Reflection in Teaching Teachers‚ it is thought‚ benefit from the practice of reflection‚ the conscious act of thinking deeply about and carefully examining the interactions and events within their own classrooms. Educators T. Wildman and J Niles (1987) describe a scheme for developing reflective practice in experienced teachers. This was justified by the view that reflective practice could help teachers to feel more intellectually involved in their role and work in teaching and enable them to
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Teaching Pronunciation Pronunciation involves far more than individual sounds. Word stress‚ sentence stress‚ intonation‚ and word linking all influence the sound of spoken English‚ not to mention the way we often slur words and phrases together in casual speech. ’What are you going to do?’ becomes ’Whaddaya gonna do?’ English pronunciation involves too many complexities for learners to strive for a complete elimination of accent‚ but improving pronunciation will boost self esteem‚ facilitate communication
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strategic conflict draws criticism from global commercial enterprises‚ many of whom blame the influence of television. Relax‚ sit back and gasp as I display the rich tapestries of nature. Social Factors Society is our own everyday reality. When The Tygers of Pan Tang sang ’It’s lonely at the top. Everybody’s trying to do you in’ [1] ‚ they must have been referning to nature. Much has been said about the influence of the media on nature. Observers claim it raises the question ’why?’ Special care
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51 ¡πÿ…¬»“ µ√åª√‘∑√√»πå Teaching English in Thailand: An Uphill Battle Tipa Thep-Ackrapong The main purpose of this article is to give an overview of English language teaching in Thailand. Firstly‚ some problems involved in the teaching of English to Thais are discussed‚ and this is followed by an examination of some of the approaches used here for the teaching of English. Finally‚ attempts to tackle problems are presented. Problems In the first regard‚ it will be shown that
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Jean Piaget; a French-speaking Swiss cognitive psychologist has contributed immeasurably to understand the “development of learning” in children. He devoted his life to closely observing and recording the intellectual abilities of infants‚ children and adolescents. According to Piaget‚ the human brain is not fully developed until late adolescence. People often expect children to think like adults when they are not yet capable of doing so. It is important that parents know what to expect from their
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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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variance decomposition indicate that there exists statistically significant cointegration among macroeconomic factors and terrorism incidence in Pakistan. Among macroeconomic factors‚ changes in price level exert the largest influence on terrorism in Pakistan. Contrary‚ the influence of poverty seems relatively the least contribution level for changes in terrorism incidence in Pakistan. © 2013 Society for Policy Modeling. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL
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PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND THE PROBLEMS FACED WITH TEACHING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE An analysis of the obstacles in the way of effective pupil-centred teaching and learning of the English language in Tanzanian government primary school with recommendations Katy Allen MBE Director‚ Village Education Project Kilimanjaro Presented at The Forum on Community of Practice of Learner Centred Learning in Tanzania held at the Tanzanian Episcopal Conference Centre‚ Kurasini 18th – 19th August 2008 PRIMARY
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the unknown‚ counting the dots on the ceiling. It is unfortunate that many students today are subject to this form of teaching and learning. I believe that the most effective teaching method involves assignments that directly relate to the students’ lives‚ problem-based learning and activities that impact students physically‚ intellectually‚ socially‚ and emotionally. The teaching philosophy that includes all of these learning tools is progressivism. According to our textbook‚ “progressivism is an
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and with some historical perspective we can analyse that each development should be assessed individually. Traditional forms of teaching and syllabus design concentrated more on the teacher playing a central role in the classroom‚ teaching also focused much more on form rather than meaning and there was a great importance given to testing and assessments. Nowadays teaching and syllabus design concentrates on both a balance of learner centeredness‚ communication and teacher playing the role of facilitator
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