Mother Tongue Vs Second Language 3/11/2017
It should be clear to everybody now that
if English is your mother tongue. The
language is so dominating and that you get connected to it round clock. And you are the end-user like a licensed car
driver who drives without any knowledge of the mechanical parts of the car or
the users of smartphone or any electrical appliances. BUT if you study English as a second language
and as a single subject supplemented with some literature, well, you are just
like a car mechanic who needs to know every part of the car or a technician who
must know the machine well to do the repair.
I repeat
once more, we study English like Geography, History, Science, Mathematics and
the like here in my homeland, Sarawak and else in the Federation of Malaysia. Thus, we had better know every part of the
language like a mechanic or technician so that we can do the repair of the English
language that we use in speaking and writing, especially.
With a
good understanding how language works also helps us greatly in understanding a
reading passage and listening text. For
example, the sentence
[You] are /the end-user/ *like (a licensed car
driver){ who drives *without (any knowledge) *of (the mechanical parts) *of (the
car)} or (the users) *of smartphone) or (any electrical
appliances).
[Subject] Finite Verb /subject complement/*
*Preposition/Prep + Noun/Noun Phrase/Noun Clause/
P3/P4/P5/F2
Personal Pronouns
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
I my me
mine myself
Forms of the Verb
F1 F2 F3 F4
talk talking talked talked
go going went gone
(Object) of a transitive verb or a Prep
Conjunctions/Conj
For reading and listening texts, you have to meet
another condition, i.e. you must have enough stock of vocabulary and prior
knowledge to understand the text well.
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