“Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.” Introduction Languages have always been at the heart of the IB. It is impossible to build an international organization without including them, and one can’t nurture international-mindedness without enabling students to do the same. The language development is fundamental to the instinctive need to communicate and is essential to the evolution of
'First of all, Krashen says that language cannot be learned, it is acquired through a natural way. In this process, language acquirers are unconscious, and after a certain time, which involves constant exposure to the target language, language acquirers start to produce language naturally.'' Serap, in your comments, you have already demonstrated well the process of language acquisition, but I have noticed that we need to give more details about the importance of this process and the things which
cultures are inevitable. Philosophy, religion, language, the arts, and other aspects of culture has been spreading and mixing as nations exchanges products and ideas. At this very moment, this exploration is called ‘globalization.’ Thanks to this term, many of things become more accessible. However, this intercommunication is not easy to happen so effortlessly due to the fact that there is great deal of obstacles to overcome. One of them is related to language and cultural differences. News, political
Language is one of the very important tools that are used by the people to communicate with one person to the others. Language is also used to express the people thoughts, emotions, and to fulfill some purposes as well as to maintain the culture. From that usefulness, it means that language has an important role in human life. Nowadays, in 21 century, the people are not enough only know his/her mother language because now a lot of technologies develop all over the world, study exchange also happen
Language is perhaps the most defining feature of human nature, and it is the human ability to communicate thoughts, feelings, and experiences that serves as the foundation for cultures across the world. Language is intrinsically tied to a sense of self—determining with whom we are able to interact with on a person-to-person basis, what knowledge and media we are able to consume, and linking us to past and present communities that share our language. Furthermore, language helps to construct communities
Dhao language is not critically endangered because it is still spoken at home by children with some code-mixing, though. However, it can be considered as potentially endangered by reason that (1) the number of active speakers decreases from time to time. Grimes (1997) identified about 7000 native speakers but knowing that only more or less 3000 people are living on the island of Ndao today and a few are in Rote and Timor who are considered as active speakers, then Balukh (2011) claimed that only
the people which make up the community. One of the most important aspects of a culture is the ability to use language. Language is a system of vocal symbols used for human communication. Language plays an important role in developing, elaborating and transmitting culture because it enables humans to store meanings and experiences to facilitate communication. Without a standardized language, the people in a community would not be able to easily spread messages and ideas from person to person. This
growth of economy, technology and even cultural globalization. Exchange of brilliant and purposeful insights across cultures is enabled through the English language. Hence, Philippines highly regard the significance of it. From elementary up to tertiary level, English became compulsory to be inculcated in the offering of courses. Among all the language skills that it aims to develop, writing is significantly considered. In addition, Li (2014) stated that even though writing is viewed this way, “most schools
the official languages of mainland China (since 1982), ROC Taiwan (since 1932), one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of eight official language of the United Nations (UN) (Chinese, 2014). The status of Mandarin is increasing because of China is starting to replace the status of the United States (US) from aspect of economy, politic and military. Therefore, Mandarin has already become a language in ranking top ten useful and most important language in the world (Languages, 2014). Mandarin
1.1 INTRODUCTION “Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Knowledge is a penetrator of darkness which leads people safely through the dark alleys of selfishness and sin, that they may not be blinded by the dazzling luster of greed. Knowledge is the only mighty thing shines bright, flourishes by sharing, and expands by explaining, piles up by stagnation or giving up sharing.