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    Language is essential to every interaction and aspect in human’s everyday lives. Imagine a world without language, everyone will be mute and doesn’t have any connection with each other. Being able to communicate through language with each other forms bonds and that’s what make human different from any animal species. And language gives us a unique and diverse characters to each of us. In the article of Undocumented Immigrants, the writer (Forest) talks about how the uses of language is so important

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    ELL Student’s Literacy Report This literacy report is based in a ESOL student which primary language is Spanish. The student is in a 3rd grade class, and his current literacy level is 3.5, which means that the student is in 3rd grade in the 5th month of the school year. The student socializes and expresses himself well in the classroom, which demonstrates good BICS management. However, his academic language, CALP, is not as broad as it should be. The student uses simple and common words, and sometimes

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    ual immersion education aims for students to become fluent in two languages, English and whichever language they are enrolled in. This education is done through a program where students are exposed to two languages in the classroom. Dual immersion education is beginning to expand towards more cities and needs to be better financed. As it expands, the popularity grows resulting in more parents becoming aware of the program and then wanting it offered at their child’s school. Dual immersion education’s

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    Speaking Multiple Languages Malaysia is well-known to the world for its diverse cultures, languages and food due to its multicultural society. This unique circumstance has accommodated most Malaysians to master several languages. This is further influenced by the Malaysian constitution that has mandated the Malay language as the official language for use at the national level. Therefore, the Chinese and the Indians in Malaysia are able to naturally acquire an additional language on top of their own

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    Leah Coleman TSL 4081 Spring Semester 2015 Dr. Rebecca Blankenship January 30, 2015 Thesis of Article In the 2014 October edition of the Education Update, authors, Kathy Checkley and Virgina Rojas discussed the topic of various ways that educators can provide support for the academic succession of ELL students. In their article Setting ELLs Up for Success, the authors stressed that along with the proper scaffolding techniques and student access, ELL students will thrive in a mainstream

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    AL-Asmari kindergarten and the 5th Al-khafji primary & intermediate school and the 2nd Al-Khafji High school and at last at the University of Hafer Al-Batin. Introduction: Nowadays Its well known that the English language is the most commonly used second language, therefore, the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language has a significant value in all aspects of our lives whether it was for education, communication,cultural, political or as a job requirement, With the spread of social media and

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    school age. Many of the Chinese and Indian have trouble in their own mother’s tongue. In the recent 20 years, they changed the teaching system to Malay. Mathematics and Science are all in Malay. These two languages, Mandarin and Tamil are working as a second language in secondary. It is not a consistent study throughout our education years. During my early education experience, I was sent to a Chinese language school. Moving on with secondary school, my studies are changed from Mandarin to

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    American Media coverage of the Israeli-Arab conflict What is an Arab? In a great number of movies Hollywood provides the answer to this question: Arabs are cruel murderers, sleazy rapists, religious fanatics, oil-rich dimwits, and abusers of women (Shaheen 2). This is how Hollywood shows Arabs to the world. Throughout the history we can trace the discrimination in several media industry against African-American, Jewish, and Hispanic people. However, in some North America’s media Arabs are depicted

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    Kraig Krause Professor Dani Spinosa English 4400 29 July 2016 Research Essay In this essay, I will explain the historical and contemporary meaning of the English language becoming the world 's common language. I have chosen three texts, which are written by various scholars in the culture and linguistic realm, who have different insights and opinions of the dominance of the English language. I will integrate Ngugi Et Al’s work of, On The Abolition of the English Department in relation to linguist’s

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    Language is the inevitable medium which people use as a means of communication. However, how that person uses the language that they have varies. Some view language as a persuasive political instrument and others view it as a means of expression and empowerment. In the essay “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” by James Baldwin, he was able to illustrate the history of the discrimination of language and how Black English is not accepted as its own language. Baldwin also shows

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