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Teaching American Sign Language to Infants

Could sign language be taught by the parents? Should a class be taken to ensure the right words were being taught? Could a person ...

Learning A Second Language In Infancy And/Or Childhood: Benefits Or Costs For Language Development?

controversial - examples of how the spoken language has fallen victim to the lazy tongues of many bi- and multilingual societies. ...

Changing Perceptions of the Deaf and ASL

There has also been a move toward cultural diversity, which has paved the way for the classroom additions of bilingual and ASL tra...

Controlled Vocabulary v. Natural Language

A 3 page research paper that address this topic. Effective communication is much more likely to occur when everyone involved in a ...

Learning and Utilizing Language

the language acquisition device" (p. 255). Others say that language development is a reaction to environment. This writer/tutor ...

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 ...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Relationship Between Language-Based And Learning Disabilities

Beyond that, however, is the fact that any student who is struggling with language will not be able to read and write as well as a...

Psychological Article Reviews

article acknowledges the perceived weaknesses within a particular culture; however, it also identifies the fact that all students ...

Language Acquisition Principles: Immersion

the article Dual Language Immersion by Jennifer Esposito, published in April 2006 by the periodical District Administrator. Langu...

Principal & Decision-making/Ethical Case Scenario

specific steps that aid the decision-making in the process of logical analysis of a problem. The steps are: 1. Define the problem....

Supervision Model Project/Coeur d’Alene School District

phases of interaction between mentors and learner: the planning conference; lesson observation and a reflection conference (Cognit...

The Use of Anabolic Steroids Among High School Students

the necessity of these models. Are mandatory testing programs effective? Before embarking on a review of the literature in terms...

Frances Fitzgerald's "America Revised: History Schoolbooks In The Twentieth Century"

multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...

Language Acquisition, Early Childhood & SLI

development of language skills, an abnormal frequency of errors, and (also) errors that are uncommon in children with normal langu...

Second Language Learning

contrastive analysis studies in the 1950s and 60s consisted of "comparing pairs of languages" in order to find their areas of diff...

Language and Prejudice

for they will immediately assume this doctor is an idiot, despite the fact that language, ones particular style of speaking, has n...

Language and Communication in South Africa

of people in the nation are illiterate (Kenny, 2003). When examining poorer populations, most people who live on one dollar per d...

How Computers Weaken Language Skills

a poem as well as a human being, the real problem is not skill, but in ideology. That is, many people tend to rely on computers an...

Cooperative /Collaborative Language Learning; PowerPoint Presentation

This 10 page paper is a presentation concerning the use of a collaborative/co-operative approach to language teaching. The present...

Adolescent Observation And Developmental Analysis

the teacher did not see it. This is interesting because Tyler achieves As and Bs in all this classes. This particular class was Wo...

Language And Syllogisms

and the Internet could well be viewed as a foreign language. For example, consider the word mouse which is a creature, and undesir...

Chivalry

for both of these elements are indicative of the distinction between ordinary love and that which extols virtue, honor and courage...

Critical Period Hypothesis - Second Language Acquisition

knowledge and skill in a different way? The critical period hypothesis regarding acquiring a second language is not new. This hyp...

Learning Language

In essence, Chomsky believes that the way in which children acquire their native language is hardwired into the brain and present ...

Effective Communication and Language Barrier

these people as humanitarian gestures. This signaled to these people that other nations, despite differences in culture and langua...

The Shift from Latin to Vernacular Language Use

This resulted in a gradual shift, and reflected not only the lower level of influence of Rome, but also the declining influence of...

Benefits of Acquiring Another Language

Recent research has found that parts of the brain grow when adults learn another language, which would make this endeavor very hel...

What Makes a Public School Public

Schools/Education This will surprise many people. Not all public schools are operated in the same way. This is a big country and ...

Problems in Communication

iPhone as a result of a new app I had downloaded. This appears to be an easy conversation, but it did not go smoothly. The first...