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English Language Learning and Lau v. Nichols

for some native language maintenance (Texas Education Agency Bilingual/ESL Unit, 2004). * 1988: More amendments to Title VII impos...

Research Proposal for High School English Class Motivation

this study is quasi-experimental and uses questionnaires to provide the data to determine the effectiveness of motivational strate...

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 ...

Immigrant Communities and Learning Needs Addressed by Public Schools

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

NLP to Teach English

argues that the behaviour which we display will be the result of the neurological processes, and that it is through these that we ...

English Words Borrowed from Italian

years. Some of these include gondola, cameo, arsenal, regatta, fresco, studio, vendetta, broccoli, motto, piano, opera, grotto, vi...

Iowa Test of Basic Skills Analyzed

if they find any errors. If they do find an error they must identify the line, or, they can simply mark "no error" if that is wha...

Reviews of Articles about Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language (ESL)

believe that acquiring English skills is the more important than teaching the children in Spanish (Porter, 1999). Porters article...

Literature Review on Paralinguistic Features of English Language Skills

will come to being able to communicate effectively" (Gassin, 1990, 437). Like Adams, Gassin (1990) also believed that the achieve...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Definitions

might be termed the "straightforward" meanings of the words, he frequently adds a commentary of his own which sometimes refers to ...

The Importance of ESL in the International School Curriculum

meet the demands that society dishes out, and cultural demands as well. This is becoming increasingly more significant as the worl...

Indian Cultural Conflict

have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...

The Debate over Bilingualism

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

Difficulties Presented by Consonant Elisions in English as a Second Language

the proper manner in which to utilize the language, partly for their own benefit and partly for the benefit of foreign speakers. ...

Analysis of Learning a Second Language

for science, technology, and international business" (Unz and Tuchman, 1997). In other words, this legislation was passed in order...

The Functional Use of Pronouns in English Language Classes

are defined semantically, i.e. "a noun is the name of a person, place or thing," a verb describes action or states of being (Intr...

Problems in an ESL Classroom

It is important that every idea offered is written down even if the idea seems to have no connection or relationship to the topic ...

An Analysis of Dr. Georgi Lozanov's Integrated Learning Techniques

element and understand the theory behind it. Dr. Lazanov developed this process in the 1970s (Lazanov and Gateva, 1988). ...

Bilingual Education Argument

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

Teachers and Tutors of ESL Adult Learners and a Phonemic, Web Based Instructional Approach Preproposal

and phonological similarity of verbal items in memorized sequences" (Mueller, et al., 2003; p. 1353). The phonological-loop model...

Speaking English Standards

to a mother who had a degree in English and was very particular about incorrect use of the language, such as the simple word "aint...

Total Physical Response and Communicative Approaches to ESL Instruction

not be immediately corrected depending upon the teachers philosophy and interpretation of the communicative approach. If errors ar...

21st Century American Linguistic Imperialism

In five pages this paper discusses how the US employs the English language to achieve global dominance. Eight sources are cited i...

Oppression and Language Skills

Los Angeles, and lived in the region for at least a decade as an adult. In this region there are numerous field workers, many of w...

History and Linguistics of the Jamaican Creole Language

example of the many languages which are participating in the "Latinization" of the English language and are important in the lingu...

The Bilingual Education Debate

There is also evidence that bilingualism actually provides benefit to culturally diverse students. Sheng, McGregor and Marian cond...

LITERAL VERSUS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

make sense - for example, what is a "New York Minute" and how does it differ from a regular minute? New York Minute involves time ...

Gaining Language Skills

of the English word "play," which can be a noun, a verb or an adjective in English use (Green, 2005). Considering this, Green (200...

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...

ESL Instruction and the Constructivist Approach

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