...A. INTRODUCTION 1. Background of the Research Why Filipinos Have a Hard Time Speaking English? In the Philippines, the English Language has been selling like an old flavor of ice-cream and has been served repeatedly to millions of students in all the schools for the past decades. Most of us actually have tried this 'ice cream' but not everyone had liked it. These schools though, exerted a conscious effort on how to smoothly deliver this subject matter to every student. Like ice-cream makers, public schools claim that they have already mastered this overwhelming 'ice-cream-making' process. While private schools brag that theirs is 'yummier', since they are now putting some 'cherries on top'. But after all, why still most of the Filipinos can't speak English better or they having a hard time on it? 2. Statement of the Problem Speaking in English is not our lingua franca (mother tongue). It means that English is not our first language. And we, Filipinos find it difficult to speak English during a certain speech in a formal gathering or those students who have this English Zone Policy in their respective school, colleges, and states/universities. There are lots of Filipinos who are not that good in speaking in English and are trying hard to express themselves in English. I recognize that learning to speak and write in English in this age of globalization is necessary especially if we would like to be able to compete in the knowledge-based world. Such training...
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...English should continue to be the official language of India. English is used as the official language in India. Yes • English is one such language that is understood by people from different castes and states, and therefore deserves to be the official language of India. • If any other language is tried to make the official language, all the regional parties will start the battle of making the state level as official language of India. • If Hindi is given priority then it will create differences among the people who don’t speak it making them feel as second class citizens. • Region C forms an important part of India that got agitated when PM Modi used Hindi for its diplomatic talks. • The use of English language is as per the requirement of being a part of globalization and there is nothing wrong in it. No • Forget about all the different castes and religions as Indians have their own national language that is Hindi, and that should only be the official language of India. • It is the duty of the government to take the measures so that people all over in India can read, write and speak in Hindi. • Already Indian has adopted the western culture in many ways. If it continues there will be no personal or rather say national identity of India. • In this case, India should learn something from Pakistan who made the Urdu as their official language after the division of country. • The small little steps are the ways that will make sure that the...
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...Joshua Williamson Dr. Wendt English 101 13 September 2013 Cultures and their Legitimacy “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” is about Gloria Anzaldua losing her native accent because she lived in the United States. She grew up in the US, but for the most part, she spoke Spanish. She spoke Chicano Spanish, not true Spanish, and was living in a place that spoke English. She was talking about how Chicano Spanish changed from place to place. This form of language is like a lower level of Spanish. Everyday she was criticized for the way she talked, and she took it to heart. Just because people speak a language different ways, does not mean they are any less a part of that culture. This whole article is about recognizing the Chicano culture as being legitimate. That it is something to be proud of. A big argument in our American culture is whether American is English or English is American. There is no fact of this matter there is only many different opinions. My personal opinion is that English is American. When America was founded, it was Great Britain who settled the land and formed colonies. Great Britain spoke English. That is why I think the English is American. America is often known as the “melting pot,” because so many people from different cultures moved here to start a better life. Because there are so many different cultures, there are many different languages. In the world, there are many different cultures, and many different variations of those cultures...
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...Urquhart English 11 May 14, 2012 Should English be the official language in America? A very intense discussion now a day is if we should make English the official language of America. Most American’s say yes, but there are also American with a foreign back round that say no. There are really good arguments for making English the official language, but there are also really strong reasons to why English should not be made the official language in America. I will give my reasons on why I don’t think it matters if it is made the official language or not. If English was made the “official” language of America it would make more sense to many foreign people. It would get them to realize that they should know how to speak English along with their native language. It won’t mean that they’ll forget about their culture, but they will have to learn many new things if they plan to stay in America. Many American complain about foreigners talking in their native language because they think we’re talking about them. There are many small reasons on why it should be made the official language, but there is one big reason that I had never thought about until I talked to Mrs. Thompson. When you go off into a huge business the most common language we use in America is English! Even when we are making business overseas we still use it as the official language. When we go to the stores, pharmacies, schools, and even big events like charities or special events we speak English! English could be...
