This project provides a sample of the curriculum, Rapping English, which uses rap/hip-hop style music to teach ELLs vocabulary, grammar, discourse and prosody. The rationale for using musical instruction is based on Gardner’s (2006) multiple intelligence theory and Bloom’s (1978) learning domains. This curriculum instructs students through musical intelligence and the affective domain which are...

Although it is a combination of many factors that impacts the maintenance or loss of HL, such as personal motivation and determination (Krashen, 1998), ethnic pride (Brown, 2003, 2009), availability of heritage language schools in communities (Shibata, 2000), and availability of HL at school (Cho & Krashen, 1998), studies have identified parental support and involvement as perhaps the most impo...

In 1967, more than fifty years ago, Corder introduced the concept of “input” in second language acquisition (SLA) research field. 1985, Krashen “comprehensible input hypothesis.” 1990, Schmidt “noticing hypothesis” [1]. Today, is becoming and popular on acquisition. This paper tries to connect theories about noticing hypothesis hope that clear definition can be helpful guide teaching accordingly.

Affective factors are the most important factors in SLA and English teaching. These factors include emotion, feeling, mood, manner, attitude and so on. All these factors, especially, motivation, self-confidence and anxiety, decide the input and output of the second language. Under the guidance of the Affective Filter Hypothesis proposed by Krashen, the present paper makes a survey on advanced E...

This paper consists of two parts: in the first, we use the deformation theory of twisted sheaves on stacks to generalize results of de Jong and Saltman on the period-index problem for the Brauer group, yielding various new cases of the standard conjecture. In the second part, we use the geometric techniques of the first part to relate the Hasse principle for certain smooth projective geometrica...