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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...

French Canadians at the End of the 19th Century

"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...

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...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

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 ...

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...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

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

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...

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, ...

New England Puritans

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...

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...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

African American Females and Discrimination

and even a lack of trust on the part of the black population (Zmuda, 2002). Women, in general, face a glass ceiling when attempti...

American Society and the Impact of the African American Family

whole, and viewed the family structure as a divisive and prevalent force in the problem of social inequities and negative Black so...

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...

Greece and Insurable Interest

FOB are given uniform definition and the responsibilities of each party, such as insurance, are clearly outlined (Incoterms, 2004)...

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...

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...

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...

Gender Perceptions and Prostitution During the Victorian Age

way that different people were seen. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the...

American Diversity

and economic issues must be considered along with positions of ethnic and religious minorities as well as issues that go to enviro...

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 ...

Western English Society and Male and Female Suicidal Behavior

and other obligations, as well as having a higher level of courage to commit such an act, men reflect a significantly higher suici...

Analysis of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

at Christminster in much the same manner as a knight with the Holy Grail. Hardy comments that Jude did not see that "mediaevalism...

English as a Second Language Primary Students and Reading Instruction

racial minority or ethnic groups. The following illustration provides a picture of the diversity (Newman, 1998, p. 231). The numb...

The Use of Songs and Games to Teach English as a Second Language

repetitive and consistent (Schoepp, 2001). 2. Affective reasons: this reason involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis and basicall...

Contemporary Society and African Americans' Roles

are unable to advance and thus are thrown into a never ending cycle of self depreciation. Yes, true, the United States Just...

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...