999 Search Results for English Language Usage and the
In such an environment, linguistic knowledge can be acquired directly as tacit knowledge, without formalizing it as grammar rules or vocabulary lists. At the same time, scenario-based learning allows learners to focus on the target context of langua Continue Reading...
Chinese Students
Introduction and Statement of Purpose
"A language achieves a genuinely global status when it develops a special role that is recognized in every country" (Crystal, 2003, p. 3). In China, English is a compulsory subject from the 3rd Continue Reading...
Note that inflated English has been more characteristic of the centuries preceding Orwell and of Orwell's own time than on the latter part of the 20th century. There has been a shift in linguistics. As linguists and historians of language have noted Continue Reading...
English (Grammar, Spelling) is Important
Why is it important for a student (and any writer) to use proper grammar and spelling? This paper delves into that subject and provides research that is pertinent and helpful.
Why is Grammar Important?
Bev Continue Reading...
Language Acquisition
The language theory
According to Krashen 'communication' is the purpose of a language. Focusing on communicative abilities is just as important. The relevance of 'meaning' is also stressed upon. According to Terrell and Krashe Continue Reading...
For some time, he has indicated to me his interest in obtaining his MBA. I support him in this endeavor one-hundred percent, and believe that he will be an asset to any company that would hire him in the future. He works very hard at learning the E Continue Reading...
language of Geoffrey Chaucer and its relationship to the development of English
In both literature and language, Geoffrey Chaucer made an important contribution to the development of English. In terms of the development of the English language his Continue Reading...
The English were quick to borrow much of this technology to conquer many countries over the centuries. Even the very simple words that were once rooted in the Spanish vocabulary, such as "stockade" and "conquistador" were later adopted into the Engl Continue Reading...
Standards
English language learners
Journal comparison: TESOL Journal and the English Quarterly
Both the TESOL Journal and The English Quarterly, the official refereed journal of the CCTELA (Canadian Council of Teachers of English Language Arts), Continue Reading...
Lying: Deceit in Language
Tools, such as hammers, have no inherent intent to deceive or malign. Only in the hands of its users do morals come into play. Lying is relative and in some instances the best of choices. Introspection accompanied with reas Continue Reading...
As an analytic method it varies from the syntactic syllabus in simliar way as the practical and procedure syllabi, particularly in the supposition that the learner learns best when using language to converse about something. TBLT also is different Continue Reading...
The Importance of Language in Understanding Culture
Introduction
One of the lesser known, but important, programs of the United Nations is to promote the preservation of the world's languages. The UNDESA has incorporated language into sustainabil Continue Reading...
ESL (English Second Language)
Context and significance
Relevant background literature
Limitations and anticipated problems
ESL (English Second Language)
In many nations, there are many high school students who have parents who speak no English. Continue Reading...
Sometimes students have obstacles to contend with as they enter school. One such barrier can be language. The student I worked with is a Chinese first year student who is attempting to assimilate to AP class schedules. He is a 14-year old interested Continue Reading...
GAP stands for Guadalupe Alternative Programs and stands to serve St. Paul's Latino youth living on the West Side for the last fifty years. Programs like GAP have existed to promote the wellbeing of St. Paul's, Minnesota's Latino student Continue Reading...
ESL Students |
Curriculum
English as a Second Language Student Success in a Mainstream Classroom Setting
According to Kalaian & Freeman (1994), confidence is one of the key elements required to teach children. Instructors therefore need educat Continue Reading...
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Direct Instruction (DI) is a model for teaching that emphasizes well-developed and carefully planned lessons designed around small learning increments and clearly defined and prescribed teaching tasks. It is based on the theory that clear Continue Reading...
Progression and Foundation of Language
Concept/topic
Learning of primary language complements skills development; this includes learning about language, as well as learning other subjects in the school curriculum via language. Language learning fac Continue Reading...
Language and literacy are important aspects to learning because they are part of communication. Understanding what is being taught, communicating what one wants a pupil to learn, this takes skill in language and literacy. For example, if a person wis Continue Reading...
Psycholinguistics: A Review
Gamez, P., Lesaux, N., Rizzo, A. (2016). Narrative production skills of language
minority learners and their English-only classmates in early adolescence. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37: 933-961. DOI: http://dx.doi.org.pr Continue Reading...
