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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...

Cooperative /Collaborative Language Learning; PowerPoint Presentation

This 10 page paper is a presentation concerning the use of a collaborative/co-operative approach to language teaching. The present...

Acquiring a Second Language and the Effects of Strategies and Styles of Learning

1996, p. 353) who come from different backgrounds. Moreover, this unstructured form of education poses a considerable problem for...

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 ...

Acquisition of Language and Memory Encoding

primary sample population in this study consists of subjects selected from the population of university students in a laboratory c...

Phonological Awareness and Reading: The Process of Language Acquisition

a part of the construction of spoken language. Specifically, phonological awareness if the conceptual view that spoken language c...

The Development of Language

The fact that our use of language varies in accordance with social stimuli is, in fact, well appreciated among linguists....

“Interlanguage”

"the error pattern and ultimate fossilization which characterize the interlanguages of adult second-language learners" (475)....

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, ...

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...

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. ...

Native American Students' Acquisition of Language and Reading Level and the Effects of Culture and History

In five pages this paper discusses how various cultural and historical factors impact the acquisition of language and reading unde...

Language and its Innateness

In eleven pages this paper discusses how language is an innate trait from birth in terms of desire and acquisition. Seven sources...

Error Correction and Processes of Acquiring a Second Language

In twelve pages this paper discusses the linguistic and instructional processes involved in the acquisition of a second language w...

Ana Celia Zentella's Growing Up Bilingual

In six pages this paper analyzes Zentella's book and focuses upon how language acquisition assists in the gaining of knowledge. T...

Acquisison of Language and B.F. Skinner's Operant Behavioral Theory

In a paper consisting of five pages B.F. Skinner's major arguments regarding verbal behavior are examined in terms of their implic...

Analysis Cinderella

In one page this much loved children's story is analyzed in terms of its retelling that is based on the film by Walt Disney as it ...

Retelling the Story of 'Bambi'

the spring, Bambi is surprised by his own reflection in the water. He has become a buck with antlers?like his father. The conflict...

Children With Downs Syndrome and Development of Language

In five pages this paper examines how children with Downs Syndrome acquire language skills and how this acquisition is different f...

English Language Acquisition and its Value

In nine pages this paper examines the value of immigrants' acquiring the English language in terms of cultural assimilation in the...

Young Children and the Acquisition of Language Children

In five pages this research essay discusses how young children acquire language and how 2 of the 3 early childhood intervention mo...

Feral Children and Language Acquisition Mysteries

as one who had learned English in the context of ordinary life. However, some of these children seem to make remarkable progress o...

Language Acquisition and Children

their rate of language acquisition at an alarming rate. By the time the child reaches the age of 2 1/2 to 3 years of age, the stru...

Natural Approach to Acquiring a Second Language Acquisition

In ten pages this research paper discusses how the natural approach of Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terell to acquiring a second lang...

Classroom Interaction and Its Influence Upon the Acquisition of Language

In eleven pages this paper discusses how language is acquired in a consideration of the influence of interaction in the classroom....

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...

Language Acquisition and Expected Developmental Differences for Children of Preschool, Kindergarten, and Primary Ages

others. One must also utilize the ability to comprehend words spoken by others and turn them into understandable concepts in ones...

Production and the Acquisition of English as a Second Language

inherent in the human brain (Archangeli, 1997). Native speakers of a language learn their mother tongue as toddlers because they a...

Critical Period Hypothesis - Second Language Acquisition

knowledge and skill in a different way? The critical period hypothesis regarding acquiring a second language is not new. This hyp...

Child Language Acquisition: Babbling

one year old (Alam, 1998). Other authors write that babbling sometimes goes on at the same time as speech, or that it can recur af...