our parents and grandparents was the Spanish language. Even though my mother was born in America and she spoke English fluently, Spanish was her first language. As my sister and I started to grow into toddlers we only spoke Spanish, so it was not a surprise to me when my mother told me that my sister and I got kicked out of pre-school because we did not know how to read or write in English and it was difficult for our teachers to understand us. A few weeks later, my mother put us into a different school
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Providing English Language Learners (ELLs) equal opportunity to learn is one of the most important challenges that education institution face today. Since 2001, the No Child Left Behind Policy mandating that the U.S. elementary and secondary schools to adopt academic standards and corresponding assessment systems for all students in the U.S. public schools. This policy makes standardized testing more important and high-stake than ever before, because the consequences of these testing would determine
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Comparison the cities of Canada and the U.S The article on About.com, “Comparing the City in the United States and Canada” by Ping Zhou discussed the differences between the cities of the U.S and Canada. These two countries are tied together either geographically or economically. Though those cities share almost the same traits with each other, there are still some differences among them when “broke down some of those traits”: Sprawl, Transportation and Ethnic Diversity. The first comparison
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the world. However, raising your child to become truly bilingual can be quite a task here in the west. The constant bombardment of monolingual pop culture is one of the reasons for this. After all, when your child’s favorite cartoon shows are in English - what else can you expect? The good news is that kids are hardwired to learn new kinds of communication and there are things you can do to facilitate an ideal bilingual learning environment for your child. We’ll introduce some proven methods here
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new job opportunities. How can someone work on American soil and not know how to speak the language or know how to fit in? Project Xi, a funded Government project, plans to change this by providing men with courses that will teach them how to speak English, convert to American lifestyle, and job training. Americans are the ones who can aid immigrants in the process of them moving into the U.S. We live here and know the ropes better than someone who has never been to the country.
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Dual Enrollment English 112 is a pre-college composition course provided to the students at Brooke Point High School. Students must have completed Dual Enrollment English 111 to move on to this course. Similar to English 111, English 112 continues to develop college writing while putting emphasis on critical essays, argumentive styles, and research. The second semester of Dual Enrollment will have taught me how to accurately embed research into my papers by locating, evaluating, and documenting APA
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William Shakespeare is a well-known play writer and actor for when Queen Elizabeth the first, was the queen of England. Everyone knows who William Shakespeare is! He is very famous for his most popular play Romeo and Juliet. Such a tragic love story which still is recreated into movies today. The words and setting may have changed over the course of the years of the play, but the true meaning of his astonishing plays may never change over the years. Our time compared to his time has many similarities
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A. Bibliographical Information Jones, D., Shol, S., Kohen-Klieman, C., & Miska, M. (2015). Spotlight on English. Doral: Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc. (431 pages) Santillanna’s Spotlight on English for Kindergarten is divided into eight different units to offer various topics to discuss and expose ELL students to throughout the year. Each individual unit contains daily lessons that are integrated to include all academic content areas such as, Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Science
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classroom in a Title 1 school. Most of the students in this school come to learn Spanish and some have been here since kindergarten. For those students that have been in the school since kindergarten, their English vocabulary is advanced, but there are still a large percentage who do not speak English or are at a beginner’s level. The teacher is SEI endorsed and is also head of the ELL, ESL program. She gave me a tour around the school where every grade is taught and showed me how they include all students
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In my journey, a challenge I had to overcome personally is being an Asian-American myself. Growing up my parents had trouble communicating with people and knowing the English language in general. I had to translate bills, letters, and conversations for them because they struggled with communication. It was hard for me to translate for both parties at once as I struggled with fluency in Vietnamese myself. Conversations with my parents lasted with little phrases instead of sentences, so I couldn’t
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