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English as a Second Language Preschoolers

learning to read English as well. Between reading books at home and book in the classroom, children picked up a significant amou...

GLOBAL MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

At one time, marketing communications experts believed that the only thing that needed changing when moving marketing communicatio...

Muslims Christians and Jews at Al Andalus

The Iberian Peninsula, that region of the world we now call Spain and Portugal, fell under Islamic rule in 711 AD. While Islamic ...

The Intersection of Language and Culture

it seems that with the increased number of brands and corporate identities that have arisen because of the internet, its happening...

Case Study : Child Observation

observed in the classroom. One was a small group activity where Linda worked with two classmates to build a tower with different s...

Limited English Proficiency and the Problems it Poses

most prosperous nations on earth. Some of these immigrants have arrived here legally but others have arrived illegally. A common...

Sound, Meaning, Syntax, and Pragmatics in Communication

fourth level of language) involves a speakers lexicon, a lexicon including grammatical and psycholingistic factors, combined with ...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

Examples of Different Humor in Mark Twain

he cannot recall which. But he does remember that "I was not celebrated and I did not give the banquet. I was a Literary Person, b...

Loneword Adaptation in Japanese and its Effects

/a/ is only adapted into the foreign language a [a] when it occurs in the stressed syllable in the English loanword. The sound /a...

The Development of Language

The fact that our use of language varies in accordance with social stimuli is, in fact, well appreciated among linguists....

The Most Important Trait in a Leader

through a symbolic manner, as it involves language. He notes, "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a g...

Phonological Awareness and Reading: The Process of Language Acquisition

a part of the construction of spoken language. Specifically, phonological awareness if the conceptual view that spoken language c...

Early Language Acquisition/Syntax

as a child adapts to the language requirements of the native environment (Gliedman). Animal studies verify his perception in that ...

Speech Analysis / King's 'I Have a Dream'

Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...

Connections between Images and Characters

of us, but that we have to be very careful" (Valenzuela, 2007), we know immediately that the killing in the story is going to be d...

Culture: Comparison and Contrast of Two Articles

In Peasant men cant get wives: language change and sex roles in bilingual community by Susan Gal the community being studied speak...

Fixing Failing Urban Schools

embrace the community is controversial. After all, much of the music and lyrics contain expletives and an overuse of the N word. I...

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...

The Power of Language in "The Tempest" and "The Birthday Party"

does the chicken cross the road?") that they might as well be physically beating him. Instead, they have the power in the play bec...

The English Language

are considered quite strong. How did English emerge? What is its history? A few hundred years ago, English was simply a hodge pod...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Reading and Decoding in Early Childhood Education

used in the context of the classroom. The information gleaned should be such that a teacher should be able to utilize it in the co...

The Language of Security

to life and limb, in the case of security for an organisations, while this may be a physical threat, it may also be a threat in t...

Setting and Language of 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

Style and Language of The Great Railway Car by Paul Theroux and Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Compared

the sample passage from Chapter X is a good example of the formal style and language. In regards to formal language, the...

Education for the Deaf

part of its grammar and utilizes space to impart nuances of meaning. For example, the word "look," can be changed to mean "grace, ...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Studies on Kinesics

words, students of kinesics "search for a grammar of body movements" as, in the words of Birdwhistell, "all meaningful [body] moti...

Sibling Language and Psychology

the language. Without the mind to believe and embrace the ideas of the words and meanings behind the words, the words, themselves,...