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Overcoming Language Barriers in Law Enforcement

to the census had difficulties conversing in the English language (Drake, 2006). An alarming 3.3 million of these respondents adm...

5 States and the English as a Second Language Educational Programs

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...

Matrix Language Frame and Code Switching

example demonstrates a greater focus on the intra-sentential nature of code-switching, in which the speaker borrows or integrates ...

Benefits of Learning Spanish as a Second Language

being able to communicate with these classmates. Of course when we travel we come across Spanish speaking people everywhere, and ...

Comparing George Orwell's Politics and the English Language and Shooting an Elephant

in Burma. It is a poignant and ironic allegory of British imperialism, for in Orwells view, the authority which enabled the gover...

Imagery and Language in Mark Twain's 'Life on the Mississippi'

remarkable. This, in many ways, sets us up for the diversity of the work, which is perhaps as changing as the river itself. Twa...

The Language of the Land by James Stephenson

who have changed little since the Stone Age (Stephenson, 2000). This essay examines a number of issues relevant to Jemzis develo...

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...

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 ...

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...

Programming Language Learning and Teaching in a Multimedia Environnment

People can now in fact learn how to program with the use of multimedia. McMaster (2001) explains that if managers want their sal...

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...

Language in Pharaoh's Daughter by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

obvious characteristically reminiscent of the common themes of life, love and landscape, as well as the not-so-happy aspects of hu...

Language Acquisition and Expected Developmental Differences for Children of Preschool, Kindergarten, and Primary Ages

others. One must also utilize the ability to comprehend words spoken by others and turn them into understandable concepts in ones...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...

Holistic Nutrition: Language

to holistic nutrition with a prescriptive connotation as being used as "an alternative to, or in conjunction with, traditional med...

More Language Readings/Analyses

this point. For example, Brown (2008), as a writer, draws on her heritage as a Cuban American to create multicultural books for ...

Child Language and Knowledge of Syntax

684). There is what several theorists describe as "language learnability" that enables children to take that seed of syntax knowl...

Multiculturalism and Language Education

million in 1790 to 300 million in 2005" principally due to immigration (Kumaravadivelu, 2008, p. 69). However, while it is true th...

Israeli Citizenship And Language

in order for the Jews to maintain sociopolitical control would cause an even greater uproar of discrimination than already exists;...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

Improving High School Oral Language Skills

situations" (377). Early intervention and prevention is the key to minimizing or hopefully even abolishing a number of severe pr...

Anxiety Level in Elderly Patients & Primary Language

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

Correlation Between Nutrition And Depression

related to depression is a mothers inability to provide enough nutritional sustenance to her infant; without the necessary caloric...

Innovation Strategy as NEC and Acquisitions

That Cisco the paper is written in two parts. The first section looks at a case study of NEC and the development of a research and...

Christianity Today

Christianity is and always has been the dominant religious preference in the United States. It was founded on the philosophy of r...

Racism & Adolescent Development

favor "cooperation, discussion, a focus tied to people, hands-on activities, and whole-to-part learning," while white students are...

Global Poverty

so that greater benefits are transferred to the developing country....