Language

Russell Berman is a professor at Stanford University who composed an article for CNN arguing why students in college should take a foreign language, His perspective is that learning a foreign language in college will be advantageous when looking for a job, advance English vocabulary skills, and gives proficiency in specific areas according to specific…

Everyone knows that we use language for a variety of purposes, for communication in the broadest sense: to convey to others what we have in our minds, not only information but also thoughts, feelings, desires, and intentions; to establish and maintain human relationships and gain the sympathy and support to others; to carry on conversations,…

We use language in the form of words every second, every minute of every day to communicate to one another. We start our day by saying “good morning” to our loved ones, family, friends, co-workers and, at times, even strangers. During breakfast, lunch, and dinner, if we are dining with another person, we may have…

Writing completely revolutionized humanity in almost every way. We can tweet, write scripts, and … well that’s really it, right? Language makes it so everything we do, works, right? Without language, I couldn’t talk to you or tell you to watch out for that predator! To put it simply, language allows me to express what’s…

Throughout the history, people have wanted to learn different languages due to many different reasons. Before the sixteenth century, Latin and Greek were the languages that people wanted to learn to grow intellectually. However, the political changes which emerged in Europe, led French and Italian to become popular. Thereafter, the advancement in technology, industry and…

Cheng relates the concept of English to Ishiguro’s previous two novels and states that the fact that Ishiguro depicts the lives of Japanese protagonists in Japan and their resentment of America in the American language creates a “double apostrophe” effect in which both the Japanese and the American are out of place. Cheng clarifies that…

State the challenges that an EFL learner would encounter when learning productive skills. How could he/ she overcome such challenges? When you learn a language, you develop both receptive skills and productive  skills. Receptive skills include understanding when you listen and when you read, you receive the language and  decode the meaning to understand the message. Productive skills are speaking…

Many Western philosophers have played an important role in setting up the Literary Theory. Who throughout history have been in the top of the literary hierarchy. They have considered the distinctions between written literatures. And then they came up with the redefinition of literature, which lead them to the changes in literary critical language such…

For many reasons, children struggle with learning words; more specifically, these children deeply struggle with learning adjectives. Through Samantha L. Ricks and Mary Alt’s 2016 journal article, Theoretical Principles to Guide the Teaching of Adjectives to Children Who Struggle with Word Learning: Synthesis of Experimental and Naturalistic Research with Principles of Learning Theory, one can…

I chose to find the entomology of a word that most people can usually not go through a day without using at least once, computer. With the explosion of the personal computer in the last ten years, most households in America own at least one. However, the meaning of the word “computer” has changed in…