Patricia Ryan’s has been an English teacher in the Gulf
for 30 years and she has seen a lot of changes. She talks about languages loss
and the globalization of English. The statistic that she showes us show that there
are 6000 languages in the world, but there are 600 languages in 90 years,
that’s quite shocking. Today, a language dies in every 14 days. Teaching
English has moved from being a mutually beneficial practice to becoming a
massive international business. It has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking
nation on Earth. The best education according to the latestWorld University
Rangkings is to be found in the universities of the U.K and the U.S. So,
everybody wants to have an English education, naturally. However, if someone is
not a native speaker, he/she has to pass a test. Patricia Ryan loves that we
have a global language. She says that we need more that 600 languages. She says
that this system equates intelligence with a knowledge of English which is
quite arbitrary. Einstein who has intelegence is stand did not have to have
English and did not have to pass an English test. Even, he was considered
remedial at school. But, fortunately he successed for the world. Nowadays
system, it would do not have the opportunity for the poor stuents because the
fee of the tests are expensive. Patricia Ryan also tell us that the intelegence
is the problem solve. If someone can’t think a thought, he/she is stuck. But if
another language can think that thought, then by cooperating, someone can
achieve and learn so much more. Finally, Patricia Ryan says that someone does
not only focus on English test, but also “Mind Your Language” and use it to
spread great ideas.
Patricia Kuhl tells about a mother in India speaks Koro which is a newly-discovered language. She is talking to her baby. What this mother and the 800 people who speak Koro in the world understand that to preserve this language they need to speak it to the babies because babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven years old. The first critical period in development is the period where babies master which sound is used in their language. There are two things going on during the critical two month period, the first is that the babies are listening intently to us and they are taking statistics as they listen to us talk. Babies are sensitive to the statistics. For example, two mothers speaking motherese to the kids, English and Japanese. So, when babies listen, the babies are taking statistics on the language that they hear. The statistics of Japanese and English is very different. English has a lot of R and L. Whereas the group of intermediates sounds in Japanese is known as t...
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