English-language novels

question in every grade, “Why does my English suck?” In school, I was the student that would just get by with C’s and barely grasp the concepts that I’ve been taught. I could not understand why I wasn’t good in English, but it was my first language. Then I realized that I wasn’t great in English because I disliked reading, and that was one significant way of learning it. Eventually, I found myself in a classroom full of students who can barely speak and write English and I felt bitter. By the…

dialect to enhance Huckleberry Finn in many unique ways. Through Huckleberry Finn, Twain created the perfect balance for a “powerful poetic medium,” using character, language, and topics (Budd 78). “Language in the novel more generally seems free-floating, especially as a form of self-definition” (Budd 88). Twain’s use of language illuminates his characters and…

my best to speak, read and write English as first language. I was anxious, because the only contents for English I learned in middle school was just words and sentences. I never wrote an essay more than even a hundred words and I neither read even a single article more than one page. I sat in the classroom, facing the first foreigner teacher in my life, Mr. Fine. And I known deeply inside that what I had on English was almost zero. We took English as second language in the first year. The main…

I certainly felt like Tosh from Milton Murayama’s novel “All I asking for is my body” when he challenged his mother and his father about choosing to be in the white American side and adopting their traditions while discarding his family’s side. I felt like I had to start to let go of one side so that I…

States. Shahad has one two-year-old sister and three brothers at home. Her father wants Shahad and her siblings to continue practicing their English speaking skills at home, therefore English is the primary language spoken in Shahad’s home and at school with friends and teachers. Shahad’s mother is the only member of the family who does not speak or understand English, so Shahad and her siblings speak Arabic when…

English Language Arts A30 and The Canadian Way of Life The Ministry of Education established a policy requiring every high school student in Canada to take English Language Arts A30 (ELA A30) and demonstrate knowledge of specific topics. Specifically, through ELA A30, students are expected to develop broad inquiry and research skills in order to fully understand what it means to be Canadian and the stereotypes, multi-culturalism, and social injustices that exist in Canada. By studying texts,…

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…

from her novel, The Joy Luck Club. Also, in her other short story entitled Mother Tongue, she focuses on the salient differences between Amy Tan and her mother, based on language. Other writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri examine the experience of immigrants in America. She uses her short stories, Mrs. Sen’s and The Third and Final Continent in the author’s collection, Interpreter of Maladies. Lan Cao and Chitra Banerjee also examine the challenges of immigration in their texts; The Gift of Language…

This helps teachers detect where students are lacking, and point out any problem areas a student might have. A small group of 13 states, which including Illinois and the District of Columbia are creating a new assessment on student’s abilities in English and mathematics that coincide with the…

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”…