Based on what I have read in the story A Long Walk To Water I believe that place would have the most affect on Nya and Salva. Based on the story both Nya and Salva had to go different places to find each other. So place affects Nya and Salve the most. For example,In the book A Long Walk To Water The place that Nya and Salva were both in was at war. During Nya’s Both the Nuer and Dinka tribes were rivals.
Learning from the error which occurs during translation process is one of the way to improve our translation skill. Therefore, this error analysis is coincided with the objective of ‘Directed Translation 2’ class, which was the class that the translational errors took place. The source of the translation is ‘Bird by Bird’, a book by Anne Lamott. It is a documentary book, guides on how to write a book using the author’s experience as a reference. And since the author is American, her experiences that she conveyed also show us about American cultural.
The United States is the most diverse nation in the world. It is full of people from all over the world. The United States is made up of all different cultures and languages. In order to promote this diversity foreign language has begun to be taught in school throughout American society. Some main reasons that foreign language should be taught in schools are foreign language study creates a less prejudiced attitudes and behaviors toward people who are different, it enhances opportunities in life, and the United States needs to prepare for changes in American society with the increase in immigration.
Ghazala (1995: 17) argued that a translation problem is any difficulty which makes us stop translating to think about it. It is when the translator cannot render the source text into the target language easily; without checking his dictionaries, monolingual or bilingual, or making a lot efforts to retrieve, exploit his linguistic and cultural knowledge, in addition to his life experiences. Translation problems confronted almost all the times by translators can be of multiple causes; it can be grammatical, lexical, stylistic, phonological and cultural. 4.1. Grammatical Problems Before we explain grammatical problems in translation, let’s consider the following example: "Of the three books you have recommended to me, I have chosen one".
In addition, research shows students are doing better when they are in bilingual programs. Pac (2012) writes “Facilitating instruction in both heritage languages and English, bilingual education specifically improved language minorities’ educational access, self-esteem, and personal and professional achievements” (Pac 2012, p.195). Students feel more comfortable when they are studying in the environment with their peers who are in the same English level, and they are more willing to practice in the class. However, when emergent bilinguals have to speak with unfamiliar language in the class, students will feel shame to ask questions because they will think other students will laugh at them since they are the only one who does not understand questions, which make them have lower self-esteem.
Being bilingual, or speaking another language besides your native language has many benefits. While it is difficult for many people to learn a second language, the pros out way the cons for many people. People who know a second language have an advantage in the workplace. While there are translators, it would be beneficial to not have to rely on one.
My hypothesis is that being bilingual makes you a better student than a non bilingual student. The believe that knowing two languages was not good for children because it made them confuse. It’s been proven that this is wrong because it actually makes them concentrate better in school. The growth of children who are bilingual has increased in the years 2014-2015 to estimated 4.6 million in public schools. Furthermore, the study conducted was to show how know to languages helps school performance.
Translation is a huge book of discovering, where you need to be careful playing with words and cultural
Nowadays, some people in Puerto Rico consider bilingualism a waste of time and knowledge. Indeed, they think their language of origin as the most important in comparison to others from other countries. However, the world it’s changing at a pace so rapidly, in which every single day there are new challenges to overcome that requires an open mind to new things. As a matter of fact, in Europe, the majority of the people speak at least 2 languages, and it’s pretty noticeable that their lifestyle it’s so much better than ours. Consider France, the majority of the people speak several languages such as Italian, German, Spanish, and even English, so they could have a variety of countries to make commerce with.
Learning a foreign language in elementary school is beneficial because it helps students build a better academic structure. For example, a study in Louisiana showed showed that third and fifth graders who were taught a foreign language scored significantly higher on their Louisiana Basic skill test, than the students who did not take foreign language course (National Education Association). This proves that incorporating a foreign language in an elementary school will help improve the school's test state test scores.
ZhiJie Xue Instructor: Sita Patel LCD 103 14 March 2018 Bilingual Education is a necessity to LEP student We are in a society that is diverse in cultures, origin backgrounds and noticeably in languages. America is a country of immigrants, and the increasing population of new-coming people brings this diversity into society’s attention. The main issue concerned by most immigrants is the education that they and their younger generation will receive in America.
Based on the information previously presented about early sequential bilingual education, there are some strategies and materials that foster second language acquisition in the early years and will be depicted below. These strategies include songs, flash cards, videos, games, and stories which serve as a tool to engage students, boost their motivation, creativity and curiosity, and well as to practice the vocabulary previously learned. To begin with, some authors explain the importance of implementing songs in the bilingual classroom. According to Murphey (1992), songs are tools that help teachers foster and improve their students' knowledge, this is due to a phenomenon called “The song stuck in my head”, this is a phenomenon that is compounded
Being bilingual has got many advantages. It has been debated that bilingualism has multiple advantages such as cognitive, cultural, academic benefits as well. Cognitive benefit reveals that being bilingual help to facilitate human brain. People who are bilingual have two language systems which are working simultaneously. These systems don’t create hindrance in individual’s performance and ensure brain’s functioning of both cognitive aspects (Bialystok, 1999).
A translator may subject him-/herself either to the original text, with the norms it has realized, or to the norms active in the target culture, or in that section of it which would host the end product. Translation is a complicated task, during which the meaning of the source-language text should be conveyed to the target-language readers. In other words, translation can be defined as encoding the meaning and form in the target language by means of the decoded meaning and form of the source language. Different theorists state various definitions for translation.
English as a global language We can’t deny that English has become an international language for communication between all mankind , it is the common language between most of the countries , English is a global language which is spoken as a native language and a second language in most of the countries , and we noticed that people who use English as a second language are way more than people who speak it as a native language , it is taught in every country in this world , it is using as a medium language of understanding between the teacher and the learner , you can see it in banks , supermarkets , in road signs and in international web pages, it is the language that you see and hear every day, so speaking English become a must , also we can’t ignore the fact that English is the language of global communication at medical , tourism , trade and other elements of language use , So English is so important in our various lives aspects. So in this essay I am going to discuss the reasons of how English become a global language and is it a good or bad thing? and what is the advantages and did advantages of spreading of English? There is a lot of reasons that helped to make English a global language and one of the most important reasons is policy , the west colonization for the countries had helped English to spread and distribute by imposing the language and the west culture on the colony countries , so we can say it is all because of the strength that the west had on the world
