Linguistics

Within the past ten years, the number of English Language Learners (ELLs) has doubled. An increase of more than 2 million ELL students in the U.S schools, left professionals within the field of education with no choice but to face the challenge of understanding cultural differences. In addition to this, educators must understand how these differences affect students’ language development, learning style, academic achievement and most importantly, his or her performance on standardized tests. These

What is a semantic field and why is it important in the composition of written communication? Give specific examples to support your answer. According to Brinton (2000) the term ‘’semantic field denotes a segment of reality symbolized by a set of related words’’, or more broadly speaking, refers to a group of terms that share a similar meaning. It was first established by German Scholar J.Trier in the 1930’s who stated ‘’the vocabulary of language is an integrated system of lexemes interrelated

Retrospective analysis towards code-switching and code-mixing in formal English classrooms and its implication towards language learning. Introduction Since before the country independence, English was made compulsory in all schools in Malaysia except vernacular schools such as Malay, Chinese and Tamil medium school (Foo, 2004). But with the implementation of the Language Act 1967, the status of the English language was replaced by Bahasa Melayu. Nonetheless, English is still widely used by the government

Generative Approach: Noam Chomsky in Linguistics and Computer Science Perhaps no one would have expected a 1956 work on the study of languages to end up one of the most influential ideas in computer science. The work was Three Models for the Description of Language by Noam Chomsky. In it, Chomsky outlines a hierarchy of grammars with each one more robust and powerful than the last. This was just the beginning of what is now called the generative approach to linguistics. The generative view is that a system

Introduction The “American Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century” considers language to be “the primary vehicle for expressing cultural perspectives” and affirms that “the study of a language provides opportunities for students to develop insights in a culture that are available in no other way” (the language educator, ACTFL, 32) It implies that teaching or learning a second language goes with teaching or learning a second culture. Language acquisition is then implied to be

Human beings use language as a way of communication and to transmit different types of information to each others. To transmit knowledge and information, human beings can either use written language or spoken language. Any type of communication through language is influenced by the different factors and takes place according to different situations in which involves subjects i.e. addressor and addressee, time and place and so on. So we can say that only tool for communication is language. Language

The number of languages spoken in the world has been diminishing steadily over the past centuries. According to estimates (Romaine, 2007), scientists suggest that on average, one language may vanish every 14 days，and thousands of languages are on the verge of extinction (Romaine, 2007). Furthermore, more than half of the languages spoken today are expected to disappear in the next 100 years. What is worse, among the 6,000 existing languages (excluding dialects), only about 5% are spoken by more than

courtroom argumentation as a form of practical argumentation whose purpose is “to gain the assent or adherence of the audience to a claim.” (Sanders 2006). Drawing on Martin’s (2008) notion of affiliation from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL), the dissertation investigates the similar ways through which public prosecutors and defense lawyers seek for bonding in the legal field as well as how they use different experience-infused values in achieving affiliation in the

more than that; it takes the students´ abilities in enhancing their lexicon, their management in syntax, and their perspective about words´ influences in people. Thus, summing this up, it is indispensable that ESL students have a grand deal about linguistic knowledge. In other words, ESL learners not only require speaking, but also reading, writing and thinking in English when they complete whatever English career. For most of the ESL institutes and Universities in Panama, which bid English as a second

On Thursday, June 22nd, I observed a writing class at Sherman High School at the Perrin Field location. The instructor, Catherine Cunningham, granted me permission to observe her Writing Class which meets M/W/F from 9:00am – 3:00pm during the summer timeframe. Since I currently not do not have any teaching experience in the classroom yet, this was an opportunity to observe how an experience teacher of 25 plus years conducted her class. Before going into detail about this particular class, it’s important