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English As A Second Language Essay

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English has come to be recognized as a world phenomenon today. It is the merest common place today to call English a world language distinguished not only by active communities in the most continents speaking it as a mother-tongue but, remarkable for its ubiquity as a second language. It is now used nearly by one third of the world’s largest population.English is the language of opportunity and it is the language for professional growth and economic advancement. The spread of English has often coincided with the growth of education, trade and commerce or with technical and economic development and however, it is appropriate to consider its enormous responsibility on educational terms, because of its vital place in educational curricula throughout the world. But, there are also considerable problems in learning it.
This paper entitled “Problems of teaching English as a Second Language” is a study on importance of English as a global language, equally discernible difficulties in acquiring it and also adds solutions to overcome it.

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TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE: AIMS AND METHODS Language is one of the main activities of the mind and mind is the main part of personal. A large number of people find it necessary and useful to learn other …show more content…

Thirteen of twenty four English consonants cause problems of varying degrees for different users. The alveolar plosives /t,d/ lends a distinctively heavy sound to Indian English. Seven of nine fricative sounds of English cause difficulties to many Indians. /f/ is often confused with /Ph/ and /v/ with /w/ in words like vary and wary or vine or wine. Some Indians cannot differentiate between ship and sip. The /r/ sound in many Indian languages does not correspond to the English

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