El sendero torcido al español [The Twisted Path to Spanish]: The Development of Bilingual Teachers’ Spanish-Language Proficiency John A. Sutterby‚ Javier Ayala‚ and Sandra Murillo University of Texas at Brownsville Abstract This paper describes the development of Spanish-language proficiency in bilingual preservice teachers at a university on the Texas–Mexico border. A survey with open-ended questions was administered to preservice teachers in bilingual and English as a Second Language certification
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simpler it is to understand the text. The vocabulary development is low for struggling readers and the ELL population I am serving and I was wondering Right now‚ I am at a school with a high populace of ELL learners and also struggling readers. I have been reviewing last year’s scores for the Florida State Assessment (FSA) and want to see the vocabulary knowledge tasks of these struggling readers and ELL students is enhance will it help in comprehension of
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state of Nevada has been continuously ranked in the bottom five when it comes to education. Just recently‚ reports by the Las Vegas Sun have been released that 48% of high school sophomores failed the reading comprehension component of the Nevada Proficiency Exam. While school officials claim that this is due to a new format of the exam more tailored to reading comprehension than was before‚ this is still troubling news since Nevada’s youth consistently rank lower in examinations relative to other states
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//list of header files #include <windows.h> #include<stdio.h> //contains printf‚scanf etc #include<conio.h> //contains delay()‚getch()‚gotoxy()‚etc. #include <stdlib.h> #include<string.h> //contains strcmp()‚strcpy()‚strlen()‚etc #include<ctype.h> //contains toupper()‚ tolower()‚etc #include<dos.h> //contains _dos_getdate #include<time.h> //#include<bios
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The setting of the ELL instructor interview was inside Mrs. Trimble’s kindergarten classroom after her class had been dismissed. This was a one-on-one interview. Mrs. Trimble was very helpful‚ informative‚ and answered questions to the best of her ability. “Narrowing the achievement gap between students who are native English speakers and those learning English as a second language is one of the biggest challenges facing U.S. educators” (Pardini‚ P.‚ 2006‚ p. 20). In this essay the discussion
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fit into American society and it will be important for me to integrate the student ’s culture into the class (Banks‚ J. and Banks‚ C.‚ 2003). This starts with me the teacher being familiar with the specific family to work effectively with those ELL parents. When considering the involvement of ESL parents‚ it is important to make it easy for parents to be involved in their child ’s education. Teachers should survey parents about family to learn about the best way to work with the family and
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1.0 Executive Summary The Ell’s café bistro is a full-service restaurant/cafe located in the Danga bay johor bahru . The restaurant features a full menu of moderately priced "comfort" food influenced by western and malay cooking traditions‚ but based upon time honored recipes from around the world. The cafe section of The Ell’s café bistro features a coffeehouse with a dessert bar‚ magazines‚ and space for live performers. The Ell’s café bistro will be owned and operated by The Ell’s LLC‚ a JJH
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DSS The DSS is an information management system that supports business decision-making. It collects and analyzes mountains of raw data‚ information and documents‚ and compiles the data into useful reports. Function The DSS is an interactive knowledge-management system where managers and decision-makers can specify a search criteria based a particular subject area of concern and receive a report. Based on the user-specified search criteria‚ the DSS finds the necessary data--such as customer buying
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the development of your local/regional society. [150 words maximum]. people like nelson mandela and mother teresa has always been an model of inspiration for me to do something for the society. i have been an active member volunteering social activities in the past like collcting funds for the flood victoms in 2010 particpated
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Testing Oral Proficiency: Difficulties and Methods Introduction: Although testing language has traditionally taken the form of testing knowledge about language‚ the idea of testing communicative competence is becoming recognized as being of great importance in second language learning. In testing communicative competence‚ speaking and listening tasks are commonly used. Those require tasks such as the completion of an information gap and role play (Kitao & Kitao‚ 1996). As language
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