Language Article Reviews Samples For Students

Reflections to journal articles

Language, language acquisition and language teaching are areas of interest that have engaged the attention of linguists, psychologists and educationists for centuries. Zest in research in these areas continues with new issues being raised as a consequence of development in technology and means of communication. While experts continue to discuss first and second language acquisition, the truth is that it is difficult to find an individual who uses one pure language. Increasing contacts between language communities in a global scenario have resulted in bilingualism and multilingualism. According to Kumar and Yunus, “No society speaks just ‘a language’ that is ‘pure’ in its ...

A second language can be any language that is acquired by an individual after the acquisition of the mother’s language which is believed to be the first language regardless of where one is born. This type of language can be regarded as an auxiliary language to a person. In most cases, such language can be used after a thorough practice resulting from learning on acquiring it. It can be as a result of movement from one place to another or through a continuous interaction with the people who use that same language adapted by another individual. In most cases, if a person can ...

Introduction of the Research

Sign languages have two noticeably distinct types of morphological structure, one is sequential, and the other is simultaneous. Other than this there are two common sign languages being used, American and Israeli. Both of the languages fall in simultaneous morphology and are very similar, but when it comes to sequential morphology they differ, and are also derivational. There are different types of inflectional morphology that are discussed briefly in the paper. This research was also done to bring in the similarities between sign language and spoken languages all along; in 1970s and 1980s which are the starting days of ...

Children who hear two distinct languages in their environment are able to acquire the knowledge of both languages. This is a process known as Bilingual First Language Acquisition, and it occurs from a child’s birth. This is a concept that has been analyzed by various authors in their works.
According to De Houwer (2009), instead of acquiring a single language, such children are exposed to two first languages in their first six years. This is especially due to the fact that early years language acquisition occurs naturally; it has no influence from formal instruction thus focuses solely on the child’s ...

In this work, various aspects of language and its interrelationship with the society, the social class, the ethnic group, and the sex, are all highlighted. Chapter one talks about language and the society. Here we look at the roles played by society in developing the language, and the roles played by the language in developing the society, just like the egg and sperm scenario of Emily Martin. It is beyond any reasonable doubt that both language and society have mutual relationship. Language development depends heavily on the society. Several aspects of language including the dialects and the accent, all ...

Critical period hypothesis is not a new concept in language acquisation, because Roberts and Lennberg introduced and followed it up in 1959 and 1967 respectively in the neurolinguistic literature. They hypothesized that the recovery of brain from serious illnesses like trauma would be hindered by the maturation of the brain as one ages. Further researches on the above speculation, particularly those conducted in the behavioral sciences revealed that all the measures of language proficiency varies with the maturation of brain, but the proficiency scores gets low as the persons age increases. For these reasons, the hypothesized biological based critical period ...

Research Question

At what age can people differentiate sounds based on phonetic category even when such distinctions are not present in their native language? At what age does speech perception become modified?

Summary

Werker and Tees conduct experiments to determine at what age people stop differentiating sounds of different phonetic categories without the influence of their native languages. Different researchers have shown that infants can differentiate a set of phonetic sounds (Werker and Tees 49). Their ability to do this is said to reduce when they are exposed to certain linguistic experiences. It is different for adults; they perceive only the sounds that ...

1. The Sapir-Whorf theory of language essentially argues that language is culturally-conditioned, and so the way you speak depends on your environment and your experiences and the traditions of your culture. Anthropologists and linguists are particularly interested in the languages of remote and self-contained tribes people because their lack of contact with the developing world allows the study of language at an earlier evolutionary stage of development. However, there are signs that even in European languages culture and background may play a part in the way that some languages perceive the world around them. Motluck (36) examines the gender of ...

The Relationship Between Reading Skills in Early English as a Foreign Language and Hungarian as a First Language:

Marianne Nikolov and Benö Csapó’s paper, The Relationship Between Reading Skills in Early English as a Foreign Language and Hungarian as a First Language, seeks to discover how Hungarian school children’s reading skills in English as their second language is affected by their proficiency in their first language as well as elements of the second language. The authors make use of two studies to explore this. The first study tests sixth and eighth graders’ reading proficiency in both Hungarian (L1) and English (L2). ...

