ICT IN LANGUAGE TEACHING Introduction: English is the dominant language of the Internet. A large proportion of the educational software produced in the world market is in English. For developing countries in the Asia-Pacific where English language proficiency is not high‚ this represents a serious barrier to maximizing the educational benefits of the World Wide Web. Icts In Language Teaching: Technology is in-built in language teaching. The latest
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Improving English Language Teaching in Thailand An importance of English language cannot be denied by anyone as English language is considered as an international language. It also affects people worldwide in many aspects such as education‚ trading‚ medicine and technology. According to‚ Thailand does not use English as an official language‚ so most of Thai people have to study English from their school since they were young. Even though‚ we have been studying English for a long time‚ the skill of English
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Foreign Language High School Requirement A survey done by the Center for Applied Linguistics in 2008 found that "The findings indicate a serious disconnect between the national call to educate world citizens with high-level language skills and the current state of foreign language instruction in schools across the country"(Cal:Research). This is concerning as all of the competition for the U.S. is gaining a step and we ’re doing nothing . If the U.S. expects to continue to be competitive in the
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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
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IMPORTANT SOFT SKILL IN LANGUAGE TEACHING Mrs. N. Mahalakshmi D.T.Ed.‚ M.A.‚ M.Ed.‚ NET.‚ PGDACE. Research Scholar Department of Education Annamalai University ------------------------------------------------- prusothmaha@gmail.com Abstract ------------------------------------------------- English is being taught as a second language in our Indian schools. As it is our national language‚ much importance is given to this language in our education system. The language teachers are expected
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|| |Teaching Text |(翰林出版社)Unite 5 We went to Penghu by plane |Class period |20min. | |Ss’ age |Eighth grade |Ss’ Proficiency Level |Beginning ~ Intermediate | |Ss’ Background |Students know the past tense and how to change the form of verb in past tense correctly. | |Teaching Objectives |1.
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Version : 2.0 15/01/12 General Certificate of Secondary Education English/ English Language Unit 1 H Tier Understanding and producing non-fiction texts Mark Scheme Version 2.0 2012 examination - Jan series Mark schemes are prepared by the Principal Examiner and considered‚ together with the relevant questions‚ by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the standardisation meeting attended by all examiners and is the scheme which was used by them
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English as an Additional Language (EAL) refers to pupils who speak another language at home and that this other language is their most prominent language‚ in other words their mother tongue is not English. Children with EAL should not be confused with children who are bi-lingual or children who grew up or spent time in another country but still had English as a first language. The educational system in the United Kingdom has always had to cope with the difficulties and challenges that arise in the
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Motivation in foreign language learning is a very complicated and important phenomenon. One can define it in two ways. Firstly‚ learners will be motivated to learn second language if they want to fulfill their professional ambitions or if they are forced to communicate‚ using the second language in a lot of social situations. Secondly‚ if students like and respect native speakers of the language‚ they will want more contact with them. A teacher`s positive attitude can motivate learners‚ inspire
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LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TRANSLATION The use of translation as an inherent part of FLT was prevalent until early in the present century. The Grammar-Translation method‚ dominant during the first half of the century‚ stressed translation and grammatical analysis‚ and put greater emphasis on accuracy than on fluency‚ preferring academic erudition to communicative competence (Titone& Danesi 1985). At the turn of the century‚ the Grammar-Translation method gradually gave way to the Direct Method
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