Second Life

The English language is complicated, as it originated from Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon roots and let alone the tenses can get rather abstruse. Often times, many can confuse pro-English, having English as the official language within legal processes, with “English-only” where English is the law of the land. Despite having successes without learning English, having English as the official language of the United States would make occupational procedures easier and allow an individual’s language…

FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Page 1 Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to analyze how the needs of the students will be met, while researching how to teach. Nowadays students of the entire world are learning to speak English, but their reasons are different from student to student. The purpose students have for learning will have an effect on what it is they want and need to learn1. In…

do that, I felt that I needed to share more than just my discoveries about my literacy journey, I also need to share some background information. My mother and father were in a car accident when I was five years old. That accident ended my father’s life, and substantial injuries hospitalized my mother for somewhere around six months. During that time, my siblings and I lived with our grandparents in Sheboygan and that is where I began kindergarten. I have scattered memories…

until their adoption when the native language exposure stops and the exposure to English begins. De Geer (1992) believes this experience should be categorized as the development of an additional “first language” as opposed to the development of a second language (as cited in Roberts et al., 2005, p 94). In addition, Werker and Polka (1993)…

In Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”, she explains how women are encouraged to behave like a woman solely for the entertainment for men. She explains how “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” in her work which shows that women are constructed by society’s norms which shapes them into a woman. These external processors change her into an ideal doll. Her claim is completely accurate because throughout history and till this day, women have been expected to act a certain way and live up…

something that needs to be learned at school, as there is more need for the use of it in an academic setting than there was/is when the child is at home. This is more evident in children for whom English is a second language. These bilingual children often find the transition to school life quite daunting. Not only are they entering into an environment quite different to what they are used to, they are also being immersed into a culture and language quite different to what they have up until…

These postulations are answered in the following paragraphs titled with The Cost of Multilingualism and The Dis-United States. The author illustrates two major reasons, which are reducing the cost of the federal spending and avoiding a series of severe constitutional crisis. First of all, the author states clearly in paragraph 11, “The federal government has spent over $100 million to study the effectiveness of bilingual education, only to discover that it is less effective at teaching…

She feels ashamed when she sees or hears the disappointment of other Hispanics when they voice their disapproval of the fact that he does not speak Spanish. But Latino Americans of the second and third generation, keeping the language is about the opportunity someone gets or has to keep it. The Latin American child will most likely grown up in a home where only the first generation speaks Spanish while that child assimilates and interacts…

English as my second language as a child, English was a very complex language for me to learn, as I was plagued with Dyslexia. My vocabulary was stunted, my written expression suffered, and reading between the lines was and is a very difficult and complex task for me to complete. As I aged I learned more about words and their parts and I began to understand more about the English language and how I could use it to express myself and to read wonderful books to escape the everyday life I knew.…

of Obligation by Richard Rodriguez, Rodriguez showcases his conflicting opinions about both California and Mexico, as he looks back on his life in reverse. Through the dialog and details, Rodriguez gives off an indecisive, yet passionate tone, which allows the reader to question the two conflicting opinions. The first section, containing the first and second paragraph, introduces the idea of the conflicting opinions. Rodriguez juxtaposes the words comedy and tragedy, while also opening up…