LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE

  English in Globalization, a Lingua Franca or a Lingua Frankensteinia? By Robert Phillipson TESOL claims to be a global organization because we live in globalized world where English language is the main language and this organization has as a purpose spread the English through the world., which is why this expansionist vision of TESOL is very similar to the colonizing policies of the United States, where teaching language is seen as a tool to colonize by replacing the languages ​​of different countries by English. Therefore, this indicates that the vision of TESOL about other languages ​​different from English is not very active and in TESOL English language is treated as the "best" language in the globalized world and for that reason TESOL tries to despise or minimize the importance of the different languages ​​and cultures different from English language and United States’ culture, in addition, When English supplants another language the learners are dispossessed of the...

  History about E – Learning   In the early 1960s, Stanford University psychology professors Patrick Suppes and Richard C. Atkinson experimented with using computers to teach math and reading to young children in elementary schools in East Palo Alto, California. Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth is descended from those early experiments. In 1963, Bernard Luskin installed the first computer in a community college for instruction, working with Stanford and others, developed computer assisted instruction. Luskin completed his landmark UCLA dissertation working with the Rand Corporation in analyzing obstacles to computer assisted instruction in 1970.   History about E – Learning As early as 1993, William D. Graziadei described an online computer-delivered lecture, tutorial and assessment project using electronic mail. By 1994, the first online high school had been founded.   Today ...

  FRONT VOWELS EXPLANATION The classification of the English vowels Ø   It is important to classify them according to the position of the main part of the tongue: front, central and back. Ø   Another characteristic is the height of the vowel: height, mid and low. Ø   All vowel sounds are voiced. Ø   The vowels are tense or lax. Ø   The vowels are round or non round.     Front vowels                A front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.                It gets its name because the tongue is held in front of the mouth.                 There are nine front vowel sounds in the International Phonetic Alphabet, although only five are used in the English language. There are five front vowels : ...

  At the bottom of the river by Jamaica Kincaid analysis and summary     This story is about particular, unique and beautiful place, the narrator talked about a terrain where not everybody can go there because it is an especial place which only the most strongest person can arrived, in addition this story talk about the some persons in this place, for example, the narrator describe the feelings and the condition of a man who lies on his bed and wait, but, that man does not know for what is he waiting, besides this man felt incomplete, he had a lot question about the live, he did not conceive the purpose of his live and he wonder if the things are real or not.   Also, the stories focus primarily on female relationships, particularly the mother and girl relationship. The stories are told from the perspective of girl and cover such themes as the mother and daughter relationship, the potency and beauty of nature, the male and female divide, among others. We can s...

  The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe The black cat by Edgar Allan Poe Summary and reflection   The black cat is one of the most known Poe’s tale because he used different elements like addiction, love, hate, crime, psychology guilt, real and unreal elements, this tale talk about the relationship between the human being and the animals, and the bad consequences of having an addiction, in this case, using alcohol, we can see a big change of behavior of the narrator after get addicted to alcohol, in a first moment, this man love the animals and his wife, he is a happy person loving animals and share with them, specially with a black cat called Pluto, but everything change when he drinks, he stared to have bad feelings and became in a violent person who push his wife and his animals too, one day he drunk a lot and attack his cat very hard, after that the cat had terror by the man; for this reason, it is a tragedy tale because this man became in a crazy person by using alcohol an...

  THE COLOR PURPLE By Alice Walker Summary The color purple is a novel about a little black American woman named Celie, setting in the early 1990s which describes some issues that afro- American people (especially women) lived in the south of Unites State in this period; these issues were poverty, racism, sexual abuse and ignorance, this story focused in Celie and all the bad things that she suffered by her father, husband, step-son and all the society. This story show a critical period where black American were threaten very bad, they were oppressive by the white men who used to feel superior than Black people, in this condition the black American women were more abused   even by black men, they believed that women were born to supply men. This novel describes America as a racism culture which the white men feel more important that others people.   In addition, in this story we can be seen that Celia used to the abuse by men, this was a very male dominated society...