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Acquiring a Second Language

younger learners when learning a second language (Bucuvalas). Older learners have already achieved proficiency in and mastery of o...

Culture of France

In three pages this research paper examines the culture of France in a topical discussion of diet, time concept, personal space, n...

Wilsonian Conceptualization of Grief

process, each person may exhibit different behaviors when grieving. This is also true to the amount of time the person feels grief...

Michael Corballis' 'The Language Evolution Debate' Article

speak at certain evolutionary stages of development. It is also speculated by Corballis that language emerged from facial expressi...

Use and Impact of Australian and Canadian Language Policies

broader ranging policy, but was also symbolic of the boarder policies in addition to having direct impact. The policies wh...

Immigrant Communities and Learning Needs Addressed by Public Schools

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

Informal Time Terms

of vague terms, they clearly have a place in it. But what about terms that are ambiguous? As noted, the complexity of language su...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...

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...

Language & Critical Thinking

Critical thinking has been defined as "the ability to construct and/or extrapolate abstract meaning in and from a variety of setti...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

The Debate over Bilingualism

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Effectiveness of Ebonics

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Culture, Language, and Laughing in English

than it might be, but the very lack of attention given to it might lead us to conclude that the situation it recounts doesnt reson...

Culture of Costa Rica

and final voyage to the New World. Archeologists have determined that native civilizations existed in Costa Rica for thousands of ...

Illness and the Relationships Between Body, Mind, and Language

persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...

Politeness Theory and Pragmatics

functioning of language as a dynamic process operating on context structure relationships at various levels of salience." (Versch...

Caracas, Venezuela's El Universal Newspaper

is bias in any of the news items, it is not evident. The serious nature of the news is tempered by stories of local interest, pre...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the Staging of the Witches' Scenes

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Realism and Language

the 1830s did not refer to blacks without using the epithet "nigger," or some other derogatory term. But because Twain accurately ...

Setting in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

Reviews of Articles about Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language (ESL)

believe that acquiring English skills is the more important than teaching the children in Spanish (Porter, 1999). Porters article...

Authority and Power Through Language in Quentin Tarantino's Movie Pulp Fiction

from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

Mexican Mafia and Sociolinguistics

into the gang, the only way to leave is by shedding ones own blood, which is most typically done by death for violating one of the...

Connection Between Language and Dance

uttering but a single word, dance is able to communicate to all who partake of it, no matter their origin. "Nobody says you cant ...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...