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Report On Honors Research: An Exploratory Study Of Puerto Ricans In Lorain, Ohio, Karen Beck Skold
Report On Honors Research: An Exploratory Study Of Puerto Ricans In Lorain, Ohio, Karen Beck Skold
Honors Papers
The Puerto Rican community in Lorain, Ohio dates from 1946, when the first 100 workers were imported by the steel company. Since that time the Latin community has grown to 10,000, comprising a proportionately large segment of the city's total population of approximately 75,000. Most studies of the adaptation of Puerto Rican migrants to life in the United States are based on New York City; to my knowledge the Lorain population has never been the subject of a systematic sociological investigation. Although "El Barrio" in New York is still the largest continental settlement of Puerto Ricans and remains a reference …
An Alternative Approach To Second Language Teaching, Carol Yorkievitz
An Alternative Approach To Second Language Teaching, Carol Yorkievitz
Honors Papers
Language, as a universal human trait, is so second-nature to mankind, that its subtleties in interaction have often been taken as a matter of course. Deeply ingrained folklore about language has existed from the days of the ancients and persists into so-called ‘rational’ modern civilization. The affect associated with language and its role in distinguishing in- and out- groups can be annotated by historical reference; for example, the ancient Greeks used the word ‘baba’ to describe the babblings of those unfortunates not gifted with the gods’ own Greek tongue - hence the origin of the word ‘barbarian’. The supposed magical …