Languages Essays

English Speaking Skills in Non-native speaking Children
1st Jun 2020
Introduction: A Proposal of Effective Improvement of English Speaking Skills in Non-Native Speaking Children In recent decades, English has become a worldwide language and plays an important role in many fields of ...

Self-reflection on the Critical Period Hypothesis
1st Jun 2020
Introduction: A Brief Literature Review and Self-reflection on the Critical Period Hypothesis Introduction Is there really an ideal age at which second language learning should begin? Is there only a slim chance fo...

Importance of Language Development in Early Childhood
18th May 2020
Introduction: In early childhood a child adopts their own language from their environment. A child adopts the language people tend to speak around them. Early childhood education in kindergarten usually starts...

English in Post Revolutionary Iran
18th May 2020
Introduction: Iran, which is also widely known and recognized as the Persian Empire, and officially known the Islamic Republic of Iran, is one of the world’s oldest and most historic civilizations, beginning...

Language and Development Observation of Child with Downs Syndrome
18th May 2020
Introduction: I observed four year old Mia, who is female. She has both active parents in her life, along with a younger sister. She has downs syndrome. She can communicate fairly well verbally but also uses s...

Problems of Task-based English Language Teaching in Chinese High School Classrooms
18th May 2020
Introduction: Problems of Task-based English language teaching in Chinese high school classrooms   Introduction There are more and more people learning foreign languages, an...

Annotated Bibliography: Acquisition of French as a Second Language
18th May 2020
Introduction: Acquisition of French as a Second Language Research on acquisition of second language has reported two conclusions. First, acquisition of second language is a highly systematic process, ...

Negative Transfer Effect by Cantonese Students Learning English
18th May 2020
Introduction: This work[1] is focused on deriving salient mispronunciations made by Cantonese (L1) learners of English (L2) specifically due to negative language transfer effect .The study presents phonologica...

Code Switching, Emotions and Trauma Narratives
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Bilingualism or multilingualism being described merely as a phenomenon where an individual is able to speak and write in two or more languages is not exactly an accurate definition; the term also...

ELF and GE Notions in ELT: Evaluation Listening Materials in Two Textbooks
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction The idea of English as a Lingua Franca ELF is a quite new concept and was not recognised in many fields such as applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. There was a not...

Early Childhood Language Development in the Digital age: A Review of Research
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction   Early childhood language and literacy development for the children aged 0-8 years old is strongly influenced by the linguistic environment of the child. R...

A Detailed Account of the Use and Status of Languages in South Africa
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Literature Research into South Africa’s language history has been covered rather extensively in the past twenty years. Papers on the countries implementation of policies such as (Ngcob...

Effect of Media and Texting on Language
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: There are so many myths about language and the negative effects it has our society in general. Given that social media and technology now plays a relevant role in our everyday life, one such grou...

The Use of Loans in English in Spain and in America
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world preceded by Mandarin Chinese and followed by English (Fernández, 2016, p. 4). In 2016, more than 472 millions of peo...

Effect of Repetition and Rhymed Video-songs in Facilitating Adults L1 (Arabic) and L2 (English) Acquisition
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Research Proposal The effect of repetition and rhymed video-songs in facilitating adults L1 (Arabic) and L2 (English) acquisition in the K.S.A Introduction I taught...

Critical Period Hypothesis of Language Learning
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: My father, while he was in his early twenties immigrated to the States from India along with his parents, 4 older siblings and 1 younger sibling. Although they had all learned English in school, ...

Influences of Second Language Acquisition
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Abstract Acquiring a second language at an early age is crucial in the Latino community, especially because it is a growing population. The involvement that is shown in preschool program...

Is it Possible to Create a Universal Language?
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Is it Possible to Create a Universal Language?     Language is a globalised ph...

Issues and Challenges of Cataloging Materials in Non-roman Languages
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Theses Statement This paper reviews recent literature regarding issues and challenges of cataloging materials in non-Roman languages. It provides background information and a discussion ...

Analysis of the Transmission Model for Communication Theories and Research
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: ‘Despite the critiques from within the reception or cultural context school of thought does the transmission model still provide the primary conceptual basis for theorizing and researching comm...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Dual Language Schools
8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  I strongly recommend my neighbor’s son to go to a dual language school. The reason why I stated that is that there are lots of benefit in a dual language program. For instance, learn seco...

Spanish Language in the United States
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction Despite the bilingual policy in the USA, Spanish speakers are still reporting numerous incidences of discrimination against their language (Fuller, 2013). Employed Latinos h...

Effect of Latin on the Romance Languages
23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: In order to understand how Latin broke up into the various Romance languages between late antiquity and the early middle ages, it is important to analyse historical and principal linguistic fact...

Rhetorical Analysis and Italian Subculture
23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Rhetorical Analysis and Italian Subculture There is only one thing that truly unites every person on this planet. There is only one thing that allows expression and connection. There is...

Role of Language in the Formation of Social Attitudes
23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Role of Language in the Formation of Social Attitudes Does language affect our attitudes about others? Early theories on attitudes saw them as stable, unchanging mental representati...