Evans, J.L., Saffran, J.R., & Robe-Torres, K. (2009)

A Review
Abstract
This is a review of the study “Statistical Learning in Children with Specific Language Impairment” by Julia L. Evans, Jenny R. Saffran, and Kathryn Robe-Torres. The study examines children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) upon following key factors; understanding of speech and sound; amount of exposure to sound; whether it is specific to a particular topic or general; and effects of vocabulary. The study employed practical observation using different sound records to determine the above mentioned factors in children with SLI of different age groups, and children without SLI ...

Helen Keller reflects on what she calls “the most important day” of her life when she met her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. The day was March 3rd, 1987 and Helen Keller was seven years old at the time. She describes her experience prior to this meeting, and prior to her education, as being immersed in a dense fog. This fog was lifted by her education. Her teacher taught her to spell words by tracing the individual letters into her hand. Helen Keller describes her frustrations as a deaf and blind girl with no knowledge of language, and how her teacher slowly ...

The basic premise of Perani et al.’s paper is to use brain imaging PET scans to investigate what areas of the brain are activated in a person speaking his native language (L1) versus the areas of the brain activated by a person speaking a second language (L2). Additionally, the researchers seek to investigate whether the age of L2 acquisition affect “patterns of acquision” within the brain, or whether language proficiency has more affect over the activated areas within the brain (Perani et al. 1998, p. 1841).

The introduction also offers other areas for which this research is useful, for example, “language ...

Introduction

The article investigates the phenomena of Pragmatic Fossilization about the non-native speakers of English. The aim of the study is to assess the impact of pragmatic markers in speech of native and non-natives speakers of English. The study assessed these in children and adult of both the study groups.

Summary

The phenomenon of “Pragmatic Fossilization” happens in the non-native speakers of English during their learning process. It is defined as the “phenomena by which a non-native speaker systematically uses certain forms inappropriately at the pragmatic level of communication”. Put in simple terms, it is persistence of formal errors by the non-native ...

‘Boys’ and Girls’ Brains are Different: Gender Differnce In Language Appear Biological.’ This is the title of the article that this text gains insight on. It is a one paged article written by Burman Douglas. D. The title serves as the hypothesis as well as it attempts to seek inquiry on the biological state of the brains of the female gender and that of the male’s. The author Burman Douglas. D is the primary author of the book ‘Sex Difference in Neural Processing of Language Among Children’, a book that he wrote in collaboration with Tai Bitan and James Booth ...

In human interaction, communication is a complicated pack of unspoken and spoken behaviors that occurs at several human interaction levels. The author views the classroom as an essential principle of learning and teaching process for communication clarity in a classroom. He views the classroom as a social learning context since interaction is key to education and learning where the teacher and the students are the participants. He says that between the second language acquisition and classroom interaction, there is a strong bond.
There are many turn-taking processes which include: the IRF pattern, pauses and silences, interactions and overlaps, mutual ...

The article under review is titled “The critical period for language acquisition: Evidence from second language learning” by Catherine Snow and Marian Hoefnagal-Hohle.

The article was developed to deal with the common debate that common formulation of the critical period hypothesis that younger is always better in L2A. The article claims that according to critical period hypothesis, first language acquisition needs to take place prior to the completion of cerebral lateralization, around puberty age.
The authors make one anticipation of the aforesaid hypothesis, stating that second language acquisition is likely to be more rapid, successful, and qualitatively same ...

The current study seeks to investigate teachers and students perceptions on the cultural dimension of language teaching and learning and some of the classroom practices present. The research approach is shaped by constructivism, which mainly asserts that reality is socially constructed. The research focuses on the way culture shapes the different aspects of teaching language in the classroom.
The epistemology of the study takes an objectivist approach with the analyzing and provision of data, which is tabulated in tables. The study assumes that culture affects or influences the perceptions of classroom practices by teachers and affects the priorities ...

