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Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

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

Anxiety Level in Elderly Patients & Primary Language

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

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...

Hong Kong Primary Schools and English as a Second Language

have shown that, in Chinese, there are many characters that do not fully encode pronunciation (McBride and Treiman, 2003). In othe...

Cooperative Learning, Neurolinguistic Programming, and English as a Foreign Language Strategy

transforming our sense data into internal images, sounds, smells, tastes and sensations" (Gal?n and Maguire, 1999). We each commun...

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; ...

Intermediate English as a Second Language Class Reading Lesson Plans on US History Themes

the topic and an understanding of the goals that are valuable to intermediate ESL leaders. The following are the four central que...

Researching Language Across Cultural Lines

to this perspective is the fact that external forces also impact the linguistic development of a region, and as a result, linguist...

International Environment and Acquiring a Second Language

In five page this paper examines ESL issues and the impact of globalization with theorists such as Jim Cummins and a critique of a...

English as a Second Language Learner Assessments

was placed in third grade in her local public school, where there were four other children between 2-4th grades who had relocated ...

Customer Service Representative Second Language Programming Research Proposal

the problem of a shortage of potential call center employees with adequate language skills; and the benefits of integrating langua...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

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...

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 ...

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...

Jewish History and the Yiddish Language

the tenth century, an occurrence that was heretofore nonexistent on the timeline of this particular setting. This is not to say, ...

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...

More Language Readings/Analyses

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

Child Language and Knowledge of Syntax

684). There is what several theorists describe as "language learnability" that enables children to take that seed of syntax knowl...

Israeli Citizenship And Language

in order for the Jews to maintain sociopolitical control would cause an even greater uproar of discrimination than already exists;...

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...

The Federalist Papers In Modern Language by Mary E. Webster

This text is analyzed in a paper consisting of five pages which provides a contemporary and carefully documented translation of th...

Korean Speakers and English as a Second Language

In eight pages this research paper examines the problems of ESL teaching to Korean learners in terms of various linguistic factors...

Development of English as a Second Language Curriculum

In seven pages this research paper reveals that ESL curriculum needs go far beyond the mere teaching of English to students. Five...

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 and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...

Holistic Nutrition: Language

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

Why the English Language Should Not Include the 4-Letter Word Fuck

second (and more familiar) one, "to engage in sexual activity" (Wajnryb, 2005, p. 55). It is also associated with Germanic and Sc...

Making English the Official Language of the US

represented (Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research). Not surprisingly, the English Only issue has been in the cou...