Phonology

“Politics and the English Language” Analysis In his essay, “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell states his critical opinions on the deviation of English, especially when it is deceitfully used in politics. Orwell believes that English is deteriorating alongside our “decadent” human civilization. He is quick to point out that one can’t simply blame it upon an individual writer who spread terrible prose, but in fact this occurrence has certain political and economic causes that have…

Disruption of English Learner & Context I decided to report my linguistic case study on a coworker who is learning English. Since I teach at an immersion school with a bilingual elementary program, many of my coworkers are learning English as a second language. I work closely with the second and third grade Spanish teacher and it is my second year working with her. Janet is a female, adult, Columbian native Spanish speaker. She has lived in Georgia near the metro Atlanta area for almost two…

Introduction The writing sample used in this analysis is from a young English Language Learner’s journal. The topic of the student wrote about is a current news event—bombings that occurred in New York and New Jersey in September of 2016. There is no verbal speech involved in this analysis, so I will be focusing solely the student’s writing. In order to understand the student’s comprehension of the English language through writing, I will have to look closely at the sample to see their…

Until the age of five, I was only exposed to the Spanish language, but when I started school, I quickly learned how to read, write, and speak English. When my mother gave birth to my younger brother, doctors advised us, as a bilingual household, to teach him one language at a time to avoid confusion. It would be interesting to examine this advice with a deeper understanding of language and its manifestation in our brains. Introduction: Language in the Brain The understanding of language has…

The ability to read is critical for student’s literacy development and is crucial to developing their future learning. Learning is a lifelong journey (Gray, 2012, p.221) and teaching is imperative for reading development. Teaching students to become independent and successful readers is a complex process that requires educators to have explicit knowledge of the six main elements involved in the reading process. It is fundamental for teachers to prepare their students to gain meaning from what…

The Alphabetic Principle involves the understanding that sounds of letters and that letters represent sounds are combined to form represent sounds are combined to form words. Between the spoken sounds and the written language, a connection is made. Based on a relationship between systematic sounds, written letters, and spoken words, letters and their combinations are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds. The Alphabetic Principle is composed of three parts. They are letter naming,…

Dyslexia is linked to phonological processing because children with dyslexia are apt to have deficits in phonological processing. To identify a child’s deficits in phonological processing, it’s important to understand its parts. Phonological Processing is a term used for a category of four oral language processing abilities related to the sounds in words, to associate those sounds with letters, and to read. These four oral language abilities are verbal short-term memory, rapid serial naming,…

First Doctor in Doctor Who, said, “Until then, there must be no regrets.” This a quote I love because he has a point. That 's until I get the results of my research to help my community, and I will do my research with no regrets. I have seen great success in the programs that consist literature and linguistics in their curriculum. The articles that I have reviewed consist information that will help my research; my research is to introduce linguistics and literature to assist Hispanic students to…

In many researches found on early age deaf children with early exposure birth to kindergarten to accessible language is important. Interaction with fluent signers leads the child to develop the language and levels of skills to achieve academically. The most important interacting with young children and beginning singers like parents, parents, or adult should sign slow and clearly to young children with use short sentences and not too many sentence or the child would overload child’s memory…

(Language can be seen and heard; it can be diverse or standard. With this in mind, discuss the different roles that language can have in a child 's life. Language is the most significant developmental milestone a person learns from an early age. From the early fundamentals of language, a child hears language, then learns to communicate their needs and wants, developing to a more intricate level where a child of primary age is able to express their feelings, thoughts, values and beliefs through…