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A Statement of a Foreign Language Teacher on Personal Teaching Philosophy (604 words, 2 pages)

Statement of Teaching PhilosophyAs a foreign language teacher, I want my students to be well-rounded in Spanish. It's important to not only learn the language and grammar, but also to be exposed to the different cultures, customs, and traditions. I believe that by learning about these aspects, this will encourage ... Read More

An Overview of the Spanish Language (1041 words, 5 pages)

The Spanish LanguageThe Spanish language has its own set of grammatical rules and culture that has derived from Latin. It has been around for centuries and will continue to do so with the popularity of the bilingual person. Spanish has many similarities to English, one of the main spoken languages ... Read More

The Changes in the Linguistic Usage of the Word Weird in the English Language (745 words, 4 pages)

Weird An abundance of meanings and origins of society's commonly used wordsare unknown to the majority of individuals. Currently, the word 'weird'refers to something or someone odd or unusual. Strangely, it once indicatedthe destiny or fate of a person or thing. The drastic connotativetransition occurred due to the manner by ... Read More

The Different Culture, Role of Women, and Use of Language in Girl, a Poem by Jamaica Kincaid (1569 words, 6 pages)

Girl Analysis Final DraftGirl is a short poem by Jamaica Kincaid. The author was born in 1949 and raised in Antigua, West Indies. She lived with her single mother in the town of Saint Johns. When Kincaid was nine, her mother remarried. Shortly after, she had three younger brothers. At ... Read More

The Use of Vivid Language in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (979 words, 4 pages)

In their respective novels, both Margaret Atwood and Tim OBrien use vivid language and believable anecdotes delivered from an engaging first person point of view to convince readers that their fictional worlds are real. To create a realistic dystopia set in the near future, Atwood in The Handmaids Tale describes ... Read More

A Reflection on Three Handout Materials Impacting My Tutoring Style: T.I.P.S. Charts, Parallel Structure, and Decoding Body Language (1391 words, 4 pages)

Final Project Hidden Treasures Throughout the semester, my Tutoring Notebook has been transformingfrom an empty folder with a couple of dividers into an extensive and highlyinformational manual on tutoring. Many of the skills and strategiesdescribed in the articles and handouts that comprise my Tutoring Notebookhave been presented to us, new ... Read More

The Disappearance of the Native Language in Kyrgyzstan as a Consequence of Globalization (593 words, 2 pages)

The disappearance of native languageCurrently, many countries are participating in the global economy. This participation can be in different forms a country can import goods from other countries, can export its products to others, or can do import and export simultaneously international companies work in many countries and have business ... Read More

The Importance of the Preservation of Bangla Language and Culture (755 words, 3 pages)

International Mother Language day had been made up for Bangla language. No other country in the world did not lose lives for mother language no one didnt fight for their own language. Bangla language actually comes from Shankskriti Bhasha. Our language actually mixes of some language as this sub-continent was ... Read More

Learning New Languages Broadens the World View and Culturally Enriches Human Beings (1511 words, 6 pages)

Barbara King, Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary, acknowledges that human beings are a gregarious species, meaning that they cannot live without communicating or interacting with their respective members of society (King Par. 1). Communication therefore, plays a fundamental role in human development and being able ... Read More

The Approaches of Sign Language Studies and the American Journal of Audiology toward Explaining the Cochlear Implant (1150 words, 5 pages)

Deaf Journal ReviewIn a world with a mixture of cultures and communities, perspectives are predetermined to be extremely contrasting. Specifically, the division of the hearing and the deaf world create varying opinions and attitudes on scientific possibilities. A fairly recent scientific development, the Cochlear Implant, attempts to recreate hearing in ... Read More

The Cultural Norms, Language, Values and Ideology of the Country of Malaysia (1339 words, 6 pages)

There are so many places in the world that you have probably heard of and may not know that much about. If they dont hit the news very often and they arent a huge part of U.S. Foreign Policy then we as Americans do not know very much about them. ... Read More

Othello’s Language Versus Iago’s Language in Othello by William Shakespeare (1165 words, 4 pages)

Deception is defined as the action of deceiving or misleading someone. In William Shakespeares Othello, the main character Othello is persuaded by a manipulative and cunning individual named Iago. At the beginning of the play, Othellos language is deemed to have beauty, confidence, and intelligence. After Iago is rejected the ... Read More

The Use of Common Language and Anti-Melodramatic Settings in We Are Seven, a Poem by William Wordsworth (493 words, 2 pages)

Power within Common Life William Wordsworths lyrical ballads, such as We are Seven, were published anonymously in 1798, as experiments, for they were radical pieces for the time. In Wordsworths Preface to Lyrical Ballads, he writes about the reasoning behind his aspects of poetic style. Wordsworth was a Romantic who ... Read More

The Role of Class, Morality, Language, and Image in Pygmalion, a Play by George Bernard Shaw (937 words, 3 pages)

Pygmalion Essay Test1.Class, in social terms, is what determines at what place in the society you are based mostly on how much money you make, and how you act. High class people are typically known as prim, proper, highly educated, clean, and rich people. The characters that show high class ... Read More

Relaying Emotions, Body Language, and Relating and Understanding the Language with the Proper Understanding and Usage of English Vocabulary (599 words, 2 pages)

