English poets

multicultural classroom the person may think of language barriers. Will the students understand English? Will the teacher understand the language of the student? These questions often lead into thinking about second language acquisition and English Learners. This is important to the multicultural classroom because the teacher should not only be patient with English Learners, who are acquiring English as their second language, but also should be culturally aware of the students they are teaching.…

Since the beginning of the time, the most primary method of communication has been the face to face communication (1). In fact, for an extensive time, face-to-face communication was the only method ever used. As the time passed many new methods came along with the use of letters, telephone calls, and emails. Even though with the improvements in such type communication, nothing like other types of communication has been able to change or replace the face-to-face method. Face to face communication…

and a pleasure; likewise, loth denotes fearsome, hostile, detestable, and monstrous among various other unpleasant things. Together, they are repeatedly glossed as “friend or foe”, but the translation does not capture the extremity of the middle English words. With…

called the church out through his stories and his description of those that represented the church. As it was said by Boece, “Considered a cultural touchstone, if not the very wellspring of literature in the English language, Chaucer’s tales gather twenty-nine archetypes of late-medieval English society and present them with insight and humor.”…

“The English language is one of the most popular languages to learn, perhaps the most spoken language around the world is English, and many people choose to learn the language simply to communicate more effectively with more people from around the globe (Wilson)”. The English Language, being my second Language, gives me a different perspective at times of what is being said in the common daily life I so greatly live. Going through the K-12 system I have a great understanding of the English…

Mom! Could You Leave me Alone? For this profile, I want to talk about the role of an Asian mom. "Mom! Could you leave me alone?" My sister always yells these words to my mom at home. Nowadays, a teenage girl thinks her mom's concern limits her freedom, so she considers her mom as the most annoying woman in the world. A teenage girl even thinks that her mother does not love her at all. Mom always tells her to clean up her bedroom and bathroom, to dress up properly, to stay at…

think that every person can speak English. Two authors, Martin Espada and Richard Rodriguez discuss the issues and challenges towards bilingualism. “The new bathroom policy at english high school “ by Martin Espada and “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez, each have opposing views on the same topics involving languages. Ranging from political issues to social/ family issues, these essays cover them all. In Martin Espada’s essay, “The new Bathroom Policy at English High School,” focuses on…

The flexibility of language is a highly controversial topic in the field of linguistics. How easily does language acquisition occur and in what ways may it be limited? Through his text Language and Symbolic Power, French linguist Pierre Bourdieu introduces a market metaphor in order to explain the ways that communicative exchanges relay both messages contained in words and nonlinguistic information about a person’s social status. He explains that in the process of “linguistic exchange,”…

Deborah A. Miranda, a member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen tribe, in writing this tribal memoir, attempts to reveal the “truth” that has been hidden from American history books. History books that forget the first peoples who had been living on the soil we know today as the United States of America, cheating American Indians of having their history known to the world; a cruel twist of fate that Miranda will not accept, titling her memoir Bad Indians. Miranda constructs meaning in her writing…

“Aria” is a chapter from a book titled Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez concerning the topic of English acquisition for migrants. Rodriguez shares his past experiences as a Mexican-American whom had attended public schooling in Sacramento, California during his childhood years. The purpose of bilingual education is to allow foreign speakers to communicate in their “family language” at school to develop skills before maneuvering into standardized classes. His bitter interpretation of this…