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    Characteristics of English Language Teaching Methods: COMPARISON Adapted from Richards and Rodgers (2001) and Gültekin Boran‚ http://w3.gazi.edu.tr/web/gboran/eltmethodstogether.doc T: teacher‚ S: Student; SS: students Grammar Translation Method and Direct Method |METHOD |Grammar Translation Method |Direct Method | |Proponents/Advocates

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    role in teaching English at all levels of education. When he/she teaches English‚ obviously he/she has to follow some methods. There are five main methods in English language teaching: Grammar Translation Method (GTM)‚ Direct Method (DM)‚ Audio Lingual Method (ALM)‚ Situational Language Teaching (SLT) and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Among all‚ Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)‚ is one of the new approaches. The aim of this approach is to develop the learners four basic language skills

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    Second Language Acquisition What is Second Language Acquisition? In second language learning‚ language plays an institutional and social role in the community. It functions as a recognized means of communication among members who speak some other language as their native tongue. In foreign language learning‚ language plays no major role in the community and is primarily learned in the classroom. The distinction between second and foreign language learning is what is learned and how it is

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    INTRODUCTION Teaching has become one of the most demanding occupations and teachers are being required to study and get the knowledge necessary to inter act and be clear with and to students. However teaching cannot be an accident and therefore who wants to teach must not only use the language but also know how to teach it. Many schools and institutions are getting any international certification which proves their organization and capacity to fulfill what they are offering‚ so it is mandatory

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    Theory of language........................................................................................5 3.1.2 Theory of learning..........................................................................................5 3.2 Design ……………………………………………………………….........….……....... 6 3.2.1 Objectives .................................... ………………………................................6 3.2.2 The syllabus................... ………………………………………..…..……..........6 3.2.3 Types of learning and teaching activities

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    Second Language Acquisition Theories Jessica Bogunovich November 10‚ 2014 Second Language Acquisition Theories According to the United States Department of Education‚ National Center for Education Statistics (2014)‚ there are approximately 4.4 million English language learners (ELL) in American public schools. This is a little over nine percent of the student population. In some states‚ such as California and Texas‚ this percentage is much higher. California currently has an ELL

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    COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING - APPROACHES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING DIDATICS Methods BACKGROUND The origins of CLT are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960´s. Until then‚ Situational Language Teaching represented the major british approach to teaching english as a foreign language. In slt ‚ language was taught by practicing basic structures in meaningful situation-based activities. But British linguistis saw the need to focus in language teaching

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    Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) ‘Communicative Language Teaching approach evolves as a prominent language teaching methods and gradually replaced the previous grammar-translation method and  Audio-lingual method”. -(Warschauer & Kem 2000)   Category Elaboration Note Theory of Language Language is a system for the expression of meaning: primary function-interaction and communication.   Theory of Learning Activities involving real communication; carrying out meaningful to the learner promote

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    Running Head: TEACHERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Problems that Science Teachers of English Language Learners Face in the Classroom Table of Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………..3 Introduction………………………………………………………..….3 Significance of the Study……………………………………………..4 Research Question……………………………………………………5 Hypothesis of the Study………………………………………………5 Methods………………………………………………………………6 Data analysis………………………………………………………….7 Conclusion……………………………………………………………8 References………………………………………………

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    development of foreign language learners. This article presents the activities of a four-week program aimed at developing students’ pragmatic competence by focusing on two speech acts‚ openings and closings. 16 J U L Y 2 0 0 4 E N G L I S H T E A C H I N G F O R U M 04-0219 ETF_16_21a 6/23/04 11:21 AM Page 17 The role of pragmatic competence Communicative language pedagogy and research into communicative competence have shown that language learning exceeds

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