The learning strategy I chose was “RAP”. This is a strategy used to increase reading comprehension in students. This article is targeted towards teachers who want to use a simple‚ flexible‚ comprehension strategy that can be taught in groups or individually. There is currently too much focus on fluency‚ and not enough focus on reading comprehension. This strategy is easily incorporated into existing curriculum‚ is not time consuming‚ and can be used in any educational setting. This instructional
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RAP MUSIC IS A BAD INFLUENCE ON YOU PEOPLE. History Hip hop began in the 1970s. The art form‚ which originated in New York‚ provided Black and Latino youth with an outlet to express themselves‚ often speaking out about the poor conditions that exist within their communities. The development of the hip-hop culture created a movement that influenced the way we dress‚ speak and socialize. The emergence of "gangsta rap" in the 1980s marked the beginning of some disintegration of the positive images
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Taboo language: FUCK Is it no longer obscene? All languages have words that are considered taboo – words that are not supposed to be said or used. Taboo words or swearwords‚ can be used in many different ways and they can have different meanings depending on what context they appear in. Another aspect of taboo words is the euphemisms that are used in order to avoid obscene speech. This paper will focus on the f-word which replaces the word fuck‚ and as the study will show it also have other meanings
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Figurative Language versus Literal Language Introduction Figurative language is an important part of the English language that allows a person to better express their thoughts. However‚ some are careless in using figurative language that can cause confusion and misunderstanding. Below are some examples of the most common types of figurative language as well as their examples. Idiom Idioms are common in the English language but may pose problems if someone is not familiar with the idiomatic
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Figurative Language versus Literal Language Figurative language‚ which some may refer to as “figure of speech”‚ is a type of language that utilizes description to produce a particular illustration and reveal a person’s emotion. It is‚ also‚ said that figurative language is associated with the human senses. Figurative language contains words that produce an intuition or thought of what the author wants his or her audience to know. At the end of the day figurative language plays an important role
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why it is very important to use words in the correct grammatical order‚ correct context and exact language. The power of words affects our senses‚ thinking‚ feelings creativity and the way we think. It is imperative that we must understand the phrases and meanings of words before they can properly be used. When language is shaped properly‚ it will assimilate into a culture. Since the English language is rich and varied‚ it offers an array of choices when communicating. Here are a few of those choices
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What should she do? Ignore the bad language? Give Tommy a warning? Put Tommy in timeout? On a more philosophical level‚ Ms. Smith wonders if calling another child a "poop head" is really all that bad. After all‚ there are much worse words that Tommy could have used.Language values clearly vary from one community to another. Language values are also influenced by social and economic forces. Parents in religious communities may want more restriction on profane language than parents from non-religious
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LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Language is a typically human phenomenon. In moving from the ’natural being’ of animal existence to the ’cultural being’ of human existence‚ language plays the decisive role. Language gives a sense of identity to an individual as well as a social group and‚ in the process‚ creates multiple identities. The maintenance‚ merger‚ clash and change in identities based on and reflected in the language change has prompted linguists‚ philosophers‚ psychologists
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the downside to this form of communication is that most people don’t even know what they are listening to or the effect that it has on them. Many individuals put much of their critical focus on forms of music that get a bad reputation‚ like rap. Many rap artists include curse words or outwardly promote haram (unacceptable) activities. But few in society seem to look carefully at what are considered “appropriate” music genres like rock/pop. Pink‚ a very well known pop artist‚ has a song titled “Get
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Language as a tool and language as a reality Language‚ as a system of acquiring and using complex structures of communication‚ is distinguished between two components in theory of knowledge; language as a tool and language as reality. There are several manners in which language is used as a tool and in which aids cognition; one is memory augmentation‚ in which language allows the environment as an extra-cranial memory store such as physical materials capable of systematically storing large
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