Jayden Burnside is a junior studying Secondary English Education in addition to a minor in ESL Linguistics. The initial idea for this project came from taking Dr. Zhang’s “History of the English Language.” The class focused on how the English Language has developed over time from Old English to Middle English to Early Modern English and finally to today’s Modern English. He was fascinated in particular about Middle English, as it was the first time in the class where the historical roots had meaning in Modern English. He began to have ideas about how he could connect the two languages in his own classroom in order to improve proficiency in Modern English. He came up with a practice-through-translation process so he could set out to improve English usage in his future high school students. After he graduates from Millersville, he plans to become a high school English teacher. During his teaching career, he plans to try to incorporate his research into an actual lesson plan to use and develop with his students!