Using Technology to Support English Language Learner Students ’ Learning Experiences MED 7710 DIS B2T.01 March 23‚ 2013 Resource #1: According to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001‚ each and every ESL‚ LEP‚ or ESOL student must be technology literate by the eighth grade. This is the same provisionary standard for regular education students who speak English on a first language basis. With this Act in place‚ it puts high expectations on our students and educators. With this high expectation
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The use of Computers in Language Learning and Language Teaching C M. G Research Paper for March 18‚ 2008 I. Introduction In defining the meaning of literacy‚ Luke and Freebody suggested that there are four sets of overlapping practices that literacy involves such as: breaking the codes of text‚ participating in the meanings of texts‚ use the texts functionally and critically analyze and transform texts. (Warschauer. P. 2) Depending on the situation
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Should English teachers speak the language of their students? An English only policy should be implemented in all ESL and EFL classrooms. The best English lessons are often the result of a teacher who only speaks English. Such lessons enhances the student’s listening and speaking skills by hearing the correct way to pronounce things and comprehending what the teacher is explaining‚ which are the most important skills in order to communicate. However there is always an exception to the rule. There
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English Language Teaching Situation in Pakistan Analysis) “…a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia” (Attitude & Motivation Macaulay 1935 Ms. Mehwish Haider 1 English Language Teaching Situation in Pakistan Table of Contents Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………...3 Definition of Second language ……………………………………………………….……...….4 Definition of foreign Language …………………………………………………………………4 Different needs to
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Work : Essays : Politics and the English Language (May 1945) Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way‚ but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism‚ like preferring candles to electric light or
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at least one foreign language today. That’s why pupils have got such subject as a foreign language at school. The problem of learning foreign languages is very important today. Foreign languages are socially demanded especially at the present time. We know that the progress in science and technology has led to an explosion of knowledge and has contributed to an overflow of information. The total knowledge of mankind is known to double every seven years. Foreign languages are needed as the main
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Communicative Body The focal point of this past year‚ 2012‚ has been the presidential election. After twelve months of being bombarded with every and all types of political advertisements‚ debates‚ and analysis it brings to mind a single question: just how do the presidential candidates use the power of communication‚ through its many forms‚ to connect and gain the votes of the constituents? It may seem as though there is a straight forward answer to this particular question‚ and to a point
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What is ESP and how does it differ from teaching general English course What is ESP? ESP is English for Specific Purpose and can also be referred to as Business English. A great deal about the origins of ESP could be written. Notably‚ there are three reasons common to the emergence of all ESP: the demands of a Brave New World‚ a revolution in linguistics‚ and focus on the learner (Hutchinson & Waters‚ 1987). ESP arose as a term in the 1960’s as it became increasingly aware that general English
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The Communicative Approach was founded by Robert Langs.. Psychoanalysis has turned reality on its head: We are taught to think of ourselves as distorters and misperceivers‚ unreliable slaves to our inner fantasies - especially when we are patients in therapy. But the communicative approach has shown that it is more accurate and compelling to see ourselves as highly reliable perceivers‚ with the understanding that our most valid perceptions are experienced unconsciously and encoded in the stories
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Competence and Performance in Language Teaching Jack C. Richards Competence and Performance in Language Teaching Jack C. Richards cambridge university press Cambridge‚ New York‚ São Paulo‚ Mexico City‚ Tokyo‚ Singapore‚ Madrid‚ Cape Town‚ Dubai‚ Melbourne‚ New Delhi Cambridge University Press 32 Avenue of the Americas‚ New York‚ NY 10013-2473‚ USA www.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 2011 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant
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