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An Immigrant Kindergarten Student and Assessment

instruments selected to measure an individuals language proficiency should be "suitable for the characteristics and background of ...

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 ...

My Teaching Job in Burma

was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...

Why the English Language Should Not Include the 4-Letter Word Fuck

second (and more familiar) one, "to engage in sexual activity" (Wajnryb, 2005, p. 55). It is also associated with Germanic and Sc...

Immigrants and English

neighborhoods of their ethnicity and thus they spoke their homeland language a great deal of the time. This is also the case today...

Program for Recent Immigrant

years in Mexico, placed in 10th grade. Questions: legal requirements? What kind of program should be planned? How to measure progr...

The Warrior Culture of Beowulf

it clear that the most important societal relationship is between a warrior, the "thane," and his liege lord (Donaldson 32). This ...

The French Revolution and Changing Alliances

The French Revolution had a reverberating effect not just on France but on the world. State relations changed dramatically during...

The Common Philosophies of the American and French Revolutions

Introduction The period of western civilization that we typically refer to as the Enlightenment spanned the...

The Long Struggle for Women’s Rights

10 12 2700 words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19...

Canada's First French-Speaking Prime Minister/Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Wilfrid Laurie was Canadas first francophone, that is, French-speaking, prime minister in Canadian history ("Wilfrid Laurier Biogr...

Factors Contributing to the British Colonization of the Americas

English expansion into the so-called New World occurred in response to a diversity of factors. One of...

Obstacles to Correct Pronunciation for Japanese Learners of English

with a fixed pronunciation. For instance, the letter "a" in English can be pronounced many different ways, such as in the words "a...

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REVIEW: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

instruction tended to help ELL students, and Brooks and Thurstons results werent much different. Basically, throwing ELL students ...

Affect of Newspapers on English Development

(Baugh and Cable 280). Physics introduced the words "calorie, electron, ionization, ultraviolent rays quantum mechanics and relati...

The Bilingual Education Debate

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

ESL Instruction and the Constructivist Approach

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

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...

The English Language

Introduction The English language has a long and very rich history and the language. It is also a language which is used in most ...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

Techniques for ELL Students

(Ghaith, 2003). Cooperative learning encourages meaningful, real-life conversations between students, regardless of age. Researc...

The Problems Leading Up to the American Revolution

The discontent that led up to the ultimate colonial rebellion...

Using Proper English

of rules to learn. Theyre there not to antagonize students, but because they help organize the language so it makes sense. This pa...

The Late Delivery of Damaged Goods Purchased Under a FOB Contract

bring English law onto the same level as international law and international jurisdictions (White and Bradgate, 1993). In...

American Revolution Compared to the French and Latin American Revolutions

greatest superpower exerted her independence from Great Britain. The focus of the American Revolution was to win politi...

English Law and the Creation of Certainty in the Trading Relationship

to be excluded by terms in contracts, such as the potential to expressly exclude the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999,...

Loneword Adaptation in Japanese and its Effects

/a/ is only adapted into the foreign language a [a] when it occurs in the stressed syllable in the English loanword. The sound /a...

Industrialization as a Metaphorical Monster in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There were also images of pollution with billows of smoke pouring out of factory chimneys and thick coatings of ash on sidewalks, ...

ENGLISH AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATION

through 20th centuries, English has spread ubiquitously throughout the world (Held, 2004). As a result of this, he concludes, the ...

Comprehensible Input

want students to learn accurate language. Communication needs to be grammatically correct with proper syntax and so on (Kagan, 199...