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and the Internet could well be viewed as a foreign language. For example, consider the word mouse which is a creature, and undesir...

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

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

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

development of language skills, an abnormal frequency of errors, and (also) errors that are uncommon in children with normal langu...

contrastive analysis studies in the 1950s and 60s consisted of "comparing pairs of languages" in order to find their areas of diff...

the article Dual Language Immersion by Jennifer Esposito, published in April 2006 by the periodical District Administrator. Langu...

of people in the nation are illiterate (Kenny, 2003). When examining poorer populations, most people who live on one dollar per d...

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

a poem as well as a human being, the real problem is not skill, but in ideology. That is, many people tend to rely on computers an...

p. 145). These programs are called dual language programs and they are the only programs with empirical data that concludes childr...

and error prone to program computers, leading to the first "programming crisis", in which the amount of work that might be assigne...

century, psychologists, social theorists and educators have considered the notion of cognitive development and the progression of ...

have English as a second language, and in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres English is already widely used, since it is t...

predominant line of thinking is that the antiquated approaches are just too stringent and are actually insufficient. There are ma...

a play we can look at this further. The role of a play may be to entertain and inform, yet, whatever the purpose of the play there...

among the most notable. Essentially, he believes that natural language and conversation is the best means of acquiring a second l...

speak English at some level of competence, and it would be counter-productive to try and establish another language as the one whi...

they are at a pre-linguistic stage of life and development (Rice, Bruehler and Specker, 1999). Language is not a skill that is lea...

Because the object-oriented languages and paradigms (i.e., non-procedural) ended up providing a stronger return on investment for ...

well. "Besides being spoken in Spain, it is the official language of all the South American republics except Brazil and Guyana, o...

has been directed by the supervisor to deliver a speech at a meeting. The person, being extremely nervous, may stutter, stammer, f...

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

is a complex one and not one in which all researchers are in agreement. This question is central, however, to understanding of ho...

In six pages the issues that pertain to qualitative research, language, and ethnography are examined within the context of the art...

The programming language COBOL is discussed in relation to modern corporations, particularly Chase Manhattan Bank. One of the firs...

used; this decreases the costs of the learning process as well as the programme maintenance processes. The language supports modul...

of nationalities, which speaks to the continual need for effective English instruction. Some of the inherent difficulties and cha...

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...

a variety of human factors have all served as a focus for study and research in a number of areas. Because language is one of th...