PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND THE PROBLEMS FACED WITH TEACHING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE An analysis of the obstacles in the way of effective pupil-centred teaching and learning of the English language in Tanzanian government primary school with recommendations Katy Allen MBE Director‚ Village Education Project Kilimanjaro Presented at The Forum on Community of Practice of Learner Centred Learning in Tanzania held at the Tanzanian Episcopal Conference Centre‚ Kurasini 18th – 19th August 2008 PRIMARY
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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
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Teaching Listening Listening is the language modality that is used most frequently. It has been estimated that adults spend almost half their communication time listening‚ and students may receive as much as 90% of their in-school information through listening to instructors and to one another. Often‚ however‚ language learners do not recognize the level of effort that goes into developing listening ability. Far from passively receiving and recording aural input‚ listeners actively involve themselves
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AP English Language and Composition Summer Reading Assignment Welcome to APE! You are about to begin a course unlike any other English class you have taken. Before beginning your summer reading assignment‚ you must revisit your ideas about critical reading. Follow the link below to the site “Critical Reading of an Essay’s Argument.” While this site focuses on finding the central argument of an essay‚ the strategies suggested will benefit your reading of any text. Please annotate the article
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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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¡πÿ…¬»“ µ√åª√‘∑√√»πå Teaching English in Thailand: An Uphill Battle Tipa Thep-Ackrapong The main purpose of this article is to give an overview of English language teaching in Thailand. Firstly‚ some problems involved in the teaching of English to Thais are discussed‚ and this is followed by an examination of some of the approaches used here for the teaching of English. Finally‚ attempts to tackle problems are presented. Problems In the first regard‚ it will be shown that English and Thai are
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Teaching speaking skills 2 - overcoming classroom problems Submitted by TE Editor on 16 February‚ 2004 - 13:00 This article is written for teachers with large classes of students who have encountered some of the following or similar problems during speaking activities in their classroom. * Why should we teach speaking skills in the classroom? * Motivation * Speaking is fundamental to human communication * Dealing with the arguments against teaching speaking skills * Student’s
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SOEL: School of English Language Launch Marketing Plan Table of Contents Page Executive Summary 2 Mission Statement 2 Situation analysis 3 Competition Analysis 3 SOEL Launch SWOT Analysis 4 Market Segmentation 4 Research 4 Target Segmentation 4 Conversation Strategy 6 Positioning 8 Unique Selling Position 9 Selected Marketing Strategy
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Related Literature Task-Based Language Teaching In learning the second language‚ it is important that one could use it daily in one’s communicative activities‚ otherwise it will atrophy. Nowadays‚ one of the latest trends in second language teaching and learning is Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT). Nunan (2004) defined task as a piece of classroom work which involves learners in comprehending‚ manipulating‚ producing‚ or interacting in the target language while their attention is focused
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ASA University Review‚ Vol. 6 No. 1‚ January–June‚ 2012 Communicative Language Teaching in EFL Contexts: Teachers Attitude and Perception in Bangladesh Abstract Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been widely explored and studied by many countries in the field of English language teaching. This study first presents an overview of English language teaching in Bangladesh‚ and then investigates the definition and principles of CLT which is followed by a brief history of CLT. In addition
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