www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol. 8‚ No. 2; February 2012 EFL Students’ Attitudes towards Learning English Language: The Case of Libyan Secondary School Students Dr. Mohamad Jafre Zainol Abidin School of Educational Studies‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ 11800 Penang‚ Malaysia E-mail: Jafre@usm.my Majid Pour-Mohammadi (Corresponding author) Department of English Translation‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Rasht‚ Iran Tel: 60-17-605-4350 E-mail: majid.pourmohammadi@gmail.com Hanan Alzwari School
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of the English language in the world nowadays‚ we should question what kind of teaching would be most appropriate to the learning of English as an International Language. McKay (2002:12)‚ based on the ideas of Smith (1976)‚ summarizes some important aspects that should be considered to the teaching of an international language. 1) As an international language‚ English is used both in a global sense for international communication between countries and in a local sense as a language of wider communication
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assessment. The teaching of language and literature‚ it would be no exaggeration to say have changed beyond all recognition. Globalisation in terms of our world becoming a much smaller place has understandably brought great challenges for educationalists‚ these challenges must be seen in a positive light. Access to a world of language and writing can in my view only be seen as a great bonus for all of us involved in teaching. Globalisation has had an immense impact on teaching English‚ I need not
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Running head: BABY SIGN LANGUAGE Baby Sign Language: Does Teaching Infants Sign Language Help or Hinder the Language Acquisition Process? Selena Y. Burgos Seminole State Community College BABY SIGN LANGUAGE Baby Sign Language: Does Teaching Infants Sign Language Help or Hinder the Language Acquisition Process? According to Susan Kubric Barnes1 (2010)‚ numerous programs have been created to help families and teachers learn to better communicate with children as young as 6 months old
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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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Figure 2 shows the total number of times each step was applied to a total of 17 word problems (four word problems in baseline‚ seven word problems during intervention‚ and six word problems during baseline/maintenance phase). The C step (circle the numbers) was applied to 12 word problems‚ U (underline the question) to 13 word problems‚ B (box the key words) to one word problem‚ E (eliminate irrelevant information) to six word problems‚ and S (solve) to 11 word problems. Figure 3 shows the phases
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Lab Activity 3 ACTIVITY 1 http://math.colgate.edu/math102/dschult/examples/ANOVA/anovanc.html A researcher would like to find out whether a man’s nickname affects his cholesterol reading (though it is not clear why she believes it should). She records the cholesterol readings of 23 men nicknamed Sam‚ 24 men nicknamed Lou and 19 men nicknamed Mac; her data appears in the table to the right. She wants to know whether the differences in the average readings are significant; i.e.‚ whether the average
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The Role of Children’s Literature in Primary Language Teaching I am going to write about the role of children’s literature in primary language teaching‚ the role of the storybooks in primary language teaching and I am going to design a scheme of work for three lessons which is attached to the storybook entitled ’The Elephant and the Bad Baby’ (Vipont‚ E.-1995) in this essay. Children’s literature is part of the literature which speaks to children. Rhymes‚ songs‚ poems‚ tales and stories belong
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Writing Seminar Final Essay Student: Aurimar Barrientos Prof: Alexander Salazar The teaching and learning of writing in English as a Foreign Language As foreign language students we possess the capacity to learn a new language‚ for example English. It might be easy to speak it‚ read it and listen it‚ but what about writing? Writing might be disliked and avoided for students because it is frustrating. It is frustrating because it is unnatural. Speaking is natural and not frustrating; when
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When we first started teaching and we reflected on our instruction practices‚ we found that students did not understand their purpose for learning. We wanted them to make a connection from the content area to the real world. When students understand exactly what they’re supposed to learn and what their work will look like when they learn it‚ they’re better able to monitor and adjust their work‚ select effective strategies‚ and connect current work to prior learning (Brookhart‚ S.‚ Moss‚ C.‚ 2014)
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