Second Opium War

Introduction In recent decades there has been attention to how spacing has an effect in first and second language reading, for which the development of eye-tracking technology has allowed a deeper understanding. The importance of these findings are linked to information on how readers process language and its implications to language teaching. Some researchers have explored spacing and word boundaries within writing systems, focusing on its effects on readers’ landing positions and saccades (e.g…

What is the main content of Florida Consent Decree? (1’). Critique the Florida Consent Decree (1’). Find its issue(s) from your perspective as an English as a Second Language (ESOL) teacher/ learner/ parent (1’). The Florida Consent Decree basically is an agreement between the Florida State Board of Education and the coalition of eight groups represented by the Multicultural Education, Training, and Advocacy…

Introduction The ability to communicate in more than one language has become really important, and not only in the professional world. According to UNESCO, learning another language opens up access to other value systems and other ways of interpreting the world, while encouraging intercultural understanding and even contributing to reducing xenophobia. The globalization of the 21st century’s economy, international business mergers and the growth of technology, have contributed to the need to…

Kham established his life and had kids who grew up in Iowa. Since they grew up in Iowa, they were taught Taidam and English in the house, and English in school. Their phonology is different from their father’s since they grew up in America (Baccam). Their Taidam speaking skills aren’t as developed as their fathers, but they can still understand a good majority of the Taidam language. Even though they can speak in sentences and are capable of holding conversations with relatives, they aren’t able…

In November of 2011, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was re-elected president of Liberia. She was first elected in 2005 becoming Africa’s first women president. Meanwhile, about seven countries to the right Sudan is still recovering from a civil war. However, independence has not yet put an end to any of the violence. The gender-based violence in Sudan and Southern Sudan remain prevalent. What could Sudanese learn from Liberia? The Republic of Liberia has proved that there should be women apart of…

Statement of Research Problem The United States has seen an influx of international students over the past decade. The increasing number of students that enter the U.S. education who are not proficient in English has been challenging for educators. In order to alleviate some the stress on the student 's behalf many companies have begun producing software and other various forms of technology to help support these students’ education. These are students that not only have to develop critical…

It Takes a NCO to Lead a Officer in Battle The Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) has four to twenty years experience being a leader and is the backbone of the U.S. Army; meanwhile, the Second Lieutenant is fresh out of college with no experience being a leader. The Lieutenant will hold higher rank, have generally higher pay grade, as well as be put in charge of protecting the lives of the NCO’s plus the junior enlisted. A 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army is known as a "Butter Bar", a reference to…

Discovering the Importance of Literacy As I read the prompt, I struggled to think about a time when literacy became important to me. The word “literacy” to me is just being able to read, write, and speak. As I stared at my blank computer screen, waiting for an idea to come up, I remembered that I have a unique trait about me that other people in my area do not have: I am bilingual, but my first language is Tagalog, not Spanish. Most people believe that Tagalog is the same language as Spanish…

commonly spoken language in the world, it is spoken by 1,302,000,000 people, English is far less at only 339,000,000 (Lewis et al 2016). As Australia is a multicultural country, it is reasonable to suggest, given these statistics, that English is a second language for many people. Whilst children have an instinctive desire to learn language and have the brain set up to achieve this, (Fitch 2011), many elements are required for this to be successful. Children need to hear the spoken word, see the…

monolingual children. The first study, analyzes how infants react to the exposure of different languages and how they can recognize communicative partners related to the language itself. The next study explains how children that are merely exposed to a second language can have similar communicative advantages as bilingual children. Finally, the last study focuses on the cognitive adaptations that children are exposed to in bilingual environments. As it was mentioned before, the first study…