Assigment Why Do People Learn Foreign Language ? Language is a system of communication for us to interact with others. Without language we may not be able to interact‚ because language is the source for the creation of human interaction with others. The language in the world is very much‚ on average every countries has different language even though there are the same but not many and not completely the same pronunciation‚ for example‚ is that the English language is divided into two‚ namely the UK
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ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 5‚ pp. 977-988‚ September 2011 © 2011 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/jltr.2.5.977-988 A Study of Factors Affecting EFL Learners ’ English Listening Comprehension and the Strategies for Improvement Abbas Pourhossein Gilakjani School of Educational Studies‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Malaysia Email: abbas.pouhossein@yahoo.com Mohammad Reza Ahmadi School of Educational Studies‚ Universiti Sains
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Tagalization is the process of converting foreign language into Filipino language or it is the translating of text into Filipino. Under the 1987 Constitution XIV Section 6‚ the Filipino national language was settled and the Education department adopted a bilingual program to promote the use of Tagalog‚ the other official language. The government was swayed by studies indicating that children tended to learn better in their native languages The trend for Tagalization or as some would call
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Learning a second language is when a person acquires a language that is not native to them. Many people believe that learning a second language should be required for children and believe that it is beneficial. However‚ many also believe that it is not necessary and additionally‚ may be malign to students and leave negative long-term effects. People who are for the requirement of learning a foreign language have their reasons to support that opinion. One major reason people consider it important
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Activities for Culture-Related English Lessons to Enhance Students’ Communicative Skills การพัฒนากิจกรรมการเรียนรู้สำหรับการสอนบทเรียนวิชาภาษาอังกฤษ ที่มีเนื้อหาเกี่ยวข้องกับวัฒนธรรมโดยใช้วิธีการสอนแบบเน้นงานปฏิบัติเพื่อพัฒนาทักษะการใช้ภาษาอังกฤษเพื่อการสื่อสาร Background of the study The idea that foreign language teaching has a cultural dimension is not a new one (Saluveer‚ 2004). It is widely accepted that one of the main aims of foreign language teaching today is to develop learners’
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Developing Language Competence and Building Social Awareness By Fatchul Mu’in Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Lambung Mangkurat University Banjarmasin E-mail: muin_sihyar@yahoo.com Literature is a kind of the artwork which uses a language as a medium. If it said that literature is a language in one side‚ learning literature is‚ at the same time‚ learning a language in the other side. English literature is literature written in English language. In this relation‚ learning English literature
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The Implication of National Language Policy on English Language Teaching in Malaysia. Introduction • Malay‚ Chinese‚ Tamil and English are the major languages spoken by the different ethnic groups in Malaysia. • Due to the British colonization‚ the English language once has become the official language of the country. • In 1956‚ Malay language was given the status of national language in The Razak Report‚ and supported by The Rahman Talib Report in 1960. • Both reports became the basis of
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Overview of Language Teaching Methodology The word "methodology" is itself often misinterpreted or ill-understood. It is usually given lip-service as an explanation for the way a given teacher goes about his/her teaching‚ a sort of umbrella-term to describe the job of teaching another language. Most often‚ methodology is understood to mean methods in a general sense‚ and in some cases it is even equated to specific teaching techniques. It does (or should) in fact mean and involve much more than
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Brief Analysis of English Major Students’ Intonation Errors and Countermeasures Abstract: This paper analyses the discourse of 90 English major prostgraduate students from Xuzhou Normal University‚ and points out the problems about their English intonation‚ proposes to strengthen the awareness of the importance of students’ intonation‚ to improve their intonation situation with some teaching methods. Keywords: discourse analysis English major intonation Chapter One Introduction Intonation
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An Action Research Study of Promoting Students’ Confidence in Speaking English Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education (Ed.D) School of Education Faculty of Arts‚ Education and Human Development Victoria University By Montha Songsiri B.A. (Suansunundha Teachers’ College) M.A. (King Mongkut’s University of Technology‚ Thonburi) March 2007 Declaration of Authorship I‚ Montha Songsiri‚ formally declare that the Doctorate of
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