Category: Language and Linguistics

Introduction Learning foreign languages is essential today. Here learning means gaining knowledge, skills from experience or study. There are lots of languages in the world. Every language reflects its community, country and continent importance in its own places. There are some foreign languages commonly used all over the world i.e., . . . Read more

The controversial practice of bilingual education has been under fire the last few years from opposition such as “English First,” assimilation activists, and a handful of angry Latino parents. The main argument delivered by these groups is that bilingual education has failed, and the complaints are being ignored and overlooked . . . Read more

We live in a time when there are great efforts being put into bringing the world together on a global level. Thanks to the explosion in the development of telecommunications and means of travel, the world has suddenly become a much smaller place than once thought. Yet, although everything seems . . . Read more

Education is very important for our lives. Without education, people wouldn’t have their high-developed machines and would believe that the Earth is a planet around that all other planets are moving. Why do people want to have their high education? As for me, I have my reasons why I want . . . Read more

“Waiting for Godot”: Realism “Waiting for Godot” occupies a prominent place in the annals of English literature for highlighting the basic truths of human beings belonging to any age or religion. The play can be interpreted in various ways. It is a play in which fact and fancy, illusion and . . . Read more

I Introduction People whose first language is not English face a number of problems when they try to learn it, not least of which is understanding and using the proper register when speaking. This paper critiques the article “Using Standards to Integrate Academic Language into ESL Fluency,” by Beckett. It . . . Read more

Relations between the US and Canada have long (but not always) been peaceful and friendly. But from time to time those relations know to be ambivalent and prickly, especially on the Canadian side, Canadians often assert that Americans take them for granted and pay little or no attention to their . . . Read more

Speech Equals Class: an analysis of the correlation between African American Vernacular English in “The Lesson” and social status “Get at me” which in short translates as “talk to you later” is just one term from many in African American Vernacular English, also known as AAVE. This language is a . . . Read more

After enduring one terrible essay after another, I was unable to resist uploading some tips for writing an effective essay. 1. Answer the question. Sounds simple enough, but it’s just unbelievable how many people fail miserably to do so. While we’re on this point, I might also mention the ‘quality . . . Read more

American novelist and nineteenth-century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was the first writer to apply artistic judgment to Puritan society. There were many transcendentalists during Hawthorne’s time period, but his works showed little optimism and self-confidence. Most of his works were written from a Puritan preoccupation (Comptons Encyclopedia, 83). With a series . . . Read more

Last year my ability to write was above the average of my English class. At the time I thought that reading and writing were the only things in English. This year I was handed a light to show me that reading and writing are only the outlines of English. When . . . Read more

There are many humorous short stories. Some sitcoms are based on short stories. For example, they all have plots, rising action events, and resolutions. Take “The Simpsons” in every episode the characters make the watchers laugh with their dumb jokes, use of mockery, and clumsiness. Coincidently, they have the elements . . . Read more

Focused, unified body paragraphs Introductory and concluding paragraphs are a different matter, but the paragraphs that make up the guts of your essays, the body paragraphs, need the following to be effective units of argument or analysis: 1) A topic sentence, a direct statement of the main point of the . . . Read more

Geoffrey Chaucer has been called the Father of the English language. He did for the English narrative what Shakespeare later did for drama. He was the first writer to use lines of poetry that had an appeal to those interested in nature and books. His writing was very modern for . . . Read more

Lunch. Oh, what music it brings to our ears! Especially when that bell rings: our butts are edged off our seats, gearing to be the first one through the door and to the lunch line. This may be hard for 100-300’s because of their incredible distance in which they must . . . Read more