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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...

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 ...

Need for Technology in the Digital Age Classroom

This research paper describes the need for educational reform in order to meet the needs of the twenty-first century, with a parti...

ADHD Asperger's Dyslexia and Writing

a story. However, there is a limited number of words a child will be exposed to in spoken language, about 5,000 (Hill, 2009). Rare...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Balanced Approach and the Impacts on Teaching Literacy

that the most important result of these skills is that the "children can shift their attention away from the content of speech to ...

The Debate over Bilingualism

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

Summary of “Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research”

human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...

The Importance of ESL in the International School Curriculum

meet the demands that society dishes out, and cultural demands as well. This is becoming increasingly more significant as the worl...

Language & Critical Thinking

Critical thinking has been defined as "the ability to construct and/or extrapolate abstract meaning in and from a variety of setti...

Informal Time Terms

of vague terms, they clearly have a place in it. But what about terms that are ambiguous? As noted, the complexity of language su...

Reallocating School Resources - Case Study

free and reduced lunches. Test scores for language arts are low, in fact, 6th grade reading scores fell short of expectations by -...

The Importance of Cultural Skills in Reaching Multicultural Students

chief factor in effective learning in a multicultural classroom. The hypothesis can be presented that:...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

ESL Teaching's Negative Aspects in Puerto Rico

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Introduction Teaching English as a second language in Puerto Rico...

A Disadvantaged Workforce

concept of work is changing and jobs "appear to be less stable than they were twenty-five years ago" (Working for America). If th...

Cleft Palate

they are considering the impact of nutrition on the condition. They believe that factors causing this condition are both genetic ...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

the pre-test due to differences in cultural background make significant improvement, but children with "true language impairment" ...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

IDEA ’97

brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and development aphasia....The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result ...