Cultivation of the Global Language

Outpouring hearts and minds through Literacy and English proficiency

In processing both spoken and written language, the human brain employs a code to represent linguistic information.  Students with limited English proficiency often continue to experience difficulties with reading, even after mastering the basic skills needed for decoding English text. Limited vocabulary and lack of background knowledge contribute to difficulties with reading comprehension, which often persist into the college years.  

Language is now considered a skill, in fact, big companies, both here and abroad, are now looking for good English communication skills among potential employees.  Whenever we write or speak, we use it; whenever we make a promise or ask a question, we use it. In the statement of other ways of knowing are controlled by language. It is more sensible to say language gives some support or limit to our reason, perception and emotion. It influence our thinking and decision making. 

Some of the students are good in written communication but not that good when it comes to oral because some are shy to let others hear their English, or afraid to execute a wrong grammars or bad sentence.  However, we have to understand that English literacy and proficiency can help us a lot to express ourselves better to anyone especially for foreign people as this is the world’s international language. 

English language learners need opportunities to build background knowledge. Pre-reading activities can be used to identify gaps in students' knowledge and to introduce new concepts and vocabulary.   

The finding show that the majority of students believed that English proficiency is really important especially for the job opportunities whether locally or globally. It was also concluded that studying, practising, learning new vocabularies and reading English literatures are the major factors for students to have ability in English proficiency. It is also recommended that one must be determined to learn the English language and one must use to speak verbally the English language.