English Language Essay Examples

The article “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” was written by Jose Antonio Vargas. In it, Vargas tells of the time when his mother brought him to the Phillippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport when he was twelve. His mother told him that she wanted to give him a better life so he boarded onto a […]

Hip-Hop, a relatively new cultural movement with global reach, draws its roots from earlier Black North American history during the era of enslavement. Often mistaken as solely a music genre, Hip-Hop is actually a comprehensive culture that encompasses dance, “deejaying,” visual art (especially graffiti), and rap. Within this broader culture, rap serves as an artistic […]

Every person has its ups and downs in life. These big changes create either positive or negative turning-points in people’s life. The biggest change I experienced in my life was when I started to work. I had an enormous will to achieve something in life but hadn’t the opportunity to do it before. Knowing you […]

Mother tongue usually means the language first learned by a person, but for Amy Tan it has a special meaning, limited language which is the language her mother speaks. Tan feel so deeply about her “mother tongue” because the limited language effects that many people misunderstand her mother. The way Tan’s mother speaks effects the […]

English is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. English is often the common language between two people from different countries. Speaking English fluently will allow you to communicate with people throughout the world, whether you are in an English-speaking country or another foreign country where English is the language you have […]

Pakistani Culture is very unique in terms of its social and ethical values. These values are something which are given due importance. This culture revolves around the religion of Islam which teaches equality among every human being that exists on this planet. Pakistan’s culture is very diverse. It has been invaded by many different people […]

Pashto and Dari are two major languages in Afghanistan. Both languages are of Persian origin as it is the main language in Iran world. Dari and Pashto have common roots in Italian family meaning that they common words and common letters. Both languages are written in Arabic alphabet from right to left. Official statistics show […]

When I was Puerto Rican is a memoir of Esmeralda Santiago’s (referred to as Negi in the book) childhood and how she overcame her struggles after moving from her home country of Puerto Rico to The United States. She lived a poor life in Santurce, Puerto Rico for 13 years before her mother decided to […]

The study investigated the background of teachers in Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL), their teaching strategies, the role of the institution, and classroom arrangement. Additionally, it explored the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on TEYL. A questionnaire was distributed to 24 English teachers at TK Harapan Mulia Palembang, which offers both Kindergarten […]

The human language may empower all of it’s users. The Famous Austrian-born philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, once said ‘The limits of my language mean the limits of my world’. A variant translation to this is ‘The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for’. This […]

In the 14th Century, Geoffrey Chaucer composed The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. During this period, Old English inflections had vanished and spelling was not yet standardized because of the Caxton printing press. Chaucer wrote at a time when foreign loan words were completely assimilated into English as a result of events such as the […]

The modern world is a global village and communities of the world are getting closer to each other. Through language different people and communities share their ideas and concepts. As Lyytinen (1985) pointed out, “man uses language to express feelings and attitude and to establish, coordinate, and control relationship with others”. After the 1950s there […]

A National Survey conducted by the Office of Educational Testing of Curriculum and Instruction, Ministry of Education in 1997 and 1998 (Wiriyachitra, 2001) revealed that Thais’ English proficiency falls below standard. This finding is supported by a report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in 2010, which ranked Thailand as the 116th out of 163 […]

Introduction Received Pronunciation, hereafter abbreviated as RP, which has been considered a model of English pronunciation is broadening to more tolerance towards a larger amount of speakers. (Upton/Kortmann 2008:238f. ) Looking at the history of RP first will lead us to conclusions about its function and social importance, which are still applicable nowadays. Afterwards, special […]

English language came to Ghana around the second half of the 15th Century through a group of English merchants who arrived in the Guinea coast to trade in gold dust and spices (Sey, 1973). According to Sey, by the 18th Century, British have attempted to establish schools in the Gold Coast. In 1788, a school […]

In the world there are many languages. So some people like to learn other languages to understand some different languages people use. English is the most widely spoken native language in the world, and in terms of sheer number of speakers, it is the most spoken official language in the world people. In this essay […]

Standard English is an idealised variety that constitutes a set of norms associated with intellectualism, professionalism and prestige adopted by the educated speakers of English. As it is of a prescriptive nature, it constitutes what is deemed as the ‘correct’ use of grammar and vocabulary and often found in formal registers of language. Whilst it […]

According to longman’s English dictionary, language is a system of communication by writing or spoken words which is used by the people of a particular country or area. Another source says, the method of human communication, either in spoken or written consisting of worlanguage is the human capacity ofds in a structured and conventional way. […]

English is the most widely and internationally spoken language in the world; many countries set English as their second official language, such as Singapore, India, and Korea. We may hear plenty of news reporting the rapid development of economy in these countries, and it is no doubt that one of the biggest advantages they hold […]

Be able to identify my own use of language in a variety of situations with different people. My idiolect is English, Mirpuri and Urdu. I speak English the most when I am in public, because the community around me also speak English as it is their mother tongue. I have been taught this well-known language […]

Spoken English is quite opposite to written English because when we are writing, we have time to think whether a word is appropriate, if the tenses are correct and so on. While spoken English is totally on the contrary, our words, phrases, and tenses should be dealt with unconsciously and immediately. There are many ways […]

This might seem as being an unusual way of beginning an essay; but the best part about this is people are not perceiving it to be unusual at all. People here refer to 1,170,938,000 Indians, with few exceptions of children and the ones totally oblivious of English language. None the less, the numbers speak for […]