Question:
I'm studying English Grammar from Korea.When I consider of English
Grammar, I wonder about a lot things. So I'd like to hear your opinion
about that.
1.In general, people think English is the most powerful, important
language in the world.
Why?
And When teachers help students study English, What is the best way ?
2.I'd like to know about the definition of grammar and What kinds(types)
of grammar.
What kinds of grammar and which point of view of grammar do teachers
try to teach?
3.English has many kinds of national standards of English.; AmE, BrE,
Canadian English, Singarporean E.
which do you think the most proper English standard to teach in
korean school? Why?
4.In Korea, Konglish(one of English in the way of Korea) is used
frequently.What do you think of Konglish?
Is that valuable, or not?
How do teachers and students have to consider Konglish? In classroom,
How can Konglish use?
Answer:
I would guess that the fact that England was a very powerful
nation for a long time with colonies all over the world is an
important factor. It made the language well known in many
countries - just like a (not necessarily good) computer system
now is the most powerful in the world. It's a question of numbers
and a selfamplifying process.
Apart from that, English adopts and creates new words without
problems - something that gives fuel to endless discussions in
many other languages. I've read that 60% of the English
vocabulary really has come from other languages. That is an
advantage when we're considering popularity. Most (oh well, there
are a lot of Chinese) - many people will recognize elements in
the English language.
I'm not sure there is a "best way". Learning basically takes some
work. When we discuss teaching Danish to Danish pupils, the
conclusion is inevitably: There's not one good method. Use many
simultaneously. Thus if one method helps one student, maybe
another method will help another one. Basically practice,
practice and practice is what it takes. I am not sure one can name one correct standard - not without
insulting hundreds of millions of people anyway. In Denmark we
teach what we think of as British standard English, and indeed I
think it's close to it. I feel that this language is the
"original" one. But I don't think it really matters that much.
Americans and Australians seem to be doing quite well, just to
name a few. But choose one standard and stick to it.
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