The Importance Of Teaching English As A Foreign Language

In “Why Foreign Language Education Matters” Representative Rush Holt expresses the idea that the average American is generally deprived of what is known as cultural enrichment in their day-to-day lives, even though others believe that English should be the primary and only language Americans should speak. Holt conveys the overall concept that being bilingual, trilingual, or multilingual is a benefit not just for oneself but for our society. Rush Holt presents the argument with extreme concern for our upcoming generations and the consequences it may cause our nation’s economy to decrease in federal funding’s for education programs, as well as our global marketplace and national security who is highly dependent of translators, specialist, and

I was born in Vietnam. I left Vietnam to come to United State with my family when I was about 12 years old. I was really young at the time. It was a long time ago because I am 20 years old now. At that time, life for me was simple. I didn’t have to worry about anything. I stop going to school in Vietnam at grade five and stay at home for two years. It was really fun while I was at home. When I was at home, my parent wants me to learn English. So I learned English in Vietnam. When I got to United State, I started middle school at United for Success in Oakland. I start school in Oakland at grades 7. It was after Christmas when I started class. Over here, it really different than my home country. In my country Vietnam, It was really hot.

Australia is an extremely culturally diverse country, therefore many different languages are spoken in homes and communities across Australia. Consequently many primary school students are learning English as an additional language. EAL/D is an acronym used to refer to students whose first language is a language or dialect other than Standard Australian English; that is English is an additional language or dialect. In Australian schools it is essential students are able to speak and read English in order for them to understand and succeed in all content learning areas.

English IV is a class you have to pass to graduate. This class is very important and will teach you how to write essays in college, which is a good thing so you won’t be lost. I found out that essays was a big thing in english ,so just figured i have to do them to pass the class. English is something we have to use everyday.

The following paper will focus on an individual placed in a very specific teaching setting. For the purpose of the paper, the classroom will be located in an international school in Spain, therefore the language being taught will be Spanish. However, the majority of the concepts introduced are applicable to similar classroom setups in a variety of countries. As this is an international school classroom, the students hail from a multitude of different countries, meaning they do not all share a common first language. This will pose a great challenge to the teacher, whose previous experience solely consists of teaching Spanish in the United States, where almost all of her students spoke English as a first language. She is accustomed to using her students’ L1 as an anchor for teaching the L2, often code-switching to explain grammar and other key concepts. Now, however, she understands that she will have to modify her teaching method. She must now figure out a way to spend almost the entirety of her time teaching in the target language of Spanish. This will serve as the umbrella theme under which she will also address a variety of other modifications and concepts she must consider in her new classroom. All of these modifications serve to improve her ability to teach the class almost exclusively in the target language. What is to follow in this paper is the teacher’s firsthand account, written approximately a month before she is to start teaching, of how she plans to handle this

In today’s global world, the importance of English can not be denied and ignored since English is the most common language spoken in most countries. With the help of developing technology, English has been playing a major role in many sectors including medicine, engineering, and education, which, in my opinion, is the most important arena where English is needed. English is the main language in fifty-three different countries and is spoken by about four hundred million people according to “So Here’s What’s Happening to English”. With the help of two essays “The New Technologies in the World” written by Dennis Baron and “So Here’s What’s Happening to English” written by Jack Rosenthal, you’ll soon then understand how English is changing right beneath your feet. Consequently, English should be the medium of instruction at universities and everyone should learn English in the United States for the following three reasons: finding a high-quality job, being able to communicate with others, and a more wide access to knowledge.

In the nineteenth century, the United States set the precedence for racism. While the problems may appear consummated, the people of today know that is not totally the case. With the amount of cultural presence continuously growing, the ubiquity of foreign language should be taken more seriously. “One reason to learn them [foreign languages] is because they are tickets to being able to participate in the culture of the people who speak them, just by virtue of the fact that it is their code,” begins McWhorter of TED (McWhorter, 2016). Consequently, schools should offer foreign language classes sooner in a child’s life than freshman year of high school because this type of learning introduces them to cultural differences, increases their learning abilities and helps them understand learning styles of varying levels.

In the United States, we are striving for equal education every day. In the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education court case, the Federal District court decided that segregating schools was harmful and detrimental to the lives of African Americans. The reason that schools could be segregated was the buildings, transportation, curricula, and teachers, of white and African American schools were similar. Linda Brown and her sister appealed their case to the United States Supreme Court in 1950. The U.S. Supreme Court decided that even though the schools were separate but equal, this separation was in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Since this court decision in 1954, the government has been trying to make schools more equal. English Language Learners are a group of students that have had equality issues in school and are a work in progress (Landmark Cases.org, n.d.).

“I can’t wait to put this language that I have spent four years learning in high school to good use!” exclaimed every foreign language student. But expectations do not align with reality and upon entering the country where the foreign language is spoken, the student realizes that they can barely converse and understand only the most basic phrases. Why is this? It is because the foreign language classes offered in high school only cover vocabulary and grammar. Because they overlook the other essential parts of language, the course leaves students with inconsistent abilities. Introducing foreign language studies at the high school level is ineffective because it diverts resources for courses that may have minimal impact on students’ academic successes.

When teaching English as a foreign language, the teacher must be conscious to develop four different language skills in the students – listening, speaking, reading and writing. The activities and strategies used to develop these skills must be determined by the level and ability of the students being taught. This essay will discuss the strategies that facilitate the development of each language skill in the EFL classroom; the examples of activities used will be in the context of B2 level students, a classroom full of individuals who are able to function as independent users of the English language.

The reality of today’s educational system around the world is that knowing English is becoming necessary, or at least that is how Alejandro sees it. His first language is Spanish, and although he is learning English at IMAC, he doesn’t have immediate family members that speak English who can help him practice away from school. Alejandro is interested in studying economics, and he realizes that English is essential in this field. He hopes learning English can help him in the future, but he also needs some practice with the language now in order to do well on the University entrance exam. This exam includes questions on the use of the English language, reading comprehension, and analysis. Currently, Alejandro is on a level of English where he himself is not too comfortable speaking. However, he has the necessary motivation, both intrinsic and extrinsic, to get him to work hard in order to

Whilst it may be easy to think that language immersion is all about moving to a foreign country, the truth is that it is actually more about creating an environment around you.

Many students today struggle with their English skills because their parents are immigrants and they cannot teach them. In my situation, my parents started to learn English the same time I started to learn it. Elementary school was some very difficult couple years I went through because I had trouble communicating with the kids my own age. I have always hated reading or writing because I find it incredibly boring and I was no good at it. I did not start learning how to speak/write in English until I was almost five years old since both of my parents did not speak English. I met with Ms. Ramirez, who taught me English every single day until the fifth grade. By that time, I was fluent and her help was not necessary anymore. Throughout those five years, my parents were taking English classes, also learning from what I learned and they had decent jobs by the time I was in middle school. Of course, the first couple years in Elementary school were extremely stressful, but I was able to overcome it because I had someone by my side the whole time. My real struggles with reading and writing, hit me my freshman year and I will never forget that.

In this article, Karmos and Csizér illustrate the way acquisition of language in different age gaps through incentive to learn English language as a second form of communication. The study offers a description of learning English in three different learner populations in Hungary. The population included university students, secondary school students, and adults. The researchers used questionnaires that were given to the population of the study to evoke their feeling on learning the second language so that they could understand the difference between the acquisitions of English as their second language.

importance for me. Although I have been practicing English for ten years, I need to