Second Vatican Council

Michael Maciel ENG 001A Prof. Sudderth Maya Angelou’s “Graduation” is a short story describing Maya Angelou’s high school graduation from her own point of view. In this story Maya does an exceptional job in making the reader feel the same emotions that she felt during this major event in her life. The way Angelou describes her surroundings and the emotions felt during the event makes the reader feel as if they were right next to Maya watching her class graduate. Angelou sets a sense of…

structure located at 813 Baugh Avenue in East St. Louis. There are five classrooms on the first floor as there are two grades of students taught by one teacher. While one class is being taught the other is working on their assignments. On the second floor of the school, there is a spacious hall. In addition, the basement is used for society and club meetings. Mass usually starts the day at 8:00, but the actual school day begins at 9:10 and ends at 3:30. From 1915 through 1924, the five…

Reflection Paper The lesson plan that I did for the assignment has many of the 12 principles put forth by Rod Ellis in Teaching English as a Second Language. Additionally, the lesson’s objectives are specifically chosen relating to some of the 12 principles. I chose several different teaching methods/approaches for my lesson as students in an actual classroom can benefit from a variety of methods and approaches. Lesson Objectives For my lesson plan, I have three lesson objectives. The first…

In my culture, we always have to learn to speak Russian at home and around family, but English at school and around friends. It’s a difficult time switching between two languages in two different places and types of people separating the two languages. There are two essays called “The New Bathroom Policy at English High School” by Martin Espada and “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez which both explain different perspectives of bilingualism. In bilingualism, there is a private language for…

In the autobiography Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, Rodriguez uses the term “private language” to depict the difference his heritage, culture, and spanish language, have with the American lifestyle, and english language. “Private language” to Rodriguez signifies the private spanish language his family and himself shared at home. Outside their home he considered it to be public, because everybody shared the same common language that is english. His family however stood out because of…

The Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism written by Colin Baker and Wayne E. Wright provide crucial and thorough understanding of Bilingualism at an individual, group, and global level, offer insight in regards to what Bilingualism is, the development of Bilingualism, the impact of the educational system on promoting or obstruct Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. The authors introduce language revitalization, types of effective schools and classrooms for Bilingual students,…

Introduction: When thinking about learning a foreign language people always think of the mainstream languages, French, Spanish, German, but what about Greenlandic? “Death by Monoculture” by Stephen Pax Leonard is about how globalization and consumerism is slowly getting rid of some cultures and languages. However according to Leonard the internet might help save these cultures and languages. This article was effective because it was understandable and to the point, Leonard did not go off on…

The Challenge that I Overcame Many kids while growing up learn to speak in English, but I was different. While I was growing up, my parents would always speak to me in Gujarati. My parents came from India to give my brother and I a better education. Despite the fact that my parents were not aware with the English language, they still did not hesitate to give me that knowledge. I remember in my early childhood years I was educated in both English and at the same time in Gujarati because my Mom…

An international language refers to a language in widespread use as a foreign language or second language (Richards et al.,1992, p.234). Over the years, the English language has reached a status of the international language, and has played an important role around the world for economic, education, scientific and entertainment exchange between nations and particularly between people, and commonly is characterized as a lingua franca. According to Crystal (1997), today, more people use English…

Bilingualism has recently become a major issue and a valuable one because in comparison with monolingualism it allows people to live between two worlds, two cultures, adopting the specific ways of thinking and feeling of the people they come into contact. To be bilingual involves more than speaking another language than your own, it is all about the inner significance of words apparently similar in two languages but deeply different, this is a major issue analysed by Anna Wierzbicka who strongly…