Purpose of the study and research questions

The primary purpose of the current research was to assess if listening strategies that have been utilized for a long time in different studies are correctly collated to measure the use of language be the English learners. The research questions comprised of the following;
- Whether the listening strategies utilized by the university students at the department at the department if English Language Teaching, Mersin University exhibit any differences with regards to proficiency levels.
- Which are the primary listening strategies utilized by Turkish EFL students.
- Whether listening strategies utilized by the university students at the ...

Bruce Bower in his well-written article in “Science Today entitled “Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance” argues that” language style matching” is a communication asset between two people, then the reverse scenario of both employing different communication styles does nothing to help the interpersonal relationship between them. The reason for this is simple and only common sense. When two individuals talk or communicate to each other, then the use of similar language styles is usually a step forward towards better communications. Better communication means better comprehension, better empathy and therefore better quality of interpersonal relationships. So far so good, ...

Victor A. F. Lamme

Commentary:

- Consciousness is a much debated yet less known topic that has been debated by both science and philosophy. However most of our knowledge about consciousness stems from introspection and behaviour analysis. This paper helps us move away from the psychological intuitions of consciousness.
- Through well-designed examples, the author allows us to understand that we cannot be the judge of our own consciousness.
- We may think that we see the full picture but our consciousness consists of a small fraction of what is actually in front of us. This theory is well explained ...

Question 1: Compare and contrast BISC and CALP

BISC (Basic Interpersonal Communicative skills refer to that language needed by students to function in the social situation thus also referred to as social language. CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency) on the other hand is the academic language necessary for success of the student in academic endeavors by being able to use more advanced and complex language. BISC is acquired after about two years of educational experience but inadequate in upper elementary school. CALP continues throughout for five to seven years where most of this time is spent in the classroom. Teachers should, therefore, know that second language acquisition ...

“The Two Languages” is chapter 1 in Part I of book “Making Your Own Days” written by Kenneth Koch essentially “to say some clear and interesting things about poetry. The term “The Two Languages” is a metaphor for poetry identifying poetic language as its own language within language it’s written. While regarding poetry as a mysterious being that no one has quite been able to explain where and how it comes from, author Kenneth Koch invokes the ancient Greeks calling the Muse the source of poetry and others ascribing it to coming from some residually creative place in an unconscious ...

Article Summary

In the article “Is English Changing?”, edited by Betty Birner, it is hypothesized that English, just like any other human language, is yearly changing unnoticeably along with the needs of language. According to the article, there are a plethora reasons ascribed to the changes that occur to the English language. The reasons are highlighted as; change in the speakers’ needs, disparity in language experiences, emergence of new words, change in sound for instance the ‘Great Vowel Shift’, and lastly changes in word order. In support of the changes, the writer states that ‘if English hadn’t changed since, say, 1950, ...

Article Review

This article provides a discussion of the application of Object-Level Keyword Search Over Relational Databases (OKSORD). This has been prompted by the difficulties associated with the application Keyword Search Over Relational Databases (KSORD), which makes it difficult for the end user to understand. The procedure discussed for developing an object level data model for the Object-Level Keyword Search Over Relational Databases involves the classification of relation algorithm into four categories. This is then followed by converting a relational database schema to an object-level schema graph. The final step involves generating an object level data graph for the object level schema graph.

Self-Tuning of the Relationships among Rules’ Components in Active Databases Systems

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It is important to study about language and verbal behavior because it helps understand other people in a better way. Language or verbal behavior is defined as an operant behavior, which is strengthened by other people’s mediation (Skinner, 1957). This can be well explained as a practical relationship existing between the behavior of a person speaking, as well as the conditions in their environment. However, in this relationship, an important question, on how reinforcement between the speaker and the other people occurs arises.
According to research, it is clear that children acquire a number of language skills mainly without any instructions. ...

