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    analysis is from a young English Language Learner’s journal. The topic of the student wrote about is a current news event—bombings that occurred in New York and New Jersey in September of 2016. There is no verbal speech involved in this analysis, so I will be focusing solely the student’s writing. In order to understand the student’s comprehension of the English language through writing, I will have to look closely at the sample to see their recognition of their L2, English. The goal of this…

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    High-Stakes Testing

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    states implemented English-only high school exit exams, which made English-only education the de facto language policy in American schools (Menken ch. 5). Under the still-developing ESSA guidelines, states are encouraged to implement exams in languages other than English; however, the law does not mandate the states to do so (Strauss). Regardless of whether translated exams are mandated or not, they offer no assistance to those whose native language is not offered as language option on the exams…

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    everyone speaks, writes and reads English. Other languages exist but clearly English is the main language in the United States by a good margin. Despite English clearly being the dominant language, United States has never picked an officially national language which is a questionable decision. It is the year 2016, were we established in 1776 and we still do not have a national language which is the reason for this writing which will touch on the topics of which languages exist in the United…

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    School Placement Test

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    1 Imagine that you are responsible for admitting students to an English language school. Design a simple interview based on 20 personal questions for the student about his job, family, school or country. Begin with simple grammar and vocabulary and develop more complexity by the conclusion. This is to follow the school´s placement test to confirm its results. 1. What is your name and how old are you? 2. What country do you come from? 3. How long have you been in this country? 4. Did you come to…

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    individuality and separateness. Torn between two cultures, bilingual speakers struggle to find their place within the education system and the local American english-speaking community. In Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez expresses the difficulty of being educated in his second language and the how it caused him to be an outlier amongst a white, english-speaking community. Rodriguez grew up in the 1950’s, an era where the growth of suburbs was a trend amongst many middle to upper class…

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    Bulgarian language is an Eastern European language that consists of six vowels and thirty-five consonant phonemes. The vowels are (i, ɛ, a, ɜ, ɔ, u). On the other hand, American English contains of fifteen vowels and twenty-four consonant phonemes. The contrast between the numbers of vowels in those two quite distinctive languages is not the only dissimilarity. The main problem is the difference between the types of vowels that exist in both phonetic systems. American English consist of lax and…

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    individuals living in ethnic enclaves would speak their native languages rather than English, unless they had to work outside of their community. Often times enclaves “evolved into ethnic labor markets, in which immigrants established their own stores and personal services”. The solidification of foreign cultures in American society meet opposition due to worry that it would disrupt American culture. The language barrier between English-speaking and those that still speak in their native…

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    her bilingual peers provided her support learning and practicing English. Anytime she needed to tell something to the teachers she would ask her friends and they would translate it for her. Griselda would then write it down and memorize it. Griselda’s friends also talked to her in English and then tell her the meaning of what they were saying in Spanish. In this way, the progressive use of more English enabled Griselda to acquire English in social settings but for particular purposes that were…

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    American Standard English should adopt they as a third person epicene pronoun, also coined a gender neutral, gender-fair, or common-gender pronoun (Adami 281, Baranoski 379). Generic he has persisted since the 1850 Act of Parliament that declared it so, but is he truly generic (Zuber and Reed 519)? The use of he is sexist, excluding females and people who do not fall neatly within the male-female gender binary (Strahan 17). English also lacks a third person pronoun for instances when a person’s…

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    value judges the rightness or wrongness of an action based on properties intrinsic to the action, not on its consequences. After carefully examine the question of whether if English…

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