Cultural Issues in ESL One main issue with English being a second language is cultural differences. It brings great distress to most international students who are studying abroad because though they strive to learn with a higher level of excellence and performance‚ their cultures will always find a way to limit that ambition. It’s hard to be in a classroom with students who do not understand the culture from whence you came. It is also hard to understand your fellow classmates and teachers for
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Why are young people having kids at very young age‚ when they have nothing to provide? The other day I was in class and we were all presenting ourselves‚ what I realized once again‚ was very strange and I have to say that I have mix feelings about it. I love kids‚ and I truly believe that there is nothing wrong with having kids‚ but I just keep asking myself the same question over and over again‚ why can’t they use protection? When we were presenting ourselves in class‚ one of the things that shocked
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ESL 1320 Final Exam Dec.9‚ 2013 1.a)The relationship between Kino and Juana is changeable during the whole novel. In the beginning‚it seems that they were living a happy life together and they loved each other regardless the poverty they were living in. Juan was always following Kino. The turning point in their relationship was when Kino found the pearl. Everything changed. The pearl brought the evil spirit to their life. The most important thing thing to Kino was the pearl
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Kids Having Kids While many teens that engage in pre-marital sex never become pregnant‚ some are not as fortunate. Did you know in the next 24 hours‚ approximately 3‚310 girls will become pregnant. Every year over one million teenage girls become pregnant in the United States. Of these pregnancies only 13 percent are intended. As a result‚ about a third of these teens abort their pregnancies‚ another 14 percent lose their pregnancies to miscarriage‚ and the remaining 52 percent teens bear
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Journeys are everywhere. No one denies that. Journeys can be physical‚ inner or imaginative and give people the opportunities to extend and challenge themselves‚ physically‚ emotionally and intellectually. These ideas can be conveyed through the documentary series‚ Through Australian Eyes by William Fitzwater and the cartoon titled Journey Of Life by Micheal Leunig. ‘Through Australian Eyes’ is a documentary series presenting the expectation‚ experiences and reflections of some young Australian
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This essay aims to discuss whether L1 (mother tongue) should be used in an EFL/ESL (English as a Foreign or Second Language) classroom. To do so‚ the term ESL must be defined as “the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages” according to Wikipedia. Another aspect that should be pointed out is where this debate comes from. The response will lead to the unresolved debate in terms of being beneficial or disadvantageous the use of L1 in ESL classrooms. Spahiu outlines the contrasting
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Michelle Snyder ESL Teacher Interview TE 826 Dr. Glenn Tracy 2-22-12 My person that I interviewed is very unique besides being a very good teacher. She had received the honor of being selected ‘Teacher of the Year” a few years back here at Perkins County Schools (Grant‚ NE)‚ so I knew her methods and strategies were tried and true. She has several different hats in our school system with English Language Learner (ELL) being just one part. She was asked to work with/for me in this program with
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pp. 77-166). New York: Wiley. Carrell‚ P. L. (1996). Second language reading strategy training: What is the role of metacognition? Atlanta‚ GA: Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL‚ Georgia State University. Chamot‚ A Chamot‚ A. U.‚ & O ’Malley‚ J. M. (1986). A cognitive academic language learning approach: An ESL content-based curriculum. Wheaton‚ MD: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education. Chamot‚ A. U.‚ & O ’Malley‚ J. M. (1994). The CALLA handbook: Implementing the cognitive academic
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Sanderman‚ A.R.‚ Levy‚ J. (2008). Educating English language learners: Building teacher capacity Khatib‚ M.‚ Rezaei‚ S.‚ & Derakhshan‚ A. (2011). Literature in EFL/ESL Classroom. English Language Teaching‚ 4(1)‚ 201-208. Nam‚ J. (2010). Linking research and practice: Effective Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary in the ESL Classroom O ’Byrne‚ B. (2001). Needed: A compass to navigate the multilingual English classroom. Journal Of Adolescent & Adult Literacy‚ 44(5)‚ 440 Pernell‚ E.‚ McIntyre
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