Essays on Two Official Languages

Steve King believes that English should be the national language of the United States of America. He advances a number of arguments from a variety of perspectives and considerations that make his case for why English should be the dominant language of the United States. A close analysis shows that even though many of his arguments are compelling, he employs a number of fallacies and oversimplifications in order to convince those reading his article why English should be the official and undisputed national language of the United States. King begins his article not by advances his argument, but by appealing to ...

The term culture is somewhat a multifaceted characteristic of a people that is rather difficult to define in simple terms. Social scientists have developed several definitions of the term culture however, the simplest definition terms culture as a combination of accepted character among the people living within a community . In general, every community has an accepted character defined by personal perceptions, attitudes, motivation, background, social class and personality. All these factors affect the behavior of an individual. Mitchell (1999), argues that such factors tend to be similar in cases where a community shares similar traditions, religion, perceptions, heritage and motivation. The result is a sought ...

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to identify the best approach of teaching English as a second language in Canada. English is one of the two official languages in Canada. It is the major language in the whole country except Quebec and most Canadians can speak English. According to the recent census conducted in Canada, 58 percent of Canadians speak English as their first language, though 85 percent of Canadians can speak English (Statistics Canada, 2008). There is a considerable percentage of people who speak English as a second language. However, Canada is now home to people of different nationalities from all ...