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Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

Learning and Utilizing Language

the language acquisition device" (p. 255). Others say that language development is a reaction to environment. This writer/tutor ...

Controlled Vocabulary v. Natural Language

A 3 page research paper that address this topic. Effective communication is much more likely to occur when everyone involved in a ...

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...

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...

Cooperative /Collaborative Language Learning; PowerPoint Presentation

This 10 page paper is a presentation concerning the use of a collaborative/co-operative approach to language teaching. The present...

Learning Language

In essence, Chomsky believes that the way in which children acquire their native language is hardwired into the brain and present ...

Effective Communication and Language Barrier

these people as humanitarian gestures. This signaled to these people that other nations, despite differences in culture and langua...

Language and Prejudice

for they will immediately assume this doctor is an idiot, despite the fact that language, ones particular style of speaking, has n...

Language and Communication in South Africa

of people in the nation are illiterate (Kenny, 2003). When examining poorer populations, most people who live on one dollar per d...

Chivalry

for both of these elements are indicative of the distinction between ordinary love and that which extols virtue, honor and courage...

Critical Period Hypothesis - Second Language Acquisition

knowledge and skill in a different way? The critical period hypothesis regarding acquiring a second language is not new. This hyp...

Language And Syllogisms

and the Internet could well be viewed as a foreign language. For example, consider the word mouse which is a creature, and undesir...

Approaches to Teach Foreign Languages

the learning process; enhancing the students personal contributions in the classroom; and attempting to link what is learned in th...

How Computers Weaken Language Skills

a poem as well as a human being, the real problem is not skill, but in ideology. That is, many people tend to rely on computers an...

Problems in Communication

iPhone as a result of a new app I had downloaded. This appears to be an easy conversation, but it did not go smoothly. The first...

Amelie, A Film Review

understand the main thrust of the film without subtitles, as it follows Amelie from childhood to adulthood, showing the main event...

The Shift from Latin to Vernacular Language Use

This resulted in a gradual shift, and reflected not only the lower level of influence of Rome, but also the declining influence of...

Children with Specific Language Impairment and the Relationship between Working Memory and Language Learning: An Experimental Analysis

diagnosed with SLI than in the hearing-impaired children. In other words, a diminished functioning of complex working memory may ...

Specific Language Impairment Article Review

language abilities develop. The languages themselves may be different, but the underlying acquisition processes appear to be the s...

Language Acquisition and the Theories of Noam Chomsky

In five pages the differences between Professor Chomsky's theories on language as compared to their predecessors are examined with...

How American English Serves as a Tool in Globalization

In a research paper comprised of fifteen pages the effects of American English on globalization are discussed in terms of its stat...

Context and Language Issue / Language Changes Context

In twelve pages this research paper focuses upon the speeches by Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. in a co...

Language Acquisition Issues

In seven pages theories of Hymes and Austin are among the considerations in this discussion of ESL or language acquisition with co...

Acquired or Innate Language

In eight pages language proficiency is examined within the context of whether or not language is acquired or is innate. Six sourc...

Bilingualism and the Acquisition of Language

In ten pages this paper presents a literature review on bilingualism and the acquisition of language in order to argue that childr...

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...

Language and Thinking

A major debate for decades has focused on whether or not language shapes thoughts. Can language influence thoughts so much as to s...

Students Are Note Learning Languages

In today's global world, it is necessary for businesspersons and others to be proficient in at least one other language, yet, enro...

Early Language Acquisition

Cognitive development is about information processing, reasoning, intelligence, memory, and language development. It is about the ...