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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 ...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

The Language of God by Francis Collins

idea of a scientist who believes in God is inconceivable. Science with its rigorous examination of cause and effect, its strict de...

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...

Language and Teaching

the instigators of learning and the student as a passive receptor of their knowledge. In planning active learning projects, it is ...

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...

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...

Content Based English Language Learners

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

Overcoming Language Barriers in Law Enforcement

to the census had difficulties conversing in the English language (Drake, 2006). An alarming 3.3 million of these respondents adm...

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...

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...

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 ...

Improving High School Oral Language Skills

situations" (377). Early intervention and prevention is the key to minimizing or hopefully even abolishing a number of severe pr...

Political Ideals and 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell

concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers ...

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; ...

5 States and the English as a Second Language Educational Programs

bilingual pupils. And while New York City is a melting pot, that does not mean that English is not a concern throughout the rest o...

Matrix Language Frame and Code Switching

example demonstrates a greater focus on the intra-sentential nature of code-switching, in which the speaker borrows or integrates ...

Comparing George Orwell's Politics and the English Language and Shooting an Elephant

in Burma. It is a poignant and ironic allegory of British imperialism, for in Orwells view, the authority which enabled the gover...

Syllabus for English Language Created by the Curriculum Development Council of Hong Kong

task-based instructional models, including task-based instruction for reading, listening and writing, are clearly elements integra...

Benefits of Learning Spanish as a Second Language

being able to communicate with these classmates. Of course when we travel we come across Spanish speaking people everywhere, and ...

The Language of the Land by James Stephenson

who have changed little since the Stone Age (Stephenson, 2000). This essay examines a number of issues relevant to Jemzis develo...

Imagery and Language in Mark Twain's 'Life on the Mississippi'

remarkable. This, in many ways, sets us up for the diversity of the work, which is perhaps as changing as the river itself. Twa...

Language Cases of Discrimination

by speaking only in Spanish, even while they leered in her direction. Upon investigation, the salesmen proclaimed their innocence,...

Reaction to Conversation Language And Possibilities A Postmodern Approach To Therapy by Harlene Andersen

followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with p...

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...

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...

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...

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...