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    Mother tongue-based multilingual education (MLE) is a formal or nonformal education‚ in which the children’s mother tongue is used in the classroom as a bridge in learning Filipino and English. Children begin their education in a language they understand‚ their mother tongue‚ and develop a strong foundation in their mother language. The purpose of a multilingual education program is to develop appropriate cognitive and reasoning skills enabling children to operate equally in different languages

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    English as a Global Tongue

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    processFAQFormat specificationsPrivacy policyPlagiarism preventionClient testimonialsTerms of serviceFree Dictionary & ThesaurusEssay samplesTerm paper samplesMovie review samplesContact support teamLive supportEssay‚ Research Paper: English As A Global Tongue LanguageFree Language essays posted on this site were donated by users and are provided for informational use only. The free essay on this page was not written by our writers and should not be viewed as a sample of our writing service. We are neither

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    Spring Break

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    Spring break is supposed to be a great time from the second it begins‚ until the second it ends. Now there is always that boring time it takes to get to wherever you may be going no matter how far that may be it is always the least fun of the entire vacation. My last spring break’s car ride happened to be the least fun by far of any trip I have taken up to this point in my life. It all started out not so good before I had even left to pick up my buddies who were riding with me for the trip. My good

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    Norm Break

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    Jake Flaherty SOC 101-102 Norm Break Humans are a very odd species. They require the sense of comfort and safety to operate their daily lives effectively. They embrace the idea of ‘normal.’ Going as far back as the ancient times‚ keeping a general law of behavior was and still is extremely important for humans to coexist successfully. When cultures clash and when society cannot blend‚ lines get drawn and wars are fought. No matter what culture is being observed‚ the status quo must be maintained

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    Mother Tongue Essay

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    Tan makes in her story‚ “Mother Tongue”. Tan uses pathos to portray to her audience how through her experiences with her mother and the Chinese language she came to realize who she wanted to be and how she wanted to write. In “Mother Tongue”‚ Tan discusses the many ways in which the language that she was taught affected her life. Throughout the story‚ she describes her relationship with her mother‚ who speaks “broken” English‚ and how her perception of language has changed due to her mother. Whenever

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    Lovely Bones

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    Pennsylvania in 1973. 14-year-old Susie Salmon takes her usual shortcut home from her school through a cornfield. George Harvey‚ a 36-year-old neighbor who lives alone and builds doll houses for a living‚ persuades her to have a look at an underground den he has recently dug in the field. Once she enters‚ he rapes and murders her and dismembers her body‚ putting her remains in a safe that he dumps in a sinkhole. Susie’s spirit flees toward her personal heaven. The Salmon family at first refuses to believe

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    American Tongues Essay

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    Alex Bakaitis GEPL 3050 2/18/15 American Tongues Essay Depending on where you’re from and where you’ve lived in the United States‚ you probably say things a little differently than people from other parts of the country. American Tongues is a documentary that films different varieties of English that people speak all around the United States. American Tongues is a documentary that films different varieties of English that people speak all around the United States. The English language is composed

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    Analysis on Mother Tongue

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    different languages or different tones when we are engaging in conversation with others. When you are talking with friends or close family you would use different dialect or slang‚ then if you were talking to your boss or teacher. In her essay “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan discusses the relationship between language‚ literacy‚ and its power. I think one of the main points of the story was that words are more than just words‚ in my own opinion‚ sometimes you have to look behind them and read in between to

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    Mother Tongue Essay

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    Shukree Abdul-Rashed English 101 Mrs. Rabe September 5‚ 2012 Mother Tongue “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan is an essay discussing how English-speakers inaccurately associate language with not only words/vocabulary but also educational stature.  “ ‘Mother Tongue’ shows us that rather than becoming accustomed to English‚ we should recognize and embrace our ‘mother tongue.’ The language we use is so powerful it can evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or simple truth.” Amy Tan indicated

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    Aria and Mother Tongue

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    In the story “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan both authors write about their experiences and struggles as a bilingual child. In “Aria” and “Mother Tongue” they describe their private language as an expression of intimacy with their loved ones. Growing up at one point they felt embarrassed and ashamed of their parents inability to speak English fluently. Tan writes “My mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English‚” (Tan 543). They

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