Linguistics

assessments, ELL students find themselves with a heavier burden than their English speaking peers. A challenge for linguistic learners is the complex linguistic structure often found on state tests as mentioned by Abedi and Levine (2013). Another concern for ELL students is the structure of the test itself. The CCSS math section is highly weighted down with English skills. The linguistic learner must understand the academic content and explain, compare, and communicate their answers in English…

“Few would dispute the claim that Wilfred Owen is the greatest author of war poetry in the English language”. Wilfred Owen was a wartime poet and patriot soldier in World War One. He was acquitted on March 18th, 1893; and was reckoned by many as the leading poet of the First World War. Siegfried Sassoon, who met Owen at Craig Lockhart Hospital, inspired him to convey his emotions close to war in his poetry, which since then he has begun to act. Within this essay, I will be discussing how Owen…

linguist is “a specialist in linguistics [which is] the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics” (“Linguist”).…

Kaplan’s Traditional Contrastive Rhetoric Before 1960s, influenced strongly by structural linguistic and behavioral psychology, the teaching of English as a second/foreign language was mainly focused on spoken English, mostly “through pattern drills of the sentence structure and the sound system”. Writing was merely considered as a “secondary representation” of language, and was often overlooked by linguistics and language teachers. Urged by the professionalization of TESL, ESL writing…

The linguistic reality in which languages are immersed, some languages become extinct for several reasons, I think one of the main causes is the increase of urban areas, which pollute the areas of small groups in which develop indigenous language, people are mean…

Language, Race and White Public Space; and The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness are articles that represent the notion of cultural linguistics practices and cultural identities. Every culture has its own linguistics differences and way of representing its values, but as it can be seen in the articles those linguistics differences and racial marks, can often lead to social differences and conflicts between ethnic groups. The article, Communication of Respect…

the achieve of common people. It is something spiritualist and should not be corrupted by linguistic analysis. Doing linguistic analysis is put down a flower at botanical table which destroys its beauty. A flower is to see and have a high…

unintelligible languages, which belong to 250 large families. There is immense diversity in terms of contrastive sounds (phonemes) from a dozen to 100; in word order - Subject-Predicate, or Topic-Comment; some use inflections while others use particles. Linguistic diversity is related to the diversity of life—humans, animals, plants, and microbes. Every being communicates through some medium, whether sounds, gestures, or vibrations. No being exists without tools of communication. So, there are…

Challenges Related to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Literacy Education Classroom teachers of the 21st century have a demanding mission to accomplish- meeting the literacy needs of all their students. In many states, including Tennessee, the inclusion classroom has become the accepted practice and placement for all students. Educators are being asked to instruct a diverse group of students, including the increasing amount of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds…

genre analysis (GA) in teaching and learning with linguistic awareness. Learners are guided to recognize language features and rhetorical structures in research articles differentiating in disciplinary community.…