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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role to play to ensure “cultural heritage is preserved through the generations…the Chinese and Tamil languages in these schools don’t just function as a medium of instruction…and also provide a link to the community’s cultural heritage” (Centre for Public Policy Studies‚ 2012). The above explanation offers a brief glimpse into the vernacular education system in Malaysia. According to Patil and Motiram (2013)‚ vernacular refers to the local language spoken by the community. Vernacular medium schools
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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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1919:’We have room for but one language here‚ and that is the English language‚ for we intend to see that the crucible turns out people as Americans and now as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house’ (Daniels‚8). The question that has been around for hundreds of years: “Should English be declared the official language of the United States?” is still the controversy – refighting the same old sociolinguistic issue of the 1970s. Yes‚ English should be the sole language of the US‚ because of increased
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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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Abstract I. Introduction 1. Problem statement 2. Research goals 3. Significance of the research II. Literature review 1. What is the definition of speaking? 2. The definition of Communicative Language Teaching? 3. The definition of Grammar-Translation 4. The situation of English speaking teaching at Vietnamese high schools 5. The characteristics of CLT approach 5.1. History and background of CLT approach 5.2. The comparison between CLT approach and Grammar-Translation method 5.3. The teachers
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Language is a system for communicating. Written languages use symbols (that is‚ characters) to build words. The entire set of words is the language’s vocabulary. The ways in which the words can be meaningfully combined is defined by the language’s syntax and grammar. The actual meaning of words and combinations of words is defined by the language’s semantics English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world
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1. INTRODUCTION An English teacher plays an important 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
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And British Newspapers Faculty: Foreign Languages Department: English and Linguistics Year: 3 Group: 14 Student: Maria Zakharyan Supervisor: L. Sargsyan Yerevan 2012 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................2 CHAPTER I. THE SLANG IN MODERN ENGLISH. 1.1. The Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary……………
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Communicative Language Teaching The aim of this unit • To make you think about communicative approach to teaching languages • To analyse the concept of communicative competence • To reflect upon the communicative teaching techniques What do you have to do in this unit? • Warming up discussions • Input reading • Self-assessment questions (SAQS) • Exploratory tasks • Integrated task Warming up discussion 0 Warm up the concept of a “communicative situation” (situation‚ in which
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