Issue 1 (22)‚ Volume 8‚ 2009‚ http://www.esp-world.info ROLE OF MOTHER TONGUE IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES Galina Kavaliauskienė Mykolas Romeris University‚ Vilnius‚ Lithuania Abstract A revival of interest to using a mother tongue in the English classroom is stipulated by necessity to improve language accuracy‚ fluency and clarity. This paper aims at examining students’ perceptions of the use of mother tongue and translation in various linguistic situations. The activities that
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Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education has been encouraged by United Nations Educational‚ Scientific‚ and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to early childhood and primary education since 1953. Mother Tongue Based Bilingual or Multilingual Education is a program used since 1953 by different countries around the world like Indonesia‚ Cambodia‚ Nepal‚ Philippines and a lot more. This way of teaching is using the child’s first language‚ their mother tongue which is called the L1 in teaching in school
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how articles‚ a “Mother Tongue‚” “Se Habla Espanol‚” and “At This Academy‚ the Curriculum is Garbage‚” are similar and different in many ways within violating equal rights. These essays have a common connection with people not being treated equally because of their occupation or culture‚ but equal rights are expressed differently in each article. The concept that every person is to be treated equally by the law is having equal rights. A “Mother Tongue‚” is about how Tan’s mother speaks “limited
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A Personal Dialect In Amy Tan’s essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” Tan expresses that she uses different versions of the English language depending on the type of relationship she shares with particular individuals. While Tan gave a speech to a group of people‚ she noticed a difference in her register of speech when she spoke to a group of people versus when she spoke to her mother. She noticed her use of “carefully wrought grammatical phrases” and “the forms of standard English that I had learned in school
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“The Achievement of Desire” – Tensions Faced in a Battle to Satisfy Oneself Tension can be defined as mental or emotional strain. In the circumstances of “The Achievement of Desire‚” a self-essay written by Robert Rodriguez‚ tension can be more defined as contrasts within Rodriguez’s life that results in conflicting forces that negatively strain him mentally and emotionally. Rodriguez faces educational and family tensions‚ which leads him to be an emotionless outcast with an unhappy life and
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Mothers and Fathers around the world have tried to give advice to their sons since the beginning of time. Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son” and Peter Meinke’s “Advice to Son” have many things that are common with each other; nevertheless‚ there are drastic differences when they are written. The time periods that these poems are written have grand influence in the poem’s message. “Mother to Son” was written by Langston Hughes in the middle the nineteen twenties. In the United States‚ we have a large
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Essay #1 "The Achievement of Desire" is an autobiography about Mr. Richard Rodriguez. In this autobiography the story of the conflicts the “scholarship boy” had with his school life and home life. As he continued his education into a Graduate degree‚ he starts not thinking too highly of the education his parents have. He started to feel embarrassed by his parents because they didn’t have much education. Rodriguez then started to distance himself from his family and pursued his educational goals
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other for who they are. Influence of media and language being a barrier helps give a reason to discriminate and become a societal monster. In the story “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan her mother was a Chinese immigrant who didn’t speak English correctly. Amy touches upon the subject of language barriers creating societal monsters. Amy Tan’s mother not being able to speak great English consistently
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English" is similar in all households and presents similar hardships. In _Mother Tongue_‚ Amy Tan mainly focuses on the hardships of adapting to American culture. Tan also avoids to being in situations where her mother tries to express herself. Amy is "red-faced and quit" while her mother "was shouting at [the
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The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez In Richard Rodriguez The Achievement of desire‚ he had grown up in a minority group / family being a Mexican-American ‚ who on entering school was barely able to speak English ‚ but then mastered the art of speaking English that one day his teacher had remarked that he was losing all traces of a Spanish accent. He considered himself to be success even to become known as a “scholar boy” and additionally prized student‚ his earlier teachers the nuns
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