Abstract Learning a foreign language well does not simply mean mastering its pronunciation‚ grammar and vocabulary. In fact‚ the learning of a language is inseparable from the learning of its culture. It shows that students not only should grasp vocabularies‚ grammar and pronunciation，but also properly grasp the relationship between language teaching and culture understanding. It’s clear that language teaching is indeed culture teaching. It is necessary and urgent to teach not only cultural knowledge
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http://e-flt.nus.edu.sg/ Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 2010‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 1‚ pp. 66–85 © Centre for Language Studies National University of Singapore Factors Affecting Language Learning Strategy Reported Usage by Thai and Vietnamese EFL Learners Attapol Khamkhien (faasapk@ku.ac.th) Kasetsart University‚ Thailand Abstract This paper is a report on an investigation into the relationship between three variables and language learning strategy use by Thai and Vietnamese university
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English Language Teaching; Vol. 5‚ No. 12; 2012 ISSN 1916-4742 E-ISSN 1916-4750 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education The Effect of the Graphic Organizer Strategy on University Students’ English Vocabulary Building Arwa N. Al-Hinnawi1 1 Zarqa University College‚ Al-Balqa’ Applied University‚ Zarqa‚ Jordan Correspondence: Arwa N. Al-Hinnawi‚ P. O. Box 11974‚ 13118 Hay Al-Hussein Post Office‚ Zarqa‚ Jordan. Tel: 962-79-9266659. E-mail: Arwa_Alhinnawi@yahoo.com Received:
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I. Introduction Communicative competence is a linguistic term for the ability not only to apply the grammatical rules of a language to form correct utterances‚ but also to know when to use these utterances appropriately. The term was coined by Dell Hymes in 1966‚ reacting against the inadequacy of Noam Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance. Dell Hymes proposed the concept of communicative competence which claimed that a speaker can be able to produce grammatical sentences that
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Chapter 1 Introduction Human being use language for convening the ideas‚ thought‚ and expression by using it as a tool; through their whole life. Acquiring a mother language or first language is the need of every body‚ later we also need to learn other need base language for getting job‚ for communicating with other people of different nation or for educational purpose‚ or any other reason may be. English is one of the language that is learnt throughout the globe because of its status at international
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Three Lesson Plans for Past Simple Teacher ’s Name: Naela Laham Date: 26.12.12 Lesson 1 Past Simple Subject English Major 10th grade Grade 45 minutes Time Students will be able to: 1.speak about their feelings when they hear about the tense past simple. 2. have a short introduction about the importance of the past simple through watching a story in the YouTube http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/Niki55-200014-feelings-fantastic-bird-education-love-photos-story-birds-ppt-powerpoint
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Essay - narrative It is impossible to teach someone‚ that does not want to learn. Many kids fail school for not wanting to learn‚ even if they have a great education. They do not appreciate the great education they have. This kids don’t have a motivation and they reject all the information that is given to them. Well‚ my cousin is one of this kids and some years ago my aunt asked me to help him. I tried everything to help him many times‚ but nothing worked. Until one day I found the way he
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Running Head: Teaching as a Profession Teaching as a Profession Bennetta Trotter Grand Canyon University Edu 215 August 15‚ 2010 Teaching as a Profession I believe that teaching is one of the most demanding careers one might choose from. Teaching is a one of a kind profession; this career choice can be frustrating‚ exciting‚ and also very fulfilling‚ for those who are really dedicated to choose teaching as their long life career. Deciding to become a teacher means a lot of time and
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students find it difficult to communicate in english. The objective of this article is to proclaim what might be the reasons for the poor level of communication skills among the students and what methodologies one can follow to improve their ignored language skills like listening and speaking. Some of my observations of the colomnist for the poor level of communication skills among the students follows below..... 1) Lack of proper guidance: students are focussing on improving their communication skills
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.........7 Conclusion……………………………………………………………….7 Reference………………………………………………………………...8 【Abstract】 Euphemism expression is commonly used in business correspondences and business negotiation. Which is not only a social language phenomenon‚ but it is also a cultural phenomenon. By making an analysis of euphemistic expressions and courtesy principle used in business correspondences and business negotiations‚ this paper mainly discusses the fulfillment of euphemistic expressions
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