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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...

The Controversy Surrounding the Move Towards Making English the Official Language of the United States

This ten page paper analyzes the English Only move that is gaining strength in the U.S. This paper presents a converse view of th...

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...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

Making English the Official Language of the US

represented (Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research). Not surprisingly, the English Only issue has been in the cou...

'Official' Language of the U.S.

In five pages this paper argues against English becoming the official language of the United States in a consideration of the impo...

Why English Should Not Be the U.S. Official Language

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

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 ...

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....

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...

Bilingual Education/Issue Pro & Con

associated with bilingual education, evaluating what works and what does not, is not an easy task (Gilroy 50). Both supporters an...

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...

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...

Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

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...

Beginning SEI Approaches

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Research Proposal Evaluate Adult ESL

How effective are adult ESL courses? This is a question that often generates great debate because assessments of the impact of the...

The Debate over Bilingualism

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

Qualitative Research Talk

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

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...

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 ...

Comprehensible Input

want students to learn accurate language. Communication needs to be grammatically correct with proper syntax and so on (Kagan, 199...

Slavery in the First and Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debates

This paper examines the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in terms of how the first and seventh debates dealt wi...

ELL: Methods And Techniques

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