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for some native language maintenance (Texas Education Agency Bilingual/ESL Unit, 2004). * 1988: More amendments to Title VII impos...
Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...
schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...
(Mongejami, 2002). Though the cultures that speak Farsi, including the people of Iran, have struggled to maintain the rich dialec...
that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...
No Child Left Behind Act, it is hard to dismiss the problems it has brought for some populations. For example, it seems that child...
which parts of a computer programme are the most effective at helping students learn English and should result in a model of the r...
population of zip code $ 50,000 - $59,999 11.0% $ 60,000 - $74,999 12.3% $ 75,000 - $99,999 11.5% Source: (Income and Housing,...
working in this program must have ESL certification. They need professional development in instructional methods (Idaho State Boa...
do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...
our purposes, its important to note that "... the Latin tongue did not replace Brittonic as the language of the general population...
are considered quite strong. How did English emerge? What is its history? A few hundred years ago, English was simply a hodge pod...
studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...
to clarify: if a student asks what a word means, he is using cognition; if the student asks what the best way is to learn and reme...
the exchange of information as well as a press that is free to investigate, and even criticize, its government. These freedoms are...
country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...
because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...
instructional techniques and their behaviors to increase the success level for these students. Pica (2002) reported that in the...
snack bar, salad bar, and diner (Pettigrew, 2008). * Labeling pictures can also help students learn names of different things (Har...
true believer (Rodgers, 2001). The roles of the teacher and learner change with each method. Methods always expect the actors to ...
and Cline (2000) suggest, it must be a network that can best meet the students needs. It would seem that the first component must ...
Introduction The English language has a long and very rich history and the language. It is also a language which is used in most ...
(Ghaith, 2003). Cooperative learning encourages meaningful, real-life conversations between students, regardless of age. Researc...
which refers to the fact that immigrants typically do quite well in American society, despite having to learn the intricacies of a...
second (and more familiar) one, "to engage in sexual activity" (Wajnryb, 2005, p. 55). It is also associated with Germanic and Sc...
Minority and linguistically diverse students have had a disproportionate special education placement history. It continues today. ...
The ideas provided in this essay can help ease some of the challenge but they will not take away the root problem of a lack of bil...
How effective are adult ESL courses? This is a question that often generates great debate because assessments of the impact of the...
ideals" (Lapham, 1993, p. 10). Fast-forward to the twenty-first century and Lutz (2002) points out how targeting specific markets...
speak English at some level of competence, and it would be counter-productive to try and establish another language as the one whi...