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Conservative and Liberal Languages

For example, in his debate for gay marriage Sullivan indicates that conservatives consider gay marriage to be "a slippery slope towards polygamy and other things such as pedophilia, or even bestiality" and as such it [...]
  • Subjects: Language Development
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 995

Writing and Speaking in Communication Process

It is based on this that it cannot be stated that one form of communication is better than the other, rather, they are both important aspects of how humans choose to communicate and as such [...]
  • Subjects: Teaching
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 698

Role of Language in Forming Identities

In conclusion, both writers disclose their understanding of the role of language in shaping and maintaining cultural and ethnical identities. However, both Rodriguez and Tan realize that loss of identity lead to loss of the [...]
  • Subjects: Importance of Language
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Language Barriers of the ELL in American Society

Compared to her, June Jordan, the author of a study on the Black English, dwells upon the problem of being different as well, considering the social inacceptance of the dialect and the Black subculture: "white [...]
  • Subjects: Languages
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1479

Assessments for English Language Learners

Therefore, it is the responsibility of teachers to utilize the various assessment ways in order to determine the progress of their students.
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  • Subjects: Teaching
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 875

The Secrets of Reading: Breathing Life into Things

Either because of the work of people's imagination, or because of the genius of the writers, people believe in what they read, which makes them live the life of a story character.
  • Subjects: Importance of Language
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 617

Idioms: Understanding the Figurative Language

In many of the educational facilities, there is a misguided notion that these students will automatically fit into the society in their institutions through their interaction with the natives, but this often results to miscommunication [...]
  • Subjects: Languages
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 764

Reliability of King’s arguments

The major conclusion of the part of Martin Luther King's speech touching upon the issue of Ho Chi Min's land reform is that this reform was benevolent for the peasants, and can be categorized as [...]
  • Subjects: Spoken Language
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 580

Contribution of Learning English as a Second Language

The input stands for the contribution or participation effort of the learner while the output is productivity or results received from the learner, in this case, of immigrants the output is the ability to comprehend [...]
  • Subjects: Language Use
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1624

Extinction of minority languages

On the other hand, the extinction of minor languages leads to the extinction of certain cultural groups and their individualities, turning the world into a global grey crowd.
  • Subjects: Language Use
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

Language and Its Relation to Cognition

With the help of the lexicon, it is possible to learn more about the meanings of words in languages, their relations and use, and define the categories of these words and meaningful phrases.
  • Subjects: Language Development
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1098

The Concept of Audience in Writing

So, I realized that the concept of audience was extremely important for my personal narrative essay, and proper selection of the audience made me define how to write the process of writing: I should to [...]
  • Subjects: Language Use
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 933

Serve the World Most Vulnerable: World Relief Organization

The organization's efforts are commendable since they make a difference in the lives of thousands of vulnerable people in the US and all over the world. In response to the vast suffering experienced by the [...]
  • Subjects: Spoken Language
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Summary of John Humphrys

In a rather humorous essay, John Humphrys presents the argument that the act of texting actually causes a degradation of the English language as we know it due to its use of abbreviations and terminologies [...]
  • Subjects: Language Use
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1010

Effects of Text Messaging on English Language

However, with the technological advancements that the world is currently facing, the status of writing, especially with regards to text messaging is being threatened.
  • Subjects: Language Development
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 891

Written as Spoken Language

This paper is therefore, an analysis of the spoken language to determine why it is used in writing, the current statistics and examples on the same.
  • Subjects: Written Speech
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1372

The Course of English for Special Purposes

In this course, students are exposed to various uses of English in a variety of fields, but these are limited due to the time the course takes.
  • Subjects: Language Use
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 543

Defamiliarization

According to Shklovsky, this method of art is intended to challenge the mind of the reader that she or he is compelled to perceive the ordinary differently and thus be glad about the text form [...]
  • Subjects: Spoken Language
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 788

The role of morphemes in the English language

For example, in the television show "A Charlie Brown Christmas", the cartoonist Charlez Schulz presented a scenario, in which Linus tells Charlie Brown: "Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you are the Charlie [...]
  • Subjects: Languages
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579