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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sociolinguistic variations of American Sign Language found across the United States. Variations of ASL based on regional, social economic background, and ethnicity will be discussed. Deaf Americans are as ethnically diverse as the general population in the United States. This is a multicultural group that differs in more than just skin color and ethnic heritage. They differ across a variety of dimensions like age, and extent of hearing loss,…

Cursive writing is a helpful tool to most individuals. When I was younger cursive handwriting was tought in schools. I learned cursive by the 2nd grade and I think it has helped me a lot. There are a lot of different studies and articles suggesting that cursive handwriting is not beneficial and does not need to be tought to kids today. One study has shown that when people write in cursive it uses both sides of the brain. If we aren't using our brain to it's most ability then we are not using…

The classroom had 17 children in total, 1 of which was an English Learner. His name was Carlos and, saying his name to me was the only word he said in class for the duration of the time that I had been in the classroom. Carlos is young boy whose parents are completely Spanish. I was told by Mrs Varvil, that even at parent conferences only the mother has understand of what is being said and is able to partially converse. When I first entered the classroom, the children were all on the floor…

Should Spanish classes be mandatory? At most colleges, you must take one foreign language class for 2 to 4 years at most middle and high schools. I don’t see why that’s necessary. If your college major is Spanish oriented or you just want to take it, that’s fine, but for Those of us who have no need nor want to learn Spanish, we shouldn’t have to. As I previously mentioned, most colleges require you take Spanish for a certain amount of years in middle and high school, I see no reason for that.…

answered the two research questions of the study. In response to the first question, the language samples were analyzed in both languages and stuttering and non-stuttering like disfluencies are clearly listed in the results section. To answer the second question, the disfluency characteristics found were further analyzed and the frequencies were presented as percentages in the results…

In the accompanying article, “Learning a Second Language”, the writer, Meg Butler, mentions that students learn a second language through making flash cards and spending hours memorizing verb conjugations. Although children may be able to gain a firmer grasp on second languages before the age of 10, I am not sure that they would be as receptive to the same method of teaching. The article points out that certain schools “like Language Stars capitalize on this window and are able to teach children…

The ongoing dispute between Israel and Palestine has been a constant struggle since the mid- 20th century. The novel, “The Attack” by Yasmina Khadra exposes the horrific reality of the brewing conflict between Israel and Palestine. The two groups lack understanding towards each other's views, have a strong hatred for one another, and the Palestinians pursue extremist acts to fight for their rights. The Israeli and Palestinian conflict has been arising for years, with no pause, declining to any…

The SIOP (sheltered instruction observation protocol) model is a program that helps address the needs for English language learners. Teachers learn how to integrate students and use specific content and instruction to address the students. From the SIOP model there are eight key components; lesson development, building background, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, practice, delivery, and review/assement. Under the eight key components teachers promote a healthy positive learning…

most of these second and third generations, Spanish is commonly spoken in the house and English is learned through schooling or just interactions with other English speaking people in one's community. A stigma that derives from this homemade language is that the person who speaks Spanglish might not know enough Spanish or they might not know enough English, therefore, they interchange, share, extended and do code-switching. This phenomenon leads to the person who speaks Spanglish to second-guess…

Have you ever tried to join a conversation that was already in progress and the minute you showed up you noticed that something had changed? No, you're not imagining that. A linguistic element in that particular conversation actually changed. That element is called code-switching. If you're not familiar with the term code-switching, this refers to switching between languages or registers while speaking or signing. Bilingual and multilingual individuals do it all the time and reasons vary. For…