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this point. For example, Brown (2008), as a writer, draws on her heritage as a Cuban American to create multicultural books for ...

Multiculturalism and Language Education

million in 1790 to 300 million in 2005" principally due to immigration (Kumaravadivelu, 2008, p. 69). However, while it is true th...

Holistic Nutrition: Language

to holistic nutrition with a prescriptive connotation as being used as "an alternative to, or in conjunction with, traditional med...

Improving High School Oral Language Skills

situations" (377). Early intervention and prevention is the key to minimizing or hopefully even abolishing a number of severe pr...

The Importance of Language: Lessons from Friedman's The World is Flat

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

English as a Second Language Student and Science Instruction

How might a teacher convey the idea to a class of elementary school children? He or she would come to the definition by provid...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

Programming Language Learning and Teaching in a Multimedia Environnment

People can now in fact learn how to program with the use of multimedia. McMaster (2001) explains that if managers want their sal...

Language Acquisition and Expected Developmental Differences for Children of Preschool, Kindergarten, and Primary Ages

others. One must also utilize the ability to comprehend words spoken by others and turn them into understandable concepts in ones...

English Spoken and Written Language Standardization

course, was not due to piety, but rather he believed that once converted to Christianity the German pagans would stop causing trou...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

Subtleties of Legal Language

Campagnola was entitled to the value that she would have received had the malpractice not occurred. As this suggests, the differen...

Language Learning Styles and ESL Teaching Strategies

study will assess existing learning styles and educational strategies used to assess the impacts of ESL/TESOL and Bilingual educat...

The Language of the Abortion Debate

rhetoric can go a long way to change opinion (Bailey, 2002). They realize that if they use religious verbiage, it will only have a...

The Brain and Foreign Language: Acquisition

which memory is responsible for structuring learning foreign language is both grand and far-reaching; that certain components of r...

English Language Instruction and Computers

which parts of a computer programme are the most effective at helping students learn English and should result in a model of the r...

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 ...

Workplace Obscene Language, Name Calling, and its Negative Impact

invite more personal discussions and verbal altercations are somewhat acceptable. Interestingly, on that show, a woman came on boa...

Language Cases of Discrimination

by speaking only in Spanish, even while they leered in her direction. Upon investigation, the salesmen proclaimed their innocence,...

Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...

Language 'Code Switching'

well, the extent to which code switching is present is determined by age and how much schooling was accomplished in the homeland; ...

Rural America and English as a Second Language

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

Language in Pharaoh's Daughter by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

obvious characteristically reminiscent of the common themes of life, love and landscape, as well as the not-so-happy aspects of hu...

Uncommon Sense Theoretical Practice in Language Education by John S. Mayher

much better equipped to question the contradictions that are regularly confronted in the learning process. "...There is no knowle...

Multicultural Classrooms, Haitian Pupils, and English as a Second Language

In ten pages ESL teaching to Haitian pupils in a multicultural classroom is examined in a consideration of pros and cons with tech...

Content Based English Language Learners

instructional techniques and their behaviors to increase the success level for these students. Pica (2002) reported that in the...

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...