Introduction: The Nature of Teaching The nature of teaching has been conceptualized and explained n countless ways‚ one conceptualized is that teaching is the act of providing activities that facilitate learning‚ another view runs likes this”Teaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what the teacher is doing in her classes‚ if the student are not learning something significant‚ she is not teaching‚ when the student fails‚ the teacher fails more. Quite similar to
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USING PANTUN IN TEACHING ENGLISH ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Abstract I. INTRODUCTION The traditional view of pantun as one of the most sophisticated forms of literary and linguistic expression‚ makes it by definition inaccessible to all but the most advanced language learners. Even then‚ the wealth of literary allusions‚ historical references and cultural assumptions typically found in the works of great‚ it can limit comprehension greatly for the native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker
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TEACHING VOCABULARY ON THE TOPIC ENVIRONMENT Contents Introduction p. 3-4 Part 1. General Principles in Teaching Vocabulary p. 5 1.1. What need to be taught p. 5 1.2. Criteria for selecting and vocabulary exercises p. 1.3. Receptive and productive p. 1.4. Grouping of items of vocabulary p. 1.5. The amount of items to teach p. Part 2. Presenting vocabulary p. 2.1. Traditional techniques for presenting vocabulary p. 2.1.1. Visual techniques p. 2.1.2. Verbal
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Teaching Pragmatics explores the teaching of pragmatics through lessons and activities created by teachers of English as a second and foreign language. This book is written for teachers by teachers. Our teacher-contributors teach in seven different countries and are both native-speakers and nonnative speakers of English. Activities reflect ESL and EFL classroom settings. The chapters included here allow teachers to see how other teachers approach the teaching of pragmatics and to appreciate the diversity
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Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy Brown‚ H. D. (1994). Teaching by principles: An interactive approach to language pedagogy. Englewood Cliffs‚ New Jersey: Prentice Hall Regents. 416 pp. Reviewed by Gail Schaefer Fu The Chinese University of Hong Kong H. Douglas Brown’s Teaching by Principles is intended for teachers in training -- those who intend to be teachers but who have little or no classroom experience -- and for teachers who train teachers. It is
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Innovation in teaching Jackie Lewis One of the major concerns of the tourism industry is that there is a mismatch between graduates’ skills‚ acquired from higher education institutions and the skill sets needed in industry. Many of the current graduates are found to be lacking in creativity‚ communications skills‚ analytical and critical thinking‚ and problem-solving skills (Teo & Wong‚ 2000; Tan‚ 2000). As such‚ there is much need for institutions of higher education to focus on training future
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Reflection of my personal development on Professional Practice/ Leadership and Management/Personal Effectiveness It is of importance that we should start building up on our personal development in teaching from the start of the NIE in-service training programme and continue on when we join the teaching fraternity to be a full-fledged teacher and as we advanced further up the education career tracks. For me‚ professional practice is a set of values‚ attitude‚ knowledge‚ skills and behaviours that
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obstacles in my life‚ just little petty ones. I am the youngest of eight siblings and I guess my childhood was a little different from some people’s. It included cramming two bunk beds in our small upstairs bedroom‚ and I cannot say that I recall even one of those walls bare of a dresser or bed. I wore the clothes passed down the line from my sisters and the coolest electronic we had was my brother’s old Game Boy my sisters and I would occasionally find in a drawer and loose two weeks later. Life was probably
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You and I and a couple million other people have all been in schools for a number of years‚ and we all have some pretty good ideas about the qualities we feel are important for good teaching. Not surprising‚ several agencies and organizations have looked into the characteristics of good teachers. One of those is the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC). The INTASC establishes guidelines for preparing‚ licensing‚ and certifying educators. Among other things‚ they promote
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the role of teachers will also change. In my essay I am going to focus on the importance of using creative teaching methods in young learners ‘education. I will depict the characteristic features of ’ideal’ teachers by exploring the meaning of creative teaching and its benefits both on children and on teachers. Before talking about the benefits of creativity in teaching one must define what creative teaching is. Is being creative means being talented? Or being skillful? Or maybe simply
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