... and practical to have a fluency in Standardized (essay) English and to have a mastery of the language in order to teach and model its use. There is no guarantee that 1.) success on the certification exam ensures the quality of the teacher or 2.) that the exams even demonstrate a teacher's (or student's) proficiency with the language. "Every assessment is an assessment of language. It follows that ... we refer to Standard English, this is the language most widely accepted as the language of professional business (white-color), the language in which academic writing is conducted (or essay...

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... Schools. According to the Houghton Mifflin Student Acquiring English Handbook, learning a second language requires proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each of these has five stages. A student who is learning a second language, in this case English, goes through each stage in a certain period of time every student learns at a different rate therefore the transitioning program does not label as proficient ... it uses the stages, when a student is in the final stage, he/she is considered proficient in the language. The five stages of Language Acquisition are: Producti...

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... President didn't use any "big" words. When comparing him to other speakers in the government I felt that he was speaking on a high school level. It was as if he was using this wording so the American public could understand. The President did a good job restating points that he felt were important. An example of this is when he was speaking on the topic ... that it was very well spoken and delivered. The President is an experienced and confident speaker. The difference between most speakers and the President though is that he has someone else writing his speeches for him, he is briefed,...

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