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“On Variation in Interlanguage: A Response to Gregg”

unknown and that a learners performance is optimal at all times. In reality, Tarone argues, this optimal situation is seldom in p...

Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition

linguistics which are extrapolated from the study of linguistic generalisations. These are that is A is true then B must be true, ...

Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Swahili Languages

as Zipfs law, that human languages follow a pattern that is characterized by the frequency of different words (Ravilious, 2003). ...

Great Basin, Subarctic, and Arctic Indigenous Peoples

a significant problem for this group. In any event, it also appears that to some extent the hand made clothing associated with the...

Acquiring a Second Language and the Impact of Motivation

that the difference in "brain plasticity" is the reason learning a second language after childhood is more difficult (Clyne, n.d.)...

United Kingdom Businesses and Language Diversity

force, and more specifically, how many Chinese. While data specific to the topic seems to be elusive, some data were accessible. T...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Definitions

might be termed the "straightforward" meanings of the words, he frequently adds a commentary of his own which sometimes refers to ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'Write On!' Analysis

Unlike "new mathematical algorithms or chemistry theorems" (Bauer, 1999; p. 112), any reader of any age can produce some kind of s...

Historical English Plays and Marginalization

In five pages this paper considers marginalization as featured in English plays William Shakespeare's Othello and Aphra Behn's The...

Language Arts Instruction, Organization, and Grouping

In two pages language arts instruction is examined in a consideration of classroom organizational grouping with suggestions offere...

Psychology College Student Language Observations

interact and evolve. Such students take little convincing to become ready informants in our current quest to understand language ...

Examining Cognition of Language Theories

and the way we cognitively process speech. Are these processes linked to an inherent modularity? If we look as speech from a Ved...

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...

Analyzing America is Her Name by Luis J. Rodriguez

of the population and discrimination among Hispanics toward any of their own who also can claim Indian heritage. Less obviously s...

Parental Approach One Parent, One Language

In ten pages this paper discusses the bilingual home education of students by parents called one parent, one language in an assess...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

Twelfth Night and Cymbeline by William Shakespeare and the Employment of Psychological Realism

In six pages this paper explores how poetic language is used by Shakespeare in conveying psychological realism in these 1601 and 1...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and the Bible's King James Version

In five pages this paper examines how the English language developed in an assessment of the Bible's King James version and 'Parad...

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Language

In 6 pages this paper examines the author's use of language in this classic novel particularly in terms of the protagonist Holden ...

Fairytales and Use of Sexist Language

women were regarded as objects of beauty, which is exactly what Snow White is. Such demeaning writing would not be acceptable tod...

Alfred Tarski's Essay 'The Semantic Conception of Truth'

In five pages the sixth through eleventh sections of Alfred Tarski's essay are analyzed which features the unreliability of langua...

English Language Acquisition and its Value

In nine pages this paper examines the value of immigrants' acquiring the English language in terms of cultural assimilation in the...