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The Importance of ESL in the International School Curriculum

meet the demands that society dishes out, and cultural demands as well. This is becoming increasingly more significant as the worl...

Summary of “Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research”

human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...

Indian Cultural Conflict

have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Using Examples to Illustrate Meaning

that type of personality: they love the feeling of danger and speed that comes with riding a bike. They also tend to be individual...

Reallocating School Resources - Case Study

free and reduced lunches. Test scores for language arts are low, in fact, 6th grade reading scores fell short of expectations by -...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

the pre-test due to differences in cultural background make significant improvement, but children with "true language impairment" ...

Cleft Palate

they are considering the impact of nutrition on the condition. They believe that factors causing this condition are both genetic ...

Was 9/11 an Example of Huntington's Theory?

nations rather than princes" (Huntington). The pattern thus created lasted until the end of World War I, then shifted again, as ...

IDEA ’97

brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and development aphasia....The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result ...

Examples of Classicism And Romanticism in Literature

reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than apparent in most ev...

ESL Teaching's Negative Aspects in Puerto Rico

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Introduction Teaching English as a second language in Puerto Rico...

Pakistani Lesbian 'Joy' Interviewed in an Example of Cultural Diversity

felt separated from the American culture at times, even though I was born American. Joys view about homosexuality, though, goes a...

ELL Programs

working in this program must have ESL certification. They need professional development in instructional methods (Idaho State Boa...

Lesson Plans for Language Arts

leads the students through the steps necessary to perform the skill using the trimodal approach - hear/see/do" (Robinson and Crawf...

An Example of a Bad Print Ad

most people would probably turn the page and move on, because the text of the ad describes the process of making diamonds, as well...

Rhetoric and Managing the Crisis

unnecessarily. 5. Identify Ethical Appeals for Support Ethical appeals of support rest upon President Kennedys distress call to t...

High School Language, Direct Learning, and Cooperative Learning Approaches

occurs in practically all human relations. It occurs between married couples, between college students, even between children. I...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

Ancient Greek Literature and Gender Distinctions

out what women were like because of the way in which history is written. Dependent on what is studied, it seems that some texts l...

IS and KM

to an organisation, in effect become wisdom. Wenig looks at how knowledge is gained and then used (KMF, 1996). Knowledge it is arg...

U.S. and Australia Country Facts

processing, steel, industrial and transportation equipment. Exports of $103 billion each year are oil, natural gas, coal, meat, g...

Development of an Original Observational Instrument for Classroom Use

of facts, they should help the students understand the subject, and in doing they aid the students cognitive processes, not only t...

Overview of Prolog Programming Language

Phillippe Roussel went to Montreal and consulted with Colmerauer on natural languages and in a report he issued that September Col...

Language and its Social Role

they may fear rejection and worry about their manner of speech. They may have a heavy accent or are speaking in a language other t...

Eloquent Speech Examples

to what she seeks are the tasks necessary for the future. She closes with once more alluding to the uniqueness of an African Ameri...

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...

Expanding to the International Stage

to use hedging, the agreement to purchase dollars art a set rate in advance, or the sale of a contract to sell the local currency ...