A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to‚ i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her. These two characterisations do not exhaust the possible definitions‚ however‚ and the label is occasionally applied in ways that are variously misleading or factually inaccurate. Some children learn more than one language from birth or from a very young
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multicultural people we got used to hear different languages everyday‚ which brings up the questions if a country should be bilingual or have common language to unify. Charles Krauthammer essay “Let’s make it official” claims that we need a common language to be unified culture. A country is diverse in different culture but could be unified in language. It is necessary to understand what nationhood is‚ so that you the reader realize that a national language does not alter a nation. It binds the nation
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Language and Gender Key Theories Robin Lakoff 1975 • Claimed that much of women’s language lacked real authority when compared to men‚ and proposed a set of features that characterised women’s language as deficient when compared to men’s. • Believed Socialisation played an important role. (Part of deficit approach) Jenny Cheshire 1982 • Research in Reading looking at language of teenagers. • Found that boys used more non-standard forms than girls. Believed to be because boys were members
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The English language English is one of the most important languages in the world. It can even be regarded as the single most important language. Though other languages are important too‚ they are not the same as the English language is. English is important because it is probably the only language that truly links the whole world together. If not for English‚ the whole world may not be as united as it is today. The other languages may be important for their local values and culture.Considering
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Is language an instinct? Before discussing this question‚ the definition or area of language should be considered first. Many introductions to the study of language‚ linguistics‚ avoid giving a definition‚ or consider it to be so obvious that it does not need to be defined (Harley‚ 1995). According to Gleason and Ratner (1998)‚ one of the properties attributed to language is that it is a uniquely human behaviour. Pinker (1994:334) points out that: nonhuman communication systems are based
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Language and Thought No one would disagree with the claim that language and thought interact in many significant ways. There is great disagreement‚ however‚ about the proposition that each specific language has its own influence on the thought and action of its speakers. On the one hand‚ anyone who has learned more than one language is struck by the many ways in which languages differ from one another. But on the other hand‚ we expect human beings everywhere to have similar ways of experiencing
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The language is the most important means of communication. It is necessary to be able to communicate not only in your own language but also in a foreign language. That is why people learn languages. The most important language of all is our mother tongue. We learn it from very young and it stay with us until we die. When we want to learn a new language‚ we must know our own very well. There are many different people and everyone learns a foreign language in his own way. For some people to learn
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Refer the theories of language acquisition (Behaviorist theories‚ nativist theories and interactionist theories) and write an evaluation of them.Consider the stages of language acquisition in the evaluation of these theories. Human language development is a huge debate between Nature Vs Nurture within theorists of various fields in psychology.There are three major schools of thought that will be mainly focused on; behaviourist‚ nativist (rationalist)
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Language is an essential from of communication. It allows people to convey and elaborate their perspective. However‚ there are many forms and styles of language. Different counties and religions have different ancestral languages and styles of speaking. I personally‚ am learning a second language to allow me the opportunity to communicates to a broader audience. Imagine what the world would be like if there was no talking or signing of any words. There would be panic‚ and mass confusion‚ the world
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First Year Seminar: What are Heritage Languages? 13 September 2014 The Importance of Language Maintenance at Home. Immigrant families come from numerous parts of the world to settle in the United States for a variety of reasons. Whether they come for economic prosperity or to escape persecution‚ and whether the stay is intended to be permanent or temporary‚ as long as they are speakers of a language other than English‚ they will face the dilemma of language maintenance. Parents have to make the decision
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