The Second Coming

High-end perfume and cologne companies want to sell their expensive products to everyone they can, even if it means portraying a ridiculously unrealistic, yet lavish, lifestyle. They want people to think, “Hey, this could be me!” Michael Kors, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana are a few of the companies that are pushing an exciting lifestyle. What’s the likeliness of receiving this wonderful lifestyle after buying their product? The likeliness doesn’t exist. If anything, the only thing that’ll happen…

Using L1 to Teach L2 in Classroom Simona Nissan San José State University Using mother tongue in classroom of second language (L2) or foreign language (FL) is a controversial topic for decades. On the one hand, linguistic approach supporters argue that target language should be the only language that teachers adopt in order to teach and communicate in class, since this is the only possible way to maximize the effectiveness of teaching and learning L2 and FL (Baños, 2009). However, on…

Study of Synonym Use/Acquisition” Dilin Liu1, and Shouman Zhong2 The article,” L2 vs. L1 Use of Synonymy: An Empirical Study of Synonym Use/Acquisition” by Dilin Liu and Shouman Zhong seeks to examine the use of four sets of synonyms by Chinese second language learners and native speakers of English by using a forced choice question instrument beside corpus data as reference. As it is clear from the abstract, the data analysis of this paper uncovers many leading findings. One of the…

Bilingual education has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. There has been debate among parents, teachers, school staff, lawmakers, and simply the people living in the United States. There are many different opinions on what should be done to address bilingual education. There are several program models that fit under bilingual education, so it is not as cut and dry as some people may think. Many laws have been created both for and against bilingual education over the…

Increasing proficiency in a student’s native language is beneficial in acquiring a second language and does not hinder the process of learning English. According to authors Zelasko and Antunez, Bilingualism produces many benefits. Students can develop better intellectually, transfer academic skills from one language to another, retain…

In our mainstream culture Standard English is the proper and acceptable language to use. We are look down upon if we use our home language in an “inappropriate” setting. There many good reasons one should allow these beautiful languages to be spoken and show their potential. There is nothing wrong with other languages we are just scared of something new. We have this feeling of disconnect from all the languages we use, but one must take pride and be joyful that one can speak these languages. We…

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…