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The Use of Songs and Games to Teach English as a Second Language

repetitive and consistent (Schoepp, 2001). 2. Affective reasons: this reason involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis and basicall...

Political Ideals and 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell

concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers ...

Language Connections and Conclusions

understanding what is being asked of them in the classroom is that over time, the use of language became too casual in intent. In ...

Programming Language Learning and Teaching in a Multimedia Environnment

People can now in fact learn how to program with the use of multimedia. McMaster (2001) explains that if managers want their sal...

Rural America and English as a Second Language

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

English Spoken and Written Language Standardization

course, was not due to piety, but rather he believed that once converted to Christianity the German pagans would stop causing trou...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

English as a Second Language Student and Science Instruction

How might a teacher convey the idea to a class of elementary school children? He or she would come to the definition by provid...

Matrix Language Frame and Code Switching

example demonstrates a greater focus on the intra-sentential nature of code-switching, in which the speaker borrows or integrates ...

5 States and the English as a Second Language Educational Programs

bilingual pupils. And while New York City is a melting pot, that does not mean that English is not a concern throughout the rest o...

Syllabus for English Language Created by the Curriculum Development Council of Hong Kong

task-based instructional models, including task-based instruction for reading, listening and writing, are clearly elements integra...

Benefits of Learning Spanish as a Second Language

being able to communicate with these classmates. Of course when we travel we come across Spanish speaking people everywhere, and ...

Comparing George Orwell's Politics and the English Language and Shooting an Elephant

in Burma. It is a poignant and ironic allegory of British imperialism, for in Orwells view, the authority which enabled the gover...

The Language of the Land by James Stephenson

who have changed little since the Stone Age (Stephenson, 2000). This essay examines a number of issues relevant to Jemzis develo...

Imagery and Language in Mark Twain's 'Life on the Mississippi'

remarkable. This, in many ways, sets us up for the diversity of the work, which is perhaps as changing as the river itself. Twa...

Reading, Language, and Children

In eight pages research articles are considered in a discussion of the correlation between the reading aptitude of a child, vocabu...

Language Differences between Men and Women

The writer argues that society assigns certain acceptable roles to men and women, and that much societal behavior is learned. The ...

A Rview of Gender Stereotyping in the English Language

A 5 page summarization of the article by Laurel Richardson. The author comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the author's f...

Local Culture and Pidgin Language

In five pages this paper discusses the local culture that is reflected in the pidgin dialect. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Growing Up With Language by Naomi Baron

A book report of Baron's text is presented in eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Unilever

firm. The strategy that is seen is reflective of the realization that the firm had become too diversified and that as well as econ...

The Concept of Learning

along the details of a high-profile news story that illustrates the person has discovered something he did not previously know. T...

Operating in a Changing Environment; Caterpillar and Cingular

services and the extension of the services offered. The company developed and enhanced three areas of service which were offered; ...

Gateway's Distribution and Marketing

That approach could have worked well enough had the end users been agreeable, but they were not. Dell and HP sold many PCs in adv...

Examining Lothian Distillers Ltd

The paper is based on a case supplied by the student, is fictitious company has just been acquired by a larger food manufacturer a...

Chapters 5 and 6

the males in the REACH study than in the females." Taken together, had these hypotheses been supported then it would be exp...

Value-Based Management in the Financial Services Industry

Internal analysis can assist the organization in maintaining that activity. The value chain has grown in popularity because of it...

Changing a Fragmented Firm into a Unified Company

This 18 page paper considers the case of a company that has made many acquisitions, but allowed all the acquired companies to carr...

Harrah

Table of Contents 1. COMPANY OVERVIEW 3 2. CURRENT AND PROJECTED ACTIVITIES 5 2.1 Current Activities 6 2.2 Future Activities 8 2.2...