Most immigrant children arrive in the United States as monolingual speakers of their native language, develop bilingualism as they acquire English, establish English-speaking households, and raise their children as English-speaking monolinguals. ... People may become bilingual either by acquiring two languages at the same time in childhood or by learning a second language sometime after acquiring their first language. ... The exposure must involve interaction; a child growing up in an English-speaking household who is exposed to Spanish only through Spanish-language television won't be...

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THE RELEVANCE OF GAMES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CLASSROOM I INTRODUCTION One useful strategy to encourage language acquisition is using language games. ... Language learning is a hard task which can sometimes be frustrating. ... - Learning a language requires a great deal of effort. Games help students to make and sustain the effort of learning... For them, the play is a fundamental learning experience. ...

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Course Description 1101 ENGL 1101 English Composition I (3-0-3) 3 semester credit hours. ... Prerequisites: Learning Support students who are required to take ENGL 0099 and/or READ 0099 must exit the requirement(s) before they can enroll in this course. ... Clayton State's Emphasis At Clayton State, English 1101 is designed to increase students' ability to construct academic written essays. ... These books are used for BOTH English 1101 and 1102 Fall 2013-Summer 2014 so please do not sell back your book at the end of English 1101. ... Portfolio Requirement Students are also required ...

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Detractors argue that such programs require the Mexican-American student to maintain ties to two languages, causing confusion and learning difficulties. ... A series of articles in the Boston Globe followed the struggles with learning English of two Mexican-American grade schoolers in an English-speaking public school. ... Thus, this family's difficulty in learning the English language became the obstacle preventing the children from performing at an acceptable level. ... Since the implementation of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, school districts across the nation have created pr...

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Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ... The proposition introduces a new way of teaching the English language to immigrant children. ... "The Unz initiative calls for one year of courses taught in English, with an emphasis on learning the language; a system that many fear is a return to a past when children were sometimes punish...

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Worse still, race and class are often the components leading to biased expectations, putting these students at a great disadvantage in learning and progressing through the educational system. ... Students who enter school speaking standard English as a second language may be hesitant in answering questions due to embarrassment, and are often incorrectly placed in slower classes, or labeled illiterate (Rathus, 1993). ... When a child speaks little, or no, English in the home or outside of the classroom environment, they may need intensive help in learning and mastering the English language. ...

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Price (59) surveyed 1884 institutions of higher learning and found 500 courses in consumer education. ... Using English and mathematics marks and high-school scholastic average, she produced a multiple R of .746. ... Among other important findings he concluded that bookkeeping duties of nonbookkeepers were easily learning, and he isolated routines in which knowledge of bookkeeping principles and theory were not required. ... Gross (21) found that a visual-association analytic approach developed early superiority over conventional procedures for learning the keyb...

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One of the best of the English writers was George Eliot, who wrote many great novels including the featured book Silas Marner. ... Once the man who inspired her whole fiction career died, Mary stopped writing books and settled in London where she was buried in 1880 as one of the greatest English writers of the Nineteenth century. ... The themes are observed many times in the book, from the prim and proper girl having illegitimate relations to a man learning from a child that giving brings more happiness than receiving. ... George Eliot was an English novelist, essayist, poet, short stor...

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ENG 214: RESEARCH METHODS LECTURERS: Mrs Abdulsalam Nike and Mr Mathias Orhero This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, methods and technicalities of research writing. In every institution of the world, students must submit a form of research work or another as a pre-requisite for graduation. This research usually adopts names such as project, long essay, thesis, dissertation, term paper, etc. It is mandatory for students to show how well they know their area of study and contribute to the general frontiers of such area of study. This is why this course is important bec...

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How can we use results to make teaching and learning more effective? ... Analyses of large corpora (Nation, 1990; Nation & Waring, 1997) indicate that a person who knows the meanings of the 3000 most common words of English should be able to understand 95 percent of the words that occur in a typical English text. ... In other words, without knowledge of this core vocabulary, reading a normal unsimplified English text is a laborious and painstaking exercise since the learner does not know enough words in surrounding contexts to work out the meanings of problem items. ... For instance, in all...

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All except two of the students spoke both English and Spanish. ... Gonzalez also told me that all of his students spoke Spanish at home and some spoke Spanish and English. ... Gonzalez taught 95% in English and incorporated Spanish from time to time. ... Gonzalez taught mostly in English, but he made sure all of his students understood what he was saying. ... First he'd say it in English and then he would repeat himself in Spanish. ...

