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    Affective Filter Argument

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    to decide if they are willing to share and/or read publically in class. (1) Current ELD theory/theories connected with the strategy: Stephen Krashen’s Affective Filter Hypothesis is linked to the emotional attitudes that promote, as well as hinder second language acquisition. The essence of the theory states that the affective filter is a mental block formed…

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    first grade level of the QRI-4, two levels below her current grade level. Addison completed the first grade word list automatically with 100% accuracy, in the allotted time, signifying she read the words at the independent level. When analyzing the second grade word list, Addison automatically identified 90% of the words, indicating she was identifying words at the independent level, although the score decreased 10%…

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    Genres allows the writer to reflect values and investments. Chapter 5 of Anzaldua’s Borderlands La Frontera, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, includes many different genres. An important genre she repeatedly uses is personal experience. If personal experience was excluded from this chapter, her values and opinions would lack credibility and persuasiveness. Anzaldua writes about an issue that is important and personal to her: by removing this important genre, chapter 5 would not be a powerful chapter.…

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    Richard Rodriguez Aria

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    In the reading Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Education, by Richard Rodriguez, he challenges the idea of bilingual education, and takes us through his personal experience of a bilingual childhood. Rodriguez explains about what he encountered in America as he attempts to adjust to the American culture, and why he believes that learning the public language in school is more important than learning the private language. Throughout the essay he forfeits his happy and comfortable life in exchange for…

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    to maintain their own culture. She gives three causes, or explanations, on why immigrants are reluctant to assimilate, forgetting old traits and adopting new ones. First, is the strong feeling of pride Hispanics have for their country and values. Second, is the close proximity of Hispanics to their native country. Third, is the seeming lack of support from many Hispanics Americans to help new immigrants assimilate. Many Hispanics see isolation as a way to hold on their cultural…

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    In The Day the Crayons Came Home, Drew Daywalt writes, “[Duncan] built a place where each crayon would always feel at home.” These words are meant to appeal to children and adults with eyes towards a message of belonging, of knowing that they have a place where one is accepted no matter how different. The first book in this series by Daywalt entitled, The Day the Crayons Quit, is filled with crayons that share no difference other than color as seen in Appendix A and B. Each page is filled with…

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    In her article, “Mother’s tongue”, Amy Tan narrates the changes of cognition of her mother’s tongue based on her own experiences. She begins her essay by introducing herself as a writer instead of a scholar of English, which ingeniously makes a closer connection with readers. She describes three personal anecdotes from different time periods of her lifetime to create a comprehensive view for the definition of “Mother’s tongue”. The first one happened recently at her speech, which is the…

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    Statement of the Problem Many English teachers in China use a traditional language teaching approach and provide few opportunities for students to practice English speaking. Chinese EFL students’ oral speaking tends to be ignored. Thus, many Chinese EFL learners are not able to speak fluent English. The national education system in China has implemented an official policy, which mandates that English is a required course from Grade three till post-graduate level (He, 2015). This indicates that…

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    In kindergarten, I attended Rose Hill-Magnolia elementary school. I was in Mrs. Houston and Mrs. Hall’s class. I entered school on the first day, walked through the double doors of the school and felt like I was alone. I approached my cluster of classroom cubes. I walked past the little toy kitchen in the lobby. Saw three different classrooms but remembered earlier that week when I went with my mom there that it was on the furthest right with the dog posters. I walk into my class and I see my…

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    bilingualism. Bilingualism has shown to become more and more common, as countries begin to even more intertwine. However, the timing of when the second language is taught, can be key to a child 's development, cognitively, socially, emotionally, for future employment, and for the sake of their health. The earlier a child is able to begin development of a second language, is critical, and research explains it better develops their lives. The influence of bilingualism on the cognitive…

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