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The Eventual Decline of Latin as a Spoken Language

hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...

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...

TESOL and Second Language Programming

lack the skills and learning strategies to address the needs of these students as well as their English speaking population (Heath...

International Environment and Acquiring a Second Language

In five page this paper examines ESL issues and the impact of globalization with theorists such as Jim Cummins and a critique of a...

English as a Second Language Learner Assessments

was placed in third grade in her local public school, where there were four other children between 2-4th grades who had relocated ...

Customer Service Representative Second Language Programming Research Proposal

the problem of a shortage of potential call center employees with adequate language skills; and the benefits of integrating langua...

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...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...

Workplace Obscene Language, Name Calling, and its Negative Impact

invite more personal discussions and verbal altercations are somewhat acceptable. Interestingly, on that show, a woman came on boa...

The Brain and Foreign Language: Acquisition

which memory is responsible for structuring learning foreign language is both grand and far-reaching; that certain components of r...

Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" - Analysis

"I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep th...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

The Language of the Abortion Debate

rhetoric can go a long way to change opinion (Bailey, 2002). They realize that if they use religious verbiage, it will only have a...

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...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Language Acquisition and Expected Developmental Differences for Children of Preschool, Kindergarten, and Primary Ages

others. One must also utilize the ability to comprehend words spoken by others and turn them into understandable concepts in ones...

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...

Programming Language Learning and Teaching in a Multimedia Environnment

People can now in fact learn how to program with the use of multimedia. McMaster (2001) explains that if managers want their sal...

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; ...

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...

Language in Pharaoh's Daughter by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

obvious characteristically reminiscent of the common themes of life, love and landscape, as well as the not-so-happy aspects of hu...

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...

Worldview, Language And Intercultural Communication

of a shortsighted, intolerant mind-set, university life will most assuredly provide an eye-opening experience whereby the student ...

Content Based English Language Learners

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

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...

Language and Teaching

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

Primary Language Arts Lesson Plan

These words will be presented to the children before the story is read. Kindergarten children will learn how to pronounce these wo...