Vocabulary my homemade educationVocabulary is words in a language written and spoken. Vocabulary improvement is very important because reading and writing is one of the most important skills to have in everyday living. My plan for my reading and writing improvement is to read and write inside and outside of ... Read More

The Connections Between Sex and Language in the Book Language and Sexuality by Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick (473 words, 2 pages)

The book Language and Sexuality by Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick analyzes the connections between sex and language. From there they also take a look at sexual identity and language, determining whether there is a homosexual or heterosexual form of language. It is a unique description and lesson about sexual ... Read More

A Cultural Domain Analysis of the Language Used by Major Political Parties (3857 words, 14 pages)

As 2016 is a prominent election year, it is not uncommon for most people to have an opinion about politics. The opinions of Republicans and Democrats contrast greatly when it comes to debate on topics like health care, abortion, gay marriage, and climate change. Politics and political beliefs have always ... Read More

The Language of Catalonia in the Book Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia by Kathryn Woolard (436 words, 2 pages)

The book Double Talk Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia by Kathryn Woolard is an excellent book and a study of the language of Catalonia, a small autonomous country in Northeast Spain. Catalan is a very unique native and minority language, which when analyzed in its cultural environment ... Read More

Man-Made Languages in the Book In the Land of Invented Languages (542 words, 2 pages)

The book In the Land of Invented Languages, Arika Okrent tells the story of many different and generally unheard of man-made languages. While, arguably, all languages are man-made, the languages in specific that she is talking about are languages that have a definitive inventor and were consciously made for a ... Read More

Language and Racism in the Book Articulate While Black by H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman (551 words, 2 pages)

The book Articulate While Black by H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman tackles one of the biggest problems faced today racism in the United States. Further than that it emphasizes how language applies to this racism problem in the country, specifically focusing on the leader of it himself, Barack Obama. ... Read More

The Brilliant Use of Creative Language to Change the Mood in the Poems Men at Forty by Donald Justice and The Tyger by William Blake (632 words, 2 pages)

Men at Forty and The Tyger are two intense poems written using creative language that seems to alter each piece's mood drastically. These two poems discussing strong, bold things are transformed into soft spoken stanzas that float off the readers tongue and resonate like peaceful songs. Donald Justice uses gentle ... Read More

The Negative Effects of Texting on the Individual’s English Language in I H8 Txt Msgs: How Texting is Wrecking Our Language, an Essay by John Humphrys (544 words, 3 pages)

Textings effects on socialization skills has been a topic of great controversy as technology has improved. For some, texting is a convenient way of communication that even expands ones linguistic abilities. For others, such as John Humphrys, texting may be eroding away at the English language itself. Humphrys, author of ... Read More

Learning About the Saudi Arabian Lifestyle From a Student From the English as a Second Language Program (860 words, 3 pages)

Many undergraduates go through their entire college career without having the opportunity to speak with students from different parts of the world. After spending some time with a student from the English as a Second Language (ESL) program, Ive come to realize how little I know about cultural differences in ... Read More

What are the Advantages of Speaking a Second Language? (368 words, 1 pages)

What are the advantages of speaking a second language?Communication is a very important tool for human beings. Communication is done through language and there are many languages that are spoken all around the world. Therefore, it is important for every individual to be able to speak more than one language, ... Read More

The Language-Based Mechanism and Attention-Based Mechanism of the Brain’s Working Memory (541 words, 2 pages)

The brains working memory is a structure that impermanently accumulates and controls the information needed to execute cognitive tasks such as learning and reasoning. Recent research over working memory and its storage of verbal data has highlighted two apparatus of preservation a language-based mechanism and an attention-based mechanism. The language-based ... Read More

An Interview with an English Language Learner Student in the United States from Venezuela (1074 words, 5 pages)

ConclusionI do not know if it was allowed or not, but I spent some time talking to the ESOL teachers about my interviewee. This happened because teacher in charge of the younger grades was a little hesitant about letting me record my conversation with one of the students. I told ... Read More

An Analysis of the Complexity of the Legal Language (332 words, 1 pages)

Analyse the complexity of legal language.Several linguistic issues have been encountered within the legal domain. The legal discourse used is often, or most of the time subjected to technicalities and specificities that are not understood by lay people. It becomes a paradoxical issue to consider that the law which is ... Read More

My Reflection on the Implications of Using Politically Correct Language Based from an Article with Reference to Amy Schumer Skit (423 words, 2 pages)

At first, I almost didnt choose this article. I saw the words politically correct language and was tempted to run in the opposite direction in fear that I would waste the time reading it and still not understand it. I decided to give it a try anyways, mostly because it ... Read More

The Evaluation of Two Hypotheses on the Stages of Language Acquirement in Snedeker et al.’s Experiment (582 words, 2 pages)

In Snedeker et al.s (2007) experiment, two hypotheses on the stages of language acquirement are evaluated (p. 80). Developmental hypotheses argue that childrens linguistic capabilities grow along with their cognitive abilities (Snedeker et al. 2007, p. 80). Contingent-acquisition hypotheses, on the other hand, push for more of a building block ... Read More

The Importance of Learning the American Sign Language (902 words, 4 pages)

The Only Unnecessary Language Barrier out thereAs of today there are around 95 schools specifically for the Deaf and Blind, compare that to the almost 99-thousand public schools (as of the 2009-2010 school year). So with everything mixed deaf schools barely make up .09 of total schooling, and the schools ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013