Using Games in Language Teaching The purpose of this paper is threefold: to discuss reasons for using games in language‚ to give suggestions on when and how to use games‚ and to explain categories for classifying games. Why use games in language teaching Games have long been advocated for assisting language learning. Here are some of the reasons why: 1. Games add interest to what students might not find very interesting. Sustaining interest can mean sustaining effort (Thiagarajan‚ 1999;
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GOOD PRACTICE IN TEACHING ESP PRESENTATIONS Galina Kavaliauskienė Mykolas Romeris University Public speaking is the one skill no successful person can afford to be without. Anonymous. INTRODUCTION Speaking in public always aims at communication and presupposes a different level of formality depending on the settings and the audience. Learning to speak in a foreign language differs from learning other subjects due to its social nature. Language is part of person’s identity
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ICELT 2012-2013 The Anglo Antonio Caso Language for Teachers Task 4: Focus on the teacher’s language Name: Eduardo García Acevedo Candidate number: 004 Centre Number: MX005 Date of submission: August‚ 30th 2013 In this paper‚ I analyze my language in the classroom in terms of its accuracy and appropriacy for teaching. I quote six utterances from an Elementary level (A1) with twelve adult students who work at an investigation institute. This lesson starts with a conversation about
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Learning and Teaching I. Introduction Nowadays‚ culture plays a very important role in the foreign language classroom. Because cultural differences may give rise to misunderstanding that exists in intercultural communication. So the teaching of culture in the English classroom has been becoming a heated topic and people pay more and more attention to the cultural studies and intercultural communication in recent years. Therefore‚ culture teaching is feasible in the English language classroom
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education (2011-12‚ 1st Term) Master of Arts in English Language Teaching ENLT 6704 Psychological and Social Perspectives on Language Assignment 2 A Critical View on Using L1 to Teach L2 in Local Hong Kong English Classrooms Student: Leung Chi Kit‚ Johnny Student no.: 1009036200 Course Instructor: Prof. Barley Mak Date of submission: 30th December‚ 2011 I declare that the assignment here submitted is original except for source material explicitly
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Assessing the English Language Learner (ELL) The Growth of ELL (ESL) The number of human beings who speak a language other than English continues to increase in the United States‚ Canada‚ and Australia‚ for example‚ as the number of immigrants grows. In 2006‚ 34.70% of the population of Los Angeles‚ California‚ was foreign born; 25.50% of Miami‚ Florida; 39.60% of Vancouver‚ British Columbia; 45.70% of Toronto‚ Ontario; 28.90% of Melbourne‚ Australia; and 31.70% of Sydney‚ Australia (Statistics
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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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like mother‚ guides us like father and delights us like wife”(Ahmad‚ 1969). The development of education depends on the language that is unique tool granted to human beings for communication. It is one of the gifts‚ gifted by Allah to distinguish mankind from animal. Therefore development of civilization and education depends upon the growth and use of language. Today we know that the whole world has changed to a global village. Every country and nation of this global village has
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knowledge about English in the communicative situation. Even though we invest too much in teaching English‚ why do not we improve our ability to use English as expected? Today’s lesson was about the human brain associated with language skills‚ suitable environment for foreign language learners‚ discussion concerning an early-childhood English education and so on. And then I thought about it when I become a teacher how to teach English to children. First‚ good quality of language stimulation should be provided
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www.ccsenet.org/elt English Language Teaching Vol. 3‚ No. 3; September 2010 Sociolinguistic Competence and Malaysian Students’ English Language Proficiency Mohan K. Muniandy Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Academy of Language Studies‚ Kuala Pilah Campus‚ 72000 Kuala Pilah‚ Negeri Sembilan‚ Malaysia Tel: 60-6-483-2130/ 60-12-611-8478 E-mail: mohan691@.ns.uitm.edu.my Gopala Krishnan Sekharan Nair Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Academy of Language Studies‚ Dungun Campus‚ 23000
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