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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 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...

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

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

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

much better equipped to question the contradictions that are regularly confronted in the learning process. "...There is no knowle...

strengths and power of all children, rather than the weaknesses (Zaragoza, 1997) Perfectionism is an issue because it distances th...

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...

which parts of a computer programme are the most effective at helping students learn English and should result in a model of the r...

concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers ...

study will assess existing learning styles and educational strategies used to assess the impacts of ESL/TESOL and Bilingual educat...

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

Campagnola was entitled to the value that she would have received had the malpractice not occurred. As this suggests, the differen...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

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

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

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

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

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

designed for English as a foreign language students (EFL), that is, students learning English in as non-native environment. Black ...

that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...