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Nina Zaragoza's 'Rethinking Language Arts'

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

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...

EXTENSIBLE BUSINESS REPORTING LANGUAGE AND ACCOUNTING

(as a standard Internet page might), XBRL provides a tag to identify each individual item of data, that is computer-readable (An I...

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 ...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Primary Language Arts Lesson Plan

These words will be presented to the children before the story is read. Kindergarten children will learn how to pronounce these wo...

The Language of God by Francis Collins

idea of a scientist who believes in God is inconceivable. Science with its rigorous examination of cause and effect, its strict de...

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 Brain and Foreign Language: Acquisition

which memory is responsible for structuring learning foreign language is both grand and far-reaching; that certain components of r...

The Eventual Decline of Latin as a Spoken Language

hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...

Jewish History and the Yiddish Language

the tenth century, an occurrence that was heretofore nonexistent on the timeline of this particular setting. This is not to say, ...

Language Learning Styles and ESL Teaching Strategies

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

Subtleties of Legal Language

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

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

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

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

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

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 ...

The Language of the Abortion Debate

rhetoric can go a long way to change opinion (Bailey, 2002). They realize that if they use religious verbiage, it will only have a...

Language and Teaching

the instigators of learning and the student as a passive receptor of their knowledge. In planning active learning projects, it is ...

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...

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...

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...

Content Based English Language Learners

instructional techniques and their behaviors to increase the success level for these students. Pica (2002) reported that in the...

Worldview, Language And Intercultural Communication

of a shortsighted, intolerant mind-set, university life will most assuredly provide an eye-opening experience whereby the student ...

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 ...

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...

The Importance of Language: Lessons from Friedman's The World is Flat

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

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 ...

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;...