English-based creole languages

There are many essays out there that depict this sense of admiration towards the complexities and elaborate vivid language structure of the English language. However, this isn’t the case for me. I can’t communicate any admiration towards a language that I can’t fully comprehend. It is fairly easy for me to write about how and why I adore the mathematics, the arts and the sciences. Everything is logical, there are rules which give structure, and it is abstract. I can imagine how the cells of an…

authentic, simplified and elaborate texts in the classroom for second language acquisition (SLA) (e.g., Crossley, Mouwerse, McCarthy & McNamara, 2007; Allen, 2009; Young, 1999). For teachers of English language learners (ELLs), this problem is compounded by the dual task of teaching content and language skills, often times simultaneously (Herrera & Murry, 2015). Maloch & Bomer (2013) describe the “fourth-year slump” (p. 205) for native English speakers when students begin “reading to learn”…

achieving my goal. Since I was a child, I had dreamed of studying abroad to earn my degree. I had already been studying in the United States for some time. During that time, I was studying the English language to be prepared for the academic language I would face at the university level of studying. Studying language has a way of bringing a person down, though. Any small mistake can seem like a disaster. It can be quite discouraging on a daily basis. Once I had advanced through enough levels to…

have, until you don’t have it anymore.” is something they hear a lot but never truly understand until they need to. For instance, English. Sometimes, as a society, we take for granted the basic fundamentals of what could propel us to success and greatness. In Homemade Education by Malcolm X, we surely see the outcome of when you aren’t knowledgeable in the English language and the great affects of when you are. Malcolm X expresses how he built himself up from inside a prison cell, by just the…

n Plato 's Republic, an analogy is struck between the state of the city and the state of the soul. While, in the latter case, a well balanced, or just, soul is one that is commanded by reason, and in which the spirited and appetitive parts of the soul play subordinate roles, a well balanced, or just, city is one in which the rulers are commanded by reason, the soldiers by spirit, and the laymen by appetites. The difficulty implicit in this state of affairs is that it does not appear, on…

• Based on your project, what suggestions do you have for other teachers with respect to providing multiple instructional strategies for helping ELLs to improve their pronunciation and also for assessing them with respect to accuracy and fairness as related to assessments and grading? I immediately I would suggest that the teachers turn to the Eight Instruction Strategies to improve ELLs success. These eight recommendations are excellent guidelines for the conductors of this project. The…

Disruption of English Learner & Context I decided to report my linguistic case study on a coworker who is learning English. Since I teach at an immersion school with a bilingual elementary program, many of my coworkers are learning English as a second language. I work closely with the second and third grade Spanish teacher and it is my second year working with her. Janet is a female, adult, Columbian native Spanish speaker. She has lived in Georgia near the metro Atlanta area for almost two…

What techniques did Diane use to help her ELL students learn English more quickly? Created a flash card system that helped the Korean students to speak and read English more quickly, and to recognize the English language sounds. She wrote the Korean letters representing the English sounds. It also helped with their intonation. • How might you replicate some of her strategies in your classroom? Even if you are a monolingual English speaker, what outreach or other work might you do? Since…

I am not currently working in a school, but the schools I attended while growing up had two extremely different approaches to ELLs. I actually lived in Flagstaff in elementary and middle school and I was completely unaware of non-English speakers even attending my school. I think this is partially because I was 13 and focused almost entirely on myself but also because, at that time, the school system almost entirely separated these students from the "main stream" kids. While I can 't speak to…

To begin with, Britain opened schools that taught English so the Indians could communicate; English became many Indians’ second language, and today, India is the second largest English speaking country. On top of that, the British changed their social practices significantly; before, the Indians believed in female infanticide, sati, and polygamy, but when the British…