Article Summaries

According to Scarr and Richard, the influence of intelligence is due to genetics and environmental variables that are difficult to segregate. Psychologists often argue about the nature and the nurture of genetic variation fixes in the human behavior (Scarr and Richard 262). Some offer that genetic differences are negating to change in behavior. This belief has limitation since it fails to distinguish the environmental and the genetic sources of individual differences in behavior. In this case, one is not in a position to assess the impact of heredity in behavioral domains since all people have a gene complement expressed over development.
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Introduction

Quantitative research is a systematic empirical study of a phenomenon using mathematical, statistical or computational techniques. Quantitative research seeks to investigate the relationship between a dependent variable and an independent variable or variables. This paper seeks to critique a quantitative study that employs an experimental approach. For this purpose, this paper chooses an article by Min Wang, Charles Perfetti and Ying Liu titled “Chinese-English Biliteracy Acquisition: Cross-Language and Writing System Transfer”

Summary of the Study

The study sought to investigate the relationship between cross-language and writing system in Biliteracy acquisition by students who were learning to read in two diverse writing systems- English and Chinese. To this ...

I, and I suspect many others; tend to think of language as the biggest barrier to communicating in another language. What I found most surprising about the article was the realization that language can sometimes even be a barrier for communication since it can lead to misunderstandings as would seem easy to happen, as Patricia Hagen’s article “Teaching American Business Writing in Russia explains, between a high context and low context communication cultures.
The lack of documentation in business transactions depicted in Hagen’s experience was shocking. But it made more sense when it was explained that this was ...

Context and Problem Statement:

What problems are the authors trying to solve?
Anonymous communications are required everywhere these days and information security is one of the biggest concerns. Latency networks and communication is a common happening however this latency does not only lead to the late communication however it also contributes to leakage of information and details about the sender and receiver. In this paper, the authors have conducted experiments in order to find out the risk associated with leakage of anonymity due to latency.

Are they important problems? Why or why not?

This is a very important problem has data security and information security are one of the most important factors ...

Rushkoff uses a lot of military language in this essay. What is some of this language? Identify some of the key words and phrases?
It is evident that in the essay “A brand by Any Other Name” the Rushkoff has used a lot of military words. For instance, in his earlier paragraphs, he has utilized the words “Defense Mechanism” where he is addressing the general audience regarding, how the companies are spending million for the development of strategies to identify the children’s predilections. Moreover, in the next paragraph has utilized the words such as “Battle” and “Radar” while describing ...

Bill McKibben in his article, “Sky Mall: Pie in the Sky," is blasting members of North American middle class who are becoming too much dependent on laser technology, despite them being expensive and espousing other risks. Therefore, this essay will analyze the text, as a materials object, work of art, and commend how it responds to the general view of the world (McKibben, n.p).
Taking the text as a material object, the author is addressing North Americans, by reflecting on how everybody is just enthusiastic with laser technology systems without realizing the risks he or she espouse. Therefore, the purpose ...

Introduction

The Chinese people experienced eminent growths in terms of art and their culture between the period of 950-1200 AD. There were many developments in music, philosophy, literature and visual arts, which blossomed due to printing activities, hence making the Chinese culture spread to other regions. Among the major contributors towards this growth are the Song, Ming, Qing and Yuan Dynasties, which did many paintings and poetry to reflect further their culture 1. These works of art were exhibited for viewers during religious and other seasonal activities, an event that made the Chinese appreciate their culture. At some point during ...

Under the term bilingualism it is understood that educational process is presented in several languages. As a rule, two languages are used at class. To some extend such practice is rather widespread. However, not each use of two languages can be named a bilingual education. Technically speaking, it is possible to say that any educational system, which uses two languages, is bilingual. However, in practice, a lot depends on the proficiency of the language usage. True bilingual programs make use of both languages at the same level of proficiency.
Bilingual education is an extremely controversial issue. At the time when in ...

The study aims to address and evaluate the influence of age on second-language acquisition. It revealed the critical period hypothesis for the second language (L2) acquisition. According to Flege, Munro and Mackay, in examining the immigrant populations, participants’ age of arrival (AOA) in the host country forms a very vital and important part. AOA is an important factor or determinant to gauge the degree of foreign accent as well as degree of accuracy in the pronunciation of L2 and the study intents to confirm this widely accepted belief.

