and the regiocentric approach. What follows is a shorthand description based on Dowling and Welch (2004) of the four using the same criteria for each approach. You should use these descriptions as the ’skeleton’ of your understanding of the four approaches and use the reading from Hill (2005) to provide the ’flesh’. |Ethnocentric approach | | |Definition: |Ethnocentricity (ethnocentrism)
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not vice versa Today the professional language teacher has a good grounding in the various techniques and new approaches‚ and they know and understand the history and evolution of teaching methodologies. The modern teacher will in fact use a variety of methodologies and approaches‚ choosing techniques from each method that they consider effective and applying them according to the learning context and objectives. They prepare their lessons to facilitate the understanding of the new language being
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Teaching Listening Listening is a critical element in the competent language performance of adult second language learners‚ whether they are communicating at school‚ at work‚ or in the community. Through the normal course of a day‚ listening is used nearly twice as much as speaking and four to five times as much as reading and writing . In a recent study of Fortune 500 Corporations‚ Wolvin and Coakley (1991) found that listening was perceived to be crucial for communication at work with regards
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Team teaching‚ also known as collaborative teaching‚ is where two or more teachers take responsibility for the planning‚ teaching‚ and/or monitoring of the success of a particular group of students (Flanagan‚ 2001; Main and Bryer‚ 2005). Team teaching can and does have many forms. It may be as simple as two teachers sharing the same physical space‚ working on and from the same curriculum‚ collaborative teaching with the whole class or teaching where teachers take different combinations of students
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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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Test Methodological Approaches (FPMTFL-FP006_EngX4_E0) | User ID: MEFPMTFL970132 | Attempt: 1 / 1 | Out of: 10 | Started: September 1‚ 2011 23:29 | Finished: September 2‚ 2011 03:57 | Time spent: 4 hr‚ 28 min.‚ 17 sec. | Student finished 7 hr‚ 31 min.‚ 43 sec. ahead of the 720 min. time limit. | Return to Scores. Question 1 (0.5 points) What sort of language analysis would you include the following group of terms in? Choose the right option: Determiners‚ nouns‚ verbs‚ adjectives‚ prepositions…
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research. Among a vast array of sources that have been used to acquire knowledge some of which have been deemed to unorthodixical and unreliable. Research has proven to be a consistent reliable source of knowledge. Research basically involves three areas which include process of data collection‚ summation of the data and a critical analysis of the data. Success in educational research is determined by the researcher’s knowledge of the problem‚ what type of data he or she has to collect‚ what information
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Course: Foundation Degree in Children’s Learning and Development Module: Teaching Assistants The beginning of the Victorian age education had no relevance‚ with children forced into employment. The 1870 Education Act came into force establishing free education for all children‚ regardless of wealth‚ religion or status. The 1944 Education Act instigated the school leaving age to rise to fifteen years‚ providing mass secondary education in addition to primary. Development in the
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Identify the key aspects of current legislative requirements and codes of practice relevant to your subject and the type of organisation within which you would like to work This essay identifies the key aspects of current legislative requirements and codes of practice for the aeronautical engineering industry. The most inclusive policy that is adhered to is the Equal Opportunities Policy soon to be replaced by The Equality Act 2010. This policy was set up to ensure that everybody is treated with
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Approaches to Development Communication Jan Servaes (ed.) Paris: UNESCO 2002 Table of Contents By Way of Introduction JAN SERVAES I . Introduction 1. Communication and the Persistence of Poverty: The Need for a Return to Basics PRADIP THOMAS 2. Hybrid Interactions. Human Rights and Development in Cultural Perspective JAN SERVAES & CHRIS VERSCHOOTEN 3. Media Globalization through Localization JAN SERVAES & RICO LIE 4. Vertical Minds versus Horizontal Cultures. An Overview of Participatory
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