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There are several difficulties that Arabic students are facing while they are learning the English language. Accordingly, these issues hamper their capabilities of enriching their communication skills with English as the primary medium. For instance, the leaners of English as a foreign language (EFL) struggle to enunciate some English words. This is due to the fact that the native language where a person is accustomed to plays a key factor in producing sounds in the English language. To clarify, the phonemic segments in the English language is more diverse, thus, a handful of them do not exists in the Arab language. To put it another way, when a particular sound is not present in the individual’s mother tongue, it would be an arduous
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In this way, the students would overcome the struggles and the difficulties that serve as an obstacle for them to fully master the usage of the English language. As we all know, the English language is one of the most widely used worldwide, second to the Mandarin. Consequently, there are a lot of benefits that an individual can attain when he/ she can speak, read, and write in the English language very well. For instance, those that had obtained full mastery of the English language have far more greater opportunities for further studies. They have a high chance of being admitted for undergraduate and graduate programs in universities that are located in an English- speaking country. Furthermore, most researches and peer- reviewed articles in all fields of study are written in English, so it is beneficial for a scholar to communicate well with his/ her colleagues when he/ she knows how to express his/ her ideas in English. Actually, the same is true for most software programs that are being developed at the present time. Moreover, better prospects when it comes to employment are given to individuals who can fully express themselves in the English language. Based from these points, the proponent of the current paper chose to study the game- based approach in learning EFL. Markedly, this particular method is interactive, thus it will further motivate the students to study the English language. Indeed, there is a dire need to create an efficient method that will effectively enhance the students’ abilities in interacting with the English language as the
“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan is primarily an autobiographical piece about her experiences growing up in a household that chiefly spoke “broken” English, and a reflection on how this gave her a unique perspective on the transformative properties of language. Yet, it is no way an academic analysis, a deliberate choice, Tan even includes a short disclaimer in the beginning concerning this, and the excerpts she includes come from her own background, her personal observations, something which I found quite refreshing. As someone who comes from a mixed family and identifies as Asian-American, I related a great deal to her upbringing, and in many instances down to the exact circumstance. For example, she details an incident in which she
“So many words were still unknown that when the butcher and the lady at the drugstore said something to me, exotic polysyllabic sounds would bloom in the midst of their sentences. Often, the speech of people in public seemed to be very loud, booming with confidence. The man behind the counter would literally ask, ‘What can I do for you?’ But by being firm and so clear, the sound of his voice said that he was a gringo; he belonged in the public society”(12). Rodriguez describes the way English sounds to him creating an image that the language was very complex to in his perspective.
“Amy Tan: Mother Tongue” In Amy Tan’s essay ¨Mother Tongue¨(1990), Amy Tan, a Chinese American Author, asserts that all languages are very significant. Ms. Tan explains her idea by praising her mother´s broken English, and sharing personal stories and conversation between her Mother and her husband The purpose of of praising the broken English is make her book easier to read and have the people who have mixed Englishes understand her life story. Her audience is the many people who speak broken English and people that understand her writing. The tone of the story was very solemn and hopeful because of the mixed Englishes to tell her story.
In this essay, “Mother Tongue” is referring to how Tan’s mother’s unique way of speaking English has influenced Tan’s English. So much so, that Tan’s English is usually similar as her mother’s and has become a form of speaking she has become accustomed to. 5. For Tan, it is a terrible line because it is creating a facade of being literary superior by using extravagant words. In reality, however, her writing is easy for non fluent English speakers to understand.
Today there are approximately 5,000 various languages spoken in the world. With the support of these languages we are able to express our emotions, wants and needs. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” as well as “Notes of a Native Speaker,” Liu and Gloria struggled with their lives due to their language and life style differences. Liu doesn’t want to be
Language Barrier: barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages Self-Introduction My nationality is United States, America and my ethnicity is Hmong. I am the second youngest child in my family. My parents
When asked why I couldn’t attend a sleepover I’d simply say ‘it’s hard to explain’. In addition to this, having to be a walking Google translate everywhere we went did nothing to help the case. Similarly, Tan struggled being an individual, in Mother Tongue, that wasn’t defined by her mother’s accent. This was embarrassing and frustrating to her for a long time. Instead of becoming a miserable person, Tan became an author that broke the laws of grammar and became an author that people with broken tongue could understand.
Mother Tongue was written by Amy Tan who is famous for her writings of her experiences as a Chinese immigrant growing up and living in American culture. Her primary purpose is to explain to the reader her interpretation of standard English and broken. In her essay Tan shares stories of her mother's broken English and her it affected her life and how people took advantage of her mother's broken English. Tan's intended audience are people who are unaware of people like her mother's limited English who are taken advantage of in everyday life. The experiences Tan shares with reader is an emotion inducing strategy which Tan uses throughout her writing and it is proved to be very effective.
Out of Breath Becoming accustomed to a new language is difficult, especially when it is not one’s primary language. Amy Tan, the author of “Mother Tongue” went through this same situation. Tan’s mother had a hard time with the way she spoke English because no one seemed to understand what she wanted to convey. Amy Tan uses her story as a way to let the audience know about how language can lead people to be prejudice, connect people, change perception and open new doors in life.
Richard Lederer in the essay was interesting, when he like to travel around the country to observation of different language, pronunciation, and accent in that region. He using his multiple example in his essay to give us to reader how hard to new learn their accent, pronunciation. And also the quote is interesting, the quote, he used to useful and try to remind the reader to think you own language, be proud of your own language. He argument also strong passion of his own language he speaks do not try to change your language into of English that nobody really speaks and to support the accent from the another region by saying “the speech is the processing disappear not going, but gone”. I think that make me bored was the word “food”, all of his article talk too much about the different word but the same meaning.
Aisha Ahmed Ms. Nicole Wendt Senior Composition 23 October 2017 Language is a way we communicate and way that the nation connect with one another. Nowadays, language has become one of the first problems that the society face everywhere in the nation. Amy Tan, a Majored English and Linguistics at San Jose State University state in her essay “Mother Tongue”. The experiences she went through as a second generation chinese immigrant and also the pain that her mother went through as immigrant being judged who she wasn’t. Knowing a perfect English or another language doesn’t mean that you are educated.
There are many factors that can affect a child’s language and communication. Some of these factors can be positive; however, some can be negative. A cultural factor affecting emergent literacy could be children who have English as an additional language (EAL) this is because they know more of their native language than they do English and can be difficult to grasp another language at such a young age. Also some EAL children may have the knowledge of the English language and can speak the language however; their self-esteem, self-confidence and shyness could play a part in this and therefore may not be willing to use the English language. Also, EAL children may find it difficult to grasp the English alphabet.
“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan is the short story about the importance of language and how it is a key for communication. Tan emigrated from China to Oakland, California and she was a first generation of Asian-American. The author is very fascinated by the language and she believes that the language has the power of emotions, a visual image, a complex idea, and a simple truth. She also believes that there are many different types of “Englishes”.
The United States is a place of freedom. We are a mixing pot that unifies as one. Many religions, cultures, and languages make their home in the Unites States. Many foreigners see the U.S. as an opportunity to seek better lives and education, but when it comes to foreigners and native-born non-English speakers that do not yet know English, it becomes a little more difficult to go about an average day let alone make a better future. Children in school often become English Language Learners, or ELL, to assimilate to the American standards.
Therefore, Dr. Giselle is able to provide an adequate analysis of the research data. Stephanie L. Hensel is a researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Michigan with an expertise in phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics. The audience of the article is likely people who are interested in the field of sociolinguistics, particularly AAE. Overall, the article is more informative that