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...language that the world is crying out to learn is diseased in its own country.” English is but the third most commonly spoken language in the world, and yet so many people in foreign countries wish to learn it. The problem we face is that of people in other countries, where English isn’t their native language, ending up being able to speak the language better than those native to England. This old, sophisticated language is slowing deteriorating and for something significant to happen in the right direction we need to tackle the problem here in the UK. Something that might motivate us to want to do something about it is this quote from the ‘Reith lecture 1996’- stating that “the standard of speech and pronunciation in England has declined so much… that one is almost ashamed to let foreigners hear it”. If they said that that back in 1996, I couldn’t bare to imagine the sate we’re in now. People have become lazy and just don’t care any more. Now if you try to correct someone’s grammar they say ‘they don’t care’ or call you the ‘grammar police’. They get annoyed- and they’re the ones in the wrong. My point: that something isn’t right if the ones trying to do something about this crisis are just getting it back in their faces. A recent survey taken- asking people about their opinions on speech and grammar and its importance- brought back results of 74% of people saying that it doesn’t matter to them either way- if people spoke with proper grammar or not. Some even said that...
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...then I do get some that think I do not understand a word of English because I am Asian working at a nail salon. Many clients come into the salon and automatically think none of us speak enough English to communicate with us. They think they need to speak louder or slower so we can understand what they are saying. I would get so offended when someone asks me if I spoke English. I would give them a glare and sometimes even pretend I do not speak English so I don’t have to interact with them. For some reason, many clients think we, as a Vietnamese culture, all work in a nail salon because it is our only job we can do without speaking English. I felt they were discriminating us for being Vietnamese. Discrimination as Beebe, Beebe, and Redmond implies, “Unfair or inappropriate treatment of people based on their group membership” (2010, p.91). They would get offended when we start speaking Vietnamese in front of them. Some would tell us it was very unprofessional of us to be speaking a different language when we are working on client. Then there are some who jokes around and tell us we are talking about them. I prefer the second situation. It’s probably the way they say it. When they make it as a joke, it sounds friendlier than when they are just saying out right that it is rude for us to speak in Vietnamese. I usually rudely reply, in perfect English, “It should not matter what language I speak to my co-workers as long as we are doing...
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...The Importance of English in the World of International Business ‘English is now a global language that belongs to all those who speak it.’ (Nigel Newton, publisher) It is the technology that allows people to travel further and faster than ever before. It is the Internet that links people regardless their nationalities and countries they live in. And technology is also the reason why lots of business people are active globally and why more and more entrepreneurs are on the move than ever before. In this world full of the state-of-the-art technology English serves as a uniting element in many situations, giving all entrepreneurs and small companies a better chance on the market and an ideal comparative advantage over those who lack the ability to communicate in this language. There is no doubt that professional knowledge and experience is essential for entrepreneurs and managers. But reaching and staying at the top requires more than just being knowledgeable and experienced. One of the reasons why some entrepreneurs are successful and some of them are, let us stay optimistic, less successful, may lie in the ability to communicate knowledge in a foreign language. Of course, one has to agree that entrepreneurs and companies can hire interpreters who are both fluent and skilled. However, entrepreneurs cannot expect that people, who are not really involved in a company’s matters, will establish relationships in the way loyal and committed employees of the company can...
