Essays on Language

The paper seeks to look into the various research designs by studying the effects of bilingualism in the development of children. The articles seek to analyze the positive impacts of learning a second language when still young. The research question for the articles is: Should mothers teach their babies a second...

The World of Intercultural Classrooms The world is developing to a point where people from different countries come together in schools to study. People from all walks of life converge in a classroom to study a common subject but there seems to be a lot of difficulties. Most of the people...

Symbolic Culture Symbolic culture comprises of the behavioral traditions that are learned and passed from one generation to another. Specifically, people use symbols with particular meaning to communicate with others. Some of the symbolic components are values, gestures, folkways, sanctions, norms, and languages. Gestures refer to the body movements such as...

The purpose of this research was to examine the different ways of teaching English Liquid sounds /l/ and /r/ and identify the possible difficulties that students of English as a second language face in learning the sounds. The target was grade seven students who exhibited difficult in the pronunciation of...

Slang words are commonly used along with other English words as part of the language. These words in most scenarios are used casually in everyday speech and are easily understood depending on the context of the word. These words a time can be used to mean different things, and therefore,...

The Concept of Prestige The prestige is widely and commonly applicable term, yet highly contextualized. There are questions of where prestige resides, whether in people, in things, possession, or in the relationship with things. However, scholars have determined that prestige resides in the roles or functions that a person performs. The...

English 102 learning experience was quite enjoyable and enabled me to to understand education dynamics at the college level. The course enabled me to focus on my weakness as a leaner that ensured that by the end of the course I am able to conduct an independent research. The structuring...

b) Blue: Predicative, Relational, Complement, Predicate c) Thirty-Six Years Old: Property-Modifying, Modifier, Postnominal d) Luscious: Relative, Complement, Prenominal, Predicate e) Hottest: Relative, Complement, Prenominal Morphology a) Expensive: Complex, Inflectional, Modifier, Postnominal   Expens(e)            +             ive    Root           bound...

Different research works Research works have indicated that most of the children require a minimum of 12 years to effectively learn their first language. There are a number of ways children learn a second language. Understanding a second language is dependent on the culture, group as well as the individual personality...

Air Group 11 illustrates a subtle but important problem in the integration of women into the ranks (Continuous). There is no allegation that these women were crudely harassed like the victims of the  1991 Tailhook scandal. Rather, it appears that the female pilots aboard the Abraham Lincoln were quietly ostracized...

My decision to take the English class My decision to take the English class had a significant impact on my writing skills during the entire period. At first, I would have argued that my skills were perfect, but after my time in the English class, I eventually understood that my initial...

The English language has experienced a lot of notable changes since the fifth century up to date. There have been phases which marked the major transitions, and these are the Old English period, the Middle English period and the Modern English period. Old English had most of it borrowed from...