English-language education

details and events from the read aloud and complete the chart with specific details, characters, and feelings or character traits. Prior to beginning the lesson I would provide each English Language Learner with the modified character trait list. This list provides the students with a cognate from their native language as suggested…

Introduction Language is more than a spoken word and it is an important tool that humans use every day. Language occurs cognitively, individually and is shared and learned socially (Gee & Hayes, 2011, p. 6). This essay will look at five topics that try to better explain the use of language. These topics outline what language is, how language is affected by context, shared meaning and interaction, varieties of English and cultural differences, links between language and culture, and understanding…

arrival my parents announced that I would be going to school. At the time I didn’t know what school was but I soon found out that it was something I didn’t like, plus school was very hard. My parents didn’t know english or the american culture. I didn’t have any guidance, I didn’t speak the language and I didn’t know anyone with previous experience. Opening that door, finding different colored faces and not recognizing any of them was the beginning of my struggle. Walking up to me was the tall…

The article "How School and District Leaders Support Classroom Teachers’ Work With English Language Learners as first published on June 24, 2013, and written by Ana M. Elfers a Research Assistant Professor at UW College of Education and is known for her Qualitative Research Methods. Tom Stritikus is a Deputy Director of K-12 Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of the study is to examine the various ways schools and district leaders create systems of support for…

general education. I have been happy with the path I chose to take, but with so many options out there, I have yet to find what I would love to spend my life doing. Over the past couple of years I have not been able to narrow down a post-grad plan. I have not felt ready to settle down with a job or make the decision to continue my education. Since I had not gotten the chance to study abroad in my 4 years of college I began searching for ways to get abroad after graduation. Teaching English…

Second Language Pedagogy Speaking in a second language is regarded as important as the other skills; however, it has not received as much attention in the history of language learning. In the last two decades, speaking emerged as a distinct subdivision of learning, teaching and testing (Bygate, 2002). Historically, learning structural language, memorizing sentence patterns and literary language was prioritised over practicing spoken language (Rodgers & Richards, 2001). Structural language refers…

time, it would have been impossible for me to participate because of the cost and health problems in my family. I put that dream aside until I discovered the Literary London program with the English department, which I think I’m a perfect fit for. I’m a senior at the University of Washington completing an English major with a minor in History. This is my second year at the University of Washington, I came in as a first year junior transfer student last year. My expected date of graduation is the…

was like. Imagine little Elvia. She 's at St. Edwards Catholic Church and School. She is quiet. Her first language is Spanish and it is what she speaks at home the most. She understands English because it is what her father speaks, but she doesn’t speak it much. She listens to the kids and teachers around her and eventually catches onto the language a little more. She hates the English language! Fast-forward. Now she 's at the end of kindergarten. In order to pass onto first grade she is asked a…

In addition to English, there is a room for a mother tongue of teachers and students to use in the EMI class in order to deliver lessons and interact with each other during teaching and learning when English is not required. Using only English in EMI classes may create a language anxiety, and this might affect teaching and learning outcomes. Hence, a codeswitching approach is available for the teachers and students in order to reduce English language anxiety in EMI classes. In the light of the…

and practices, the process of these beliefs and practices being subjected to ongoing critical examination and renewal has led to many changes over the years in the way that language is taught. As new ideologies become popular or are sanctioned by the profession we begin to see paradigm shifts as the status of the English language changes within the lives of people around the world. (Jack Richards 2009, page 1) Whether motivated internally in the sense that they are as a result of research and…