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An Immigrant Kindergarten Student and Assessment

instruments selected to measure an individuals language proficiency should be "suitable for the characteristics and background of ...

Six T's of Elementary Literacy Instruction by Richard Allington

This essay pertains to the six categories of elementary instruction that were discerned from an extensive study of some of the bes...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

English Schools and the Teaching of Citizenship

too narrow-minded and limited. During the aftermath of September 11, it became increasingly evident that when terrorism touched o...

Measuring Academic Standards in Arizona

Standard 3. Meets the Standard 4. Exceeds the Standard (Anonymous, 2003). Educators are able to gauge how well a student h...

'One Voice' by Susan Madera

80). This teachers observation and encouragement gave Madera the confidence she needed to join the school newspaper staff. In her...

Impact of English as a Second Language

In 5 pages this paper examines why ESL programs are important in the United States in a consideration of history, necessity, and f...

English as a Second Language Students and the Internet

In 5 pages this paper examines how ESL students use computers and the Internet in an overview of spell checkers, chat rooms, and e...

English as a Second Language Student and Science Instruction

How might a teacher convey the idea to a class of elementary school children? He or she would come to the definition by provid...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

English Spoken and Written Language Standardization

course, was not due to piety, but rather he believed that once converted to Christianity the German pagans would stop causing trou...

Multicultural Classrooms, Haitian Pupils, and English as a Second Language

In ten pages ESL teaching to Haitian pupils in a multicultural classroom is examined in a consideration of pros and cons with tech...

The Controversy Surrounding the Move Towards Making English the Official Language of the United States

This ten page paper analyzes the English Only move that is gaining strength in the U.S. This paper presents a converse view 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...

Political Language in the 21st Century

is aimed at supporting particular policy themes that will emerge and where emerging from the political arena. It appears th...

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...

The Debate about Making English an Official Language

both English and French are official languages (Krauthammer, 2006). According to Mr. Krauthammer, the experience of having more th...

A Rview of Gender Stereotyping in the English Language

A 5 page summarization of the article by Laurel Richardson. The author comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the author's f...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language - TEFL

arouse student interest and also to engage their emotions (Zorro and Castillo, n.d.). Many different stimuli could be used to enga...

Content Based English Language Learners

instructional techniques and their behaviors to increase the success level for these students. Pica (2002) reported that in the...

Animal Thinking and Language

between thought and language (Myers, 2006). The findings of renowned linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) that were published ...

Teaching English Language Learners

true believer (Rodgers, 2001). The roles of the teacher and learner change with each method. Methods always expect the actors to ...

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...

Issues with English Language Learners

which refers to the fact that immigrants typically do quite well in American society, despite having to learn the intricacies of a...

Teaching Vocabulary To English Language Learners

snack bar, salad bar, and diner (Pettigrew, 2008). * Labeling pictures can also help students learn names of different things (Har...

How Do You Learn Best

Learning styles have been researched and studied for decades. Do you know what your own learning style is? If you are a teacher, y...

An Overview of Language

This essay presents a brief overview of why people need language, the conditions that govern the sort of language that people empl...

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...

English Language Learners and Direct Instruction

students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...