Language

The Latin language was originally spoken in small groups along the Tiber River, but spread with the increase of Roman political power. It first spread throughout Italy and most of western and southern Europe, along with central and western Mediterranean coastal regions of Africa. Today’s romance languages developed from spoken Latin of various parts of the Roman Empire. From the middle ages to comparatively recent times, Latin was the most common used language in the West for scholarly and literary

In line with the trend of globalization and the growing recognition of language as resource, English as an international language has increasingly attracted ESL learners across the world to study in the United States. While international ESL learners collectively contribute to the diversity of education on the macro level, they bring their distinctive identities into each classroom on the micro level. Situated in a multicultural learning environment, learners constantly represent and negotiate their

are from and which country you are in right now, it is not easy when you are trying to communicate with foreigners in your non-native language. It really isn’t. Although I can speak and write in English pretty well now, I’ve been through so many situations where I did not understand English words at all and I’ve made so many mistakes due to the cultural and language differences. The first time you are exposed to a different culture is the worst. If you have not experienced this before, let me tell

Language Assessment and Language Proficiency Standard There are three main goals in teaching English as a second language. These goals are: To use English to communicate in social settings, to use English to achieve academically in all content areas and to use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways (Short, 2000). With these goals in mind, language proficiency standards (LPS) have been developed to help insructors achieve the highest level of ESL instruction. The Educate

the Japonic language family, the Japanese language exclusively belongs to the Japanese people. Unlike languages such as English and Spanish, where their languages have been adopted by other countries such as New Zealand and Mexico and therefore isn’t just spoken in their home countries of England and Spain. Japanese is a unique and distinct Asian language used only in Japan. Japanese language is also a prime example for discourse analysis because it is a refined and complex language. Discourse analysis

Influence and Impact of English Language on the Indigenous People in Louise Erdrich’s novels Vinoth.M1&2, 1Ph.D Research Scholar (P/T), PG & Research Department of English, Government Arts College (Autonomous), Salem-7 2Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jairam Arts and Science College, Salem-8 Abstract Colonialism brings drastic changes in the Political, Economical and Social conditions of the colonized countries. It also sows the seed of English education among the colonies which attempts

The above statement explains that to understand language, one must learn to view language objectively, without any meaning or context added to the language. This would present the reader or audience with nothing but pure language and with no other meaning or slang that would cause some language to mean something else in a different context. For example, if you were to view language as an object without any social context, then the word ‘book’ is simply a book, a collection of pages that tell a story

is influenced by our language has interested scholars for hundreds of years. The strong view of this 'language relativity hypothesis ' or 'Sapir-Whorf -hypothesis ' where our actions are determined only by language has been widely abandoned. However answering the question whether language can still shape our thoughts to some extent has been proven more difficult. In this paper I will examine some of the recent research that seems to support the idea that although language does not completely dictate

Egypt’s Language In A.D. 639 Egypt was conquered by the Muslim Rashidun army. Before this had happened Egypt’s language was Coptic which had developed from Ancient Egypt. Coptic was the language for almost all of the population in Egypt. But, this language came to an end when by the twelfth century when it was replaced by the Arabic language. Even after this language was replaced the Coptic Orthodox church still used it instead of the Arabic language. The Arabic language has become the main language

Dema Alshahin Oct 30,2017 The Role of Language Undoubtedly, in any human community language plays a vital role, securing social sustainability. The language of any society and culture tells a lot about local citizens. Indeed, language is not only a way of communication, but national symbols, music, and art. From this point of view, culture is not only a language in its general sense but the mutual recognition of soul values by people communicating within the culture. This way, individuals can communicate