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Multicultural Classrooms, Haitian Pupils, and English as a Second Language

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

Univeristy of Guam and Conversion of Personal Services to Human Resources

In thirty pages the University of Guam is used in an example of a research project that converts personnel to human resources with...

Challenges of English as a Second Language for High School Students

students do when trying to learn English. These special needs students are not routinely given the individualized attention they ...

Student Achievement and the Importance of Class Size

compared the achievement of students who were in classes of between 13 and 17 students to classes where there were 22 to 26 studen...

Difficulties Presented by Consonant Elisions in English as a Second Language

the proper manner in which to utilize the language, partly for their own benefit and partly for the benefit of foreign speakers. ...

The Nature and Function of Humor

dealing with the world in future" (Palmer 57). As this suggests, humor, at least temporarily, has the power to free perception fr...

Figurative Language in Two of Shakespeare's Plays

a wound. / But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill...

English System of Criminal Justice from 1700 Until 1850 and Class Rule

he can make an Old Bailey case of it, he takes the Boy up, because he gets his expenses, or something, I believe, for his trouble ...

Analysis of Learning a Second Language

for science, technology, and international business" (Unz and Tuchman, 1997). In other words, this legislation was passed in order...

Cultural Responses to the Plague and Tuberculosis

the conditions of the poor were supposed to be upgraded by industrial innovations; but, on the other hand, company waste and inade...

English as a Second Language Primary Students and Reading Instruction

racial minority or ethnic groups. The following illustration provides a picture of the diversity (Newman, 1998, p. 231). The numb...

The Use of Songs and Games to Teach English as a Second Language

repetitive and consistent (Schoepp, 2001). 2. Affective reasons: this reason involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis and basicall...

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.)...

Karl Marx and Class Stratification

and continue the cycle while those in the "other class" consume these items, usually by placing them on credit cards. The idea tha...

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 ...

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...

TESOL and ESL Models for Second Language Education

and utterances that often seem random in nature and these occur from their earliest stages of development. Studies, though, of ea...

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...

Great Britain, is It Class Driven or a Meritocracy?

more on ability and skills rather than family background and inheritance; a meritocracy. Class mobility between the generation and...

Charles Curran on Acquiring a Second Language

deals with this anxiety and significantly reduces it, thereby enhancing the level of achievement for the learner. Second Languag...

The Validity of Bequests In a Will

to the trust and trustees, this is not vital, as even directing one party to hold it for another may be sufficient, as seen with t...

History and Positions of Wal-Mart and Target

Gibson - a barber from over at Berryville - started his stores with a simple philosophy: "Buy it low, stack it high, sell it cheap...

Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition

linguistics which are extrapolated from the study of linguistic generalisations. These are that is A is true then B must be true, ...

Stereotypes and Class

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

Canada, Social Class, and Inequality

the haves wielding the greatest power (Macionis & Gerber, 2006). First, there is the predominantly Anglo upper class, in which mo...

Saying Goodbye to Debate Class

chore. It is these assignments that have held the greatest lessons, however. These assignments that superficially seem so ...

The Disappearing Middle Class

getting into debt, and he could look forward to a secure and comfortable retirement" (p. D8). That is no longer true, only the wea...

Technology In Middle And High Schools

Panel members overwhelmingly believed it was very important to have technology right in the classroom (Clark, 2006). The research...

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...

Spain, Puerto Rico, and English as a Second Language

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