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Bilingual Education Argument

is embraced by American schools to varying degrees. Still, the subject usually attracts heated debates. Bilingual education is t...

Minority Students and Higher Accountability In Standardized Reading Tests

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

School Year Student Time Saving Resources

in their performance on reading tasks, comprehension and writing efforts. Citation materials are also available on the WEB and ...

Rural America and English as a Second Language

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

Cooperative Groups For Non-Native English Speakers

of cooperative learning is to encourage student accomplishment "by coupling individual accountability with group incentives and re...

English-Language Learners

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

Miss Determined

More than that I was able to inspire the other players to do their very best, so that I became a natural leader. I believe in what...

ESL Instruction and the Constructivist Approach

31). Both approaches inform and enlighten the pedagogical process for instructing ESL students. Piagets approach emphasizes the im...

Need for Technology in the Digital Age Classroom

This research paper describes the need for educational reform in order to meet the needs of the twenty-first century, with a parti...

An Immigrant Kindergarten Student and Assessment

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

Cockroach Eulogy

In five pages this lighthearted sample of creative writing involving a student's dorm roommate, a beloved pet cockroach....

The Late Delivery of Damaged Goods Purchased Under a FOB Contract

bring English law onto the same level as international law and international jurisdictions (White and Bradgate, 1993). In...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

Dyslexia and ELL

with the acquisition of print literacy (reading, writing, and spelling). Dyslexia is characterized by poor decoding and spelling ...

Student Supplied Case of Offer and Acceptance of a Telephone Answering Machine

in any term constitutes a counter offer (McKendrick, 2000). This also kills the initial offer. Another case that may be sited is t...

System of Electronic Voting and UK Law

as voters as well as the clerks and election officials. This was an easier system to set up than that of Florida, however, as a pa...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Student Supplied Contract Law Case Study on Offer and Acceptance

or party with an acceptance of the offer by another party, this is known as Offer and Acceptance (Barker and Padfield, 1994, Ivamy...

Case Study on English Contract Law

there was some exceptional contracts which did not sit easily into the analysis of offer and acceptance as in multipartite contrac...

ESL Students and Fine Arts Instruction

not fair to the ESL student. How can fine art teachers embrace their ESL students in the same way as they do others who speak the ...

Issues in English Employment Law

entitled to a long notice period or the employee is entitled to a valuable remuneration package (DiscLaw Publishing Ltd, Wrongful,...

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

Voodoo Symbolism and Its Problems

means than prose, being as diverse a means of communication as any medium. Identifying the inherent problems associated with comp...

Common Challenges and Difficulties in Learning English as a Second Language

This paper discusses common pitfalls faced by students attempting to learn English as a Second Language (ESL). This five page pap...

EFL Teaching

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses English as a foreign language instruction in this consideration of native Portugues...

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...

Young Reader Motivation

the target word was translated through semantic memory shared by both languages, the outcome of that target/distractor relationshi...

Failure and Lessons Learned

In 5 pages this creative essay discusses a student's mistake and what was learned about success as a result....

Canada's EFL Studies

In fifteen pages this paper examines Canada's approaches to the instruction of English writing to students who are foreign born wi...

Testing the Validity of California's Proposition 227

The writer suggests an experiment as a research project, in which the object is to test the validity of California Prop. 227, whic...