ENGLISH ONLY COURT CASES INVOLVING THE U.S. WORKPLACE: THE MYTHS OF LANGUAGE USE AND THE HOMOGENIZATION OF BILINGUAL WORKERS’ IDENTITIES Kari Gibson University of Hawai‘i Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects against discrimination in employment on the basis of race‚ color‚ sex‚ religion and national origin. However when the judicial system has examined English Only workplace policies in light of Title VII‚ it has generally determined that such policies are not discriminatory if an
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Abstract Nouns An abstract noun is a noun which names anything which you can not perceive through your five physical senses‚ and is the opposite of a concrete noun. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all abstract nouns: Buying the fire extinguisher was an afterthought. Tillie is amused by people who are nostalgic about childhood. Justice often seems to slip out of our grasp. Countable Nouns A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form
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Education in America vs. Education in Third World Countries A few weeks ago‚ I was walking downtown‚ when this random came up to me and said “You in school? That’s good‚ that’s good. Education is important.” From the state of her hair and clothes‚ and the smell of her breath‚ I assumed she was homeless. I didn’t really pay much attention to her‚ because homeless people are so common in downtown Atlanta. I was just hoping that she wasn’t going to ask me for any money! After a while‚ I started
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Growing up bilingual meant that not only was I lucky to be cultured in two languages but it also meant that I had an expanded vocabulary with words in Spanish and in English. In elementary‚ I felt uncomfortable speaking either language around my classmates because they would look at me strange if I spoke Spanish with someone and then weird again if I spoke English and I felt that I had to identify with just one. Once I got into my teenage years I learned that being bilingual was not a disadvantage
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BODY Games in the past were viewed in the light of fun and leisure‚ but now it is slowly being recognized as a tool for learning where students are being engaged and immersed on the subject being learned (Annetta‚ 2008‚ p 229). This explains the steady application of video games in aiding different teaching approaches and experimenting with its use. According to Garris et. al (2002‚ p 441) there are several reasons for the popularity of video games as an educational tool; first‚ is that its use
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Spanish is the language I’ve known all my life. It’s the language my family and I have used since we were able to speak. I never really questioned when other people would use a different language. I don’t even remember other people speaking a different language than me until I moved to a different elementary school. I attended pre-k through second grade at Perez Elementary. There‚ from I remember‚ all the classes where taught in Spanish‚ so I was never exposed to a different language. Things drastically
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BILINGUAL CHILDREN STORY BOOK : A FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF LEARNING ENGLISH Agnes Widyaningrum‚ SE‚ M.Pd Abstract Indonesian children are born as bilingual even multilingual children because Indonesia is a rich country having many different cultures. As one of cultural products‚ language can be learnt through various ways‚ one example is by reading children storybook. Language use is always socially and culturally situated. Learning English is a process of tranforming linguistics
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people aged 60 years and over‚ will increase from 605 million to 2 billion by the year 2050. (Organization‚ 2014) Research have identified five regions where languages are facing rapid extinction. They are Northern Australia‚ Central South America‚ North America‚ Eastern Siberia and Oklahoma and Southwest United States. (Wilford‚ 2007) Language is disappearing at an alarming rate in Australia. The number of spoken languages by the initial indigenous population has decreased from two hundred
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Everyone has a talent or skill that they’re proud of‚ mine has to be being bilingual. Being bilingual can be very helpful not just to me‚ but to others as well. Speaking two languages can help me with any new career opportunities that would make me stand out and take me very far in life. I have worked really hard to get to where I am today. My family only spoke Spanish to me so I wasn’t able to learn English. My oldest sibling growing up didn’t speak English either. When I started elementary
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United States had easily satisfied the academic needs of their children. However‚ as time progressed‚ the schooling standards simultaneously regressed. Similarly‚ Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird presents the idea that the schooling systems within America are infested with operational flaws.
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