English language

Home Language Survey (HLS), which is the first step to identify a student that speaks a language other than English at home sometimes or all of the time. In California, the student is identified as an English Language Learner (ELL) and will take the California English Language Development Test (CELDT), which is an initial standardized assessment that measures the student’s ability to speak, read, write, and listen in the English language. The state has also developed the English Language…

young age, she began to learn English and grew very attached to the language. Before 5th grade learning English was not mandatory, however she took it upon herself to begin to learn the language. During 5th and 6th grade English classes, taught by a native English teacher, were offered at her school and without any regrets, she…

English, it is a language that has continued to captivate much of the world as it resumes its ascent in global use further into the 21st century. Blogger Dennis Baron discusses the matter to not only his readers’ but also English speakers on his 2010 article “Who Owns Global English?” in his The Web of Language blog. Baron addresses a variety of interesting stances on the impact English has on the current world and questions whether or not there really is a “pure form” of English to incline…

Language is the process with which people communicate, encoding and decoding information to connect, understand, and create meaning of one’s environment (DeVito, 2009). Language is never devoid of cultural or social influences and behaviours (Caruso, 1997; Green, 2006; Emmitt, Zbaracki, Komesaroff & Pollock 2010; Gee & Hayes, 2011; NativLang, 2013), it is a “cognitive phenomenon…a set of rules in our mind that tell us how to speak”, (Clark, 1996, as cited in Gee & Hayes, 2011, p.6), and a…

I am a language teacher and am a migrant here. After I started Unit 1, I found out that I am in a right pathway here as I can understand and feel how people can feel when they come to a new country with a new culture and language and how having a support and tutor is HAYATI for people like me. We immigrated here 3 years ago with the student visa, my partner was studying, but unfortunately because of the restriction of the visa for me as a follower, I couldn’t. I want to study master in Teaching…

childhood friend, Josh, to help him. Ayellet uses her body language to show how she was frantic because Terrence lost her grandmother’s remain that was inside a box. Ayellet exhibits a strong point of view as she tries to communicate through the language barrier using her body language while interacting with the young American man, Josh. Even though I didn’t understand Hebrew, the body language of the bilingual woman and the responses of the English speakers makes it clear. In one of…

nevertheless taught in a mixture of English and Chinese. It is a difficult and painstaking process to adjust in a…

with students who speak their household English. They tend to latch off the child and pay attention to those who understand it better. According to Richard Rodriguez’ essay, “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” teachers have shown to be tough minded towards students and not care about the difficulties a student may have. “Fortunately, my teachers were unsentimental about their responsibility. What they understood was that I needed to speak a public language” (Rodriguez). Teachers seem to…

achievement in English language arts (ELA). The study will be conducted across 4th grade classrooms with a total of approximately 60 students. As a part of the school improvement plan and district initiative, our goal is to close the achievement gap in ELA and improve overall achievement on the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) by the 6th percentile. Baseline assessment data indicated an increased population of student achievement gaps for students performing below grade level in English…

required to learn to read and write English well, so they can have the same opportunities as everyone else. Living in America and not knowing how to speak English causes multiple complications. Some of the complications are not being able to read labels on prescription pills, menus in a restaurant, chemicals in products, and not understanding agreements in renting a house or in preceding surgical procedures. In the article from CNN, Kennedy proclaims, “Learning English shouldn’t be an option for…