11/27/12 High School Foreign Language Each year‚ high schools around the country waste money on unnecessary foreign language programs. Although learning a second language can help get a job‚ or help adapt to a new country that doesn’t speak English‚ if there was a choice‚ most students would not choose to take a foreign language class. Also‚ most students who take foreign classes just to acquire the credits to graduate and usually do not even end up using the language later in life. If students
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any language means a contraction‚ reduction and impoverishment of the sum total of the reservoir of human thought and knowledge as expressible through language. To what extent do you agree with this? As globalization takes place‚ languages spoken by the majority became lingua franca of different regions. English for example as its most widely spread across the entire world‚ is spoken by 360 to 400 million as their first language and 470 million to more than 1 billion as their second language. It
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could turn to are dying off of the face of the earth. Thus the global trend of language loss is an issue incredibly worthy of long overdue attention; it may in fact be our last meaningful alternative to rescue the plight of humanity’s survival. As a repository of knowledge‚ an expression of culture‚ and a symbolic embodiment of a way of life‚ the loss of a language speaks for itself. Although some Aboriginal languages are on the brink of extinction in Canada‚ regrettably‚ not many people are listening
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Figurative Language versus Literal Language Figurative language‚ which some may refer to as “figure of speech”‚ is a type of language that utilizes description to produce a particular illustration and reveal a person’s emotion. It is‚ also‚ said that figurative language is associated with the human senses. Figurative language contains words that produce an intuition or thought of what the author wants his or her audience to know. At the end of the day figurative language plays an important role
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Body language Body language is a concept of which a person expresses what’s on their mind‚ their emotions and feelings without saying anything at all. Body language also can be referred to as non-verbal communication. Body language has many factors such as use of voice‚ gaze‚ touch‚ distance‚ time‚ and physical environments and appearance. Apart an small percentage of our overall brain processes verbal communication. Different people use body language in numerous different ways. Every person
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The Evolution of Language The study of language is very intriguing once you start looking a little farther into it. I read through many books and sources to help make the history of language a little more clear and found many interesting ideas. I found that something as simple as the way you use your hand could shape the brain‚ language‚ and human culture (The Hand). I also found many sources on human evolution; and digging a bit deeper into this area showed me many thoughts and
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right from the beginning sentence. That can happen with a question‚ a statement‚ or a catchy phrase. The first page should make me want to know or try to figure out what will happen next. For example‚ the first line in a story might start with “Mother?” “There was no reply.” This would be more attention grabbing than just writing‚ “I called my mother‚ and she didn’t answer.” This makes me want to know why Mother didn’t answer. Using figurative language‚ such as similes and metaphors‚ keeps a
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[pic] Edward T. Hall “The Silent Language” [pic] Skopje‚ 2010 Edward T. Hall was born in Webster Groves‚ Missouri. He has taught at the University of Denver‚ Colorado‚ Bennington College in Vermont‚Harvard Business School‚ Illinois Institute of Technology‚ Northwestern University in Illinois and others. The foundation for his lifelong research on cultural perceptions of space was laid during World War II when he served in the U.S. Army in Europe and the Philippines. From 1933 through
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1. This book integrates research in language acquisition‚ psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we call language "comprehension‚" right from the reception of an acoustic stimulus at the ear‚ up to the point where we interpret the message the speaker intended. A major theme of the book is that "comprehension" is not a unitary skill; to understand spoken language‚ one needs the ability to classify incoming speech sounds‚ to relate them to a "mental lexicon
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Xavier Andraca Vilar To what extent can we say that language is a tool for power? How do you think that men in the past arrived to power? This is a really good question involving not also the brightness of these people‚ but also the way they could easily convince people to vote for them or to follow them. From the early ages of human history with the first tribes‚ to the actual campaign for a Presidency all around the world‚ men and woman have used their abilities as good speakers to convince
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