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Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Motivation and Acquiring a Second Language

"brain plasticity" is the reason learning a second language after childhood is more difficult (Clyne, n.d.). Not everyone agrees ...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

United Kingdom Businesses and Language Diversity

force, and more specifically, how many Chinese. While data specific to the topic seems to be elusive, some data were accessible. T...

Acquiring a Second Language and the Impact of Motivation

that the difference in "brain plasticity" is the reason learning a second language after childhood is more difficult (Clyne, n.d.)...

Adult Literacy and Early Development of Language

In fourteen pages early literacy and language development are considered in terms of adult literacy, the policy of Welfare to Work...

Language Theories of Cummins, Krashen, and Vygotsky

problems unaided, and their potential for improved problem-solving if guided by another. Within the ZPD was a process known as sca...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

Human Brain Development

other organs. The evolution of large brains must be a significant as there are many associated problem with the development of l...

Question and Answer Format on English Language Use

of terms are so important to effective communication. A student wanting to illustrate why common definitions of terms are so ...

Women and Men, Language, and Difference Implications

be easier to deal with if work was the only place where one ran into this problem, but too often, it occurs at home. Many husband...

Great Basin, Subarctic, and Arctic Indigenous Peoples

a significant problem for this group. In any event, it also appears that to some extent the hand made clothing associated with the...

Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Swahili Languages

as Zipfs law, that human languages follow a pattern that is characterized by the frequency of different words (Ravilious, 2003). ...

New York State Standards and English Language Arts

which all students and staff members are learners who continually improve their performance" (NYCPDS, 2004). According to Spark...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Definitions

might be termed the "straightforward" meanings of the words, he frequently adds a commentary of his own which sometimes refers to ...

Student Supplied Psychoeducational Report

* Attention, Organization and Processing: Juliettes abilities in pair cancellation, auditory attention, planning, and processing s...

Overview of UML's Development

of the main reasons that this has become the standard language is the way it is independent of programming language, for example, ...

Teaching Language and Constructivism

pronunciation or the definition of the word, but in the application and cultural connotation of that word. Each word contains cert...

Assessment of English Language Learning

this manner (Assessment of ELL Students, 2004). The Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey basically provides a measure of a students lan...

Language in The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

the portals of the blue hotel" (Crane). Clearly, these adjectives promote a depth of understanding about Scully that otherwise wo...

Cultural Comparison of Egypt and Greece

than history. A problem with perception is simply that there is no Greek culture to speak about that had occurred since the classi...

Historical Development of the Irish Language

its history, was a country that was invaded many times, and settled by a variety of different groups (Irelandseye.com, 2004). By t...

Hospital Setting Language Miscommunication

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

French Business People and Negotiations

a good lunch, 2000). One thing that will offend the French quickly is failing to maintain strict formality in addressing in...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, National Identity, and Language

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

Change and Linguistics

of the Americas. English and Spanish, for example, have a number of dialects within them that have, over time, developed in...

Global Community Perspective on the English Language

nation the United States involves itself in the affairs of other countries to some extent. In Third world countries the United S...

Rhetoric, Thought, and Language

than just discourse designed to persuade. Since the 1970s, scholars from a variety of academic fields have placed metaphor at the ...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Social Alienation

were outcasts from the beginning largely due to her mother Annettes social displacement as a native of Martinique. The memories o...

Media and Inappropriate Language

beginning to use foul language more often (The Real Truth, 2005). Another author argues that "What is causing the increased am...