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    and texting, there are not many face-to-face conversations anymore. Everything is being typed out instead of actually being said. This may lead to someone thinking that correct grammar usage should be prevalent, since everything is being written out instead of spoken. Instead, the exact opposite is happening. Correct grammar is not usually seen on social media sites, especially Twitter. Twitter is a fast pace website and people are hitting “tweet” before even reading what they have written. Twitter

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    discovered and utilized in the teaching of foreign languages. Originally, my research was to include these other natural orders, but I was unable to find any research pertaining to the languages I was studying. So I decided to focus instead on the way grammar is taught in general in classrooms and how it is presented in

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    English Bilingualism in Deaf Students and Natural v. Constructed Languages The main focus of this research will be how bilingualism affects the school success of deaf students. The research will focus on three different signed languages, one natural signed language (ASL) and two constructed signed languages (PSE and SEE). It is expected that the second language of each student is English. The questions I will address are as follows: 1. How does English fluency affect the academic success of deaf

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    As a settled immigrant in the United States, fluent in multiple local languages in Kenya, I ambitiously attended various colleges to pursue a career in Nursing. Although different areas such as punctuation, sentence structure, paraphrasing and grammar to mention the least, aimed to strengthen scholarly writing this quarter, writing in English still pose a challenge. Attitude In one of the assignments, I had to commit to a daily fifteen-minute writing session. Presented with a regular assignment of

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    Like the previous class, Teacher 1 and Teacher 2 follow the same controlled composition type of teaching writing approach wherein grammar is taught. When Teacher 2 calls upon students who do not raise their hands to answer, they seem embarrassed, uncomfortable with having to answer, because they do not know how to answer. This was an uncomfortable moment for me as an observer in the

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    workplace communication and grammar is high-priority. Some bosses won’t even hire people that don’t have good grammar. In the WaPo article “Why Can’t College Graduates Write Coherent Prose?’, he states that good writers are hard to find these days and employers are in need of good writers. People fail to realize how important good communication skills are regardless of what career they are trying to pursue. Communication solves many problems and helps avoid confusion; good grammar and communication skills

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    workplace communication and grammar is high-priority. Some bosses won’t even hire people that don’t have good grammar. In the WaPo article “Why Can’t College Graduates Write Coherent Prose?’, he states that good writers are hard to find these days and employers are in need of good writers. People fail to realize how important good communication skills are regardless of what career they are trying to pursue. Communication solves many problems and helps avoid confusion; good grammar and communication skills

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    Codification and Standardization of English English was one of many languages spoken in Britain for four hundred years before it began to be called English. It was a language with no special status and without a special strong identity. In fact, the history of English started with the arrival of Anglo-Saxons in Britain in the 400s when Celtic languages were spoken by the inhabitants of the island. English shows some traces of Celtic, rising from

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    the classic of the Renaissance, the reformation added the vernacular (mother tongue). Basic Latin grammar Boys were taught at home. Those in the elite classes had tutors within their own households, and in these households, tutors were often extremely respected individuals. At about the age of five, boys were introduced to basic Latin grammar. When grammar was discussed, it was always Latin grammar. The vernacular was

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    Classroom Reflection

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    This term, Nina has made noticeable improvements to stay focused during classroom discussions. Despite her best efforts, Nina still finds it difficult to follow instructions, learn specialist vocabulary, locate and join words together to form meaningful utterances. Furthermore, her language and communication difficulty extend to interactions in collaborative tasks, group work and social situations where she struggles to use social language, such as ‘turn-taking’ and to consider what others say. Due

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