bilingual child, the effect can in fact be made less severe. Bilingual children are more likely to develop a stutter, but a study conducted by Howell, Davis, and Williams suggests that “if a child uses a language other than English in the home, deferring the time when they learn English reduces the chance of starting to stutter and aids the chances of recovery later in childhood.” They added that “school performance was not affected with respect to whether the child stuttered or not” (Howell,…
At the time the English language was significant in becoming American, the institution of school became a path for Puerto Ricans to learn this language and United States encourage students to attend schools. In Puerto Rico the learning of the English language began with books, books that contained “appropriate lesson, from pictures, words and sentences” (Eaton, 113) One of the first books used to teach English in Puerto Rico was Appleton’s First Reader, the book…
English has been spoken in America as a national language for so long. Every American knows how to speak and even right fluent English. The American English, though slightly differs with the British English. In the recent times, there has been an ongoing debate about whether the country should be multilingual or remain with the monolingual ways of speaking English as the national language. There have been various scholars writing about English as a language. Their viewpoints differ significantly…
The opposing language factor of Sandra and her father was constantly present in their relationship. Although Sandra is fluent in Spanish, she would mainly speak and write in English, whereas her father is only capable of speaking Spanish. Most of the time, Sandra wishes her father did speak English so that he could possibly take some interest in her writing while also being able to understand the language that it is written in. Once Sandra begins to realize her love for writing she states, "I…
Problems and points to be improved of the current English education guidelines by MEXT Problems of the current English education guidelines are motivation for learning of students, and connection elementary school to junior high school to high school (MEXT, 2016). Therefore, students cannot use things that students learned after moving up and graduating, and teachers cannot use teaching methods well. At junior high school and high school, teachers teach English lessons that place importance on…
Despite this fact, however, many states have declared English to be their official language. Although there is not an officially spoken language, it is safe to say that if there was it would be English. According to the 2016 American Community Survey, a project of the United States Census Bureau, the top language spoken at home by people over the age of 5 is English, with 237.8 million people.1 Because of this and the fact that English is a part of everyday life in our country, I believe all…
semester of English 101, I have learned not only many new writing styles and vocabulary words, but also I have learned a few things about myself. I have a passion for writing and I would love to continue to aggrandize my vocabulary, and continue learning new writing tactics. I believe that I am a great candidate for the second semester English 102 class because I contribute many things to the class such as; my outgoing personality and determined work ethic, my passion to write and learn, and my…
MLA Format Exercise The last English course I took was an online essay writing class. I honestly didn’t like the course very much. It just seemed like I would turn things in and then I would get feedback and the teacher would tell me exactly what to fix to get a better grade. Looking back at it I don’t feel like I grew academically through taking the course. One thing I did learn from the online class was a better understanding of different types of essays.Such as; descriptive, expository,…
When I came to Canada, my English was terrible. I know I have to make a transition in language which cannot learning in school. Before I came to Canada, I am already learn some English in China, but never use it in life. I feel there is a big challenge for me to live here with my bad English. This situation not only in life, but also in school. I have more difficulties than local students in studies. Sometimes…
Although I am American who’s my first language is not English, I found reading the old English is hard to read and write. There are many reasons why I would find reading and writing old English hard. It is hard because it is not my first language, the grammar, and vocabulary. The first reason why I found reading and writing in old English is hard, because I am not a native American who learn how to read and write from the beginning of my life in English. Also, I just came to united state three…