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Why America should embrace multilingualism instead of English-only laws

'Mother tongue:' Why America needs to grow up and accept the realities of a multilingual world Making English the official language of America will only sow division within its borders, rather than create unity.

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Learning English through parental encouragement and formal education

It was a sunny week-end during my high school days in Saudi Arabia but the conversation we were having in our humid living room was even more intense than the desert heat.

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Aligning academic standards with English language learning proficiency in schools

Suggestions for Achieving Alignment of Academic Standards with ELL Proficiency Standards: An Overview The development and implementation of standards-based instruction that allows for adequate English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction and other English Language Learning (ELL) necessities has…

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English colonization and the Pueblo Revolt's origins

I left the port of London on the blessed day of 15 November, 1595, hoping to support bringing the light of our mother church of England to those poor savage Indians in the name of her Majesty.

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Factors influencing English language learner performance and cultural integration

English language learners (ELL) comprise a sector of the learning community that has been steadily increasing in the United States. With an ever-growing influx of immigrants, this is hardly surprising.

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State English-only and multilingual education laws in California, Colorado, and New York

Public education is a resource guaranteed by the federal government to all citizens and other legal residents of the United States, yet it is up to each of the individual states to develop and implement their own system for meeting its learner's needs. The issue of English-only vs.

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Classroom integration strategies for Russian-speaking English language learners

From 1997-1998, the Russian learners of English in the Los Angeles Unified School District amounted to 136. Ten years later, from 2007-2008, this number amounted to only 36. The number of all ELL learners in the district however grew from 18.238 from 1997-1998 to

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English language production difficulties for native French speakers

Compared with other foreign languages, English and French share some notable similarities. French is an Indo-European language and part of the Romance family, along with Spanish and Italian, and English has borrowed liberally from all of the Romance languages.

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English as a living, evolving language through history

To borrow from Robert McCrum, co-author of "The Story of English," English, which embodies a set of principles, has had a great influence on the world: "In a very real sense it contains, encoded within it, an innate declaration of independence.

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How war and isolation shaped the English language

English is often referred to as a "bastard" language due to the fact that it has so many sources.

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