The observation of age effect on the L2 performance of individuals forms ...

Child development is a term that refers to the psychological, emotional and biological changes that usually take place in human beings between the ages of birth and at the end of adolescence. Child development is a continuous process which has predictable sequence but at the same time having a unique perspective in every child. The process of child development does not take place at the same rate on all children. Each step in the development of the children is marked by different traits and must all always be preceded by the previous development. The process of child development is ...

“Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale”

1. According to K. Bernheimer, as fairy tales belong to the realm of classical literature, they are the source of many writing forms and techniques applied by representatives of both mainstream and avant-garde literary movements. Stating that fairy tales connect all people “in the act of living” (Bernheimer 71), she expresses the idea that they influence the way we perceive the world and react to it. These ideas seem to be well-grounded: the four elements mentioned by the author, namely “flatness, abstraction, intuitive logic, and normalized magic” (Bernheimer 64), are indeed found in both realistic and experimental literature, some ...

OutSider from The Weather Company is definitely not an outsider, but a very interesting app and one of the most superior on the market today. It content is unique, only Runtastic Pro has “Current weather” option and none offers personalized forecasting, but they develop and in 2-3 years could outdo it. TWC has organized a great data flow including the personal stations, so this data flow advantage is obvious. However, Android user cannot value it, still the number of smartphones on these platform only increases. The competitors stay and develop, but as OutSider has a lot to offer it ...

Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summaries
For any business professional to succeed and become a competent and successful professional, he must possess good communication skills. Communication skills such as written communication, oral communication, and interpersonal communication are necessary to survive in today’s competitive era. The same fact also stands true for accounting professionals. According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), communication skills are and will remain in future as important a skill as any other professional skill. AICPA lists “effective business writing” as a necessary skill for competence in public accounting. Unfortunately, some of the entry level accountants do ...

David Foster Wallace makes an argument against obscurantism in Academic English. He denotes that the pretense that is rife in academic writing is a result of “the delicate balance between language as a vector of meaning and language as a vector of the writer’s own resume” (56). When a writer makes an effort to reinforce and communicate their positions as intellectual motivated by vanity and insecurity they end up writing using unnecessary diction.
Wallace is arguing against pretense in academic writing yet his own essay break the rules that he is trying to reinforce. In the sentence that comes after his ...

In this paper, the study "A Longitudinal Examination of Stress Generation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders” published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology will be discussed. First, an overview of the study will be presented. Second, key strengths and weakness of the study’s methods and procedures, as well as its results, will be argued. Third, a recommendation for how the study could be improved will be stated, and finally a conclusion will sum up the results of this review.
The study’s goal is to expand on existing research on stress. The study examines both interpersonal and non interpersonal ...

Draft 1

The general structure of the draft is impressive. The information provided in the essay is quite informative. The writer does use the in-text citations to support the assertions. As such, although the writer expresses opinions in some parts, the same are well-informed and supported by the citations. Further, the fact that the text is in the narrative form makes it captivating as the reader becomes more interested in the unfolding story and the eventual conclusion.
The writer uses complex words and phrases thus making the reader struggle to understand some of the phrases. The use of complex words ...

Response Paper on a Cultural Studies Approach to Technological Culture

The readings covered this week dealt on the perceptions and judgments associated with technology and culture. My interest in technology is unquestionable and this week reading has given me a chance to explore the relationship the relationships pertaining to this phenomenon. According to technology and culture is of interest because it combines the human perspectives of what technology enables people to execute in everyday lives including the perceptions and judgments of how such undertakings affect them. The book provides a thorough analysis of causality, agency, articulation and assemblage, space, identity, politics, and globalization. All these features illustrate a relationship between technology and ...

