any school, especially in Florida, the toughest thing for a teacher to overcome is teaching to student who do not speak or hardly understand your language. Being that Florida's Consent Decree for teachers ensures all ESL students are to receive a quality and well accommodated learning, capable of papering them with the tools and skills needed to be successful. With no official language within the country, this means all languages and all students are to be accommodated for. A rather daunting task. Luckily, there exists so much research and a plethora of strategies, suggestions, and tools at a teacher’s disposal to help achieve this goal. Three very important areas in particular can be used to further this mission, behavioral, cognitive, and socio-cultural.

Language is the means upon which human express themselves. Many linguistic anthropologists and philosophers refer to language as the culmination of the expressive activities of humans such as verbal, physical and paralinguistic actions. It is the common aspect that humans share. Social scientists even refer to language as what makes us “human”. However, the main aspect of language which deems it vital to human being is what Ahearn says as the Socially-charged Life of Language. This means that language lives with it a particular context of a certain culture that is perpetuated by the means of social actions and activities such speaking and using that particular language. Language is a repository of culture and historical richness of its speakers. It, per se, highlights and showcases cultural variety which accents the uniqueness of that particular culture.

I am interested in the overarching influence of language in human culture. My Individually Designed Major in linguistics reflects this interest and prepares me for the application of linguistics in the field.

For most of the students, including myself, December is our favorite month of the year because our School Christmas Holiday is waiting for us. During the Christmas Holiday, many students plan a warm winter getaway with their families to avoid from shoveling 2 feet of snow off of their driveway. After all the flights and hotel booked, the last thing we do is to take everything we need, and shove them all into the luggage with full of excitement; however, if you are traveling to a destination where you don’t know or speak the language, not being able to communicate can not only be frustrating, but sometimes it can even be a bit frightening. Nowadays, The world is becoming more interconnected, like the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the sports we play, the movie we watch and the music we listen to, we are all connected in some way. Therefore, learning a foreign language (knowing more than one language) is getting more important in a globalized world.

Since the tower of Babel incident, people in the world speak different languages, some are similar to other, and some completely different.

Your mind is reading this sentence in English because it has been taught how to. As children, we learned the alphabet and the sounds each letter made. Then we learned how to put the sounds together to make words. The words we learned are the language we speak today, which is English. We are taught how to speak, read, and write in English. However, where did the English language come from? Despite the fact that English has become our primary language, Latin was the language English derived from.

This essay analyses the role of the language in colonized land by English empire. More in specific, how the colonial and post-colonial poems dealing with this powerful tool which is ‘language’. I will take in consideration Derek Wolcott. Drawing thought two of his poems, I am going to point out the way he uses ‘language’,

Language is a human phenomenon, and the course of human evolution then transformed into varieties of cultures where different dialects and languages were established all over the world. Language provides opportunities for learning new concepts and new ways for understanding the world. Culture is an integrated pattern of human knowledge, beliefs, moral goals, values, and behaviour. Social-Cultural inclusivity is the crucial element for teaching language and literacy in the classroom. Discussing language as an object; cultural diversity; Vygotsky’s theory; significance of Bilingual children; the effects of social class; significance of multiliteracies in the classroom; awareness of post-structuralism; the importance of ideology factors; and

The use of language is one of the greatest necessities of life. Language is the key to

Language enables man to communicate with other people and to describe the world. Language reflects the attitudes, cultures, emotions and the personality of people. Therefore, language communicated by men and women varies. Social networking has revolutionized communication and it is now used for business, recreation and entertainment. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube have millions of users. The language used by users on these social networking sites shows how linguistic behaviour of men differs from those of women. Our social as well as linguistic behavior has changed because of social networking sites. The linguistic style used on social networking sites reveals intentions as well as social identity and gender. Both men and women have varying speech styles and on an average the content posted by men and women globally on social networking sites differs. There are striking differences between how men and women use social networking sites, which suggests that both these genders have different ways of communicating since, social networking is the new way of communication in the 21st century!! The gender is clearly indicated based-on gender-specific keywords in profiles. Language affects the manner in which people interact as male or female and create cultural and sociological identity. The linguistic style used in words or categories of words uncover gender dynamics.