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The Role of First Language in Second Language Acquisition

expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...

Three Perspectives on Problems with Teaching English

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...

Educational Models for Learning a Second Language

In seven pages this paper discusses the education regarding second language instruction with models such as Teaching English to Sp...

A Move for the Simplification of Spelling In American and British Society

are spelled. There are far more sounds in the English language than the twenty-six letters which make up our alphabet. As a resu...

Global Commonality of the English Language

were able to teach through the medium of Welsh and Welsh cultural texts were promulgated....

ESL is Better than Bilingual Education

(Bilingual/ESL, 2004). Carrasquillo and Rodriguez (1996) point out that mainstreaming LEP students is one of the most significan...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Beginning SEI Approaches

The teacher might use pictures or finger-puppets to help facilitate student comprehension. The disadvantage to this approach is th...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

Qualitative Research Talk

The question for the study being discussed is: "How effective is the new ESL curriculum in helping student improve English languag...

Impact of English as a Second Language

In 5 pages this paper examines why ESL programs are important in the United States in a consideration of history, necessity, and f...

English Language Decadence and the Views of George Orwell

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how Orwell expresses his fears about the English language being degraded in his essay 'Polit...

ESL

of nationalities, which speaks to the continual need for effective English instruction. Some of the inherent difficulties and cha...

Edward Said's 'Self' and 'Other' Concepts in an Examination of English as a Global Language

have English as a second language, and in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres English is already widely used, since it is t...

Academic Writing and ESL Students

This research paper pertains to the problems faced by English as a Second Language (ESL) learners when faced with the challenges o...

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

Impact of Having a Deaf Sibling

In fifteen pages the impact of having a deaf sibling on siblings who have developed normally is evaluated emotionally and psycholo...

Dialect, Accent/Southeast England

reality of this situation is that some accents are associated more closely with the accent that is perceived as the societal norm ...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

Case Study of the ELL Program

Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...

Significance of Language, ELL Instruction

This research paper/essay pertains to the repercussions of what it would be like if all other languages besides English became ext...

Spoken English and its Sociocultural Components

In eight pages this paper examines how language development is influenced by culture and society in a consideration of its effects...

A History of the English Language

This paper examines four different variations of the English language, ranging from Old English to current English. This eight pa...

Conscious Choice of Language

as an official language, or the use of "literacy laws" to determine rights, are"thinly-veiled measures to disenfranchise anyone no...

United Kingdom Foreign Language English Reading Teaching

(Phillips, 1998). The 1991 census revealed that the minority ethnic population totaled 3 million, which represented 5.5 percent of...

Agard"s 'Listen Mr. Oxford,' William Carlos Williams' 'Impromptu', and Language Codes

in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...

ELL: Methods And Techniques

they need to succeed. III. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES Teaching ELL students is no different than educating the mainstream population...

Dual Language Programs - Two-Way Immersion

p. 145). These programs are called dual language programs and they are the only programs with empirical data that concludes childr...

Global Language of English

speak English at some level of competence, and it would be counter-productive to try and establish another language as the one whi...

American Language

In five pages this paper discusses language in the United States with a comparative analysis of two essays, 'If Black English Isn'...