Morpheme

Cipriano, J. (2011). 32 tips for ells. Scholastic Instructor, 36-38. The author of the article describes 32 tips that teachers can implement for English Language Learners. Such ideas include: ideas for first day of school, ways to help them build vocabulary, and tips for reading lessons. The article provides some useful and innovative guidelines; however, it does not appear to be beneficial because it does not go into much detail about the strategies therefore additional research would have to…

Rubin and Carlan, children use common spelling patterns as well as sounds they hear in words. At the last stage, i.e., conventional stage, bilingual children spelled most words correctly by using knowledge about letter sounds, letter patterns, morphemes, and other words that have been…

In today’s society, there seems to be two different meanings between sex and gender. Sex is a more scientific term that explains physical traits and sexual preferences. Gender carries a more social tone. Meaning that it refers to the different clothing, activities, career choices, and positions people hold in society. The term sex references the sum of physical characteristics that identify males from females. The most distinctive difference in characteristics is that man and women have…

The English Language Learner faces many obstacles when entering their school classroom. A language barrier, academic content, and standardized assessments are factors that play into the learning transition of ELL students. With new high stakes 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…

decoding, reading comprehension, or speed of reading. The dyslexic is helped to identity, recognise and correlate the sounds of alphabets (graphemes). He is also helped to build focus on decoding with abilities to blend sounds (Phonemes) into words (morphemes) and break words into component sounds. With time the child is taught to focus on the content of the reading material and not just on individual words. The tactic of guided oral reading provides feedback to the child so as to spot areas of…

1. Introduction Conversations are often a part of my classroom teaching. I have used this to teach target language or to introduce functional language such as to interrupt, agree or disagree etc. This has always been something that is appreciated by my learners; however as a teacher this has never been done with conscious effort or to let students ‘express themselves’ per se or backed up by theoretical underpinning. I have chosen to focus on turn-taking in conversation for opinions hoping to…

By the arrangement and rearrangement of phonemes, morphemes, words and phrases, humans can be creative and create new utterances. Human language is continually evolving. Open-endedness is a term commonly used for this property of language. The language of humans can adapt to new situations. Animal communication…

respected in the gang. Cupcake also goes on to describe a ghetto star as someone who is not afraid of doing things like fighting, killing, and robbing others. Another thing that can be learned about the cultural language is that the final syllable or morpheme of certain words are often reduced. For example, the word “your” is commonly said as “yo” in the book, and words ending with an “ing,” like jumping, are often pronounced like…

The Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 2 (GFTA-2) was administered to the client. The test administration was audio recorded for further interpretation and transcription. The clinician obtained this recording from the faculty supervisor. Using the recording and a form provided by the faculty supervisor, the clinician transcribed the client’s utterances next to the target words. To analyze the client’s utterances for phonological processes, the clinician used the Khan-Lewis Phonological…

1. Introduction This paper reports sociolinguistic variation and change patterns of T-glottalling in Manchester comparing with other dialects of English. T-gottalling, the phonological process whereby /t/ is replaced by a glottal stop in non-initial position, has been considered as the accent all over the UK in recent years. Database (number of token, factors); the definition of T-glottalling and simple example; the characteristic of Manchester pattern; T-glottalling, in English phonology, a…