... or Smartphone's, Furthermore media must keep adding information to Indonesian translation when using English as the medium. By analyzing the problem, we can conclude that the use of English in Technology has a number of positive and negative impacts on our lives. However, the positive impacts of using English in technology outweigh the negative impacts. Indonesian is the national language and unifies the nation. An increasingly global language be used ... is more than one billion users. However, as with other areas of life, as told by Naisbit (1991) in his book Global Paradox, paradoxes...

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... this country. The Germans could talk to the Italians and the Irish could talk to the Polish. Everybody could communicate with one another. These people lived and worked with one another; without a common language, nothing would have been accomplished. This is even stated in the Bible in the book of Genesis. According to the Bible, when the people tried to build the Tower of Babel all the way to heaven ... , God punished them by making each person unable to understand the speech of every other person... Once the workers on the Tower of Babel lost the ability to communicate, they were unabl...

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... , something happened which changed my attitude toward myself and my opportunities. It was not a huge incident, but it gave me an incredible boost of confidence. It happened on a Friday morning in 2011. I simply went about my mundane daily routine. I got up at five in the morning, showered, ate my breakfast and started to review my homework. Suddenly my phone rang. It was ... coming to our country due to some meeting about a Bank opening. In fact, I do not even remember the entire reason of their visit. I was so excited by the words "BBC"" and "Foreign" reporters that I could not concentr...

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... by a vote of 259-169, with 36 Democrats joining Republicans in this historic vote. Unfortunately, the Senate failed to act on the bill before the session was over. On the state level, 26 states have English as their official language and several more are considering similar legislation. In the last four years, Alaska, Georgia, Montana, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming and ... some form of official English legislation with the help of U.S. English. English First is based in Springfield, Virginia--just outside the Washington, D.C. Beltway. This location allows English F...

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... facing the language planners in Ireland is to translate such support into an increased usage or Irish at community level. How Many Speak Irish? When talking about Irish-speakers it is important to distinguish between those who can speak Irish and those do speak it. In 1926 we had more than half a million Irish-speakers. In 1993 UNESCO Red Book of Endangered ... Languages, listed Irish as an endangered language, with perhaps less than 20,000 fully competent native speakers. In the mid-1990s the number using Irish as their main language was probably between 10,000 and 21,000 ... Finland,...

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... argue that bilingual education is beneficial to those who come to live in America and want to become a part of the culture, but lack proficiency in the English language. Two authors, who have each taken opposite sides of the debate on bilingual education in America, are: Richard Rodriguez and Ariel Dorfman. Richard Rodriguez believes that bilingual education creates a feeling of ... of bilingual education because it can be an effective segue to learning the English language and I believe it is very important to remain connected with our family's language and culture. However, I also rec...

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... these opposers don't understand is that English is taught in bilingual classes, but it does take time. "We learn to read by reading, by making sense of what we see on the page if we learn to read by reading, it will be much easier to learn to read in a language we already understand. Once you can read, you can read. And ... includes biliteracy"(Cummins 16). The quality of the school should reflect on how well the student does in the class. The opposers argue that bilingual classes don't teach the English language, but that would rest solely on the teacher that's teaching it. If the teac...

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... to national disunity ethnic group isolation and even encourage economic disparities between the rich and the poor (Mujica, 508). Opponents, on the other hand, felt that the English only movement could violate the civil rights of the migrant in the United States. Considering the number of non-English speaking immigrants and the number of non-citizen students in the United States, bilingualism should not be an option but a civil right so ... speakers. (Crawford, 959) Believed, that an individual may never become productive without learning the English language. During the drafting of the ...

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... form of communicating with family and friends and the communication they had between themselves in the trenches, a myriad of words and phrases came into common use. The impact of the overseas involvement of the military on the English language was already evident by 1914, which had remarkable differences with the English of the Elizabethan age. With the war a meeting point of numerous nationalities and ... given their large number it is evident that the letters they wrote influenced notable changes to language fought the two wars. The influence was mainly from interactions by soldiers b...

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... Francisco Chronicle tells that around California these immigrants swarm to Basic English classes to only be turned down or put on huge waiting lists, because of the lack of funding by the state. Dan Peck, the Director of the Chinatown/North Beach Community College Center said, " these people want to learn English but there's not enough places here for them to do it"(Garcia 2). Although ... clearly has more possible negative consequences than positive that only affect a few categories of people. While sounding good on the ballot and on television commercials paid for by the U.S. English ...

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... What resources (apart from human) would you consider using? OPTION B Find two books on pronunciation teaching (or two Pronunciation sections from books that cover general teaching issues) that seem to you to advocate very distinct approaches in the classroom. For example, The Pronunciation Book by Bowen & Marks or 'Sound Foundations' by Adrian Underhill seem very different ... from a book such as Ship and Sheep by Baker. Review the two books in the following ways: (a) Describe the general approach of the books/sections - segmental, suprasegmental, exposure-based, explanation-based, ...

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... In this particular situation, Non- native English speaker teachers are people who decided to learn a second language, and they have studied the language, the culture and the origins of a particular place around the world. Ahmar Mahboob in his book "The NNEST Lens: Non Native English Speakers in TESOL" describes NNEST in three main terms "multilingulism", "Multiculturalism" ... with Richards's ideas of what makes a good English teacher, and also what makes a NNEST insecure about himself or herself. On page 3 Richards indicates that "a teacher who has not reached this level of proficie...

