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resources to help support the new learner. The expectation that students new to English can quickly learn a new language without any support from the primary language is unreasonable, and it is imperative that teachers should allow and even encourage the use of the first language in the classroom. However, in order to accomplish this ideal, there is a need for…

language that Shakespeare used back in the sixteenth century, known as Old English. During that time period, the people where Shakespeare lived used this type of language. Today most of the people use slang terms like when the person is texting somebody else they use shorter terms and acronyms, also known as texting lingo. Most of those words have changed since the Shakespearean period because of the standardization process. The English language has changed drastically since Shakespeare’s era…

There are many people who can’t speak proper English, maybe because English wasn’t their first language. Or simply because they didn’t grow up around it. In the passage Mother-Tongue by Amy Tan, Amy wants to let the audience know about another language. This is another language that she speaks people refer it to as “broken” english. In her passage she uses some rhetorical strategies such as pathos, logos, and ethos. Amy Tan only speaks from personal experience. Her mother is a Chinese, Native.…

the world should speak English. In other county why would they need English? Not all of mexico need to speak English, yes there is part that do need it and other parts that do not. Places that have resorts and have lots of tourism should know English. Also speaking English will open up the world to you in nearly any field of employment. Because it’s so important to be bilingual, any company in any country of the world prefers a bilingual employee and even more so, an English-speaking one –…

her English language acquisition abilities. Factors that can be seen as negative influences regarding her development in English are that she has moved around a lot, during her many moves been exposed to a variety of different languages, and Spanish being the primary language in her home and neighborhood. Positive factors that might influence her English language acquisition abilities are her motivation to learn English, Anale likes going to school, her grandparents value learning English and…

Wechsler Individual Achievement Written Expression assessments were administered to assess Ania's written language skills. Written language skills, as measured by this assessment, appear to indicate that her skills fall below peer expectancy. The Spelling subtest assesses the ability to write dictated letters, letter combinations and words. The Sentence Composition subtest contains two components, Sentence Combining and Sentence Building. Both portions measure sentence formulation skills and…

Molly’s areas of weakness are semantics, pragmatics, syntax/morphology. Semantics is one of her areas of weakness because Molly has a limited expressive vocabulary. For example, during her conversation with her therapist she was asked “tell me about this pet”, molly answers by saying “Got a pet”, she is unable to describe how her pet looks or what’s its name, the only thing she’s able to express to the therapist is that her family does have a pet. Many kids by this age have a vocabulary of…

Did you know that in India 125 million speak english. This is do to imperialism that started with the Industrial revolution. Although some people can justify the things the British did to India politically, economically and socially, if we asked the Indians we would hear a different story from the Indians who experienced British ruling first hand. Politically speaking some things the British did benefited India, but Britain hurt them economically and socially that brought India to an all time…

our English language and the way we use it has as well. Just as old English transferred into middle English and thus ended in modern English, so has the way we display the English language. The English language has changed over time and will continue to improve throughout the years with more and more exposure to other languages and methods to speak it. With an abundance of factors to how the English language has changed, there are two main causes to how we ended up with today's modern English…

Useful hacks for learning Spanish Faster Are you just starting to learn Spanish? Well, learning Spanish can appear to be overwhelming at first particularly if you are very keen to learn Spanish. Several individuals often get nervous that learning Spanish will take too long, be too tricky or that they have left it too late. Although these are general worries, they do not have to affect your ability to learn Spanish. Of a truth learning Spanish takes time, but there are a few ways to speed up the…