Linguistic rights

I am exploring, in a group of college students with learning difficulties the following questions: 1) What do these students do when they read? 2) What are their beliefs about reading as a tool for academic success? and 3) What they belief about themselves as readers. These questions are based on the understanding that reading is an active search for meaning that requires studying the relationships between the reader's thought process, language, and sociocultural settings in which both the…

essential for various reasons people might not think of. Such as it helps individuals remember ideas better then typing them. The author says, " medical brain scans show that wrighting in cursive helps with fine motor-skill develpment and stimulates both right and left parts of the brain." Now wrighting in cursive may have a few beneficials that might help your brain and thinking skills but i personally dont think it should be a manditory thing in school or thats its really important. People…

Does the language unite or separate people? This issue is very complicated, I think. There are many countries and nations throughout the world. The world speaks different languages. Even in one country there may be many different languages, for example in Russia. There are accents, which are blurred depending on the region. Or even several official languages can exist in one country, for example, in Switzerland people speak three different languages - Italian, German and French. People often say…

I thought “Oh boy. . . another writing project.” But as we worked our way through the unit, concrete poetry got my attention because I am an artist and I enjoy the concept of imagery. I am what you call a visual thinker. I prefer to think with the right side of my brain which is the more…

The sequence of development is the development is the guidelines we follow to monitor children’s overall development. For example the chart above shows expected milestones as such that a child should be achieving at that age and stage. However every child learns and grows differently as they are all individuals and no two children will be exactly the same or learn at the exact same time this is the rate of development. The rate of development is different for every child for example a baby at…

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis When initially reading about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, I actually felt somewhat overwhelmed with interesting information. From prior knowledge of language and culture relations, I fully recognized that it has simply always been understood that the culture of each human being influences his or her own language. I have studied this in several different classes and areas of the curriculum; however, I had honestly never thought about how language had absolutely anything to…

A Summary of Lesson 3 Actions In his previous two lessons, Joseph Williams stressed the importance of writing with clarity, correctness, and style. In Actions, he makes two important points: make the main characters the subject of a sentence and make the main action the verbs of a sentence (Williams, 44). Writers create clearer and more understandable prose for their readers when they revise a "revision" and turn a nominalization back into a verb. He identifies common problems, offers helpful…

If I were to be stranded on a deserted island my immediate attention would be to find/create shelter, find a safe and clean supply of food and water, and then to explore the island. However after I accomplish all these things I will need some way to stimulate my brain, because if I did not, I would certainly lose my own sanity, comparable to Chuck Noland from the film Castaway. This is where literature comes into play, by selecting a few pieces of literature I can keep myself from reaching Chuck…

student will be in the middle of a circle and four will be out of the circle facing their peers. Using cards containing verbs conjugation the students will practice the irregular preterite tense. The four students out of the circle will rotate to the right side to practice another verb in its different forms (I, you, he/she/it, we, they, and you). This activity will take place outside the classroom, at the front of the gym in the school campus. Warm up: The students will write five…

Salikoko S. Mufwene investigated the relationship between colonialism, globalisation and the development of local languages. The objectives of his study include 1. To establish if languages are parasitic. 2. To find out the factors that lead to language extinction.3. To see how globalisation has endangered most languages in the world and Africa in particular. Some of the works used for this deep study include:Mualdhuster (1996),Crystal (2000),Dixon(1997),Brenziger, (1998),Renard (2001).These…