However, the international students use English only for passing the test; they would not use English in their countries. From my own experience, I speak English only in classes with local students and teachers from China; the accents and the intonations would be very similar. This kind of experience cannot improve the international students’ abilities to communicate in English. When the international students first come to America, they would be very disacquaintanted with the conversations. Nevertheless, they need to use English everywhere at school, such as listening to the lectures, talking with other native speakers in the classes, and doing homework for each
Challengers article explains first that one of the easiest and most widely used signs of determining whether a person is capable of a job is his or her grammar. Misspelling and using poor grammatical mistakes can usually result in those letters of acceptance or applications being put into the “no” pile. The people who make these decisions usually relate them to the person having poor communication skills and someone who doesn’t pay attention to detail. Those seeking careers in writing and verbal communications are rare these days so people feel that it is not important to keep up with correct grammar. He talks a lot about this thing called nontraditional grammar which in younger generations the content of the message was far more important than the actual structure of what the message needed to say.
In speaking to other ELL students whose home language is different, ELL students, use English but due to the students’ limitations in their English proficiency, they expose each other to more broken English I will value the instructional power of a word wall by frequently utilizing, maintaining, and updating it.All too often, secondary educators miss important opportunities to build the literacy skills of all students. This is especially true in
The difference in the two is that although Amy’s mother did have a hard time speaking the language clearer that the average English speaker she was able to have a language with her family that was English but they had a certain bond with it. Richard Rodriguez on the other hand was told he had to speak English even with his parents but his parents were no more an English speaker than he; so, once he began to understand the language better and speak it with his parents, his parents were the ones
Foreign Students have language difficulties in their classes Even though many foreign students can pass an English proficiency test to get into the academic because English is the international language, they have language difficulties to integrate themselves into the classroom and college community. Since English is the second language for them, most of the foreign students are not familiar to speak English fluently. Moreover, they have limited time to learn English in class, and they don’t have enough encouragement to practice English outside of the class. As an effect, the international students have difficulties to communicate in English in their college career. 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.
Kids Can Learn English If You Teach it Right In the article, “Kids Can Learn English If You Teach it Right” Ronald James criticizes our education system today as he discusses that upon receiving their high school diploma, children still lack important reading and writing skills necessary for success. He discusses the obstacles that freshmen have to endure when they enter high school simply by not having the basic literacy skills needed in order to ensure future success. In the article, Ronald James discusses a variety of reasons for success of remedial courses including the standards for passing are setup by the department, that college teachers have a greater authority than public school teachers have, and that the criteria for passing the English remedial course are very strict. Through his well convincing points, it can be said that our education system today lacks a key characteristic which is the emphasis on reading and writing skills, thus, disabling students from reaching their full potential. Firstly, the standards for passing are setup by the department.
The first point of comparison is the education. The education has some differences in the matter of taking English language as a subject and the other difference is the way of handling students. In Baghdad the education is very complicated. For the elementary school students don’t study in English until grade 5 and after grade 5, they start studying the English subject from scratch so by the time they reach grade 12 the difficulty of English material is lower than what U.A.E have. On the other hand U.A.E.’s schools start teaching their students English since Kinder Garden so by the time they reach grade 12 they should be very good at English in general.
American Multilingualism In comparison to the rest of the world, the United States has often been perceived as a country that is lazy when it comes to speaking languages other than English. As an American, it is somewhat rare to meet someone from the United States who has been educated on languages other than English to the point of fluency. Most Americans believe that foreigners should speak English, or that because most people outside the United States do speak English, why should we learn their language? Although foreign language education programs are becoming more popular in American elementary schools, the prevalence of multilingualism in the United States is still lacking; we could do a much better job in promoting the education of foreign language. The “English-only” attitude of many American citizens continues to halt the promotion and progression of multilingual improvement.
I had been completely astonished about how much I was already able to read in English on the first try and became the impression, which has since become even more hardened, that the English language offers much more richness with reference to words, expressions and phrases than German does. Books are much more fun to read in English, especially when they have originally been written in English. But then again, after all, I had pushed back the idea of studying English since doing my A-levels because, as all the while, I did not know what I wanted to do later in life and was afraid of might ending up unemployed after graduation. However, during the first three semester as a major in British and American Studies, I have been able to combine my hobby with my studies and it shaped my personality a lot which I honestly did not expect. Generally I had no expectations and decided to just take things as they come.
This is not to say that they do not appreciate the fundamentals of the language. In their own way, they are trying to prioritise one aspect over the other. Or it could be as a result of what they are more comfortable with or more interested in. Classrooms lessons are built around either non-communicative activities where grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and language structure are taught, or the communicative activities. The communicative activities are focused on target language fluency through practice.