Essays on Foreign Languages

Importance of Learning Foreign Languages

Learning foreign languages in the modern world is one of the most important components of the successful person. Knowledge of at least one foreign language broadens the mind and allows you to learn the culture and customs of other people. First and foremost, it is additional knowledge that cannot be needless. Second, specialists with knowledge of foreign languages more likely get well-paid job. However, this is not the most important thing. The main point is an opportunity to plunge into the world of mysterious and unknowable, is the ability to communicate with people and the formation of ideology and ...

Introduction

Learning a foreign language is a slow and progressive effort which requires constant and responsible practice. Independent study is absolutely necessary for progress, and the hours spent in the classroom are not nearly enough in order to achieve fluency. This is particularly true for languages which are considered difficult to master, such as Mandarin. In recent years, Mandarin has become one of the most important foreign languages studied in schools throughout the United States of America. Mastering Mandarin challenges students to a great extent, even though many of them choose to study this language. Consequently, many teachers use the ...

Mao ruled China for the period from 1949 to 1976. During his leadership, Mao oversaw several initiatives that aimed to put across the progress of the country. Several of these revolutionary changes captured the attention of the media and received intensive debate from professionals and members of the Republic. Among the initiatives that received media attention is the five-year plan that was published in the first week of August 1955. The information in the extracts of the China Mainland Press indicated that the plan was drafted to happen between the years 1953 to 1957 (Pong, 2009). The five-year plan ...

Leadership & Body Language in Hospitality

INTRODUCTION Hospitality is a service-oriented industry. By definition, service is hospitality's most fundamental component based on which needs of customers, internal or external, are met. In order to better serve customers, hospitality organizations invest in every possible means to make customers satisfied. This covers changes from as broad as B2B strategic partnerships, international expansions and segmentized promotions) to small-scale as dress code, menus and decorations. In so doing, hospitality companies endeavor to add value in an industry growing more competitive, particularly by recent adoption of ICT platforms and applications enabling immediate peer-to-peer, B2C and B2B feedback. The case for ...

The book “Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching” by Diane Larsen-Freeman is devoted to different methods and approaches of language teaching which can be useful for teachers of foreign languages. According to the author, the book should also make its readers think about the approach to language teaching more and finally work out their own unique method or a set of methods which will accord to their personal beliefs and convictions regarding language teaching. In order to present the book as a useful instrument in teaching, the author also provides a system of techniques which can be implemented in ...

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In Kuwait, every parents, when choosing a school for their child, can give their preference to a private school as well as a public school. In this research paper the differences of both schooling systems will be reviewed and arguments on why one system is better than the other will be provided. In Kuwait the government seeks to provide all children with proper education, irrespective of their social class or special needs. In Kuwait there are 664 public schools and 481 private schools. Most children in Kuwait go to public schools (about two thirds of all children). The private ...

As a senior I just as everyone else was facing a difficult and life changing choice: which way should I take? What subject to choose for future studies? That was utterly important for my future career and I also was not impressed by the idea of leaving college or university if I would suddenly understand that I have made a wrong choice, that I have passion for another subject. So I took my time to profoundly study all the opportunities open for me. The problem actually was buried within the fact that just as other people I have the ...

Nowadays, Internet has become firmly established in the life of the society as a global information system. Being present in practically every home, Internet has considerably expanded the opportunities in the process of information search and exchange, communication between people, especially the so-called social networking sites or social media, which are very popular among people of all ages, especially among children and teenagers. Communication plays an important role for the development of the individual at each age stage, but for young people communication and interpersonal relations are a vital factor in the formation of their personality. The special role ...

Most of the culture-related problems facing 3rd world countries rely on traditional methods of production such include the participation rate of men and women. Women are not very active in the labor force. There are beliefs that women should not participate in particular jobs thus lowering the number of viable employees (Jiang 190). Education and skills necessary is also a major challenge as far as culture is concerned. Education is a basic necessity to any human. In most of these third-world countries, illiteracy levels are very high, and this mostly has been contributed by bad culture. People from these ...

Introduction

Crystal starts by questioning what it means for a language to be international or global and its advantages and disadvantages of having such a language in his book English as a Global Language. He suggests that for a language to be universal, its people political power is a critical factor to be considered. He traces the rise of English to the universal language in his first three chapters. The first chapter surveys its extent of use of English worldwide involving an outline of its spread, second examines some ideas developed in the nineteenth century about English languagen. The third ...

Introduction

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a region which was, at first, a small poor and secluded location in Guangxi province. The region was the harbor of a great revolutionary decade which began when Hong Xiuquan; disappointed examination candidate in the civil service started developing visions about Christianity and capitalized on this to form his own profound political ideology. Hong believed that he was the little brother of Jesus who was sent to save China and with this mindset; he started offering teachings to members of that province (Geng 46). With the advancement of time, in 1847, his friend Feng ...

[The Course]

We have performed the analysis of the foreign languages usage among international students in the college, which included students’ ability to speak and communicate using foreign languages as well as their skills in reading and writing in foreign languages. The research was based on the survey questionnaire, which was used to collect source information from sample population of 20 participants. Collected data was analyzed using qualitative methods. The research showed that using foreign language in casual situations was not a problem for all students. From the other side, the most part of the research participants estimated their ...

Abstract

Post the global economic recession of 2009, the government announced budget cuts across states. This placed great pressure on public schools to save costs in order to continue functioning. One of the cost saving measures employed by schools in several districts of the United States was to make cuts in the school. While this measure surely saves schools a lot of immediate costs, it needs to be evaluated what kind of an impact such a measure would have in the long run, especially with concerns being raised about the quality of education being provided in a shorter school year.

Cost Cutting Pressures

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Teaching has for a long time been seen as a career that isn’t financially lucrative. When looking at the teacher pay, we all find that teachers all over the world are making good living because they are doing something which they love. Teachers’ pay may be lower or higher depending on the place they are teaching. Those teachers, who teach in urban areas, are paid higher salaries than those that are in upcountry. It does not matter if they all have grade K12. Some of the school districts pay salaries which are higher, for the first five to ten years, ...