Therefore, the best way to overcome the language difficulties is forcing the students to speak only English in the class room, and joining college activities and conversation club to interact and practice with other English language learners and native speakers. There are many benefits to this solution. First of all, the students are convinced to be brave about speaking English regardless of bad grammar and errors. Therefore, they will be more confident to participate in the class discussions. Second, since they have the conversation club including classmates and others English learners, they can practice and learn each other during that time, so speaking English will become their daily routine by doing that activity.
It was not and easy task because Spanish is my first language. The first grades in this bilingual school were crucial for the other grades. The teachers were very good and spoke excellent English. From there one I started reading children’s books. The earliest experiences I had with reading began a collection of books from Scholastics, I think I enjoyed them because I saw most of the characters and the picture were so vivid that I thought I was there.
| Why do I want to learn it? | I hope I can communicate with others students with correct pronunciation. This is because most of the universities, colleges and institutes are using English as the medium of instruction. Furthermore, most of the reading materials such as textbooks, reference books, journals, research, encyclopedia and scientific reports are written in English. | English is the international language and spoken everywhere.
Pathos is a rhetorical tool used to appeal to a reader’s feelings or desires. The importance of using pathos to appeal to the reader’s emotions is to make them feel at ease with the idea of a united world. Crystal’s pathos appeal is shown through unity to invite his audience to care about the argument. The author states that “It is now possible, using electronic mail, to copy a message to hundreds of locations all over the world virtually simultaneously…that is why people so often talk, these days, of the ‘Global Village.”’ (Crystal 358). This is the only part of the excerpt where Crystal tries to attach on to his audiences emotions.
Moving to American, I felt as if I needed to embrace my native language, but I also knew that I needed to speak English. The same way as Rodrigues parents pushed him into speaking English at home, my parents did the same way. As I start speaking English more and spending more time at school, I started
Many may say what is English? I consider English to be a valuable aspect of a essential way uof life. Growing up I was the one who was fasinated with leaning how to read and spell, understand parts of English. Learning how to formulate words that would become a sentence. Focusing so hard on excelling in English I was having a hard time acknowledging the basic sentence patterens staying devoted I past it.
I am in support of making English the official language of America. In this essay, I shall talk about how ‘The only English Movement’ benefits America economically, improves efficiency and actually brings unity and peace within the country. Various programs that are named ‘bilingual’ are graded according the degree of multilingual usage. By teaching children academic subjects in their native language, and simultaneously teaching in English language, students will learn the language and continue to progress academically. As far as they have learnt enough English, they can then make the transition into the main classes at schools.
Maryanne said she likes to learn English by speaking, writing, looking at pictures and working with friends. With the help of a Multiple Intelligence questionnaire (Multiple Intelligences and Language Learning, 2005 Alta Book Publishers), I determined that she has high linguistic intelligence, visual/spatial intelligence and interpersonal intelligence. This proves that she learns best by seeing, speaking, visualizing and hearing the language, and working in groups with other students. Maryanne is confident while using the present tense and uses it extensively to talk about most things. In one of the few instances where her grammar was perfect, she said, “I want to improve my English.” Maryanne often states the main subject of the sentence at the beginning of her sentence.
English as a second language (ESL) teachers have the opportunity to help students of any age learn English and leap over language barriers. ESL teachers teach English, including reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, to people whose first language is not English. Their students may not know English at all, or may not speak, understand and write English with the same ability as a native English speaker. ESL teacher is the most common term in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The term "English to speakers of other languages" (ESOL) teacher also refers to this career.
Recently, both Standard English and Nonstandard English are important for people. In United States, people are familiar with Standard English because Standard English is the main learning language in most schools. Therefore, most people have learned Standard English, which is a common language for people to