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Literature Review on Paralinguistic Features of English Language Skills

will come to being able to communicate effectively" (Gassin, 1990, 437). Like Adams, Gassin (1990) also believed that the achieve...

Acquisition of Language and Memory Encoding

primary sample population in this study consists of subjects selected from the population of university students in a laboratory c...

Culture and Language

and bank ATMs use Spanish. Many products on store shelves are bilingual in nature. This tendency to associate ones self with ones ...

Gender Differences in Body Language

more females than males. Most of the men seem to range in age from 20-25. It seems that upon observation that most Freshmen still ...

India and the English Language

to the English, it was felt perhaps, by many other less powerful classes, that also learning the language and adhering to the Brit...

Use of the Vernacular in

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

Global Language English?

partnerships, English became a political language. The expansion of American business interests in the Third World further suppor...

History Shaped by the Russian Orthodox Church

particular concern was the Viking marauders and Asian nomads and even factions of the people themselves who sought to exploit the ...

Language Impairment and Broca Aphasia

or language disorder that prevents them form expressing themselves or limits their ability to understand what other are telling th...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Motivation and Acquiring a Second Language

"brain plasticity" is the reason learning a second language after childhood is more difficult (Clyne, n.d.). Not everyone agrees ...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

An Overview of American Sign Language

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

Autism, Language Therapy and Speech

has been developing since the turn of the 20th century, and is often described in four specific stages: the developmental or form...

The Significance of Early Language Development

who are raised in environments with little communication or input develop language in a different manner than children who experie...

U.S. and Arguing Against Making English Its Official Language

the nation and to discriminate against them would do ultimate damage to the United States. If a person were to only have the Eng...

Language and its Social Role

they may fear rejection and worry about their manner of speech. They may have a heavy accent or are speaking in a language other t...

Development of an Original Observational Instrument for Classroom Use

of facts, they should help the students understand the subject, and in doing they aid the students cognitive processes, not only t...

The Importance of Cultural Skills in Reaching Multicultural Students

chief factor in effective learning in a multicultural classroom. The hypothesis can be presented that:...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

Reallocating School Resources - Case Study

free and reduced lunches. Test scores for language arts are low, in fact, 6th grade reading scores fell short of expectations by -...

IDEA ’97

brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and development aphasia....The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result ...

Cleft Palate

they are considering the impact of nutrition on the condition. They believe that factors causing this condition are both genetic ...

ELL Programs

working in this program must have ESL certification. They need professional development in instructional methods (Idaho State Boa...

Educational Strategies and Language Disabilities

to demonstrate phonemic and phonological awareness (Mayo et al, 2003). More specifically, in early development of language skills...

ESL Teaching's Negative Aspects in Puerto Rico

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Introduction Teaching English as a second language in Puerto Rico...

A Disadvantaged Workforce

concept of work is changing and jobs "appear to be less stable than they were twenty-five years ago" (Working for America). If th...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

the pre-test due to differences in cultural background make significant improvement, but children with "true language impairment" ...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

Indian Cultural Conflict

have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...