influence gave us a decided advantage over our Asian neighbors. The country enjoyed a privileged status in the region as a consequence of this. In Silliman University in Dumaguete city‚ a school founded by the Americans in 1901‚ English was the lingua franca on campus and
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Introduction and Overview of Topic: As the world becomes increasingly globalised‚ we observe a rising trend where individuals migrate for educational and economic opportunities. The prestige of being educated in a highly ranked university and the prospects of higher paying jobs are definitely important pull factors for both internal and international migration (Welch‚ 1970). When people move‚ they also transfer the use of their existing linguistic repertoire to their host country. However‚ what
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Management and Leadership MGT/330 5/19/2014 John Preis Being a leader and manager may seem the same because they are both position in leadership but they are very different. Good traits of leader are understanding‚ open minded‚ stern but not hard headed‚ focused‚ willing to take well thought out risks and approachable. The different between a leader and a manager is very simple‚ good management skills. The role of a leader is to lead the team into victory by managing
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languages and considers English her mother tongue. This is fairly prevalent in Singapore whereby we see people of mixed-races‚ who don’t even have the habit of speaking either one of their mother tongue languages. English is after all the de facto lingua franca of today’s Singapore. Furthermore‚ race no longer determines the choice of second languages in school. Perhaps‚ now‚ we can see that Chinese is the current racial majority‚ making their mother tongue the dominant second language. For this very
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Race is a social construct= fallacy= false Race Ethnicity ___________________________________________________ color Dialect= Language Religion Mode of dress Origins Food Tradition Values “Culture” Phenotype Homogeneity Plantation Agriculture‚ colonization‚ enslavement all contribute to
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Chapter 5 Rubenstein Language A. Language is system of communication through speech‚ a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning. 1. Language is a part of culture 2. Geographers ask “where” different languages are used and “why” different languages have distinct distributions B. Literary tradition is a written language (many spoken languages have no written languages) C. KEY ISSUE 1: Where are different languages distributed
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computer technology. It has web pages‚ and it can be used for search in search engines. This has made Hindi one of the richest languages of independent India and the world. Today‚ though Hindi is not recognized as a national language‚ is the lingua franca of
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UNIVERSIDAD LATINA DE PANAMA I am a true believer that technology has become part of our daily life‚ especially when it comes to teaching a Lingua Franca just like the English Language. It is a tool that we as teachers cannot keep isolated; it is there to contribute in the teaching and learning process. However‚ when talking about teaching English fully online‚ it may have its advantages as well as its disadvantages. First‚ I would like to highlight some of the advantages students and teachers
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Imagine starting a race twenty minutes after the other participant‚ this gives them a head start hence lowering your chances to vanquish your opponents in the race. This example applies to real-life issues like the people born in high and stable economic situations. Their probability to succeed in life is higher than those indigenous from third-world countries. Panama faces this problem and I have no doubt a change can be achieved and I can be the one who does it because everyone deserves the chance
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LITERATURE REVIEW The Definition of Culture Culture is defined with different terms depending on the time and personal idea of the scholar and for that reason it is a really complex phenomenon. Kramsch(1998) defines culture as ‘membership in a discourse community that shares a common social space and history‚ and common imaginings.(p.10). On the other hand‚ Liddicoat‚ Papademetre ‚ Scarino and Kohler(2003) describe culture as a complex system of concepts‚ attitudes‚ values‚ beliefs‚ conventions
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