Action Research
Fernández Mella 3 Introduction Teaching a Second Language is not an easy task. English teachers, here in Chile, have to deal with many problems when trying to teach this Second Language. This Action Research is going to be about some of those problems and it will show how reflective we are in....

Career as a teacher
After observing at both a 3rd grade elementary classroom and an 8th grade middle school class, and volunteering at both a preschool and an English as Second Language after-school/summer school program, I learned a great deal about the things a teacher goes through. I saw the potential situations tha....

Evaluation of ERIC Database (Educational Resource Information Center)
A database is a collection of information organized in such a way that a computer program can quickly select desired pieces of data when needed. . There are many types of databases. These types are determined by a description of the databases content. Not all databas....

Extrapolating techniques for teaching a second lanuage from experience
Language is the tool used by humans to communicate thoughts, ideas and emotions with one another. Language is the set of rules shared by the individuals who are communicating which allows them to communicate meaningfully conveying ideas without any ambiguity. Hence the user of the language must be s....

First & Second Language Acquisition Affects Language Preference in Bilinguals
Abstract Bilingualism refers to the ability of an individual to communicate in two languages, with a reasonable amount of proficiency, with more than half the worlds population claiming it. The study conducted here explores the relationship between peoples knowledge of their first and second la....

First Language or Second Language?
Ever since God punished the people who wanted to build the Tower of Babel with the confusion of tongues in the time of old testament, people around the world have faced the problem of communication. When giving out a historical overview of second-language teaching in Second-Language Acquisition in C....

Language Transfer. Manifestations of crosslinguistic influence.
Content 1. Introduction 2 2. Manifestations of transfer 4 2.1. Negative transfer Interference 5 2.2. Positive transfer Facilitation 6 2.3. Avoidance 7 2.4. Overuse 8 3. The development of crosslinguistic influence research 9 3.1. The Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis 10 3.2. L2 acquis....

Made in Japan and Settled in Oregon by Mitzi Asai Loftus
The author, Mitzi Asai Loftus describes her family life and the hardship that she and her family were subjected to during the Second World War. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Japan early in the 20th century. So Mitzi is one-hundred percent Japanese but American in terms of national....

Math Teachers in California
Math plays an important role in life. This is why I would like to become a bilingual math teacher. I have passion working with kids, this is why I would like to be there for the ones that want to give up, show them there's always someone who believes in them and will be there to help them in any pos....

Second Language Acquisition and the Role of the Mother Tongue upon SLA
1. Introduction In recent years, the importance of second language learning has increased due to globalisation. Communication has expanded far beyond earlier communication communities; and through the internet world wide communication is as easy as it has never been before. More and more people a....

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