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  • Second Language Students Proficiency In Conversational English
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    Mid-Term / Spring 1998 This Termpaper was for an Educational Class for the Teaching Credential Program. The questions listed below describe various theories and questions related to ESL and reading. Hope you find this paper useful. I got an 'A' for this termpaper Bibliography: Author - Ruddell Reading in Secondary Education 1. Krashen's theory of comprehensible input states: "We learn a second language containing linguistic structures that are just beyond the structures we already know". (Ruddel...
  • Reading English Language Arts Assessment
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    race Allen of the comedy team of Burns and Allen was once asked how one should speak French. She replied, "Well, you speak it the same way you speak English; you just use different words". When trying to assist in instructing English language learners, they usually have many concepts and language abilities that they need to master, as do the teachers that are trying to teach them. With the incorporation of the concepts and approaches to identify and assess the issues and concerns that we have le...
  • Student Activities And The Teachers
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    For this critical analysis, the first article I have chosen to evaluate "A Social Capital Framework for Understanding the Socialization of Racial Minority Children and Youths" by Richard D. Stanton-Salazar. This article surprised me in various ways and gave me mixed emotions. The author details a network-analytic framework to understand the socialization and schooling experiences of working-class racial minority youth. Stanton-Salazar examined the relationships between youth and institutional ag...
  • Drug On College Campuses Alcohol
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    In our society, there are many obstacles that face students who are trying to obtain a college education. First, the student has to do well in high school, pass the S.A.T. 's, and be able to afford to pay for a college education. For those who can't afford to pay for college there is Financial Aid. But what if financial aid was taken away from students based solely on one minor drug offense? I will address several reasons why I believe the Souder Amendment is unethical and why it should be repea...
  • Quality Of Students At Universities
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    Recent changes in American society have resulted in increasing number of minority students enrolling in colleges and universities. Differing views among these ethnic groups can sometimes cause conflicts for students of all races (Cozic 249). Some argue that students and universities benefit from these ethnic conflicts. Same time others believe that increasing racial diversity in American colleges and university has led to a decrease in the quality of education. People who support multiculturalis...
  • Affirmative Action In Admissions Harms College Students
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    The subject of affirmative action in college admissions has been hotly debated since its inception. Although affirmative action was originally supported by the vast majority, that same majority is now starting to wonder if there is a better way. Commonly asked questions include: "Is affirmative action still working?" and "Is there an alternative?" The answers to each of these questions will provide insurmountable evidence that affirmative action in college admissions no longer fulfills its inten...
  • Minor Over Several Years To Oxford
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    The Professor and the Madman, written by Simon Winchester, is a biography about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Winchester, who is an author, journalist, broadcaster and foreign correspondent, has written for many magazines and newspapers distributed worldwide. In an interview between Winchester and a host of C-SPAN, Winchester was asked where the idea for the book came, he replies Well, it came to me in a rather bizarre way. I was reading a book on lexicography in the bath one morn...
  • Affirmative Action In The Enrollment Of Students
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    After about thirty years of implementation, affirmative action is losing the foothold that it has in our society. Many debates have arisen with the passing of proposition 209, a ban on affirmative action in California. Washington has even passed an initiative modeled from proposition 209, and more states are now starting to debate the issue. The ban has become a reality in major universities in California and Texas. The results show a significant decrease in the enrollment of minorities. Thus th...
  • Affirmative Action College Admissions
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    If one is to discuss and problem solve a program, he or she must first know what the issue is really about. Affirmative action is defined as the equal opportunities given to minorities, small groups, and women so they will have the same resources, and allotment to achieve their goals in life. Affirmative action today, is considered to be one of the most controversial dilemmas facing our equal status of individual rights. As we all know affirmativeaction was implement with the idea and hope that ...
  • Chances Of Educational Opportunities For Minorities
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    Affirmative action is wrong. Affirmative action was set up to improve the educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women. It is not fair to choose students of certain nationalities over others because the school is not diverse enough. Every student has a fair chance to get into college and it just so happens that certain nationalities are admitted into colleges more than others because they perform better during their stint in high school. Admittance into colleges should not b...

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