Second Life

Henry is ashamed of all of this “what belief did I ever hold in my father, whose daily life I so often ridiculed and looked upon with such abject shame?” (Rae-Lee 53) However, Henry begins to realize that his father left his highly established Korean education behind him which was once his greatest pride. Henry's father was the perfect example of a native speaker. He came into a new country, changing his life to adapt, and embracing the American language and culture. Reinventing the man he…

Mark Edmundson states in his writing “The Ideal English Major” that becoming an English major is “pursuing the most important subject of all--being a human being” (1). Edmundson describes English majors as readers who are born again and again through reading. According to Edmundson being an English major makes you more alive by allowing you to see the world as “bigger, sweeter, more tragic and intense-- more alive with meaning than you had thought” (4). Edmundson attempts to persuade us by…

When I first came here from the Middle East I did not know English. I was worried for my family and myself. The culture here is much different than the culture where I am from. Classes move very quickly and the assignments are very different. Before I came here I had a five day long meeting that helped me prepare myself for American culture. We discussed behavioral things, such as what to ask, social networking, and research. At home in my country, I read the news before going out, here is much…

studies looking at anxiety and specific language skills, in which the emphasis was mainly on second language (L2) speaking. 2.1.1 FL Anxiety in the Listening Skill FLLs are facing a big sufferance when listening to foreign language. In this regard, Krashen (1982) claimed that when listening or attempting to extract the message from messages in L2 was the major procedure in the evolution of a second language, in this juncture; he supposed that anxiety formed an “affective filter…

ccording to the data from the National Center for Educational Statistics, in the 2002-2003 school year there was an estimate of 4.1 million ELL students (NCES, 2015). However, this number has increase throughout the years. In the 2012-2013 school year there was an estimate of 4.4 million ELLs (NCES, 2015).In addition, Texas is one of the six states that has “10.0% or more of public school students” that are English language learners (NCES, 2015). Since there are a growing number of ELLs, it is…

Questions In this study, the authors addressed three research questions regarding L2 fluency. The first research question was: “Do learners of Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish improve their L2 fluency after a semester of language study abroad?” The second research question was: “Is there a difference in gains made by learners of…

meaning. Also, by considering the effect of task type on the low incidence of negotiation of meaning, the researcher claimed that, although the task was one-way in nature but, in resulted in the high rate of modified output. Next, in relation to the second question regarding the possibility of other interactional process in the absence of overtly signal of communication problem, the data…

differently. When people have disabilities like they can’t walk some people just give up in life and they don’t do anything while other people fight through it and they try to make the best out of their lives. Everyone reacts differently to situations like if one person is in a car crash they might become depressed and give up in life while if another person was in a car crash it would’ve made them more excited about life and more appreciated. Everybody is different nobody is the same everybody…

Briana Barrett Ms.Milliner E.E.S.2.2.Q.H-03 6/1/17 Problem- Solution Essay I’m sure many are familiar with coming up with excuses to justify their actions and in denial. Adults are the group of people who are immune to this due to the excuses that may be told by their kids or students. However one excuse that I feel like is overrated from adults is the reason to why a school’s dress code is the way it is. It exhibits both racist and sexual themes. Therefore what example does that show off on…

of content and valid evidence. Furthermore he believes that students lack the ability of using proper grammar and instead focus on self expression of their ideas. The evidence that he bases this claim on is his own statement in which he states “The second reason so many of our students are incapable of writing intelligible sentences or linking one bad sentence to another is something that approximates an argument. They have been allowed to believe that their opinions – formed by nothing,…