The role of Video in foreign language teaching Nowadays‚ the first video (or just moving pictures) celebrates its 117th birthday. Do you remember the first movie by Lumière brothers? Which one shocked and impressed the unprepared audience? “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station” What was the main aim of this video? Yes you are absolutely right … just to impress and to entertain. But today‚ Im going to speak about another aim which one is closely connected with the sphere of education
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Natassja Libson Professor Funk English 1121 8 April 2011 Full Day Kindergarten Full day kindergarten should be mandatory and of no extra cost for all of the elementary schools. This will boost the children’s academic achievement. The children that are exposed to full day kindergarten will learn more in literacy and mathematics than those in half-day kindergarten. The students that are in a full day program get to spend more time on their math‚ writing‚ and reading activities. The full day students
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Learning a Foreign Language at High School 1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the need of learning a foreign language at high school. Many have realized the increasing importance of the acquisition of a foreign language‚ in other words an increasingly valued skill. In United States of America‚ an increase of 200 percent in the number of schools offering Chinese language in their programs has been observed. (Asia Society
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Why learning foreign language is important? How I learned English? Language is what makes human different compare to other living beings in the world and it is a tool that we use to communicate with one another. Nowadays‚ in a changing world‚ people become more competitive and ambitious so acquiring language as many as we can is also part of our goals. Unfortunately‚ I couldn’t realize why learning foreign language is important and its value until my senior year of school. For me‚ it took almost
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study 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
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Children should start school younger than they do now. Which are the effects of the children school starting-age? First of all it’s important to define what the first year of school is. We define the first year of school as when students start to learn writing‚ reading and doing simple additions and subtractions. Most European children start school when they turn six and in Sweden‚ Poland and Finland they begin at seven. Instead in Australia children can start their actual first year of
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INTERACTIVE METHODS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES Oksana Siutkina (Kyiv‚ Ukraine) A wide variety of foreign language teaching methods developed in the 20th century. This fact strongly influenced the process of second language teaching and learning. Teachers choose the method that seems to them the most convenient and appropriate. However‚ it is a quite subjective and individual process. Basic teaching methods can be classified into the following categories: 1) structural methods: the grammar-translation
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the advance technology and...Local Vs. Foreign Brands the consumer. In this study‚ two companies have been chosen to represent local and foreign company (Local vs. Foreign Brands)‚ namely Sinar Indah and ChemDry Sabah... Save Paper Sadp Chapter 1 Sample of this project is to develop LAN-Based Sales and Inventory System using Barcode Reader that will facilitate better input and output of the store to ensure high... Save Paper Related Literature - Foreign the highlights of their findings in a
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Do you feel like school should be started later in the morning? Well‚ the school should start later. Instead of school starting in 6:30‚ maybe it should start at 8. If schools delayed the start of the school‚ communities will have reduced tardiness‚ sleeping in class‚ accident rates‚ improved attendance‚ and higher test scores. School starting at 8 will most likely decrease the number of students falling asleep in class. A boy named John goes to work at 3 pm and doesn’t get off until 10 pm.
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The Use of Music in Learning Foreign Languages Does music really helps Bilingual children learn language? "Is it true? Can we learn the language through music?" These were the first things I heard from my friends when I told them that I am doing some research for my journal on the topic relating to how bilingual children can learn their second language through the music. The reason why I chose this as my topic is because I remembered that some time ago when I was surfing the internet‚ I found some
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