Internet Application In Teachinglearning English As A Foreign Language With Reference To Sophomore English

There are societies where their community reflects a language as well as culture of two or morernsocieties. These kinds of situations are more found in places that are mostly used as trade centers.rnPractically, trade centers are areas where various people come from different places to exchangerngoods and services, however, trade centers are also center to people’s exchange of various social,rnpolitical, and linguistic features. Thus, owing to social factors such like intermarriage, peoplernmay start to permanently live in the towns. As a result, as the new arrivals start to share theirrnvarious cultural practices, linguistic elements and attitudes with the original community, therernmay appear a language and culture that reflects the influence of others. Therefore, the intentionrnof the researcher was to show, in trade center towns like Maichew, how the presence of variousrnethnic groups contributed to the language and culture of the community and to look into thernattributes of identity that are used by the community members to define their individual andrngroup identity. The researcher incorporated participants using a convenience sampling and usedrna qualitative method to delve the core features the language undergoes as to vary from thernstandard Tigrigna, probe the cultural practices of the community which are peculiar andrnreengineered for the purpose of harmonization and inquire the attributes of identity and theirrnlevel of importance to define individuals and group. Furthermore, a quantitative method is usedrnto look into the distribution of ethnic groups in the community. As a result, as the languagernmaintains phonetic feature variation, undergoes a phonological process for variation purpose,rnshows a lexical and structural variation from the standard Tigrigna, the culture of the communityrnharmonizes cultural practices that can be traced to the Agaw, Amhara, Oromo, Tigray:rnparticularly the Agame and Afar ethnic groups. The study also found out that the communityrnmembers use several attributes to define their individual identity considering the importance ofrnattributes but use the language which is different from the standard Tigrigna as means of theirrngroup identity. Generally, the study confirms that identity is an ongoing process in which thernattributes used to construct are determined by those values and elements society regards most

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