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to the English, it was felt perhaps, by many other less powerful classes, that also learning the language and adhering to the Brit...
supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...
128). This individual clearly is quite capable, and sensitive to the nuances of language. Fu and Townsend (1998) quote ano...
will come to being able to communicate effectively" (Gassin, 1990, 437). Like Adams, Gassin (1990) also believed that the achieve...
have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...
do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...
third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...
meet the demands that society dishes out, and cultural demands as well. This is becoming increasingly more significant as the worl...
make sense - for example, what is a "New York Minute" and how does it differ from a regular minute? New York Minute involves time ...
There is also evidence that bilingualism actually provides benefit to culturally diverse students. Sheng, McGregor and Marian cond...
31). Both approaches inform and enlighten the pedagogical process for instructing ESL students. Piagets approach emphasizes the im...
of the English word "play," which can be a noun, a verb or an adjective in English use (Green, 2005). Considering this, Green (200...
This research paper describes the need for educational reform in order to meet the needs of the twenty-first century, with a parti...
concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers ...
languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...
it as developmentally deficient. The dilemma the English speaking Caribbean nations find themselves in is just one more nic...
green. The general assumption is that everything that is the color of a leaf is green, but the experiential views of that color m...
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...
in Burma. It is a poignant and ironic allegory of British imperialism, for in Orwells view, the authority which enabled the gover...
task-based instructional models, including task-based instruction for reading, listening and writing, are clearly elements integra...
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...
In ten pages ESL teaching to Haitian pupils in a multicultural classroom is examined in a consideration of pros and cons with tech...
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 major premise in the cognitive school is that "humans take in information from their environment through their senses and then...
schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...
that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...
students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...
was placed in third grade in her local public school, where there were four other children between 2-4th grades who had relocated ...
the topic and an understanding of the goals that are valuable to intermediate ESL leaders. The following are the four central que...
transforming our sense data into internal images, sounds, smells, tastes and sensations" (Gal?n and Maguire, 1999). We each commun...