of communication whereby people use it as a tool to deliver and receive information. In view of English has been the most powerful language nowadays‚ people tend to question what Standard English is and which Standard English to be used by everybody; Standard British English or Standard American English or any other standard. 1. What is Standard English Debate? To know what Standard English is‚ people need to know from where it has been derived and why it is chosen as the standard variety
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but the most common by far is English‚ although other languages such as Spanish and French are also quite common. According to the CIA World Factbook‚ on a census taken in 2000: 82.1% of Americans speak English 10.7% of Americans speak Spanish 3.8% of Americans speak another Indo-European language (www.cia.gov) These results can be slightly surprising since the assumption by many Americans would be that there are a higher percentage of people who speak English in the United States. Enrollment
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An Argumentation on the Bilingual education and English-only Movement The question of whether the U.S should have an official language and whether bilingual language education can be accepted is highly controversial. Hispanic concentrated areas like California‚ the Southwest and Florida are especially troubled by the proposed English-only movements. People stands for English-only movement claims that linguistic divisions is harmful to political unity‚ while single official language can provide
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This article focuses English-only policies that are imposed in the workplace and the effects/possible effects that it has on employees whose first language is not English. While many companies are aware that they need to be "multilingual friendly" from a customer services standpoint and will hire bilingual and multilingual employees to accommodate non-English speakers’ needs; they also impose rules that do not allow multilingual speakers to speak anything but English in the workplace‚ even within
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Final draft English-Only Rules In the Workplace As the increasing of immigration in the Unite States‚ English as one of the Global language that is more and more important. Today 1.75 billion people speak English in necessary situation that means one in four of us. Yet English is the common language when employees come from different counties‚ the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and National Origin Discrimination often considers “English-Only rules” in the workplace
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English should not be the official language of the US The United States is a nation founded by immigrants. Throughout the years the US has struggled with discrimination and close-mindedness. But‚ when we put our differences aside we can achieve the impossible. We are a country united by our differences. We celebrate our diversity‚ independence and individuality. We are a country that believes in choice‚ and one of those choices should be the option to speak the language which we relate to and understand
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environment even though the learning process can be troublesome for some people. In his essay “Mute in an English-Only World”‚ Chang-rae Lee describes the difficulties that his Mom had when they immigrated to America at very first year without fully developed English speaking skill: “I saw every day the exacting price and power of language‚ especially with my mother‚ who was an outsider in an English-only world…She often encountered great difficulty whenever she went out” (541). Moreover‚ language is a
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deprivation. Many of them do not want to pass their native language on to their children because they consider English to be more socially and economically valued. (Linton‚ 2004) The loss of a mother tongue by language minority children has severe consequences. Not only does it threaten to inhibit academic advancement‚ communication within the family slowly deteriorates because parents and children only speak the same language when it is necessary. Consequently‚ lacking communication that would normally
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The multilingualism debate in the United States has two sides; one side advocates for multilingualism in order to embrace different cultures and ideas‚ while the other side supports an English-only policy to unify the country. Although we are a nation of diversity and some think an English-only policy limits immigrants from being as equally successful as English-speakers and prevents diversity from being present in our country‚ I disagree. I advocate for an English-only policy in the U.S. because
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English is the Only Foreign Language worth Learning? Nowadays English is used almost in all spheres of international communication: business‚ politics‚ science‚ culture‚ etc. Speaking English is one of the main conditions to get a good job. For this reason one may think that English is the only foreign language worth learning to feel confident in the society. But is that really so? I strongly believe that a modern person should learn more languages or speak any other language but English for
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