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...believe the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. There are several reasonS why I agree [about] WITH this statement. There are several reasonS why I SAY THIS. [FOR THIS]. First of all, [as a matter of fact,] IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT THAT young children pick up languages much more easily than teenagerS. This is because all babies are born with the ability to learn their mother tongue. So this is why in Malaysia we start[ed] to learn 3 languages right from kindergarten. We have to learn the national language, Malay, the second language, English and my own mother tongue, Chinese. [Moreover,] The second reason is that the primary school TIME-table is more relaxed and flexible. There are more periods allocated to learning [more subjects] LANGUAGES. Conversely, in secondary school, studentS have a lot of co-curriculum activities to participate in and have a lot of examS to prepare for. Therefore, secondary students have more stress and find it difficult to learn a foreign language. However, there are some disadvantages. For instance, some primary school teachers [theirs languages is as] ARE NOT UP TO THE SAME standard as the secondary school teachers IN TEACHING ENGLISH. So, some primary school teachers speak in broken English and children may pick up the incorrect grammar. EVEN WorsE, some of the primary school teachers ARE unable to speak the foreign language such as English FLUENTLY and this causes the children TO [have no opportunity to learn it...
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...Should Examination Be Abolished ? Have you ever heard the shocking news about an Indian girl who committed suicide after have a bad result for Primary School Evaluation Test (UPSR)?. This happened because of the emotional distress and pressure that existed in her circumstances making this poor girl lost her sanity. This is one of the disadvantages of having a public examination. Public examination can be defined as a test is prepared by the ministry of education to test the performance of students and the examination will be conducted simultaneously throughout the country. For example UPSR , PMR , SPM and STPM. There are many disadvantages of the public examination. Therefore, I agree that the examination should be abolished due to several reasons which are examination are not reliable way of gauging the true ability of student, examination is not the best mean to evaluate certain skill of the student and examination is lacking of its validity. To begin with, public examination are not a reliable way of gauging the true ability of students. Many students simply memorise what has been taught and regurgitate the facts during examinations. In that respect, they are merely exhibiting lower order thinking skills as expounded in Bloom's taxonomy of learning. If student has a poor memory and fails a public examination, does it mean the student is not smart? . At best, public examination only seem to evaluate a student's ability to memorise and retain...
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...larger scale trends, which allows us to examine the conditions necessary for change. The process of change occurs gradually, and the rate of this change does conform to a pattern. For instance, if you get an influx of foreign words, few people use them, and they spread slowly until people have become familiar with them. When they have, the word usage stabilizes. Another factor affecting language change is hyper-correction. This occurs when a sentence is corrected so frequently that the deviant form becomes the norm in spoken English. For example, the sentence Jill and me went to the fair is often corrected to Jill and I went to the fair. The result of this is that the phrase and me has become disdainful and unacceptable. The ultimate effect of this is an exaggerated use of the term and I. For example, Mother gave the book to John and I is a deviant form which has become the norm in spoken English. Research has also discovered many other reasons why language changes. William Labov conducted a study in America investigating the use of the letter r. He used three sets of shop assistants from high-class, middle-class, and lower-class stores and found that all three sets consciously used the more prestigious pronunciation of r. This was a conscious speech act, because in a more relaxed context the same people dropped this particular usage. Labov called this 'change from above', as the speakers were motivated to move up the social scale. Labov also did some research on Martha's...
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...Are you a winner? This training course is called English for Winners, and before you delve into it, we should find out together if it is for you. Do you want to be a winner? Most English learners are unhappy with their English ability. If you ask the average English learner to assess their skills, you're very likely to get one of these answers: "I studied English at school for more than 5 years, but my English is not so good." "I speak a little English, but I think it's just 'school English'." "I understand it a little, but I can't speak it fluently." "My grammar is very bad. I've often tried to learn the grammar rules, but they're too complicated for me." "I had good school grades in English but I still can't speak it very well." These are typical complaints, and they make it clear that very few learners are really happy with the quality of their English. Most of them realize that their efforts are not yielding the results they expect. But instead of changing their strategy and trying to find the right learning methods and techniques, they simply give up. They think that they "just don't have a talent for learning languages". The winners, however, are those English learners who have taken control of their own programs. They know that acquiring English is an ongoing process. It is something that happens every day, day in and day out. They also understand that when it comes to learning English any progress is success. ©EnglishForWinners, Page 1 of 34 Dear Listener, since you...
