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believe that acquiring English skills is the more important than teaching the children in Spanish (Porter, 1999). Porters article...

years. Some of these include gondola, cameo, arsenal, regatta, fresco, studio, vendetta, broccoli, motto, piano, opera, grotto, vi...

culture, processes and changing systems. Averys (2004) attempt to define leadership in its broadest terms can readily be interpre...

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...

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

as Shakespeare used it, and as we know it today, is different; in other cases, it has changed completely (Vernon). For example, th...

Furthermore, all language designed to promoting bilingual education has been removed from federal legislation pertaining to ELL ed...

through a symbolic manner, as it involves language. He notes, "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a g...

meet the demands that society dishes out, and cultural demands as well. This is becoming increasingly more significant as the worl...

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...

working in this program must have ESL certification. They need professional development in instructional methods (Idaho State Boa...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Introduction Teaching English as a second language in Puerto Rico...

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

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

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

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

for some native language maintenance (Texas Education Agency Bilingual/ESL Unit, 2004). * 1988: More amendments to Title VII impos...

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

this study is quasi-experimental and uses questionnaires to provide the data to determine the effectiveness of motivational strate...

that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...

which parts of a computer programme are the most effective at helping students learn English and should result in a model of the r...

the nation and to discriminate against them would do ultimate damage to the United States. If a person were to only have the Eng...

No Child Left Behind Act, it is hard to dismiss the problems it has brought for some populations. For example, it seems that child...

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

(Mongejami, 2002). Though the cultures that speak Farsi, including the people of Iran, have struggled to maintain the rich dialec...

examples of a Manner and a Path language this can be demonstrated in terms of a clause. In this we will use English and then look ...

to the English, it was felt perhaps, by many other less powerful classes, that also learning the language and adhering to the Brit...

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

128). This individual clearly is quite capable, and sensitive to the nuances of language. Fu and Townsend (1998) quote ano...