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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 ...

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 ...

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REVIEW: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

instruction tended to help ELL students, and Brooks and Thurstons results werent much different. Basically, throwing ELL students ...

Figurative Language in Two of Shakespeare's Plays

a wound. / But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill...

English as a Second Language Primary Students and Reading Instruction

racial minority or ethnic groups. The following illustration provides a picture of the diversity (Newman, 1998, p. 231). The numb...

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...

Relationship Between Motivation and Acquiring a Second Language

In nine pages this research paper presents a literature review on the importance of motivation in a second language acquisition. ...

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...

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...

Acquiring a Second Language

younger learners when learning a second language (Bucuvalas). Older learners have already achieved proficiency in and mastery of o...

International Environment and Acquiring a Second Language

In five page this paper examines ESL issues and the impact of globalization with theorists such as Jim Cummins and a critique of a...

English as a Second Language Learner Assessments

was placed in third grade in her local public school, where there were four other children between 2-4th grades who had relocated ...

Customer Service Representative Second Language Programming Research Proposal

the problem of a shortage of potential call center employees with adequate language skills; and the benefits of integrating langua...

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 ...

Methodologies of Second Language Instruction

their questions, the students responses, and any recurring patterns which occur. Discourse analysis can also help identify cross c...

ELL: Methods And Techniques

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

The Relationship Between Orthography And Pronunciation In L1 And L2 Phonology

their newly acquired L2 phonological system (Thompson et al, 2007). The multiplicity of languages spoken across the globe ...

Hoffman and Rodriguez on Bilingualism

in the form of dialogues that she has between her English self, Eva, and her Polish self, Ewa. One gathers from the context of the...

Early Language Development In Children With Down Syndrome

the difficulties in the communication, language and speech skills of the people with Down syndrome is not yet properly known. In ...

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...

Overview of the 3rd and 4th Generation of Computer Languages

and error prone to program computers, leading to the first "programming crisis", in which the amount of work that might be assigne...

Gendered Interpretations and Development of Language Relating to Childhood Cognitive Development

century, psychologists, social theorists and educators have considered the notion of cognitive development and the progression of ...

Elaine Chaika on Speech Communities

In four pages this paper examines speech communities as critiqued by the writings of Elaine Chaika in terms of language's sociol...

Controversy on Language of Animals

In five pages this paper discusses language and how it has evolved in a consideration of animals and why they have no apparent nee...

Social Boundaries, Reality, and Language

In three pages this research paper discusses how social boundaries are established and examines language's role in constructing th...

Iraqi Languages: Kurdish

This research paper pertains to the Kurdish language, which is a principal language spoken in Kurdistan region of Iraq. The writer...

Early Language Acquisition

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

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...

Language Teaching Naturally

predominant line of thinking is that the antiquated approaches are just too stringent and are actually insufficient. There are ma...

Overview of Natural Language Searching

In five pages this paper examines natural language searching in terms of definition, uses, and development with the significance o...