Communicative Competence as the Aim of Foreign Language Learning Contents 1. Introduction......................................................................................................................2 2. Communicative competence............................................................................................2 3. How to develop communicative competence..................................................................5 4. Conclusion..........................................
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English Language Education in Rural Schools of India: The Situation‚ the Policy and the Curriculum Abstract This paper attempts to bring in the issues related to English language education situation in rural schools in India‚ the state policy on language education‚ quality questions in second / foreign language education through an analysis of language policy practices and the curriculum and syllabi of five states (provinces) in the country. The language policy in school education emerged
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What does Europe want from Obama? In President Obama’s second term there are two longer-term developments that will affect the relationship with Europe. The first is the US budget deficit‚ the second the so-called "pivot" - or the rebalancing of focus towards Asia. America’s finances will mean‚ now even more than in the first term‚ the US will be what some have called a "frugal superpower" - leading from behind as they did in Libya‚ and as they look to be doing in Mali. But then that frugal
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The aims and importance of learning provision for numeracy development. Numeracy is an important key part of our everyday lives. The curriculum gives pupils a solid grounding in all aspects of numeracy. In early years numeracy skills are developed practically in shape‚ pattern‚ counting‚ sorting and measuring. Teachers in reception classes follow the Foundation Stage Curriculum which includes problem solving‚ reasoning and Numeracy for pupils 40-60+ months old. This is developed through pupils
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Learning vocabulary through authentic video and subtitles (English language) Content Introduction …………………………………………………………….……..3 Chapter I. Learning English vocabulary with the help of authentic video and subtitles …………….................................................................................................5 1.1 Classification of authentic video..................................................................5 1.2 The role of subtitles................
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International Journal of Instruction e-ISSN: 1308-1470 ● www.e-iji.net July 2011 ● Vol.4‚ No.2 p-ISSN: 1694-609X DIFFICULTIES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING GRAMMAR IN AN EFL CONTEXT1 Abdu Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi PhD.‚ College of Education‚ Sultan Qaboos University‚ Oman rayan3@gmail.com Ramani Perur Nagaratnam PhD.‚ Ministry of Manpower‚ Oman The role of grammar instruction in an ESL/EFL context has been for decades a major issue for students and teachers alike. Researchers have debated whether grammar
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LEARNING ENGLISH IN THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION Nowadays‚ in the globalization integration trend‚ more and more people are going to be aware of the general foreign language learning‚ English is a particular importance. Some reasons why we should be learning a foreign language as: To increase global understanding‚ to expand study abroad options‚ or simply to travel abroad or to understand international literature‚ music‚ and film… English is the most widely spoken language in the world
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Learning strategies to learn English It is time to learn effective strategies for learning English as a second language acquisition. It is important to know that there are some learning strategies to help students how to learn English. Those strategies are learning English by the use of the internet and learning English in a classroom. But there are some students that do not have success on learning English and there are some questions about it: Why some students are not successful English
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the most essential steps for people learning a new language. English is not my first language‚ it is my third‚ and I have spent a lot of time and effort to going through these steps. As an individual learning a new language‚ I can definitely say it is hard. Believe me‚ there is no way that a person can learn to run before he learns how to walk; the same applies to learning a new language like English. One of my English teachers from De Anza College said‚ “English is one of the hardest languages in
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Literacy Narrative - English learning I’ve been learning English for nearly three years by now．Many years ago‚ the Chinese Education Authority decided that English should be a required course for The National College Entrance Exam and ever since children in China have to start learning English at the age of 6. Nevertheless‚ most of us won’t treat this language seriously until high school. The reason for this is that in order to get accepted by any of the colleges‚ senior high school students
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