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...100% in line with the trend that “English is now the global Language of Business” Englishnization of global corporations: Strategy is Needed by Sebastian Reiche blog.iese.edu It still doesn’t mean an easy transition. People naturally oppose any changes and that can lead to higher costs especially in the beginning stages. The way Mikitani announced the “Englishnization” policy, without consulting with his management team did not prepare any employees for this change. The employers were immediately put under a lot of stress and experience a lot of pressure. Also linking the worker’s salaries to their English results and improvements increases the stress and uncertainty among employers. Higher stress levels normally have a negative impact on your efficiency and result in lower productivity. Poor communication (because of the immediate ban on any other language) also leads to lower productivity due to misunderstandings and waste of time. Despite these original costs in the short term, this Englishnization policy will have a lot more benefits for the company in the long way. As mentioned above English is the Global language of Business and this policy will lead to better communication between all international business. Being English efficient, managers will understand their competitors strategies better and will also be able to communicate this better to their workers. Workers who are really motivated will improve their English skills and those who are not will...
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...Is it good to have English as global language? What is a global language? Does it mean that everyone in the world speaks English? This is certainly not true. Does it mean, then, that every country in the world recognizes Englis has an official language? This is not true either. So what? A language achieves a genuinely global status when it develops a special role that is recognized in every country. There are two main ways in which this can be done. Firstly, a language can be made the official language of a country, to be used as a medium of communication in such domains as government, the law courts, the media, and the educational system. Secondly, a language can be made a priority in a country’s foreign-language teaching, even though this language has no official status. It becomes the language which children are most likely to be taught when they arrive in school. Why a language becomes a global language has little to do with the number of people who speak it. It is much more to do with who those speakers are. Latin became an international language throughout the Roman Empire, but this was not because the Romans were more numerous. They were simply more powerful. And later, when Roman military power declined, Latin remained for a millennium as the international language of education, thanks to a different sort of power – the ecclesiastical power of Roman Catholicism. There is the closest of links between language dominance and economic, technological, and cultural power...
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...Maritime Liens and the Conflict of Law - General Shipping and Regulatory Maritime Law Index 1. Purpose and plan of the essay page 3 2. Introduction 2.1 Origins of maritime liens page 3 2.2 Maritime liens page 3 3. Conflict of law page 5 4. The United Kingdom page 6 5. The United States page 8 6. Conclusion page 10 1. The purpose and plan of this essay I will start this essay with a first review of the background of maritime liens and their definition. After this, I will examine why there exist conflicts of law in maritime law. My purpose of this essay is to compare two states that are very different in their domestic maritime law in respect of maritime liens and the differences in recognizing foreign maritime liens. I have chosen to compare the domestic law in the United Kingdom with the United States because I feel that they are managing conflicts of law very differently from one another and I want to get a deeper knowledge in these states law. The American court recognizes foreign maritime liens while the United Kingdom do not; they apply the lex fori (i.e. their own law). This had caused a huge uncertainty in the right of the international ship suppliers. Because the states is so in-cohesive in this area of law I thought it would be interesting to compare these and see how they handle conflicts of law. I will bring out the weaknesses in the different systems and also the positive things. Finally, after this comparison I will...
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...Why is English the international language? The fact that English is now the main international language is indisputable. In all aspects of international life – trade, science, diplomacy, education and travel – the common language is English and has been for decades. There are two main reasons why English is the current lingua franca; political history and economics. First, one of the main reasons why English is the international language in the world today is the fact that Britain was the global superpower in the nineteenth century and America is the global superpower in the twentieth and twenty-first. For example, these two English-speaking countries were the most important countries in terms of the military and trade. By conquering and colonising so much of the world, their customs, culture and way of life became common in those parts of the world. This is why so many ex-British colonies now have English as the national language, with many of their people speaking English as a first language. Second, a further reason for the spread and of English is economics. By being the global political and military superpower, these two countries also became the leading trading nations and many countries and territories needed to learn English in order to trade with them. The USA is currently a major trading partner with almost every other country on the planet due to the size of the consumer economy. This explains why in many countries, English is...
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