Essay Undergraduate 650 words

ESSA's Impact on English Language Learner Education Policy

Explores how the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) shapes ELL education, including accountability options, multilingualism support, and ongoing resource gaps.

Education

~4 min read

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Essay Graduate 1,103 words

Designing an English Classroom for Multiple Literacies

Explore how furniture layout, technology, gaming, and learning theory combine to create an English classroom that supports multiple literacies and diverse learners.

Education

~6 min read

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Case Study Undergraduate 891 words

Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners: An ELL Case Study

A case study of a Chinese ELL student's language assessment and literacy instruction using BINL, ACTFL WPTI, Think-Pair-Share, journals, and KWL charts.

Education

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 791 words

Langston Hughes' "Theme for English B": A Poetry Explication

An explication of Langston Hughes' "Theme for English B," analyzing its free verse structure, racial identity, jazz influences, and tone of liberation.

Literature

~4 min read

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914 words

Standardized testing appropriateness for English language learners and young children

Standardized assessment tools as measures of academic progress have become the common paradigm for tracking student improvement in classrooms across America. This paper will discuss the concept of standardized testing by viewing the issue through two sets of questions: 1.

~5 min read

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1,549 words

Standards-based curriculum for English language learners in the UAE

According to Farah and Ridge, authors of Challenges to Curriculum Development in the UAE, " the term curriculum can be said to encompass the principles, underlying educational philosophy, goals, content and concrete functioning of the 'instructional program' in the classroom, as well as the written…

~8 min read

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2,320 words

Teaching idiomatic expressions to English language learners

An idiom is an expression, word, or even phrase that has a unique of figurative meaning that is understood colloquially but that is often unrelated to the literal meaning of the word or phrase.

~12 min read

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34,792 words

Creative writing and English language proficiency in Singapore

Singapore is a country in which the learning of the English language has become vitally important. For many students, the learning of the English Language is dependent upon the development of creative writing skills.

~174 min read

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4,200 words

Hispanic immigrant enclaves and English language acquisition patterns

Chaney (2010) reports that there has been a large influx of Hispanic immigrants to Nashville, Tennessee over the last two decades. This large number of immigrants to the area has led to the establishment of an ethnic enclave in the community.

~21 min read

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2,689 words

Moving to Himeji: Teaching English and adapting to Japan

Several years ago I was walking along a busy commercial street in a mid-sized Japanese city. The street, called Otamai Dori, was the main shopping thoroughfare in Himeji, a city of about 400,000 located south of Kobe and north of Okayama.

~14 min read

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