Looking at the chronological history helped with my understanding of how ASL could have came from and is the same in France. ... All this time I thought that ASL was only picture symbols used to communicate English with the deaf. ... In spoken languages complex meanings are made by combining individual units of meaning or morphemes, for example if you want a word to mean past tense you would add -ed to the end of the word. ... An example for making the sign "working is difficult", instead of needing three different signs you can make it all at once by adding the manual bound morpheme -ing ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With respect to pupils learning EAL, the Coalition Government's policy is focused on promoting the rapid acquisition of English. ... The tasks in this file are designed to help you meet those needs. With respect to resources for teachers working with bilingual pupils, the Multiverse website developed from 2002 to 2011 has been archived and access to teaching resources is very limited. ... London has such an inviting multicultural society that it is no surprise that there is such a high percentage of bilingual students and students with EAL. ... Discuss this with your mentor. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Therefore, in order to convey the exact meaning and the sophistication and abstraction of the subjects that students are dealing with, the use of abstract language is inevitable. ... This shows that, a student's poor writing can be attributed to their lack of confidence in expressing themselves and engaging in a discourse with established academics such as their professors through writing because of their sense of relative worthlessness compared to the more experienced and knowledgeable academics they interact with. ... The dislike for technical language usually originates from annoya...

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• Grade Level: High School