WHY DO WE STUDY ENGLISH It is necessary to study at least one foreign language today. That’s why pupils have got such subject as a foreign language at school. The problem of learning foreign languages is very important today. Foreign languages are socially demanded especially at the present time. We know that the progress in science and technology has led to an explosion of knowledge and has contributed to an overflow of information. The total knowledge of mankind is known to double every
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TECHNIQUES TO ENHANCE ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE English is an international language‚ spoken in many countries both as a native and as a second or foreign language. It is taught in the schools in almost every country on this earth. It is a living and vibrant language spoken by over 300 million people as their native language. Millions more speak it as an additional language. English is spoken habitually almost everywhere in the world. English is the associate official language of India which
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Work : Essays : Politics and the English Language (May 1945) Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way‚ but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism‚ like preferring candles to electric light or
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China has made learning English a national priority. English‚ with its unique status‚ has been taught in China for more than 100 years. Today‚ English is becoming more and more popular. It is a compulsory course for all Chinese students from primary school to university. Clearly it is relatively easy to demonstrate the importance of English in current China. This essay intends to argue that to achieve success in English learning for Chinese students the methods of teaching must be reconsidered. Therefore
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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE USE OF ENGLISH TEXTS IN THE NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES: A CASE OF CONFLICTING INTERESTS ABSTRACT The status of the English language in Nigeria has not engendered a commensurate development of the language‚ especially in the school system. That the youths‚ especially‚ do not have adequate functional competence in the language is attested to by the rate of failure in the terminal senior secondary school examinations and the low level of performance in the General
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Should English teachers speak the language of their students? An English only policy should be implemented in all ESL and EFL classrooms. The best English lessons are often the result of a teacher who only speaks English. Such lessons enhances the student’s listening and speaking skills by hearing the correct way to pronounce things and comprehending what the teacher is explaining‚ which are the most important skills in order to communicate. However there is always an exception to the rule. There
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CHAPTER I – Theoretical basis of the Teaching-learning Process of in English language 1. Some theoretical considerations about foreign language teaching 2. Historical evolution of the English teaching-learning process. 3. Historical methods in English language teaching 4. General background on oral communication in the English teaching-learning process. 5. English as a subject in secondary school in Angola 6. The Psychological Theory of Vocal Activity 7. Communication as a linguistic ability. 8
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PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES IN TEACHING ENGLISH IN MIXED ABILITY CLASSROOMS (M.SENTHILKUMAR‚VMKV ENGINEERING COLLEGE‚SALEM) All children are born with potential and we cannot be sure of the learning limits of any child (Robert Fisher‚ 2001:1) Presently‚ the English language teachers throughout the world keep on buzzing a word that their students are in mixed level. In the past teachers may well have said that the problem was just that some students were cleverer or simply ‘better’ than others in
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Teaching English Grammar to Beginners : A Way to Speak Accurately Some people say that learning foreign language should be an activity in which the learners try to use that language as often as possible‚ not only try to know about that language which means the learners only try to understand the grammar. They believe that the most important thing in learning foreign language is that the learners can speak ‚ communicate or delivers their ideas to other people‚ without considering or minding whether
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TEACHING COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGE LAB: ADVANTAGES AND APPREHENSIONS INTRODUCTION Communication is the ‘modus oprendi’ of social and commercial intercourse. It is communication which gets the world going. It is the ability of mankind to communicate across barriers and boundaries that has ushered the progress of mankind. Communication plays a crucial role in the functioning of organizations. Individuals use words to communicate. This process can be face to face or written
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