Abstract:
This chapter deals with concept oflanguage, importance of English language, skills of any language. This chapter also includes importance of good-hand writing, statement of the problem, objective, variable, delimitations and need of the study. There are all in the this chapter discussed." It is language, more obviously than anything else that distinguishes man from the rest ofthe animal world. At one time, it was common to define man as a thinking animal, but we can hardly imagine a man without words. Man has often been described as a tool-making animal; but language itself is the most remarkable tool, that man has invented and it is the one, that makes all other possible".
According to Edward Sapir (1970), "language is a purely human and noninstinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols" In the view of Max Black ( 1968) on language, " language is an arbitrary system of vocal symbols of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in a culture, interact, and communicate". Further, Carols Fuentes (1988) has quoted that, " language is a shared and sharing part of culture that cares little aout formal classifications and much about vitality and connection, for culture itself perishes in purity or isolation.
On analysing many different definitions or attempts to define language as an answer to the question, " What language is ? " We can give lot many interpretations about language, like language is a means of communications and self-expression. It is arbitrary, non-instinctive and conventional. It is a symbol system and is structurally complex. Also it is open-ended, extendable and modifiable as it is a form of human social behaviour. Whatever may, be the people speaking language, we have four things which are common to every language and that are listening, speaking, reading and writing.
