IMPORTANCE
OF LANGUAGE
Human
language doesn’t resemble other communication systems .It is unique. It is a
kind of privilege to given people. Language is very important for people . It
provides(us) to understand each other.
We use it as a communication tool .We can talk and comprehend each other by
means of language . We use it everywhere in our life like at school, at home,
and at malls. Moreover , it separates us from other creatures. Ancient peoples
said that ‘people understand each other by speaking, animals do it by sniffing’
. They are right because humans have ability to speak only. They also said ‘one language, one person’.
They explained the importance of language. Furthermore, one who cannot speak
any language except from his own language,
he cannot be successful, for example , in business life and school life. In
Addition, Not to forget their dialogs,
opinions and inventions, humans have discovered writing. We can say that, language
helped them to invent a important thing in human life. Thousands of languages have emerged from
past to present and almost many of them either are forgotten or used very
little.
LEARNİNG OF
LANGUAGE
Well, how
do we learn language?. Is it inherit from our families being genetic?, Or does it learned from environment?
.Some people believe that our language learning ability is innate while others believe
that we gain it from environment. Whether
language learning is programmed into our genes or learned from environment is not
definite. Actually, language cannot be totally
genetic . If it was , We would start to speak at birth. Additionally ,
men(people) and children from any race can talk more than one language , if
they are exposed to live various countries. Therefore, language learning
ability is programmed our genes, but we improve or learn it thanks to the environment.
Language learning is a important factor. As strategies are important factors in
learning a language, educators need must effective factors to be learned language. There are a
lot of effective language learning
methods.
METHODS
Social and language learning environment is the first one. It is
effective in terms of unknown words. To explain, İf learners don’t know a
word’s meaning , they can ask and the other learner can explain and show them. Many learners prefer this strategy because of
this situation and they find the it easy to talk with other learners in their
group and they make a lot of pratictise with each other. Nevertheless,
they are shy to warn each other when one
of them is wrong .They may also not know the correct word to correct each other
,so they may learn wrong way. Thus, they should speak a native speaker to learn
more word and to learn the correct pronunciations
of the words. Moreover, when they talk, they don’t ask each other the part
which they didn’t understand and they may miss the rest of the conversation, so
they should ask. In Research of Masoud
Hashemi, many of learners who attended the research are seen as having these
kinds of things. According to Hashemi (2011),
the learners talk with other learners to make practice, and are
enthusiastic to know about English
culture. However they appear to be too shy to ask for repetition when they
don’t apprehend specially in face to face communication.
Second factor
is the cognitive learning. Learners use this strategy to get information and to
store information. In this strategy, they can read a book, a newspaper, and a
magazine and they translate the reading which they read in their own language . In this way, they don’t
forget what they learned and because of the pictures in a newspaper and
magazine, they can remember more easy. Nyan Nguyen explains this strategy like
that; ‘’Cognitive strategies prescribe that learners learn by linking new information with existing
schemata, analyzing and classifying new information, deep processing, forming
and revising internal mental models and receiving and producing massages in the
target language and he also says that learners with low proficiency levels may
have difficulty handling these strategies.’’ I n his research, cognitive strategy
is one of the most popular strategies. According to Masoud Hashemi, learners
depend on memorization. They read lots of books and materials and they learn a
lot, but they don’t use them when they meet. Furthermore, they may forget what
they learn. He means that they may learn a lot, but it is important to repeat
them not to forget them.
Thirdly,
Learners can learn language better by
means of cooperative learning. It is a group work. Because of cooperative
learning , learners who are shy or introvert
are exposed to speak in the class. For example, as some students are tricky follower, some
learners think that when they speak, the tricky followers mock them. Therefore,
They don’t speak in class, but the method help them to speak in the class
because they find a chance to discuss the lesson that the teacher described and they participate in the lesson by relying
on their group friends. Moreover, they share their opinions and if one of them
doesn’t know any word , others can explain him. According to Margarita Calderon,
Robert Slavin, and Marta Sanchez(2010) , in cooperative learning, teachers
separate students in small groups to provide one another learn and it also helps
students to teach each other if they don’t understand the subject , after the teacher finished to explain the
lesson.
Learning by
listening is the last factor. In that
method, learners can listen to music and
watch television to improve their language. To illustrate, if a learner listens
to music regularly and tries to find the unknown words which are said in the
music. In this way, he may improves his vocabulary list thanks to this factor. In addition, he doesn’t
forget the vocabularies which he learned.
Even if he forget, he can find them by thinking the song and associating
the words with the song. He can use the words in a conversation and when he
writing like in a letter. According to YU Jun-ling and TAO Yu (2011), the method
helps learners to improve their both vocabulary and pronunciation abilities and
leads them to monitor and focus on language word by word, which is called
bottom-up strategy.
CONCLUSİON
To
conclude, language has important role on life of people. They can communicate
with each other and share their ideas with other people by means of language.
Besides, It provides them several
opportunities, for example, working in an international companies. Learning
language is the another important factor in humans’ life. Unfortunately,
learners have many difficulties when they learn a language. For instance, They
always forget what they learn and they have difficulty in pronunciation. This essay include the most effective factors
in learning language which they can help learners to handle their difficulties,
which they are social environment, cognitive learning, cooperative learning,
and listening comprehension.
