Unit 13 Essay | American Students‚ Second Languages | CP-150 | Janet Petty 5/25/2012 | American Students should be required to learn a second language to help them compete in today’s market place. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the world population exceeded 7 billion on March 12‚ 2012. (Wikipedia) According to the United States Department of Education‚ as of 2006 less than 1% of American high school students combined studied Arabic‚ Chinese‚ Japanese‚ Korean‚ Russian
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the other major important factors that could affect the availability of second language learners in acquiring the L2. I only partially agree with the statement that L1 should not be allowed in the ESL classroom due to a certain factors. Factors such as the schools’ locations‚ the learners’ cognitive and affective factors and the exposure towards the English-based multimedia play a very huge and crucial role in helping the second language learners to immerse themselves fully in the English language
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Is Second Life Ready for Business? 1. How can Second Life provide value to businesses that use it? Second Life can provide value to businesses in four ways: by offering support to essential business functions‚ offering a low-cost platform to conduct meetings of workers and customers‚ increasing brand image‚ and as a recruiting platform for new employees. The program can offer support to important business functions like customer service‚ product development‚ training and marketing. For all these
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The Use of Second Life in Business Abstract Second Life and other virtual worlds like it are quickly becoming one more in an arsenal of mainstream applications that business are using to gain an edge on their competitors. However‚ since virtual worlds are still in the infancy stage‚ the ways that companies can best use them to further their goals is still under development. This paper takes a look at how businesses are using virtual worlds in the areas of brand and service expansion‚ virtual human
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What are the advantages of learning a second language? Learning a foreign language can take many months of dedication‚ however the venture will more than likely open the door to many opportunities. Learning a foreign language is an investment for the future that can produce many benefits whether it is for ones career‚ travel adventures or personal growth. Learning a second language takes time‚ patience and sometimes money. However‚ French‚ Arabic and Mandarin Chinese‚ among many others‚ are all
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Components of Second Language Knowledge Components of second languague knowlege are divided into three: vocabulary‚ morphology and phonoly. It is necessary deepen in these elements becase sometimes even the most highly educated adult native speakers do not have all the knowledge about language‚ and expect L2 learners have it would be unrealistic. Vocabulary is the most important level of L2 knowledge for learners to develop. We must remember that vocabulary is the key to communication. Yhe moment
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04-0219 ETF_16_21a 6/23/04 11:21 AM Page 16 Melinda Edwards and Kata Csizér H U N G A R Y Developing Pragmatic Competence in the Classroom EFL R ESEARCH INTO PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE HAS REPEATEDLY PROVEN THAT EVEN proficient speakers of English often lack necessary pragmatic competence; that is‚ they are not aware of the social‚ cultural‚ and discourse conventions that have to be followed in various situations (Bardovi-Harlig 1999). Research has also been
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when these face the learning of a second language‚ such a process gets complicated. Due to globalization‚ an urgent need for communication worldwide arose. People from different countries had to find a means thru which they could interact. So‚ for this to be possible‚ they chose to learn one language‚ English. Having a language in common‚ they would be able to carry out business‚ entertainment and trading. Unlike acquiring a first language‚ learning English a second or foreign language is a complex
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In the gripping short story “Second Grade Sniffles” by Lillian Browser‚ it talks about how a boy in second grade named Andrew is suffering from a case of second-its. It makes it so that Andrew cannot sit in his second grade classroom or else he gets sick. So the doctor gives him the option to either repeat 1st grade or go into 3rd grade. He ultimately chooses to repeat the 1st. The best character trait that best describes Andrew is that it is mysterious. Andrew is mysterious because he had to go
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listening and speaking‚ but also my writing skills in order to give my homework in English to the teachers. All those experiences enumerated above will definitely enhance my English in an intensive way which I have never encountered in my own country. Second‚ it is possible that English might be learned
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