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Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

Intermediate English as a Second Language Class Reading Lesson Plans on US History Themes

the topic and an understanding of the goals that are valuable to intermediate ESL leaders. The following are the four central que...

English Language Instruction and Computers

which parts of a computer programme are the most effective at helping students learn English and should result in a model of the r...

Aspects of language and cognition

The major premise in the cognitive school is that "humans take in information from their environment through their senses and then...

Spain, Puerto Rico, and English as a Second Language

designed for English as a foreign language students (EFL), that is, students learning English in as non-native environment. Black ...

Culture, Language, and Laughing in English

than it might be, but the very lack of attention given to it might lead us to conclude that the situation it recounts doesnt reson...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Why the English Language Should Not Include the 4-Letter Word Fuck

second (and more familiar) one, "to engage in sexual activity" (Wajnryb, 2005, p. 55). It is also associated with Germanic and Sc...

Animal Thinking and Language

between thought and language (Myers, 2006). The findings of renowned linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) that were published ...

The Debate about Making English an Official Language

both English and French are official languages (Krauthammer, 2006). According to Mr. Krauthammer, the experience of having more th...

Political Language in the 21st Century

is aimed at supporting particular policy themes that will emerge and where emerging from the political arena. It appears th...

Language and Understanding the World

language can prove to be difficult when seeking to correlation language and the development of a wider understanding of the world ...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

English Language Learners and Direct Instruction

students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...

Hong Kong Primary Schools and English as a Second Language

have shown that, in Chinese, there are many characters that do not fully encode pronunciation (McBride and Treiman, 2003). In othe...

Children's Language Development

This paper reviews and offers conclusions on empirical literature that pertains to young children's language development. Seven pa...

Mexico

A 5 page paper exploring the language, geography, and culture of Mexico. Six sources....

The Language and the Quilt in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' Explicated

in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...

Language and the Impact of Violence in Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved

In five pages this paper references Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved in a consideration of how language is affected by viole...

Annotated Bibliography - Dual Language Education

& Education Quarterly, 31, 202-229. This paper describes the way in which a "team of urban middle school educators developed a du...

Communication and Body Language

the whole time, but to be careful not to let your eyes wander. Theres nothing more offensive to the person to whom youre talking t...

Language and Identity

types of Spanish people. There is proper Spanish, slang Spanish, Tex-Mex Spanish, and ultimately she indicates that there are 7-8 ...

Vietnamese Persons Learning English and Sociolinguistics

a social or academic error. Matsuda postulates "studies do indicate that learning to select an appropriate expression takes more ...

Modallity Preferences

We all have a preference in terms of how we want to receive information and how we tend to convey information. This essay describe...

Impact on Language Learning, Global Issues

This research paper explored organizational websites of intuitions that focus on global issues, such as environmental issues, pove...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

Language Acquisition and the Case of Genie

infant, the second allegedly drowned in his own mucus, the grandmother rescued the third child when he was three years old but the...

Cultural diversity, End-of-Life Issues

rituals of this religion in order to offer quality care. They should know, for instance, that an Orthodox Jew is required to wash ...