ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 5‚ pp. 977-988‚ September 2011 © 2011 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/jltr.2.5.977-988 A Study of Factors Affecting EFL Learners ’ English Listening Comprehension and the Strategies for Improvement Abbas Pourhossein Gilakjani School of Educational Studies‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Malaysia Email: abbas.pouhossein@yahoo.com Mohammad Reza Ahmadi School of Educational Studies‚ Universiti Sains
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2014 My Experience in English Language I am not a professional reader‚ nor am I a professional writer. As a matter of fact‚ I do not like writing at all especially in English‚ but then writing is a part of life. Since English is my second language‚ I always have a hard time writing and reading in English. However‚ I have had to learn English to survive in this big country. I was born in Thailand. I wrote‚ read‚ and spoke in the Thai language almost all of my life. I had English class in Thailand class
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Teaching English Vocabulary through Pictures for Young Learners INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background All languages consist of words. Languages emerge first as words‚ both historically‚ and in terms of the way each of us learned our first and any subsequent languages. Vocabulary plays an important role because it appears in every language skills. Mastering vocabulary is very important for the students who learn English as a foreign language. It is because vocabulary is a key to young learners understanding
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form used as a noun whilst a Participle is a verb form used as an adjective. Gerund : A verbal noun in Latin that expresses generalized or uncompleted action : Any of several linguistic forms analogous to the Latin gerund in languages other than Latin; especially : the English verbal noun in -ing that has the function of a substantive and at the same time shows the verbal features of tense‚ voice‚ and capacity to take adverbial qualifiers and to govern objects : A Gerund is a verb and noun combined
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English has become a global language because it is both easy to learn and is superior to other languages. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Nowadays‚ English has naturally been evolved as a global language over time despite the fact that it has been proved by researchers that is the third most native language in the world after mandarin Chinese and Spanish. A global language is a language spoken internationally which is learned by many people as a second language. For many years
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Anastasia‚ Perhaps maybe your understanding of the English language is different from everybody else understanding of the language. Your interpretation of my comments‚ obsessions‚ and reactions doesn’t negative the obvious objections I’ve opined. You’ve used a lot of inflammatory and adjectives in your descriptions here but I’m certain you do not understood all those words yourself. Yes‚ I’m against the prey game you wanted to embark on and if that hurt your feelings and ego then I’ve no control
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than teaching listening in the classroom. My learners‚ who are living and studying in Australia‚ often view understanding the news as a major achievement in their listening development. It is an authentic text that they have free‚ repeated access to on a daily basis. However‚ lower level learners often view news reports as something that is above their level and totally incomprehensible. My aim is to develop my teaching of strategies to help learners become more successful in understanding news
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Collins English Dictionary defines the number five as ‘…the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one’ and it can be represented numerically as ‘5’ and ‘V’ in roman numerals. The number five can be used in many ways for instance‚ in Mathematics and in everyday use to express quantity (noun). Five can also be used as an adjective‚ for instance in the sentence “I usually get off work at five” (616). In an Anglophone context five can be used as a phrasal word and a compounding word as well. According
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YOUNG ACHIEVERS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXAMINATION 2015 TOTAL MARKS- 100 ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS SECTION I UNSCRAMBLE the following sentences.(5marks) 1. as citizens community the useful be must we of. 2. of family life the home importance and taught should be school every in. 3. neighbours peacefully with our live must Caribbean we. 4. pigment of leaves green the chlorophyll called is. 5. mandela is Nelson devoted a dynamic and fighter freedom. Rewrite the sentences below
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w w ap eP m e tr .X w om .c s er UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level 8693/12 ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Passages for Comment October/November 2011 2 hours Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper *1304216344* READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre
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