Identification and definitions of major concepts

Listening is an important concept and mostly collaborates with listening concept. In order to interact well in the community, he or she must having listening and talking skills unless under a closed organization where people are not allowed to interact with the outside wild. In the used article, collaboration was the most important talking and listening activity focus. Students engaged in activities that required talking and listening or interacting. Such activities include discursions and presentations (Bearne, 2007).
In order to use all concepts, one must be able to talk and to listen. It is getting information from other parties ...

Summary of the article

The article espouses on the importance of spelling in the comprehension of English as a Second Language. The article reports that spelling affects reading comprehension and effectiveness in the storage and recovery of information. The article also reports that the intent focusing on individual words may cause readers to lose the meaning at the start of the sentence as they get towards the end. This is established from a study carried out on English as second language students to establish whether there is a stronger relationship between specific spelling knowledge to reading performance than general spelling knowledge. In conclusion, the article recommends ...

Culture can be termed as a pattern of customs, ideas, and behaviors that are shared by a particular group of people in a given society (Jeffreys, 2015). Culture has vast influence on health. It affects beliefs about a certain disease, perceptions of health, health promotion approaches, how to express pain and illness, where and how patients seek medical help and the type of treatment that patients prefer.
In western industrialized societies like the United States, a disease is as result of natural scientific phenomena and medical treatments are considered as the best method to treat the disease (Jeffreys, 2015). ...

“Pointing and placing” is an article written by Herbert Clark, and at the same time is a chapter from a book referenced below. Basically, the paper describes two indicating tools, which are directing-to and placing-for. Both are used to point to an object, as well as make someone pay attention to that object. Clark identifies the main difference between the two tools by saying that “directing-to directs a person’s attention to the object whereas placing-for places the object for a person's attention” (262). He claims that both are essential elements in communication between people, and ...

Washington State University

The need for gambling disorder treatment increases due to the growth of the gaming operations in the United States of America and globally, there is a rise in recognition of clinical investigators together with the creation of awareness among the public to be able to assess gambling symptoms and its harmful consequences on the lives and overall function of gamblers. In this effort to recognize and ameliorate the symptoms of gambling, instruments were created to identify the severity of the gambling symptoms and also any changes that are reflected due to changes from treatment. In empirical research, a variety ...

Introduction

Methodology
Watching DVD educational baby media program and parent-teaching condition was the independent variable in the study. Children`s learning of new words was the dependent variable. The type of methodology was experimental. There were four groups formed for the study. Three groups were experimental groups and one group was a control group. The general sample of the study included 72 children in the age between 12 to 18 months.
Researchers who conducted this study designed four conditions for participants of the experiment. The first condition (the first group) was video-with-interactions. This condition meant that parents could watch the ...

The quality of communication is good in article two because we can clearly see why Melvin’s has been able to attract and keep customers for a long time. Communication quality is relatively poor in the first and third article. In the first article, there is poor sentence construction leading to some level of communication breakdown. The third article has too much dialogue in between the article creating lack of flow in the story. The writing styles of the three articles are poor. Paragraphing is poor as the paragraphs in all the three articles are too short with some being ...

Abstract

This paper is going to focus on the relationship between word learning in 6 months old. It will also look at the level of encoding of that words and retention. It was based on the hypothesis that young children relate words with objects. The experiment was conducted on a number of infants that were given different categories of analysis. The analysis included memory test and training. The results showed that the infants were able to relate words and objects after a repetition of the same for several occasions.

Introduction

Word learning is a process that requires the establishment of memory structures for children ...

Jennifer Conlin, writer of “The Freedom to Choose Your Pronouns,” explores gender fluidity in teenagers and college aged students. She asserts that this is just another way teenagers are trying to go against the grain, but she also pairs this with showing that this is not just an American trend. During an interview, she recalls an individual’s example of gender fluidity by saying, “Maybe one day you wake up and feel more like a boy.” While this does not quite define the complexities of gender expression, it is one example that is easy for the general public to understand. ...

LLB

Learner Name:
Article Title: The performance measurement revolution: why now and what next?
Provide a summary in your own words on the article you requested to read and analyze in the following space.
The article attempts to answer some questions regarding the business performance measurement, especially two questions. 1. What is the relevance of this question now? 2. What research is required for the advancement of the business performance measurement? The article do not stop with questioning, it gives elaborate answer to the questions. For the first question i.e. what is the need for business performance measurement, ...

