increasingly needed in the retail sector‚ tourism‚ transport‚ public relations‚ banking and accountancy‚ administration‚ translation‚ secretarial work‚ marketing and sales‚ the law and teaching. Bilinguals can offer potential employers more flexibility. Bilingualism also opens a wider communication bridge which helps them with the ability to communicate with more people and have access to more resources. This will increase the marketability of your skills and makes your resume become very desirable. Speaking
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Def. Biculturalism: Are those individuals who have internalized two cultures. Accordingly‚ both of those cultures guide biculturals’ thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviour. Def. Bilingualism: Is the ability to communicate relatively well—including the ability to speak‚ understand‚ read‚ and write—in two different languages. Bilingualism is an essential
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element in the development of bilingualism. One aspect of the community‚ language shift‚ is the tendency for languages to be lost across generations. Researchers in language shift originally described the process as taking place over three generations. The first generation spoke the mother tongue‚ while the second generation spoke both English and the mother tongue‚ and the third generation speaks only English (Pease-Álvarez‚ 1993; Portes & Rumbaut‚ 1990). “Bilingualism thus appears often to constitute
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Monumental Figure is an open form sculpture made out of a solid piece of limestone. It is from Maya culture and it was found in Mexico. The Chakh was originally from the Puuc hills of Yucatan and it was probably part of a royal court building. Where it looked straight at everybody who entered the building. It has been dated back to the 9th century. Its dimensions are H. 214 x W. 50.8 x 61cm. It is classified as a stone sculpture and it was purchased in 1966 by Harris Brisbane Dick fund. The sculpture
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Bilingual Services Shouldn’t be Provided in the United States When people speak one language they become as one and become a society. Speaking one language and using the same language for public services unites everybody; which in this case is English. When immigrants comes to America from all over the world they should assimilate with America’s culture and learn the American language English‚ which is spoken by more than half of American citizen’s. The government as well as the American should
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Relevance of Linguistics to English as a Second Language The characteristics of linguistics in relation to English as a Second Language (ESL) are varied and particularly focused. Some of the areas crucial to this field include language variation (bilingualism‚ multilingualism‚ and dialect variation)‚ phonology‚ morphology‚ semantics‚ syntax‚ and pragmatics. Each of these areas signifies some important detailing in the makeup of the ESL curriculum and its bond with linguistics. Further insight to each
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Immigrants do not need to shift their language to English as quickly as possible‚ yet their culture and language should be treated with respect and integrated rather than assimilated into American society. The personal view toward multilingualism and bilingualism was pessimistic when I first came to this country. When my family and I had immigrated to this country‚ eight years ago‚ none of the members of the family were fluent in English. We spent a fair amount of time to prepare for the immigration and
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Notes for debate~ Lee Kuan Yew insists that bilingualism is impossible and that English must take precedence over Chinese. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said Mandarin is important but it remains a second language in Singapore. So parents must be realistic in their expectations. Mr Lee was alluding to the furore which erupted after media reports that the Education Ministry was looking at whether to reduce the weighting of the Mother Tongue Language‚ reports that have since been debunked. Speaking
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it is impossible to expect others to support values that do not align with their own. Thus‚ in attempt to foster ethnic cohesion between the Chinese‚ Malay‚ Indians‚ the Singapore government built a national identity based on multi-racialism and bilingualism in schools. These aspects are deeply ingrained into the youths of the nation through the education system‚ and as a result has become a building block of the nation. This leads to the formation of “deep‚ horizontal comradeship”‚ seen as “imagined
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he Structure of Language Language is a system of symbols and rules that is used for meaningful communication. A system of communication has to meet certain criteria in order to be considered a language: A language uses symbols‚ which are sounds‚ gestures‚ or written characters that represent objects‚ actions‚ events‚ and ideas. Symbols enable people to refer to objects that are in another place or events that occurred at a different time. A language is meaningful and therefore can be understood
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