Teaching Listening Listening is a critical element in the competent language performance of adult second language learners‚ whether they are communicating at school‚ at work‚ or in the community. Through the normal course of a day‚ listening is used nearly twice as much as speaking and four to five times as much as reading and writing . In a recent study of Fortune 500 Corporations‚ Wolvin and Coakley (1991) found that listening was perceived to be crucial for communication at work with regards
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1. Write about your past formal or informal language learning experiences. Would you consider them effective or ineffective? Learning foreign languages is a real challenge to everyone and a lot of people have their own successful and unsuccessful experiences. As for me‚ I’d like to tell about a negative one because‚ unfortunately‚ I had it more than positive. I’ve been learning English since I was 10 years old. At first‚ it was at school. Those lessons left much to be desired. We had a middle-aged
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How visual aids can help when teaching a foreign language. 1 Visual aids provide a practical solution for teachers whose equipment can consist of nothing more than a few books and a classroom. They include black-boards‚ laptops‚ charts and posters‚ pictures‚ magazines‚ flash-cards and actual objects or ‘realia’. These teaching aids‚ and the ways in which they help the teacher are discussed below. Blackboard/whiteboard: In schools throughout the world‚ this piece of equipment is
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The English language teachers‚ as well as any other teachers‚ encounter various professional problems concerning lesson planning‚ class management‚ student motivation‚ coping with unpredicted issues‚ and numerous other problems. There are many specific problems that usually only foreign language teachers meet‚ e.g. the usage of the mother tongue during the lessons etc. Student motivation One of the most important problems the English language teacher faces is student motivation. For learning of
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Nowadays English has a special and predominant role in the communicative sphere of the world. It has also a special identity in the field of education. A language is a medium of communication and interacting verbally in our day-to day life situation in family and society. But in India English is a foreign language. It is different from mother tongue. The teaching of English is highly desirable for a English teacher. Before starting his teaching‚ it requires for the teacher to fix up his aims and objectives
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commonly uttered by foreign language learners and are too familiar to the foreign language learners this stamen indicate an important problem that the majority of students face in learning and particularly speaking a second or foreigner language. Many learners express their inability and sometimes even acknowledge their failure in learning to speak a second foreign language. These learners may be good at learning other skills but‚ when it comes to learning to speak another language‚ they claim to have a
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Challenges and Suggestions for Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Date of Submission: 29/12/2013 This paper aims to identify the challenges of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and offers some suggestions to encounter them. First‚ the paper provides the definition of ESP‚ its characteristics‚ types and developments. Then‚ it describes six main challenges facing the ESP practitioner which are insufficient knowledge‚ lack of proper needs
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TEACHING CONTINUOUS WRITING IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: STRATEGIES‚ PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT BY OKOTIE‚ V. T. B. DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL STUDIES COLLEGE OF EDUCATION‚ P.M.B. 2090 AGBOR‚ DELTA STATE Abstract Writing is undisputedly an important aspect of any educational system. It is used to gauge what the students know and where they have problems. It is therefore a means through which we assess our students’ academic performance. This paper takes a look at the complex
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writing" 3.1. Organisation 3.2 . Task achievement / Relevance to Question (title) 3.3 . Accuracy 3.4 . Range and style 3.5 . Coherence and cohesion 3.6 . Appropriateness and referencing 4 The role that language discourse functions have in "academic writing" 4.1 Description 4.2 Definition 4.3 Narrative 4.4 Cause and effect 4.5 Comparison and contrast 4.6 Argument 4.7 Exemplification 4.8 Classification
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Teaching Speaking To Intermediate Adult Learners |Contents | | |Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….. |3 | |Chapter I Theoretical Part………………………………………………………………
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