Questions

Institutions
Question 1
According to Joan Scott, gender is defined as “a constitutive element of social relationships based on perceived differences between the sexes and a primary way of signifying relationships of power.” On the other hand, Goffman claims that, “If gender be defined as the culturally established correlates of sex (whether in consequence of biology or learning), then gender display refers to conventionalized portrayals of these correlates. “In Scott context, biology is excluded the explanation of gender and the perception of individuals put into consideration. One is perceived a woman when she tends to behave and speak in an ...

- What is important to know in this chapter for quizzes?
The first major lesson in this chapter is the optimal organization of speeches. The organization helps the audience to understand, remember, and believe the speech. The chapter stresses the organization of the speech into the introduction, body and the conclusion parts. The speaker should write the body of the speech before the introduction because it would be hard to introduce a non-existent body.
The chapter also teaches one on the most suitable way of creating the body of a speech. This entails creating the goal of the speech ...

Technology is advancing at an alarming, almost exponential rate; as human progress increases, so does technology, and its effects on our society become somewhat more truncated. Vincent Mosco, in his article “When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story,” notes that human society has a tendency to repeat history when it comes to technological advances; with each new stop, we hail our latest invention to be the be-all end-all for communication technology, ignoring that we have done that many times before. According to Mosco, “there is indeed a remarkably willful, historical amnesia about technology, particularly when it turns to communication and ...

Part 5: Final Draft

This paper has several sections. First, it gives an analysis of a psychological report which was published in popular media. The second part documents the original research cited in the psychological report in section one. The third step gives a comparison between the first and second report.

Analysis of a Psychological Report

The title of the report was Silent Cerebral Emboli May Hasten the Progression of Dementia (Journal Watch, 2012). The author notes that the findings of the report were drawn from two groups: patients with dementia (loss of cognitive ability particularly, memory, attention, and language) and patients with Alzheimer disease. The author begins by notifying ...

Social studies are the incorporated study of humanities and sciences enhanced to endorse effectual community development. This paper therefore identifies and discusses three journal articles from different sources discussing about social studies. An annotation of the three journal articles dealing with social studies is presented below.

Lawlor, D. & Mariscal, Q. (2006). ‘Longman Social Studies.’ Journal of Social Studies Research, 10(3), 34-41.

In this journal article by Lawlor and Mariscal, a set of three books have been discussed in the journal article. These are a student’s book, a workbook and a Teacher’s guide. This are enhanced in order to link ...

A Summary of

The reviews on Africa’s solar based enterprises are quite recent and cover a majority of related topics. He has reviewed the factors that provided an impetus to solar power based enterprises and the existing opportunities. However, the need for some more reviews on the reasons addressing slow development in the field is evident. Nevertheless, it is successful in drawing the readers’ attention on the gaps existing in the current review of scholarly works.
The three basic research questions raised in the study clearly underline its problems and the purpose. Through these questions the author seeks to address the ...

Institutional

Introduction
As Ford, Stuart and Vakil (2014) have clearly noted in their article Culturally Responsive Teaching in the 21st Century Inclusive Classroom, the main challenge that faces public schools in the US involves the ever increasing need to meet the exceptional or special needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. That is, the need to have a socially or culturally inclusive classroom in light of the diverse nature of the US population is becoming more relevant than ever before. This, they note, is informed also by the fact that there exists a strong link between learning and culture. ...

The assessment practices that evaluate English language learners often underestimate the academic and cognitive abilities of the Spanish-speaking students. If the education system is dedicated to developing the biliterate and bilingual pupils in the schools, then the tutors and administrators must analyze both dialects. The outline provided by Escamilla and Coady provides samples of texts written in Spanish by the students who are writing and reading in Spanish. The chapter also gives examples written in English from those learning in English and texts from the Spanish learners who have just commenced their schooling in English. This paper looks at ...