LANGUAGE USE IN THE CARIBBEAN CLASSROOM Teaching English language and literacy to students is one of the major tasks faced by many teachers in the Caribbean today. When we consider the language varieties that are spoken in our classrooms‚ we can see why we have so many issues when it comes to the teaching of Standard English. It is often said that language is a powerful tool which influences beliefs and views and acts as a complete tool of social control. When we look at our schools in the Caribbean
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Everyone is different in their own way therefore‚ language can be a major factor that can influence one’s identity. Often language may establish a part of a person’s individuality among the diverse human beings. Today in society‚ depending on what type of culture one embraces or language one speaks‚ others will be the mirror in which we see ourselves from day-to-day. This may have both a positive and negative affect on one’s character. Language can influence one’s identity socially‚ culturally‚ and emotionally
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understand society and its relationship with language The question that you pose to me was what has this course made me aware of society and its relationship with language. I feel that this question is a more of general‚ application and personal tone. Therefore I am going to write about my experience and my understanding in relation to this course. First of all‚ I understand that sociolinguistic is the study about language in connection to society. How do I define language? I see language as a tool
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paper seeks to examine how the Shona traditional society conceptualised beauty; drawing from the meaning and content of the Shona proverb‚ suggesting that traditional society emphasised beauty as holistic to include such elements as moral uprightness and humility as the markers of inner beauty. While physical or outer beauty was appreciated‚ looking for it as the sole desirable quality as done in the modern beauty pageants misses the core of the way the traditional Shona society conceptualised it. Relying
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evidence of his saintliness. His non-violent movements during Satyagraha protests and willingness to fast the death and to end violence mark him out as somebody important due to his sacrifices and also his disobediences against the government. He would use only moral means to achieve his aims‚ and he was a nationalist person that did everything for his
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McCarthy uses language in the road to stir readers emotions. The Road is a story of a father and son fighting to survive in a post apocalyptic world where the basics of humanity have disappeared. The writing is fragmented‚ sparse and‚ from the beginning‚ reflects the barren and bleak landscape through which the father and Son are traveling. McCarthy abandons quotation marks in dialogue‚ he dispenses minimal punctuation. His toying with the rules of grammar and punctuation in effect emphasises the
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The media and its use of language In a democratic society there is an understandable reliance on the objectivity of information. Whatever is reported ought to be a valid representation of what has taken place. Noam Chomsky has stated that without this vital feature of accuracy‚ it would not be possible for a democratic society to function properly. This is because when news reports‚ for example‚ are no longer a faithful representation of the reality which has occurred‚ then people are unable to
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between people in the Internet and the different types of Websites. The so-called electronic language has aroused great linguistic and psychological interest and attracts more and more attention of the linguists and psychologists who are really concerned with its possible influence on language and psychology in general. Linguists are concerned with the influence this system may have on a living language. The Internet‚ in conjunction with radio and television‚ telephone communication and printed
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on LanguageSpanish Influence on Language‚ Culture‚ and Philippine History Leslie E. Bauzon‚ "Influence of the Spanish Culture‚" translated to Nihonggo and published as "Firipin bunka eno Supein no eikyo" in Shizuo Suzuki and Shinzo Hayase (eds.)‚ TONAN AZIA NO JITEN FIRIPIN (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: PHILIPPINES)‚ Kyoto: Dohosha‚ 1991. Pp. 195-196. Spain colonized the Philippines from 1565 to 1898. The Spaniards ruled the Filipinos for 333 years. Spanish influence on the Philippines and the
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English 1101 24 March 2014 Use of Language in Propaganda Language can be manipulated in various ways it can be used for good or bad. The same statement can be spoken clearly or be announced in an extremely vague way. It is extremely intriguing how the same object can be sold to you through the manipulation of language. The mastering of this skill is executed through the propagandizing of various items. Advertisements have become so nifty in the manipulation of language that most people don’t even
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