Essay on English as a world language and its future in India Many people think that the teaching of English is playing havoc with our native regional languages. Even the protagonists of Hindi‚ our national language‚ are deadly opposed to it. They think that English is a foreign language and an average Indian can neither understand it‚ nor express himself in it. Moreover much energy of a child is being wasted in the learning of English. So English should altogether be abolished from this land.
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Mr. Schulze 1 11-08-05 English 1010 Synthesis Essay This is a synthesis essay on the English only debate. In the debate we have a number of authors who have an opinion if English should be the official language? Here are a couple of opinions shared by Robert D. King ‚ "Should English be the Law?" ‚ S.I. Hayakawa‚ "Bilingualism in America: English Should be the Official Language"‚ and Greg Lewis " An Open Letter to Diversity’s
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phones in the English Language Introduction:- “The way to bring a language to life is to be able to converse in it every day” Mary Hanafin Despite years of learning the language‚ the students fail miserably in English communication. Research studies hold our examination system responsible for this set back. The evaluation pattern has made both the students and teachers believe that English is a subject
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INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS ENCO 1103 SECTION 1 TITLE: LANGUAGE BARRIER TO COMMUNICATION NABILAH BINTI JAMAL NOORILAHI 1411316 PROFFESOR NURAIHAN BINTI MAD DAUD 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of Study In this era of globalisation‚ miscommunication still happens in every day life. Oxford dictionary defined miscommunication as failure to communicate adequately. The grounds of communication is to convey a message from one person to some other. Miscommunication happens to everyone‚ whether they
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W1T Literacy Narrative Draft 1 English is not my first language. In fact‚ I didn’t learn it well enough to have a conversation until I was about 10 years old. I remember the embarrassment of being new to a country I called home after living in Mexico for years. Things changed quickly the first day of 8th grade. I remember being energetically greeted by a slender athletic man in his fifties in a muggy summer morning. The hum of the air conditioning as welcome sound as we found our seats in this room
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English as a Second Language (ESL) Written examination – End of year Introduction The VCE English as a Second Language (ESL) examination is to be prepared‚ from 2009–2014‚ according to the following Examination specifications and criteria. The examination paper is designed to assess the key knowledge and key skills which underpin the Outcomes for Unit 3 and Unit 4 (VCE English/English as a Second Language Study Design). The sample examination provides an indication of the type and range of questions
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Pangasinan National High School Lingayen‚ Pangasinan S. Y. 2012-2013 Advantage of English over Folk Language in Learning Presented to: Mrs. Liberty Casaclang Submitted as Partial Requirement in English IV Researchers: Krissxan Grace P. Lansangan Vernon Russel R. Rosario I. Acknowledgement The researchers wish to acknowledge and thank with profound gratitude‚ heartfelt appreciation and warmest sincerity the assistance extended by the people who helped them in making this research
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Reading Skills of Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners in Bilingual Education Classrooms‚” a scholarly article was written by Romilia Dominguez de Ramirez and Edward S. Shapiro; tailors the importance of constructing significant resources in schools to help Spanish-speaking English language learners‚ also addressed as ELLs. Over the years‚ a dramatic increase of Spanish speaking students in U.S. schools has increased. It is stated that 78% of English language learners in Grades K-12 speak Spanish
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Is there a danger that English as the medium of international university instruction will play as increasingly elitist role in the field of education? Definition: According to David Crystal (2008)‚ “a language achieves a genuinely global status when it develops a special role that is recognized in every country.” (P.3) English will play an increasingly elitist role in the education field means that small group of people who use English as their language has a lot of power or advantages based on
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Teacher: Jared (Room 2.6) One way is to make English language a compulsory subject. In my school just as Mathematics‚ Science and other social subjects are taught English should also be introduced as proper course. All students from their very early education will be introduced to English. All students would be required to pass the English course before they can be promoted to the next grade. For example a grade one who is not able to pass grade one English course will not be promoted to grade 2. Similarly
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