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Supporting English language learners through guided text conversations

Iddings, Risko and Rampulla entitled "When You Don't Speak Their Language: Guiding English Language Learners through Conversations about Text" discussed the need for support among monolingual English teachers who teach second language learners.

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Teaching English as a second language online: effectiveness and student outcomes

TESL pedagogy. The purpose of this discussion is to explore the concept of teaching ESL online and how the exploration of this concept will form the basis of a dissertation. There are several aspects of ESL online that have been researched.

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The "English Only" movement and threats to American diversity

In the eyes of the world, the passage of an "English Only" law would strengthen the image and identity of the U.S. because it would legitimize the nation and give nationalists a central pillar with which to unite American culture.

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Understanding English idioms: definitions, origins, and learning challenges

An idiom is a phrase that when the words are taken together they have a different meaning from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. This is what makes idioms hard for ESL students and other learners to master (English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions, 2009).

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Using English-language soap operas to teach ESL in South Korea

American and British soap operas have exploded in popularity in Korea in recent years, becoming nothing short of a social phenomenon.

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Accents as geographic and social markers in American English

That working definition takes into consideration the fact that "accents are loose bundles of prosodic and segmental features distributed over geographic and/or social space" (42).

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The English School's theory of international order and cooperation

According to English School, why is there such a high degree of order in the international system?

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Parent English language learning after California's Proposition 227

Mom, I need some help with my homework." For some parents, these words are a welcome phrase that signifies their child's love, trust and healthy dependence upon the child's mother or father.

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Marketing English-language business education products to Brazil

In recent years, the economy of the Latin American, Portuguese-speaking nation of Brazil has been booming.

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Plain English movement policy considerations for KPMG communications

The Plain English Language (PEL) movement is intended to improve the effectiveness of communications by simplifying them and making them easier to understand by their intended audiences.

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