The Improvement of Learners’ Proficiency in English Second Language Through Remedial Work
Linake Manthekeleng Agnes,
Moyo Nguni Thembekile,
Makeleni Sive
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2021
Pages:
1-11
Received:
1 October 2020
Accepted:
2 November 2020
Published:
4 January 2021
Abstract: This study focused on the remedial program on learners’ proficiency in English second language, which was conducted in two township schools in King William’s Town District. This explored the remedial program that could be used to help learners become proficient readers who could be able to read for meaning and comprehend. A case study research design was used where two township schools were sampled. A qualitative approach located in the interpretive paradigm was used to carry out the study. The purposive and the sampling procedure were used to solicit information from principals, educators, and learners. The data collected through interviews and observations. Its focus was to establish a remedial program to improve learners’ proficiency in English second language. Thus, the findings revealed that a remedial program goes a long way in improving learners’ proficiency in English Second Language. “Cheng and Slavin” [11] found out that the remedial programmes showed positive results had in common and the use of extensive professional development, coaching, and cooperative learning. In this view, the English second language learners could benefit more from proficient personnel in the language. The study recommends that there should be provision for trained remedial educators in all schools to attend to the individual needs of learners appropriately. Besides, the study should explore the models, methods, and theories on reading, the strategies that could be used to boost or alleviate the learner’s proficiency in English second language.
Abstract: This study focused on the remedial program on learners’ proficiency in English second language, which was conducted in two township schools in King William’s Town District. This explored the remedial program that could be used to help learners become proficient readers who could be able to read for meaning and comprehend. A case study research desi...
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Interlingual Homophone Retrieval in Typical Malayalam - Hindi Bilinguals
Ferly Felix,
Satish Kumaraswamy
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2021
Pages:
12-19
Received:
23 April 2019
Accepted:
8 January 2020
Published:
15 January 2021
Abstract: Inter-lingual homophones are words that have similar pronunciation but different meanings across languages. The processing of this may vary with languages. Few studies in Indian languages have been attempted (Maitreyee and Goswami in Kannada-Hindi, Rajalekshmi, Kumaraswamy and Rao Hindi-English, Vinodhini and Ramya Tamil-English) in accordance with this. The aim of the present study was to investigate the language of dominance and its pattern in Malayalam –Hindi bilinguals using interlingual homophones. Twenty native speakers of Malayalam and 20 non- native Malayalam speakers participated who were graduate students. A non-standardized list of 20 paired- words was formed as a stimuli. Words belonging to both the languages (Malayalam and Hindi), having the pronunciation but different meaning were selected for the study. The findings of the present study suggested that one can perform better in first language (L1) without the interference of the other (L2) effectively, giving the picture oftwo separate lexicons for both the languages. They show a selective lexical-access (i.e., only one language is stimulated at a time) and this is in accordance with the earlier findings.
Abstract: Inter-lingual homophones are words that have similar pronunciation but different meanings across languages. The processing of this may vary with languages. Few studies in Indian languages have been attempted (Maitreyee and Goswami in Kannada-Hindi, Rajalekshmi, Kumaraswamy and Rao Hindi-English, Vinodhini and Ramya Tamil-English) in accordance with...
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Human Language, (Its Concept, Features and Functions)
Mohamed Moustafa Ahmed Younes
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2021
Pages:
20-25
Received:
24 February 2021
Accepted:
17 March 2021
Published:
26 March 2021
Abstract: The human language possesses features that distinguish it from other non-human languages - if this expression is correct - it determines the humanity of man. Without it society would be without spirit and man and animals would be equal in this respect. Language is a human phenomenon; because only man can place his mental activity in linguistic symbols, and accordingly, creatures other than man cannot acquire any human language in one form or another; because it is not prepared or equipped for that, it does not have the mental capacity to acquire the language, and it does not have sufficient intelligence to develop linguistic symbols through which they can formulate a language suitable for understanding, with its own connotations, and its distinctive phonological manifestations. If these animals are unable to place their mental activity in linguistic symbols, then the basis of human mental activity is the use of linguistic symbols, as he has awareness of the signs that he uses as means to achieve his purposes, and he also has a conscious intention when using them, and then he chooses from among them what he deems appropriate. For the position that it expresses. As for the animal, it does not have this perception, or this intention, because the person possesses an innate apparatus called the linguistic faculty (the linguistic ability) or what is called (the latent competence) in the mind, which makes the person ready to acquire any language that lives in its surroundings without effort. In addition to the fact that a person is able to pass on this language that he acquired to the generations that follow without intentionally or preparing, so language is acquired and inherited without effort or planning. Although researchers on the issue of the genesis of human language have not reached - with certainty - to determine how it arose, and in what form it arose, no one denies the importance of language for all of humanity; because research in language is a search in the human being himself. For this reason, God Almighty has distinguished man with language, language has distinguished him from other animals, and those who think that language is merely a means of expressing ideas, or a means of communication between man and those around him are mistaken; because language is often in response to man’s innate tendency to prove His social presence.
Abstract: The human language possesses features that distinguish it from other non-human languages - if this expression is correct - it determines the humanity of man. Without it society would be without spirit and man and animals would be equal in this respect. Language is a human phenomenon; because only man can place his mental activity in linguistic symb...
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