West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to Frisian, German, and Netherlandic languages. English originated in England and is now widely spoken on six continents. It is the primary language of the United...

See also creativity in English, drama and English, Early Learning Goals, emergent writing, enabling adult, Foundation Stage, Foundation Stage profile, Junior Years language and literacy, parents and families, play and language and literacy, reading,...

West Germanic language which has approx. 325 million native speakers, in England (56 million), the United States (232 million), Canada (24 million), and Australia and New Zealand (17 million). It is the sole official language in more than two dozen...

See also CD-ROMs, diagrams, factual genres, genre, information books, language across the curriculum, non-fiction reading and writing In science, like other lessons, children and their teachers use language – speaking, listening, reading and...

Language belonging to the Germanic languages branch of the Indo-European language family, widely spoken on six continents. The primary language of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various Caribbean and Pacific island...

A type of phrase structure construction. A constituent forms a multiple-branching construction if it directly dominates similar constituents which do not relate to it in any other way. For example, in Sam, Louis, and the neighborhood children gathered...

Commissioned in the United States, by the Department of Education, and conducted by the Bureau of Census in the Fall of 1982. Written tests were conducted of 3,400 individuals over 20 years of age in private homes and it was estimated as a result that...

Verbal mood which characterizes an action as possible or probable. The Indo-European lan-guages have no separate paradigm for this mood, using mainly the subjunctive to express it, e.g. the Latin subjunctive existimem ‘I would...

n. The label used by most American Structuralists for a phoneme in the ordinary sense, as opposed to a suprasegmental phoneme. Bloomfield (1933) had called this a primary...

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English is a West Germanic language originating in England, and the first language for most people in Australia, Canada, the Commonwealth Caribbean, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America (also commonly known as the...