SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND LAW‚ DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH INVESTIGATING THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE OF EFL STUDENTS: THE CASE OF ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL IN ADAMA By KORIE SHANKULIE Advisor: HAILELEUL ZELEKE (PHD) JUNE 2012 INVESTIGATING THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE OF EFL STUDENTS: THE CASE OF St. JOSEPH SCHOOL IN ADAMA By Korie Shankulie A Thesis Submitted to School of Humanities and Law‚ Department of
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Design of the ImmersiveTouch™: a High-Performance Haptic Augmented Virtual Reality System Cristian Luciano‚ Pat Banerjee‚ Lucian Florea‚ Greg Dawe Electronic Visualization Laboratory Industrial Virtual Reality Institute University of Illinois at Chicago 842 West Taylor St.‚ Chicago‚ IL 60607 {clucia1‚ banerjee‚ lflore11}@uic.edu; dawe@evl.uic.edu Abstract ImmersiveTouch™ is the next generation of augmented virtual reality technology‚ being the first system that integrates a haptic device‚ with
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problems encountered by language teachers within the area of teaching English through literature (i.e. lack of preparation in the area of literature teaching in TESL / TEFL programs‚ absence of clear-cut objectives defining the role of literature in ESL / EFL‚ language teachers’ not having the background and training in literature‚ lack of pedagogically-designed appropriate materials that can be used by language teachers in a classroom context) are taken into account. Key Words: Literature‚ Teaching Literature
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Intercultural Communication Studies XVII: 2 2008 War and Peace of Languages and Cultures? Svetlana Ter-Minasova‚ Moscow State University Ter-Minasova The future of mankind depends largely on its ability to communicate. Technical progress provides mankind with an ever-increasing variety of more and more powerful devices and forms of communication: tele-conferences‚ multi-media bridges‚ His or Her Majesty – the Internet! However‚ “the human factor” presents a number of problems hampering
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COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING: A PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGE FOR THE ENGLISH TEACHER EDGAR ALIRIO INSUASTY Communicative Language Teaching or Communicative Approach (CA) can be defined as one of the most widespread and prevailing pedagogical options to conduct a language lesson. It has brought a lot of important contributions to the professional field of language teaching. To start with‚ let’s mention its emphasis‚ unlike Audiolingual Method‚ on developing learners’ Communicative Competence rather
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In Al-Sayed’s article‚ repetition is widely used as the writer is a non-native of English. For instance‚ "building materials" is repeated around seven times in paragraphs: 1‚ 3‚ 7‚ 11‚ 16‚ 17‚ as it is the name and the topic of the article. What is more‚ the verb ’open’ is repeated along with ’crossings’ in paragraph 4‚ 7‚ 17‚ 19 revealing the importance of this action in the ’reconstruction’ which is repeated for nine times. Moreover‚ ’peace’ is repeated seven times for its importance to Gaza‚ as
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Culture is diffused from one generation to another through language as well as performances. Culture norms may impose members of a certain community to define which traits‚ behaviors‚ roles are considered appropriate or inappropriate to each gender. Although these values are not constant and may change due to cultural revolutions and social changes‚ they are a powerful generator of stereotypes and biases. Despite the fact that many gender roles remain the same‚ others change over time. In the past
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VOCABULARY 2 Mastering the Academic Word L i s t Answers FOCUS ON Provided by Ebrahim Tahasoni www.tahasoni.com STUDENT BOOK ANSWER KEY UNIT 1 Chapter 1 Reading Reading Comprehension (page 4) 1. Society: All the people who interact in a defined space and share culture. 2. Answers will vary. 3. Technologically advanced societies rely more on machines. As a result‚ they are more dynamic than less technologically advanced societies and their population is more mobile. Reading Strategy
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Cocking‚ R. R. (Eds.). (2000). How people learn: Brain‚ mind‚ experience‚ and school. Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Ellis‚ R. (2005). Principles of instructed language learning. Asian EFL Journal‚ 7(3)‚ 9-24. Retrieved February 12‚ 2006‚ from http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/September_05_re.php Ersoz‚ A Gardner‚ H. (1999). Intelligence reframed: Multiple intelligences for the 21st century. Hadfield‚ J. (1999). Intermediate vocabulary games. Harlow‚ Essex: Longman. Jacobs
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TESL Reporter 38‚ 1 (2005)‚ pp. 17-26 17 Teaching Pragmatics in the EFL Classroom? SURE You Can! Mark N. Brock Carson-Newman College‚ Tennessee‚ USA Yoshie Nagasaka Kobe‚ Japan There are a number of language competencies which English language learners must develop‚ in tandem‚ in order to communicate successfully in English. Any successful communicative event‚ at least one that extends beyond expressions of simple‚ immediate need‚ will require that L2 speakers have developed some mastery
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