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While searching the American Psychological Associations (APA) website I found a great article that showed that there are several variables of sexual orientation that affect the classroom experience and academic achievement of K-12 students. Population being studied in this case is jr' high and high school students. First students can be at a disadvantage to pre-dispossed biases by teachers. As we've learned already to this point everyone has bias and there is no way around it. If you have an accepting teacher and one that will make the situation a good thing instead of unconformable ...

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A vast difference in the methods and modes of teaching and learning has been observed in these three different educational systems. ... Kuwait English School is a commmuntiy school which has earned reputation of prestige in the Kuwait society. ... Data Analyses & Evaluation A.I.S C.S.K K.E.S Average class size 15-20 30-35 15-20 Courses you take Biology, Chemistry, English, French, History, Math, Computers. Biology, Chemistry, English, Physics, Math. Biology, Business Studies, Computers, Economics, English, French, Math. ...

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If black and white children spoke relatively different languages, as some aspects on English claim, on might expect black and white children with vocabularies of equal size to know somewhat different words. ... Although these initiates recognized the importance of parent involvement in education, their thrust was the amelioration of the effects of poverty and the improvement of children's education, rather than the promotion of intergenerational learning. ...

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Janice Thomas Case Study All children are capable of positive developmental outcomes. There should be high expectations for all young children, regardless of their backgrounds and experience. Each child is unique. Each grows and develop skills and competencies at their own pace. Some...

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It is mentioned in Irish History that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. This seems an impressive feat and we seem to be able to confirm it as fact as Ireland is indeed a country without snakes. However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is...

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Introduction Reading is an important process of English learning. It is the basis of knowing well the language points, acquiring knowledge and improving the ability to use English. The importance of reading ability in English learning shows not only in English syllabus of different levels, but also in the proportion of reading item in various English examination. ... But if they go too far in grammar analysis, it will undoubtedly affect to pick up the reading speed and become the barrier to English reading. ...

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However, this conflict takes a new twist in the Heaney poem, "An Advancement of Learning". ... This idea of man winning the conflict brought over from "An Advancement of Learning" is not the main feature in "Roe-deer", as here a conflict ceases to exist. ... However, the opposite of this is true in "An Advancement of Learning", where they are brought together by hate and fear. ... The knight is defenceless against nature, which is another "time" difference because in "An Advancement of Learning", it is the boy that overcomes the rat. ... This again has a direct comparison to "An Advancement of...

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We should be learning for ourselves, not for others", is what a tenth grader said in The Huffington Post about standardized testing. ... Then students cheat because they are more about grades than learning". ... This inhibits the students from actually learning the information being taught. ... Expecting all students to have procured the same abilities and learning makes implausible desires. ... Students who are giving these dull test seems to have a loss curiosity and love for learning. ...

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In school, it is imperative that children learn to interact with others with a fixed set of rules that include learning promptness, respect for authority, cooperation and sharing, and other such requirements. ... Thousands of immigrant children as well as adults in the United States today are learning English, US history, and other subjects that ultimately help prepare them for the workforce and integrate them into American life. ... Depending on their label, students are then placed into faster tracks, or slower tracks of learning. ... What can be inferred from this discovery is that whit...

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Doctor Faustus - Marlowe's Play Doctor Faustus in Marlowe's play is presented as a gifted German scholar at Wittenburg, who has reached the limits of human knowledge by successfully learning everything he can, and now he thinks from the point of view of conventional academic disciplines. ...

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Sarah Roodey in a book titled "The English Journal " contributed 4 pages which she titled "Music in Poetry " dedicated to making the connection between different rhythms of music and poetry to one another by using real life examples. ... Glicksberg and Philip Gordon wrote an essay that was also published in "The English Journal"" as well stating that "the poem is the song and the song is the poem "(Glicksberg & Gordon 550). ... One thing that we worked on all year in Poetry class was learning how to translate a poem so that we could understand it better. ...

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The task of a qualified teacher can be seen when Luzina talks about the duties of teachers and children "To each his task in life: to the teacher, the explaining; to the children, the learning"(Roy, 53). ...

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The English try to control him as do the Union. ... The irony is that he "learned" nothing about the law, studied English instead and ends up in court. ... They exist somewhere between the English language and culture and their own African and Nigerian traditions. ... First he arrives informally dressed and then he speaks in an informal English. ... He speaks English with less formality (an English of "is" and "was") because he is used to the language, and it is not strange to his tongue. ...

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Language Policy and Planning go together. Language Policy is the legal and statutory measures aimed at regulating language use, while the Language Planning is language policy's practical implementation or execution that hinges upon goals, strategies and assessment of outcomes. (Rubin 1983) Hence in ...

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