The California English Language Development Test‚ better known as CELDT is a language proficiency test developed for the California Department of Education (http://www.colorincolorado.org/glossary) .The CELDT is administered as an initial assessment to newly enrolled students from grades k-12 whose primary or home language is not English. This is indicated by the student’s Home Language Survey or if the child has no prior record of English Language Testing. The CELDT tests the areas of listening
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Introduction Language is the medium of communications and mechanism for social interaction. It is a vehicle of expression of thoughts‚ concepts‚ principles and cultural orientation. In fact‚ it is the most indispensable element of culture. It is never possible to understand the vitalities or components‚ as well as idiosyncrasies of another culture without its medium structure and medium of communication. The English language as a dynamic medium of communication and second language of Filipinos
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I think Chinese will become more important than English as international language in the future. And I will explain the reasons from different points of view‚ includes economy‚ population of Chinese and the effort made by Chinese government promotes Chinese learning. First of all‚ more people take Chinese language as an important language. The position of China becomes more crucial over the world as Chinese economy increases rapidly and keeps pace in GDP growth. David Teather (2010) stated that
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Logical and emotional appeals in “Who’s in charge of the English language” by Casey Miller and Kate Swift English‚ as an alive language‚ undergoes changes with the time. However‚ one main feature has stayed the same since its creation. Being an androcentric language‚ it still contains gender bias‚ that much or less affects people. This is what C. Miller and K. Swift write about in their article “Who’s in charge of the English language‚” addressed to the Members of the Association of American University
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“Politics and the English Language‚” states that thought can corrupt language but language can also corrupt thought. This means words are a means of communication and can spread ideas or restrict them. It can be agreed that language can corrupt thought just as thought can corrupt language because language can be restricted into the terms that the government desires. This is because a government can dictate what people read or hear which causes people to imitate them. Also‚ language can be restricted
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How is it that English has become such a dominant world language? It is estimated that in the world today about two billion people have some working knowledge of English‚ and the language is spreading rapidly. It is safe to say that English has become the global language. Colonization under the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spread the English language around the world. English became the main language in many of these countries‚ for example Canada (where French was
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Owning a car has several advantages and disadvantages. To be owner of a method of transportation gives you freedom but sometimes it cost too much. On one hand owning a car‚ there is the opportunity to be totally free‚ to have a high degree of flexibility. When I was a freshman I used to go to the College by tube. More than often classes were postponed late in the evening‚ when subway was closed. In these cases I had to sleep to some friends of mine because I have no way to come back home. During
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the computer listening to music and ignoring Ms. Marcantonio. Ms. Marcantoni gave her three prompts to encourage her to get off the computer. 8:30- Shantaya says‚ “Kiss my tongue”‚ actually “Kiss my ass”. 8:30- Shantaya informed that appropriate language should be utilized. Ms. Marcantonio reviewed a list of videos and songs that would not be allowed in the school environment. Shantaya replied this is not an “F” ing‚ Bully free zone.
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English a big speaking language and how it compared to Indian movies In this essay‚ I am going to describe how English became such a big spoken language and how the English became a worldwide language. This essay will also include how the Bollywood movies have developed through the industry of Hollywood‚ and why India has the English as one of the International languages. English is the international language. Now 1‚8 billion people in the world speak English. The most speaking language is Chinese
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THE ROLE OF GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN NIGERIA CASE STUDY OF KANO STATE BY HAUWA MAGAJIYA BALA (MRS) DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE MASTERS DEGREE [MA] IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE [TEFL] SUBMITTED TO LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 2004 DEDICATION DEDICATION OF THIS PIECE OF WORK GOES TO MY BELOVED PARENTS‚ HAJIYA FATIMA ZAHRA AND ALHAJI YUSUF MUSA. MAY GOD BLESS THEM‚ AMEEN. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I thank the
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