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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...

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...

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...

Intermediate English as a Second Language Class Reading Lesson Plans on US History Themes

the topic and an understanding of the goals that are valuable to intermediate ESL leaders. The following are the four central que...

Hong Kong Primary Schools and English as a Second Language

have shown that, in Chinese, there are many characters that do not fully encode pronunciation (McBride and Treiman, 2003). In othe...

Acquiring a Second Language

younger learners when learning a second language (Bucuvalas). Older learners have already achieved proficiency in and mastery of o...

International Environment and Acquiring a Second Language

In five page this paper examines ESL issues and the impact of globalization with theorists such as Jim Cummins and a critique of a...

English as a Second Language Learner Assessments

was placed in third grade in her local public school, where there were four other children between 2-4th grades who had relocated ...

Customer Service Representative Second Language Programming Research Proposal

the problem of a shortage of potential call center employees with adequate language skills; and the benefits of integrating langua...

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 ...

Relationship Between Motivation and Acquiring a Second Language

In nine pages this research paper presents a literature review on the importance of motivation in a second language acquisition. ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Methodologies of Second Language Instruction

their questions, the students responses, and any recurring patterns which occur. Discourse analysis can also help identify cross c...

ELL: Methods And Techniques

they need to succeed. III. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES Teaching ELL students is no different than educating the mainstream population...

The Relationship Between Orthography And Pronunciation In L1 And L2 Phonology

their newly acquired L2 phonological system (Thompson et al, 2007). The multiplicity of languages spoken across the globe ...

Hoffman and Rodriguez on Bilingualism

in the form of dialogues that she has between her English self, Eva, and her Polish self, Ewa. One gathers from the context of the...

Early Language Development In Children With Down Syndrome

the difficulties in the communication, language and speech skills of the people with Down syndrome is not yet properly known. In ...

Mathematics; Anxiety And Commutative, Associative, And Distributive Laws

such as money is used, but in the way meals are made and served, schedules are personal schedules are put together and managed how...

Effective Communication and Language Barrier

these people as humanitarian gestures. This signaled to these people that other nations, despite differences in culture and langua...

Chivalry

for both of these elements are indicative of the distinction between ordinary love and that which extols virtue, honor and courage...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Specific Language Impairment Article Review

language abilities develop. The languages themselves may be different, but the underlying acquisition processes appear to be the s...

Amelie, A Film Review

understand the main thrust of the film without subtitles, as it follows Amelie from childhood to adulthood, showing the main event...

The Shift from Latin to Vernacular Language Use

This resulted in a gradual shift, and reflected not only the lower level of influence of Rome, but also the declining influence of...

Senses and Language Connection

Language in a More-than-Human World (Pantheon, 1996) that it is our physical removal from land that has impeded our ability to coe...

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad Analyzed

Though not his most famous work, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer is a showcase for the author's command of language. This paper ...

Language Use of Martin Luther

In five pages this paper examines how Germanic languages were influenced by the language and metaphorical uses of Martin Luther in...

Twins and the 'Secret Language' That Exists Between Them

In eight pages this paper examines how twins develop and acquire language and the 'secret language' between them that occasionally...