Foreign Language Learning
In DeJong's Foundations for Multilingualism in Education, the idea that multilingualism should not be viewed as a specialty but rather treated as a norm is a good one, as Dutta indicates in his experience of growing up usin Continue Reading...
BARBIE AND GIRLS' BODY IMAGE
Motherese across Cultures
Jack Sprat
MOTHERESE ACROSS CULTURES
MOTHERESE ACROSS CULTURES
Motherese across Cultures
Motherese is the universal, infant-directed speech that seems to come to women on instinct when they Continue Reading...
ELLs to Learn Kinematics: A Phenomenological Assessment
This study aims to discover the effective methods of teaching English language learners (ELLs) the basics of kinematics in an introductory course to physics. The students chosen from a selecti Continue Reading...
Technology in a 2nd grade classroom to improve student achievement in math
Of late, there has been a push to bring in technology to schools where teachers as well as students would be able to reap the benefits of the World Wide Web, the Internet, a Continue Reading...
Second language proficiency and academic achievement can be challenging to develop simultaneously. Krashen's (2010) work illustrates the various systems of learning, including the learning that takes place subconsciously and the learning that takes p Continue Reading...
Taylor and Telecommunications Installation
Frederick Taylor's theory of Scientific Management can be used to increase productivity in telecommunications installation. This paper will examine the history and specifics of Taylor's theory of Scientific Continue Reading...
Weightloss Counseling and Physical Exercise
PHASE II Search Paper
Scholarly Project
Dana Delatush RN BSN ONC
"I pledge my honor that I have neither given nor received inappropriate aid on this assignment."
Abstract Comment by Patricia: Place the Continue Reading...
nology to Support ADD and ADHD Learners (K-8)
Research Paper
November 6, 2005
Use of Technology to Support ADD and ADHD Learners (K-8)
Abstract
The student with AD/HD is one that requires more specialized and individualized instruction. Technol Continue Reading...
Perfect
When it comes to present perfect, it is important to note that the tenses of verbs and the specificity via which a prior event is describe is pivotal. Indeed, under the present perfect paradigm, it is important to use the words "has" or "ha Continue Reading...
AbstractMany if not most young people not only enjoy reading, they want to improve their skills so that they can read at higher and more interesting levels, especially with respect to topics that are personally relevant for them. While the process of Continue Reading...
Linguistics-Based Intervention Plan
English Language Learner Information: Native Spanish speaker, male
Age/Grade: 7th grade
Overall English Proficiency Level: Moderate
English Reading Level (if doing a reading intervention): 7th
English Writing Continue Reading...
An Educational Media Product for Young Children with LD and ADHD
Product Overview
This media product will be an app for kids ages 6-8 that can be downloaded from Google Play or Apple’s iTunes. It will be a free app that provides a portal to kid Continue Reading...
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The Evolution of Language: Tracing the Roots and Development
Explore the historical progression of human language from its origins. Examine various hypotheses about how language might have first emerged and outline t Continue Reading...
Seamless Bridge
As language may be viewed as a vehicle by which a student can better achieve academic success (Gottlieb, 2006), language proficiency assessments are ways in which the teacher can review whether or not the student is developing langua Continue Reading...
Language defines identity, and creates boundaries between self and other. In Borderlands: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua refers to the "broken" and "forked" tongues that represented the boundaries and intersections of social, cultural, racial, ethn Continue Reading...
Language
Deliberately deceptive language manipulates the audience. This is as true for the use of propaganda for nefarious political purposes, such as voter manipulation, as it is for good old-fashioned maintenance of prejudices via the proliferatio Continue Reading...
Marketing Plan Proposal
English as a Second Language (ESL) School in China
Mission Statement -- Striving to provide accessible, high-quality, and affordable ESL education to individuals in China, with an aim to prepare students for education and wo Continue Reading...
Language Autobiography
What I know about language is that it is essential in life and in learning. We use it to communicate ideas, feelings, needs, and thoughts. Being social creatures, we use language to bond with people, to create bonds of affecti Continue Reading...
Language change refers to the process in which a particular language varies in its linguistic levels of analysis by developing or assimilating new forms and/or eliminating and/or totally modifying some of the existing forms (Schukla & Conner-Lint Continue Reading...