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... finding that language development amongst children is strikingly similar across cultures. Therefore, the researchers focus on these possible similarities in the hope of finding a definite answer in language acquisition. However, this paper does not intend to focus on the similarities. Instead, the focus of his paper would be the theories of first and second language acquisition. This paper will highlight some theories ... arisen since the debate on a child's language acquisition begins. These theories are brought about in the hope to see the link between each theory and thus to make con...

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... What is first, learned as part of a whole "whatsit- o Where and who next o Why emerges around second year and becomes a favorite o Stage 1: single word questions with rising intonation: Mommy book? Correct questions as formulaic chunks o Stage 2: use the word order of a declarative sentence. With yes/no' questions, they add rising intonation, with wh-questions, they put a question word at ... , attitudes, and emotional states Learner who is tense, angry may filter out input, making it unavailable for acquisition. RECENT PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES Information processing See L2 as the building ...

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... other languages and cultures. C.K.Ogden's Basic English (1932), involved the implementation of an artificial language and the use of an existing natural language as an international lingua franca. It became very influential. The linguistic analysis on which it was based was closely linked to the development of systemic-functional linguistics and the framework of analysis of Michael Halliday. It is also used in ... the restricted report-and-control language of "Airspeak" (used for air traffic control) or "Seaspeak" (used in maritime ... found out that older speakers pronounce their words...

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... ] giving their racism tacit approval"(504). This statement is simply her opinion, I don't agree with that. I have aunts and uncles who are deeply racist, including an uncle who was beaten on the street because he made a racial slur. I feel sorry for people who act that way, but I don't make comments of that sort. I compare cultures, but I don't offend them. I don't accept what ... why I disagree with Jorge R. Macillas, about having bilingual classes in school. In fact, English should be enforced with greater power. When the time is right I will always have the option to communicate in tw...

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... that Lenneberg left a question that whether it is similar with second language acquisition or not. After the information given about the history of studies on first and second language acquisition theories and studies, I can start to mention about second language acquisition and its' nature, relationship with first language and the stages of second language acquisition. I prefer to talk about second language development by comparison with ... make communication but it is also important to reach the success in this world because language means sharing information with others. As a conclu...

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... , reasons and approaches culture teaching is applied in ELT classrooms. In this study, I collected and analyzed 13 articles on the Internet, journals as well as books. The content of culture teaching in ELT was categorized into aesthetic, sociological and pragmatic senses, with the emphasis on communicative aspects rather than knowledge information. It also proved the importance of culture teaching in ELT and identified cross- cultural approach as ... the most sensible one to follow. It concluded with three useful approaches implemented in culture teaching. These preliminary findings sug...

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... lines should show that adult learners do have knowledge which somehow requires access to principles of Universal Grammar, this will constitute clear counterevidence to the position argues in this paper (Bley-Vroman 39)." White presents information from a study done on Dutch immigrants who learned English as a second language. These immigrants, when tested against a control of native English speakers, performed almost as well as ... the natives when it came to subtleties that Bley-Vorman would say require access to the Universal Grammar (White 58). These findings suggest that second lang...

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... of English and Spanish equal throughout the maturation of the program (Bilingual Programs in Texas, 2012). Because of the increasing number of native Spanish speakers in Texas, the bilingual education debate has become front runner in education discussions (Gomez, 2005). Methods The research for this literature review was implemented in using the search engine of Education Resource Information Center through the EBSCO resource services. Research began with most ... , and they were categorized based on the study that done. I reviewed each article and made the choices based upon a criterio...

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... . LPP provides students with two teachers Mrs. Cohen and Mrs. T who both offer different aspects to better stye students learning. Mrs. Cohen and Mrs. T work endlessly on helping the students with both their homework, papers, understanding of information and daily life problems in the LPP tutoring center. Mrs. Cohen, the teacher that mostly helps students with any subject they do not understand, works around ... and lazy every day their core teachers label them as "incapable" or "emotionally disturbed." However, Mrs. Cohen who works more hands on with the students and their actual work on...

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... language instruction is beneficial for students. A student who has received prior native language instruction will require four-seven years to achieve proficiency in the second language. On the other hand for a student who has not received any native instruction the time necessary for proficiency would be of seven-ten years or more! Thousands of studies have proven that providing ELL with native language instruction ... through each stage in a certain period of time every student learns at a different rate therefore the transitioning program does not label as proficient depending on the...

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... of these errors. There are two categories: In the one hand there is Interlingual transfer these mistakes come from the learners first language, however this approach considers the L2 learner mistakes as a sign that the student trying to internalize and investigate the system of the new language and incorporate it in his own way. On the other hand, there are Intralingual transfers and developmental errors which are universally ... common mistakes which reflect the learners attempt to make the task of learning and using the target language simpler for themselves. It ... ...

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... . However new studies suggest that there are in fact steps that one could do in order to prevent or delay the development of Alzheimer's. Because of the nature of Alzheimer's, focus on maintaining a healthy brain is encouraged. This can be done in the following ways: The six pillars of a brain-healthy lifestyle are: • Regular exercise • Healthy diet • Mental stimulation • Quality sleep ... . Therefore as a result it may compensate for the loss of diseased parts of the brain. When we begin to refer to a brain reserve we are referring to the parts of the brain which are still used ...

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... 227 and its controversy. Then, it proposes what might have been a compromise that satisfied the supporters and the critics alike. After a small protest by some dissatisfied Hispanic American parents on their children's bilingual education, Ron Unz, the Chairman of English for the Children wrote and spearheaded a movement for Proposition 227. Under the premise that bilingual education had not relieved high dropout rates and low English literacy ... them on time. If getting rid of bilingual education means unifying standards for all students, hence challenging all students equally, I must...

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