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Edward Said's 'Self' and 'Other' Concepts in an Examination of English as a Global Language

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

Language Teaching Naturally

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

ESL

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

Social Construction or Cognitive Development in the Relationship Between Emotion and Language

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

Spanish Language and the Arabic Influence

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

Language Performance versus Language Competence

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

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

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

Three Perspectives on Problems with Teaching English

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

Connection Between Written Communication and Verbal Language

Forbes, 1997, p.293). Indeed, people experience language in different ways. People with difficulties such as stuttering, or those...

Language Competence and Language Performance Differences

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...

Pros and Cons of Learning a Second Language

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

Global Language of English

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

Acquisition of Language

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

Comparative Analysis of Procedural and Nonprocedural Computer Programming Languages

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

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

English Language Learners, Learning Disabilities and One School Setting

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,...

Language Learning Context and Second Language Programming

2. Which part of your plan relates directly (or involves) your developmental objective? How does this aspect of your development...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

Review of "African American Mothers' Views of Their Infants' Language Development and Language-Learning Environment"

of expecting there to be great differences between cultures within the US as well. The authors use sources from the 1970s and 198...

Language's Collective and Individual Consequences

them into question some three decades prior to Lorimer and Gasher (2000). Berger and Luckman (1970) recognized even during the fl...

Chinese Language Learning and Building Language Ability and Intelligence

this process on language acquisition and thinking ability over time. For elementary school children, the use of this kind of com...

Language's Gendered Nature

taking care of her man and of nurturing the home and the family. It was apparent to me that her sense of femininity and womanhood...

Language Delay and Speech-Language Therapy

This research paper briefly review three research studies in speech-langauge therapy that address developmental language delay in ...

Disrespect and Language The Appropriation of Native American Language and Culture

This paper asks whether we have bastardized Native American language by appropriating it in sports and mass marketing. There are ...

Formulating an ESL Theory

between grammatical and communicative approaches to second-language teaching. Grammatical approaches refer to instructional method...

Dialect, Accent/Southeast England

reality of this situation is that some accents are associated more closely with the accent that is perceived as the societal norm ...

The Relationship Between Orthography And Pronunciation In L1 And L2 Phonology

their newly acquired L2 phonological system (Thompson et al, 2007). The multiplicity of languages spoken across the globe ...

Beginning SEI Approaches

The teacher might use pictures or finger-puppets to help facilitate student comprehension. The disadvantage to this approach is th...

ELL: Methods And Techniques

they need to succeed. III. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES Teaching ELL students is no different than educating the mainstream population...

Cultural Evolution Theories of Luigi Luca Cavilli-Sforza in The Great Human Diasporas The History of Diversity and Evolution

In five pages this paper analyzes the theories contained in this text with cultural evolution, human migration, genetics, and ling...