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Third Grade Language Arts' Teacher's Role

In two pages this paper examines the languages arts' developmental role represented by a 3rd grade language arts teacher. One sou...

Articles on Body Language

Brian Clost seems to provide an overview of the general thinking on body language. Clost says that the eyes are sometimes called t...

Pros and Cons of Learning a Second Language

among the most notable. Essentially, he believes that natural language and conversation is the best means of acquiring a second l...

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...

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 ...

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...

Mexico

A 5 page paper exploring the language, geography, and culture of Mexico. Six sources....

Private Language and Wittgenstein's Theories

green. The general assumption is that everything that is the color of a leaf is green, but the experiential views of that color m...

Concept of Sustainable Development

The sustainable development concept is compared with other models of development in a paper consisting of 12 pages....

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...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' Explicated

in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...

Language and the Impact of Violence in Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved

In five pages this paper references Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved in a consideration of how language is affected by viole...

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...

The Language and the Quilt in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....

Language and Identity

types of Spanish people. There is proper Spanish, slang Spanish, Tex-Mex Spanish, and ultimately she indicates that there are 7-8 ...

Fine Arts/Washington State Standards

The book also explores drawing and painting techniques, as well as offering numerous examples of fine art. Fifteen lessons explo...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

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

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...

Animal Thinking and Language

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

Annotated Bibliography - Dual Language Education

& Education Quarterly, 31, 202-229. This paper describes the way in which a "team of urban middle school educators developed a du...

Communication and Body Language

the whole time, but to be careful not to let your eyes wander. Theres nothing more offensive to the person to whom youre talking t...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

English Language Instruction and Computers

which parts of a computer programme are the most effective at helping students learn English and should result in a model of the r...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

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