The Importance of Learning English

There are many reasons for learning English. We need to learn English for both our social and academic lives. We live in the United

From the study about the motivation toward learning English of Thai undergraduate students. Oranpattanachai (2013) mention that the strongest reason for learning English was it will be helpful in their future career, English language may make them have more qualified job candidate and it is international language. On the other hand, Thai undergraduate students reported that the weakest reason of learning English was they are interested in English culture, history, or literature and they want to learn about other culture to understand the world better. From her research, it can be seen that Thai student do not emphasize the importance of studying culture or history of English language (pp.37-38). This finding is consistent with Kitjaroonchai & Kitjaroonchai (2012)’s findings. Studying English can be important because it will help us get an ideal job in the future and it will be use in their future job. It can interpret that Thai students knows the importance of English language as a means to helps them get their expect

Nowadays, English is the global and technology language. English play an important role in the world and it works like a passport because it has improved a lot and became the language of technology and the language of internationals. As result, most of people developed based on English language through global businesses. In all over the world there are many opportunities that changes people life to make it better and its English language. There many non- English speaking countries that uses English as a second language and they teach subjects like science and mathematics and etc. in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) to provide more opportunity for their development.

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.

Also, how much the student perceives the need of the new language can have a great impact on how willing they are to learn it. In terms of his own advancement in perhaps obtaining a job where it may be necessary to know English, or meeting some other goal, which is

English is an international language which is used officially all around the world. Anybody who wants to make connections with the world we live in should learn English. I had English language classes in my secondary and high school years. I also took some private English learning courses throughout summers in my country, Turkey. However, I could not improve my English effectively as all Turkish students in Turkey. I fully agree that English will be learned most efficiently in the boundaries of an English-speaking country not in the home country because of some cases. Therefore, I came here, USA, to learn English better after graduation from my university.

English is the international language around the globe and they need to learn it to communicate with other and other countries. Learning English is very important to help them find job opportunities in the biggest companies because the biggest companies has their system and employees speak English so they can help other people through the international language. Considering English is being taught in almost every school nowadays, it is only natural for companies to hire English speaking employees because most people speak English everywhere. English can help students who are learning English to develop their relationships with people everywhere. Building relationships with people around the world helps us to obtain unity. Currently, there are almost 75 territories which speak English as a first language or a second language in most fields such as education, government and law. It is difficult to establish the right number of Englishes in the world as it is almost developing new varieties of English and new things are being discovered. Other than that, the internet and the media needed a shared language and that language was English. English is also the language of diplomacy and educated elites which made the English language even more popular in these domains and with people. Seeing that all the important domains and all the popular people in all different domains can speak English, that made people want to know learn it even more so they can understand what is going on around them and to help them grow in so many ways. That’s why English should be offered in all countries and be learned by people all over the world as it is a dominant language. As statistics show, English is the most leaned language all over the world in all different countries and schools, even some schools have English as a mandatory language where it is not even a first language in the

Need of the learning English language has been raised as per the requirement of the time to compete with the world as being the part of globalization. Pakistan is among the developing countries, in order to compete with the world there is need to learn English language. As Shamim (2011) observed, “English is the passport to success and upwards social mobility” The education policy of 2009 has directed that English should be taught as compulsory subject from Grade-I.

English is considered as one of the first widespread languages worldwide. It is taught in almost all countries around the globe due to many reasons such as globalization, media, cinema, etc. English is also regarded as the common ground language with which people from different places in the world communicate, chat, and discuss different issues about their native or mother cultures. The status English gained universally urges one to ask many questions like: Why English and not any other language? Is it a good thing to teach English and British without looking at the cultural meanings and values transmitted? Does giving English a great importance in the educational system challenge the Moroccan local structure? How could teachers work out to teach a language without

As we all know that English is the most important and common language. Mainly most of the countries use English in their life because it helps a lot to communicate with the people around the world. Kuwait schools offer subject specially for teaching and learning English. So when I was seven years old, I learned the basic words and number without any grammar. Each year in my education from primary to high school I learned the language from my teachers. When I graduated, I observed that I have a lack of understanding English. I realized that I have no ability to understand the news, songs also the movies with English language. I found it really very difficult. In my opinion, the problem is because in our government schools here in Kuwait do not offer enough educate. To be honest, they do not have the better skills to deliver the information for the students. Moreover, they do not teach essential vocabularies that we need in our education. Of course that can cause a problem for a student to misunderstanding the English language. I entered the university after I finish high school but I found it difficult because of lacking of vocabularies. I was only understood by scanning and catching the easy words.  At least, I can understand the sentences by context. I tried to deal and come over to my problem by myself by learning more, and improved my reading in books and translating new English words to Arabic when I do not understand. Honestly, till now I

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.).

English is a language which can be traced back to the 5th century by migration and resettlement of its speakers into the different parts of the world. Beginning its foundation of the American colonies into Europe and into the 17th century with its establishment of the East India Company (Paranjpe & Prasad, 2010). The 200 years of presence that English had in India left a huge impression on its language orientation. Both attitudinally and linguistically English has made its place into the new cultural environment and fresh communicative needs. Despite the government’s support towards Hindi, the language inculcating the largest number of speakers under it compared to the other Indian Languages has not yet been able to take up the prestige that English holds in India. India’s larger population is bilingual with proficiency in English. Today it has earned the privilege as the language of the world’s developed countries, their technologies and economy (Paranjpe & Prasad, 2010). It is the very reason that this language has caught the attention of the future generations irrespective of their home country to put English at the pedestal and give development of their native tongue a second place. The provision that English gives on the professional front is too strong as compared to any of the other languages in India. It has not only acquired a wide range of functions in the Indian society, but has also linguistically evolved its own characteristic features at the

I knew from the first day I started high school I had no desire to go to college. My main goal was to graduate high school even if that meant doing only the bare minimum. Which is exactly what I did. I didn't know how important an education was until after high school. Once graduating I enrolled into cosmetology school and even there my instructors advised me to get a degree, which I still was against. After receiving my cosmetology license I began working at a beauty supply store. I found myself knowing what I wanted to say but not knowing how to get it across without talking in ebonics when educating customers. We had a lot of Hispanic customers and only had one employee who spoke Spanish. On her off days I would find myself trying to translate as much as I could from what I could remember from high school Spanish classes. However I spoke Spanglish, a mixture of English and Spanish, which left me feeling embarrassed and frustrated that I couldn't communicate like I wanted to. This prompted me to go back to school for a degree in Spanish and work on my English skills. In her article, “Spanish Lesson,” Christine Marin writes about being raised in an English only household despite being Mexican-American and learning the power of her Spanish language and being bilingual. In the article, “Homemade Education,” Malcolm X describes being street articulate but not knowing how to express himself how he wanted to through letters. Malcolm X and Marin have both overcome learning

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.

Furthermore, attitudinal studies performed on Arab learners’ motivation reveals that they are conscious of the importance of learning English as an influential instrument to achieve a goal, like a career (Rababah, 2003). Additionally, Jordanians’ mother tongue is Arabic, whereas English is the foreign language learned in schools, as a consequence of historical accident and current importance. To summarize English current condition, Zughoul declares: “despite the hegemonic and imperialistic nature of English, it is still badly needed for the purposes of communicating, education, acquisition of technology and development at large” (Zughoul, 2003).