commonly uttered by foreign language learners and are too familiar to the foreign language learners this stamen indicate an important problem that the majority of students face in learning and particularly speaking a second or foreigner language. Many learners express their inability and sometimes even acknowledge their failure in learning to speak a second foreign language. These learners may be good at learning other skills but‚ when it comes to learning to speak another language‚ they claim to have a
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Language and Knowledge about Disability Language is useful for the humankind to communicate with each other. In Malaysia with a multi-ethnic group and a diversity of language use by the society to communicate especially each ethnic group also have their own mother tongue. Consequences‚ using a specific language to reflect the disability according to their indigenous knowledge will have make sense. Supported by Hosking (2008) review that a community will use a local language to reflect the concept
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LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Language is a typically human phenomenon. In moving from the ’natural being’ of animal existence to the ’cultural being’ of human existence‚ language plays the decisive role. Language gives a sense of identity to an individual as well as a social group and‚ in the process‚ creates multiple identities. The maintenance‚ merger‚ clash and change in identities based on and reflected in the language change has prompted linguists‚ philosophers‚ psychologists
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Language as a social phenomenon. To be able to interpret linguistic phenomena it is important to state‚ that language is a product of society. According to Rossi-Landi‚ human appears when he overcomes the aim of satisfying immediate needs‚ i.e. start producing behavior instead of responding. Human results from the labour of man himself [Rossi-Landi 1983‚ p. 35-37; 1975‚ p. 31-69]. Thus‚ language is a result of human activity. Language vs Speech Saussure also separated language from speech‚ which
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Accent The ways in which words are pronounced. There will usually be pat terns in the way that consonants are pronounced (or dropped) and t he way vowel sounds are made. Accent can also vary according to the region or social class of a speaker. Context  The situation or circumstances in which speech takes place. This will impact greatly on the speech encounter and the way that speakers will vary their speech according to the recipients and the environment.  Dialect The distinctive grammar
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Igbo Society Expectation on Men and Women Igbo culture is a culture that is hard for the men and women of the American culture to understand. It is one those cultures were people know what the culture is but they still think it is from the mid 1900’s and before. One can see the how extremely different women and men are treated. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe it is very clear about how men and women are treated very differently in their roles in society. This book also gives people
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of the Greeks‚ Indians‚ Igbo people‚ and the Chinese. Overtime‚ these healing practices have become well respected. Healing traditions are an important part of the community we live in‚ and have been implemented into many parts of our society (Bokur). Various healing practices also offer insight on cultures and provide a reason to a person’s ideals. A stance
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and their families to perform their private worship which they call an alter or a place of pilgrimage {family shrine} paradigm of this food are kola nut‚ local gin alligator pepper. Also in trying to refrain or unsoiled their selves from sin‚ the Igbos accept as true that animal forfeit would be made and before it is done those animals to be forfeited would be kept round the individual’s head with the mind set that their sins is begin transported to the animals before they are
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the Igbo population is at a watershed moment in their history and culture. The fast occurring changes are affecting religion‚ family structure‚ trade and especially gender roles. As society began changing women who once were confined to their homes and had
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Language Attitude Language attitudes are the feelings people have about their own language or the language of others. Attitude towards a language can determine whether the language continues or whether it is eliminated. If a language has political and financial backing it has a good chance of surviving. If people perceive that the language can improve their social status and economic prosperity those are usually strong motivators for people to maintain or make a language shift – sometimes
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