Essays 1 - 30
In five pages this paper argues against English becoming the official language of the United States in a consideration of the impo...
supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...
the nation and to discriminate against them would do ultimate damage to the United States. If a person were to only have the Eng...
there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....
represented (Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research). Not surprisingly, the English Only issue has been in the cou...
both English and French are official languages (Krauthammer, 2006). According to Mr. Krauthammer, the experience of having more th...
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...
were able to teach through the medium of Welsh and Welsh cultural texts were promulgated....
learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...
are spelled. There are far more sounds in the English language than the twenty-six letters which make up our alphabet. As a resu...
Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...
In seven pages this paper discusses the education regarding second language instruction with models such as Teaching English to Sp...
truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...
The teacher might use pictures or finger-puppets to help facilitate student comprehension. The disadvantage to this approach is th...
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...
(Bilingual/ESL, 2004). Carrasquillo and Rodriguez (1996) point out that mainstreaming LEP students is one of the most significan...
have English as a second language, and in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres English is already widely used, since it is t...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses how Orwell expresses his fears about the English language being degraded in his essay 'Polit...
reality of this situation is that some accents are associated more closely with the accent that is perceived as the societal norm ...
This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...
In eight pages this paper examines how language development is influenced by culture and society in a consideration of its effects...
This paper examines four different variations of the English language, ranging from Old English to current English. This eight pa...
The question for the study being discussed is: "How effective is the new ESL curriculum in helping student improve English languag...
want students to learn accurate language. Communication needs to be grammatically correct with proper syntax and so on (Kagan, 199...
they need to succeed. III. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES Teaching ELL students is no different than educating the mainstream population...
country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...
Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...
(Phillips, 1998). The 1991 census revealed that the minority ethnic population totaled 3 million, which represented 5.5 percent of...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
learning to read English as well. Between reading books at home and book in the classroom, children picked up a significant amou...