Week7 ETH125 CheckPoint‚ Official Language Movement T. Hill Many immigrants fear bilingual education because it is associated with disadvantage‚ alienation‚ and cultural 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‚
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Some people think that they can learn better by themsleves than with a teacher. Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. There has been a great deal written about the studying way of students for the past thousand years. Educators have started to wonder whether students should learn with intructors or not. Some people who are against this idea may argue that students ought to study by themsleves‚ which are likely to block their creativeness. One idea that has received much attention
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The loss of any language means a contraction‚ reduction and impoverishment of the sum total of the reservoir of human thought and knowledge as expressible through language. To what extent do you agree with this? As globalization takes place‚ languages spoken by the majority became lingua franca of different regions. English for example as its most widely spread across the entire world‚ is spoken by 360 to 400 million as their first language and 470 million to more than 1 billion as their second
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“Does Language Shape What We Think?” by Joshua Hartshome Is it possible to imagine an object(s) without thinking about its name or quantity? Can the human mind picture a certain motion or objective without having to use or remember the language it learned from? In Joshua Hartshome’s article‚ “Does Language Shape What We Think?”‚ it expresses a skeptical question about how important a language can dominate the way people imagine certain ideas. This groundbreaking question influenced an experiment
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Language is said to be a means of communication between one another in a particular place environment or also our society personally think that it is best to learn a foreign language from the country of which it was originated‚ than to learn it in one’s own country.my reasons would be stated below. First foreign language is a borrowed language which was brought to us from the foreigners that is the British .and I believe that since it is their native language that they were brought up with and
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Can language be used as a political instrument? Language is a system of signs and meanings that usually shared by a community of people. There is no doubt that language is very important and necessary in the society. Language offers people the means for interaction and to depict ‘people‚ places and things’. (Butt and David‚ 1986) Edward Sapir (1884–1939)‚an American linguist and anthropologist‚ was the first one who proposed the idea that the power of language can influence culture and thinkings
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English as an Official Language In U.S.A “Do we really need another bureaucracy controlling how and what we speak?” ("English Should Not Be the Official Language of the United States." n.d.) I think when the government makes English as an official language‚ people could have a chance to choose what language they want use in their homes. It was surprising to me when I found out that the U.S.A does not have an official language. Although English is many people’s native language‚ it also often used
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In the article of “Some Languages are harder than others”‚ the writer tried to compare different languages to show their linguistic simplicity. The writer concluded that “some languages appear to be harder than others‚ but it is hard to explain exactly how and to what extent” (page 56 line 36 and page 57 lines 1-2). It is because the writer claimed that “simplicity in one part of the language may be balanced by complexity in another part” (page 56 lines 16-17). Although the writer used different
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Language and Culture One’s culture affects almost all of one’s communication behaviors. I discovered an article written by Margaret Cote‚ “Language Reflects Culture‚” that reveals many of the differences between the Saulteaux language and the English language. Margaret Cote states‚ “Language determines the way a person views the world.” She describes how Indian people view things around them differently then English speaking people do. Margaret Cote says that she views the world around her in
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Cultural Function of Language Many animal and even plant species communicate with each other. Humans are not unique in this capability. However‚ human language is unique in being a symbolic communication system that is learned instead of biologically inherited. Culture is the set of shared patterns of behaviors and interactions‚ cognitive constructs‚ and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization. These shared patterns identify the members of a culture group while also
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