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Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' Analyzed

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

Teaching Language and Constructivism

pronunciation or the definition of the word, but in the application and cultural connotation of that word. Each word contains cert...

Assessment of English Language Learning

this manner (Assessment of ELL Students, 2004). The Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey basically provides a measure of a students lan...

Language in The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

the portals of the blue hotel" (Crane). Clearly, these adjectives promote a depth of understanding about Scully that otherwise wo...

Hospital Setting Language Miscommunication

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

Student Supplied Psychoeducational Report

* Attention, Organization and Processing: Juliettes abilities in pair cancellation, auditory attention, planning, and processing s...

LITERAL VERSUS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

make sense - for example, what is a "New York Minute" and how does it differ from a regular minute? New York Minute involves time ...

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...

Indian Cultural Conflict

have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Tannen on Discourse

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

Article Critique/Suspected LD

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

Cleft Palate

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

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...

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...

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 ...

English-Language Learners

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

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

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...

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...

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...

Nabokov & Use of Language

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

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...

Statistical Trend Analysis

of the school age population will primarily speak a language other than English (Flynn & Hill, 2005). Trends such as these can p...

Mental Prototypes, Language and More

course, prototypes and categories can get us in trouble. The assignment asks for an example of mistaken identity. I was in a store...