Second Life

Content INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………… CHAPTER I. THE ROLE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 1.1. History background of new technologies 1.2. Benefits and disadvantages of new technologies CHAPTER II.NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING 2.1 .Multimedia technologies 2.2. Internet resources CHAPTER III. NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 3.1. Practical application of information technologies at English lessons…… 3.2. Forms of work with computer software at…

acquisition. The participants will consist of three kindergarten English as a Second Language (ESL) students. A multiple baseline single subject design with AB phases will be used. A baseline assessment using flashcards and cloze sentences will evaluate each participant’s performance in sight word acquisition;…

from the two language backgrounds are integrated for all of their instructional time. In other programs, students are integrated for the majority of their content-area instruction but segregated to receive additional language instruction in their second-language (Adelman-Reyes & Kleyn, 2010). Other programs segregate students from the two language backgrounds for the majority of their instructional time (which may be through one or two languages), and then integrate students for a small portion…

Disappearing Native Languages The Native community also faces the problem of their languages nearing extinction. Researchers have predicted that all 150 remaining Native American languages will go extinct within 50 to 100 years (Krauss pp.12). However, it is not too late to counteract this prediction. The United States is the “motherland” for these languages, so if they disappear from the United States they are gone forever. When a language disappears, it takes an unsalvageable chunk of the…

(In my lab) Sometimes it is hard to explain my idea because I studied math using only Japanese in school. Although I tried to learn English math words before coming to the U.S, explaining complicated things in a foreign language is not easy. However, I was relieved that minor English mistakes are not problems because my mentor listens to me patiently. Once I come back to Japan, I would like to continue to study more so that I will be able to explain my idea using math words smoothly. On the…

Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Author Institution Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) FTOs (Foreign Terrorist Organizations) are foreign groups that the Secretary of State designates “in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)” (“Chapter 6…,” 2012). The designation of FTOs is crucial to fighting terrorism and helps to curtail support for terror activities. Accordingly, section 219…

Should Students Learn a Foreign Language? The issue of whether it should be made mandatory for students to learn a foreign, or second language in school has been widely debated. A General Social Study carried out in 2006, stated, only 25% of American students speak a second language. Of this, only 43% claimed to speak the second language ' 'very well ' '. Furthermore, of these bilingual students, 89% learned it at home, with only 7% acquiring it at school. In contrast, to the 25% of American…

at school. And they don’t just do better at subjects like reading, English and history. They do better at all subjects and they do better all the way through school. That is way reading is considered the most important learning tool that marks the life of the…

An underserved community is defined as a community whose members have some sort of barrier preventing access to the health care system. When considering an underserved population, typically indigent care is the first to come to mind. However, there are many different reason people cannot get access to the health care system. These social determinants of health exist for a variety of reasons including but not limited to- money, education- including language and literacy, and lack of…

because of this barrier. Amy Tan, the author of “mother tongue” expresses what she learned growing up in a home where broken was spoken. She learned about how she spoke different to different people in her life, how people reacted to her mom’s broken English, and how this has affected her life growing up. Growing up, Amy was ashamed of her mother’s “limited English”. Her mother though knew that her English wasn’t very good. Some of Amy’s friends would not completely understand what her mom was…