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Socio-cultural Dimensions of English as a Second Language

My views on "Socio-cultural Dimensions of English as a Second Language"-Rekha Aslam

  •      we use English but our requirements are behind English.English is a link language and also official language.
  • English is not become our need but it is just medium and it is not our goal.nowadays we need English because our higher education is not in our mother tongue(Gujarati) but it is in English.
  • We have not genuine interest in English.English is not boring but our teacher makes it boring so we have not interest in learning English as a subject because teacher have not any special method for teaching English as a language -it English is taught in particular way or in a effective method so we can it learn easily.
  • These all things are flexible and the main reason of behind them is socio-culture dimension of English.
  • For Example: our belief system is different .it is always our mythology.we can not translate our ethos,mythology and our cultural idea in English.We have long mythology and we cannot translate them English.We have not particular words for Ram,Shiva,Vishnu etc.We can not translate lord Hanuman as a lord monkey.We have not any specific words for these mythical character in English.
                       Thank u............

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