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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, ...

Child Development and Semantics

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the process through which children acquire language. This paper relate...

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...

Korean Speakers and English as a Second Language

In eight pages this research paper examines the problems of ESL teaching to Korean learners in terms of various linguistic factors...

Development of English as a Second Language Curriculum

In seven pages this research paper reveals that ESL curriculum needs go far beyond the mere teaching of English to students. Five...

Multicultural Classrooms, Haitian Pupils, and English as a Second Language

In ten pages ESL teaching to Haitian pupils in a multicultural classroom is examined in a consideration of pros and cons with tech...

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...

Caribbean English Speaking Nations, Trade, and the Global Economy

it as developmentally deficient. The dilemma the English speaking Caribbean nations find themselves in is just one more nic...

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...

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...

English as a Second Language Student and Science Instruction

How might a teacher convey the idea to a class of elementary school children? He or she would come to the definition by provid...

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...

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...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Teaching English Language Learners

true believer (Rodgers, 2001). The roles of the teacher and learner change with each method. Methods always expect the actors to ...

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...

Issues with English Language Learners

which refers to the fact that immigrants typically do quite well in American society, despite having to learn the intricacies of a...

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 Debate about Making English an Official Language

both English and French are official languages (Krauthammer, 2006). According to Mr. Krauthammer, the experience of having more th...

Political Language in the 21st Century

is aimed at supporting particular policy themes that will emerge and where emerging from the political arena. It appears th...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Animal Thinking and Language

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

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

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

An Overview of Language

This essay presents a brief overview of why people need language, the conditions that govern the sort of language that people empl...

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....