English heroic legends

came and the school decided to switch me to an all English class. My mom thought it was a good idea the school suggested that so she said it was fine for me to move to an all English Class. The Change was different because in my bilingual class we would speak both languages but we would mainly speak Spanish. Then switching to an all English class I have to change to speak all English. I had to code switch to talk to my classmates to all English. The change was different and…

Australia • China-born people in Australia predominately speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese at home (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). • The majority of China-born people speak English well or very well (67.1%), whilst approximately 32% do not speak English well or at all (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). China • Mandarin is the official language of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. • Chinese people from Hong Kong and the Guangdong province of the People’s Republic of…

10­29­15 King Henry VIII was the king of England. He played a major role in the Reformation by challenging the Catholic Church and turning England into a Protestant nation. The Pope would not allow him to divorce his wife so he decided to leave the Catholic church and become head of his own church, the Church of England. In 1491, Henry VII and his wife, Elizabeth York, had their son, Henry Tudor or “Henry VIII.” Henry VIII’s brother, Arthur, died and left his duties to Henry. To affirm his…

Many parents will fear their children would get confused between two languages. Code-mixing normally happens in both young children and adults who are bilingual. They will mix between two languages in one sentence. Code- mixing is not a sign that shows children are confused in learning two languages (Brown, 2014). Research showed the code-mixing language and early language development are not related (Place & Hoff, 2011). Some studies showed young children understand code- mixing sentences and…

Frank Guenther talked about his research on the DIVA (Directions Into Velocities of Articulators) model. He explained that it is a neural network model, which deals with the creation of speech and the attainment of speech motor skills. Using computers he explained the model is able to regulate the actions of a vocal tract to create speech sounds. Guenther revealed that the DIVA model’s neural mappings are adjusted in a “babbling phase.” In this instance audio feedback from speech sounds is…

"The question of identity is often tied to the nature of origins." (6)  This quote is found under the heading, "Exploring Origins," and is intriguing because since the earliest years humans have pondered the question "who am I?" and "what is my purpose in life?" It is interesting that those questions can be so easily tied back to something as simple as "where do we come from?" That is not to say that we are exactly who are ancestors were, but the quote is expanded…

Jason demonstrates proficiency in areas of letter recognition, phonemic awareness, reading and spelling. He’s able to identify word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, digraph blends and identifying parts of words such as syllables and suffixes. Jason is also able to write both capital and lower case letters and fill in the appropriate word in the sentence. In addition, he is able to read high frequency words and independently decode text at a level K. However, Jason…

Foe stood for a video footage of lessons that he received from an acting coach employed to teach him to speak English in the accent of his cultural background. The text read by him was taken from a book with the same title as his piece, Foe. The Book, Foe, was written by J. M. Coetzee, which is a sequel to Robinson Cruseo. “In this book, Friday (the savage) has been…

Hypothesis 1: Music-oriented Internet forum sociolect uses international English language. Graphic evidences provided in chapter two inform, that ‘afterhours.fm’ forum members use English language to express their opinions in music threads. Comparison to a larger scale (Internet as a whole) can confirm this hypothesis. According to Internet World Stats, 872.9 millions of Internet users (data estimated in November 2015) use English language; this amount is on top of the competition between all…

Lakeland at Mckeel Academy of Technology. This interview took place at approximately 10:15 am and lasted 2 minutes. I asked Maria what has helped her most in learning English. She replied watching TV and listening to music in English and speaking with fluent English speakers. Next I asked Maria what teachers could do to help English language learners more in the classroom. She explained that speaking slowly and more in depth of what the expectations of the students were would help the process…