Second language acquisition

the year, students have not taken this test yet. I will say that my cooperating teacher did have a conversation about are ELLs taking standardized tests. According to research report by "College Board" called "Testing Accommodations for English Language Learners: A Review of State and District Policies" discourses that an aide is to read the passage, the questions,…

several major issues having to do with the American education system. Not only those it focuses on the issued of under-representation of Mexican Americans, but the under-appreciation of foreign language individuals as a whole. Parents with children in the education system who were not familiar with the English language were used as examples to show how these people were poorly treated. Furthermore, the outright disrespect…

I felt very comfortable with both teachers and the students’. I believe any EL’ student is in need of constant support and positive reinforcement, so that he/she will eventually reach a cognitive, linguistic and social proficiency in the English language; and with this achievement, for the student to be able to adjust to any environment,…

English Some people may have their own cultures to follow, but someday they will have an interaction with another culture to have a different experience. But as a human being we do not adapt directly with a new experience so those people that are interacting with a different culture may have problem. Those people may experience awkwardness or misunderstanding because it’s a new experience for them, they used to with their own culture so when they interact with different culture they could do…

Prof. Dr. Henry Guntur Tarigan, a linguist, author and a professor at University of Indonesia, defines speaking as a language skill that is developed in child life; it is produced by listening skill, and in that period speaking is learned. (i) What is speaking? Speaking is a skill that one can learn to perfection with ease like swimming, cooking, driving a car, etc. One has to work at it continuously to improve speaking. Speech is the tool used to manifest our creative thoughts, feelings,…

permissive attitude that allowed teaching through the mother tongue acceptable. As long as it was within the jurisdiction of local towns and districts, schools were allowed to teach in the child’s native language. However, there were times in which higher authorities were strongly against languages other than the English. This hostile climate would culminate in the some of the nation’s most drastic changes in the public schools resulting in the reduction of any type of bilingual instruction…

snap to judgement. The first scene that introduces the character Farhad to the film is the arrival at the gun store. The gun clerk assumes Farhad is Arabic because the trait supporting that notion is the foreign language Farhad speaks. However, unbeknownst to the gun clerk the actual language is Persian. Regardless the judgement escalates and has the gun clerk assume the worse, that Farhad is a terrorist, causing him to kick him out the store. In this scene another attribution bias present is…

Li, S., & Brown, C. M. (2014). Activating Different Attributional Patterns in Chinese Bicultural Individuals with Language Cues. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 19(4). Li and Brown focused on the how the effects of language would influence attributional patterns in Chinese bicultural individuals, who resided in Western countries. The independent variable is language and it is operationally defined as an effective cue that has commonly been used to initiate corresponding constructs…

How does Anxiety affect Language Learning? For some students, dialect courses are the most uneasy courses that they take. A few educators have expressed worry over the measure of uneasiness present in dialect classes others considered the levels of dialect nervous among college understudies to alert and assess that up to one portion of all language students encounter weakening levels of dialect tension. In the large scale consideration, language learning settings seem, by all accounts, to be…

The benefits of multilingual language competency have an important influence on different spheres of life on personal, social and professional levels. Knowledge of foreign languages are beneficial every day, either you are communicating with foreign people for personal matters or dealing with professional business at work. Furthermore, multilingualism broadens career perspectives. Nevertheless, the main problem seems to be that people are unable to comprehend these facts, which shows the…