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immigrant families experience a variety of stress such as language barriers, conflict and change in marital relationships, and lack of social support due to migration and acculturation(Bush, Abrams-Muruthi, Bohon & Kim, 2017). During my three year study in the United States, I have experienced a lot of stressors mentioned above. I have learned English since elementary school, but when I came here, I still felt nervous about using English. I didn’t understand a lot of slangs and jokes, so during…

, & Al-Maamari, F. S. (2014). Exploring University Teachers' Understanding of Learner Autonomy. Theory & Practice in Language Studies, 4(10), 2051-2060. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.10/2051-2060 Chang, K. c. (2012). Fostering Learner Autonomy Through Empowering Students in EFL Writing. English Teaching & Learning, 36(3), 39-84. doi:10.6330/ETL.2012.36.3.02 English foreign language countries (EFL) often face challenges in teaching writing courses. In this journal, Chang, K. c. (2012) explained how…

This brought about the idea of using cooperative learning strategies to help the students learn from one another and increase each student’s numeracy skills. When students were allowed to speak both English and Arabic, the students’ knowledge of numbers seems to increase slightly. Incorporating different cooperative strategies such as think pair share, roundtable, and strategic grouping will help each student improve their numeracy skills because each…

Her dad had learned English but he only used it when he needed it. Mary explained to me that her parents thought it was important and beneficial that they were going to be bilingual. Her parents’ ideas about bilingualism was similar to the Language as a resource model that argued that not only is fluent bilingualism associated with positive educational outcomes but that fluent bilingualism…

informal are her use of personal stories. Tans feels embarrassed by her mother’s limited and broken English so she tells personal stories to help the reader better understand her mother’s English. She uses stories such as when her mother speaks of a political gangster, her stock broker and the incident at the hospital. There were moments in Tans life where she had to intervene and use proper English to help her mother out. The use of the personal examples helped better connect readers with her…

The Role of Language in Bronx Leadership Academy The performance of an individual in an academic setting depends on a number of factors, including the location of the space, endemic socio-cultural groups, and student-instructor relationships. High school students ranging from 13-20 years old were observed and interviewed in Bronx, NY. This ethnography aims to explore how language influences teacher-student relationships and can, in turn, affect the motivation of students at Bronx Leadership…

English Writing 111 provided me with compelling subjects and issues with the modern world, and at the same time, improved my writing skills. Those included are problems with different languages and cultures, which in turn causes borders and issues such as “forced” assimilation and one sided views on others. Essentially, there are lots of different…

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…

parents, government, and businessmen. Much has been written about the topic which has made it a bit confusing. The Common Core State Standards or CCSS, are a set of expectation or standards that students should be capable of performing in math and English language arts for every grade level. There are currently 45 states that have fully adopted the CCSS. (ABC ) The Common Core State Standards have the potential to significantly improve the outcomes and equity in our state’s educational…

As a English language arts teacher, I myself have a love for writing and language. The flow, power, and arbitrariness are captivating. I hope to someday share this passion with my students’, and show them how valuable it is to be able to articulate ideas on paper. In my future classroom, I want my students to grow comfortable with writing, and most importantly understand how writing will help them become successful in life. Writing is important because it is a skill that is needed in all careers…