Essays on Language

I have always been intrigued by the concept of language; whether it be from how languages originated, how people learn them, or how the language creates words different from the pre-existing languages, I draw an interest to all of it. I specifically remember when I was younger, trying to create a new language of my own. In today’s world, there are more than 2,000 languages spoken around the world. Some of those languages are only spoken by a single village while others are spoken by billions of people

Language and Bias In New York City, hundreds of languages have been spoken everyday on the street as a grand representation that we live in a multilingual society. However, within the multilingual society minority language is often deemed as not useful due to the cultural, social and economical advantages that dominant language is able to bring along with it. This explains that why some of second generation immigrants are unable to speak in their heritage language, because they or their

communicate with a complex language and Titi monkeys who talk with sentence structure. Before we can talk about the ways dolphins and titi monkeys communicate I think we should discuss a little about communication and language. What is communication and Language? Communication could be defined as passing and receiving information(Koshal). This could be in many forms Talking face to face, reading each other body language or simple by touch is a way to communicate with someone. Language is about the words

What is language? As North Americans living in the early 21st century, we have been educated about language from the time we entered school. But much of what we learn about language in schools belongs more to a folk model than to an analytic model of language. Here are several pervasive aspects of our folk model of language. Language is a communication system. It is true that we use language to communicate with others. However, language is much more than a communication system. The most recent

I. Introduction Language is the main means in which we are able to express our needs, thoughts, feelings, beliefs and desires through words, gestures, and symbols; it allows us to communicate, connect and create relationships with others. It is also a vehicle for asserting our culture. Culture is made up of the characteristics of particular groups of people and can be expressed through religion, social habits, food, arts, and language. Our cultural heritage influences all aspects of our lives and

Bot (1995), language attrition in the other words is loss of language skills. There are both bad and good news from the research. For the bad news, it basically tells us that everyone is a loser because everyone is going to lose the language. And this language loss can be divided into group and individual level. Group means that a group of people started to shift from speaking an original language to another new language, and the next generation started to stop using the old language. Because of

While language deficiency makes some significant points that only specific codes are used by different economical groups, language difference theory raises the point of language variation and the problem is with the way that schools are interacting and valuing the differences among students. It must be noted language difference focus on the difference in a set of language skills held by students of different cultural backgrounds, not a deficient set of language skills as Bernstein had described.

Reform Movement in language teaching, pronunciation received systematic attention (Celce-Murcia et al. 2010; Terrell 2012). Thenceforth, research on L2 phonological instruction has grown, and, with the advent of the Communicative Approach, questions on the matter shifted from “Is it necessary to teach it?” to “What are the best ways to teach it?” With the focus on communication, this approach raised the need to teach both segmental and suprasegmental aspects of the target language in the classroom

Language is a method of communication, which can be either written, spoken or in a form of a sign language. Language is used in various ways, such as to express internalized thoughts and emotions, to learn to communicate with others and as well as to establish and maintain cultures. Currently, the world of the 21st century is an Anglophone world, meaning that it is an English-speaking world. English is the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Chinese and Spanish. When combining

A Programing language is a formal language that is designed to communicate information to machine. By using programing languages we will write code to control the machine and for the computation. The programing languages are preceded by the invention of computer. The first computer programing language was written in 1950’s. The first high level programing language “Short Code” was proposed by John Mauchly’s in 1949 for an electronic computer. Generally the artificial language can been split into