English is undoubtedly the most widely used language and the most important and main source of international communication in the present day world.English is the lingua franca in present age. Being the global language, as it is called, it is used and learnt all over the world in one way or the other way either as a mother tongue or as a foreign or second language. Thus having the status of being a world-language, English is taught in almost every school all around the world keeping in mind some important principles and methodologies for the successful teaching – learning process. The paper discusses the importance of English language, some of the principles, history and critical evaluation of some of the important methodologies of English language teaching in the classrooms for a better understanding and successful teaching –learning process. Keywords: ELT, Methods, Approaches, Linguistics, Techniques, Global Language. _____________________________________________________________________________ Introduction …show more content…
At present, English is used by more than 1.5 billion people around the world, be it speaking or writing. English is used as a mother tongue by three hundred and fifty million people and the rest of the people use it as a second or foreign language. To quote Prof. Randolph Quirk, “Paul Vargheese says that most people who speak English are not English and were not born in
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The English language has been around for a number of years, but now it is taking the world by storm. In Dennis Baron 's article titled "Who Owns Global English," he discusses how English has taken root in different countries to the dismay of their Governments. English has taken a new meaning in some countries that native speakers would call improper English. " Yes, we want" (Baron, 35) is the new battle cry of Madrid 's campaign on English. This may be bad English, but Baron is considering the possibility of it becoming a new form of English.
In this scenario, when Johnny first asks Ken, “does your friend have to stay here all the time?” , he is coming off rather strong and it is catching Ken off guard since Johnny is not being fully clear about his question to Ken, therefore, Ken is more likely to respond negatively and defensively. After Ken responds, Johnny gives a vague response and does not provide and reasons why he changed his mind. Johnny’s reply is also a high level abstract language response and it makes it hard for Ken to understand how Johnny is feeling and what he is going through.
As discussed in the article by Clive Thompson, many people use different ways of speaking. Based on text conversations, social media posts, and comments language has made a drastic change. TBH grammar has made like a huge change on society. Lookin at billboards and social media, people post is a totally diff manner than speaking. Lol I remember the last conversation I had with my aunt that lives in Charleston, SC.
final, page 4). In this introduction of the Rhetorical Analysis, I was more informative since I included definitions for the naturalism and modernism, which would help the reader understand the analysis of the conventions for the rest of my essay. I also used the whole paragraph as my thesis because it allowed me to mention what lenses I would be analysing throughout the essay followed by a quote from a secondary source giving the conventions of such lenses. The Anteater Writing Guide also helped me to write an insightful introduction because I learned that the introduction has to explain the “because” of my argument that I am planning to explain. Therefore, for every lens that I mentioned, I talked about why it was the best lens to read Yonnondio
Apply the conventions of standard written American English to produce correct, well-written essays. Conventions are features of writing, and sentence formation with respect to the reader, making writing easier to read by putting it in a form that the reader expects. Manifests on your Ideas, the rhetorical part of the Writing and Language is development, organization so for adding support, clarifying the relationship between and among
In the writing, Jake Jamieson introduced and explained an argument about English using for immigrants. In first paragraph, the author introduced that the melting pot system is not working truly. Many people think the U.S. is famous for melting pot because of many immigrants. These people view the melting pot as a pot which contains many melted cultures and living styles inside. But he argues that these people lose their culture by adapting to new culture and only thing left is discrimination.
This is similar to what I am researching. This would be considered an authoritative source for my topic because it is a journal in a book that is collected in order to be a critical sourcebook. I am not quite sure of biases might the author have but there is a large section of references at the end of the chapter and the author talks solely about Black culture. This has to do with black identities influenced by hip hop. The texts examines Black stylized English (BSE) and Black English (BE) which is found in music such as Hip Hop, rap, R&B, and reggae.
Due to technology, language is changing all the time, for example, cellular telephones and computers and the effect they have on our communication skills. The positive side of the language required with new technology, is that it is constantly evolving, challenging our minds extending our reading and writing skills with the added bonus of saving a lot of time having lengthy
He continues to discuss other linguistics quests to save the dying Native American languages. The author brings up an interesting point of differences in saving the language. It is a quote from Leanne Hinton where he acknowledges that linguistics want to document the language and the tribes just want to have new speakers. This article is useful because it gives statistical facts about Native American languages in the past, talks about the effects of the Native American Language Act, and gives a good linguistic point of view. McCarty, T. L., Nicholas, S. E., & Wyman, L. T. (2012).
Languages are complex because they are made up of many components. Some components include the culture, meaning, and interpretation. The way people understand language has to do mostly with their culture and their understanding of what is being said. Also, depending upon where someone is raised, the pronunciation of certain words can be different and therefore it influences the understanding. My goal in this paper is to demonstrate that language and culture are intertwined.
The Modern English language has a rich history, it develops and changes like many other world languages. The English language has mainly been influenced by Latin, Germanic and French over a period of two thousand years. The English Lexicon includes words from over 120 countries, however Latin, Germanic and Latin account approximately less than 30% each. The English language is second to none in the variety and amount of lexical words. The most penetrating influence on English in history is French during the Middle English period after the Norman conquests.
CHAPTER THREE THE METHODOLOGY 3.1 Introduction This chapter describes the methodology adopted by this research. The thesis engages an amalgam of methods comprising critical discourse analysis, con-textual analysis, and an assortment of qualitative and quantitative audience contributory approaches in isolating a ‘political music’ genre. Data for this research was gathered and obtained from both primary and secondary sources. The primary sources were drawn from my fieldwork on Nigeria’s popular music and popular music audiences conducted between 2012 and 2014 in the cities of Lagos, Bayelsa, and Adamawa.
In almost every college English Composition I is a required course. English Composition I teaches a person about the different types of essay and how to prepare, draft, and write a well written essay. I highly recommend English Composition I to any student regardless of your major. English Composition I allows a person to improve in knowledge, skills, and abilities in writing.
Language is one of the most important aspects in life, it is used to express feelings and inner thoughts. It makes sense of complex and abstract thoughts, and also makes it easier to communicate with others.• Language can be defined as verbal, physical and biologically innate. Behaviorists often define language as a learned behavior involving a stimulus and a response (http://languagedevelopment.tripod.com/).• Babies are born without language do they not already have a form of language at birth however before they even go to school they learn the rules of language, this leads to the question do babies have knowledge before they learn language? Many theorists have come up with theories regarding language development in human beings and these are mainly