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Book Review: "Understanding Leadership" By Gayle C. Avery

culture, processes and changing systems. Averys (2004) attempt to define leadership in its broadest terms can readily be interpre...

ELL Funding

Furthermore, all language designed to promoting bilingual education has been removed from federal legislation pertaining to ELL ed...

Language Teaching Theories

or not "communicative competence" includes "grammatical competence" and that at least one critic suggests that it does, because ad...

Race Relations in Detroit

The white exodus from Detroit is truly mind-boggling. There were 1,600,000 white living in Detroit after World War II, and roughly...

Personal Nursing Ethics

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

“On the Variability of Interlanguage Systems”

as well that varied in accordance with whether or not their speck was formal or more casual. These consistencies varied with the ...

“Interlanguage”

"the error pattern and ultimate fossilization which characterize the interlanguages of adult second-language learners" (475)....

“On Variation in Interlanguage: A Response to Gregg”

unknown and that a learners performance is optimal at all times. In reality, Tarone argues, this optimal situation is seldom in p...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition

linguistics which are extrapolated from the study of linguistic generalisations. These are that is A is true then B must be true, ...

Interlanguage Variability

the interlanguage used by the student may come from way that the student will use strategy to try and simplify the target language...

Language and Critical Thinking

facts and value claims"; that he can "determine the reliability of a source,"; determine whether or not a statement is factual; di...

Connections between Images and Characters

of us, but that we have to be very careful" (Valenzuela, 2007), we know immediately that the killing in the story is going to be d...

The Language of Security

to life and limb, in the case of security for an organisations, while this may be a physical threat, it may also be a threat in t...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Reading and Decoding in Early Childhood Education

used in the context of the classroom. The information gleaned should be such that a teacher should be able to utilize it in the co...

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

Oral Language & Lessons Plans

twice-weekly in 15-minute sessions. The adult reading the books asked both literal and inferential questions of the children using...

Historical Changes in the English Language

our purposes, its important to note that "... the Latin tongue did not replace Brittonic as the language of the general population...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

The History Of The Spanish Language

for practical matters, in order to trade and communicate. This take u was a slow progression and started the influences of modern ...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Fixing Failing Urban Schools

embrace the community is controversial. After all, much of the music and lyrics contain expletives and an overuse of the N word. I...

Culture: Comparison and Contrast of Two Articles

In Peasant men cant get wives: language change and sex roles in bilingual community by Susan Gal the community being studied speak...

The Power of Language in "The Tempest" and "The Birthday Party"

does the chicken cross the road?") that they might as well be physically beating him. Instead, they have the power in the play bec...

The English Language

are considered quite strong. How did English emerge? What is its history? A few hundred years ago, English was simply a hodge pod...

Communication and Global Organizations

route that communication may take can be seen as ineffective in some instances, with the bureaucracy slowing down the transference...

Application of 'AutoSlog' Natural Language Processing

joint ventures and microelectronics (University of Utah). In regards to terrorism, AutoSlog produced a dictionary after only five ...

Workplace and English Only Rules

and living in America it should be expected that only that national language should be used at work. Whether the native tongue is...

Language Acquisition and Children

their rate of language acquisition at an alarming rate. By the time the child reaches the age of 2 1/2 to 3 years of age, the stru...