How to Teach EFL Pronunciation Successfully Winda Syafitri Is it possible teaching English without teaching pronunciation? The “NO” answer is usually attached‚ yet it is common knowledge which is mostly ignored not only by the learners but also by the teacher. Considering sounds play an important role in communication‚ foreign language teacher is supposed to give proper attention to this. To teach English as Foreign Language pronunciation successfully‚ good strategies are needed applying in the
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as decision making process‚ both individually and in groups. In addition to that‚ it also tries to assess influences on the consumer from groups like family‚ friends‚ and society in general. One most important issue about consumer behavior is concerning food consumption. It is clear that food consumption behavior of people in Thailand has changed considerably since the last 15 years. Nutrition Survey conducted in 1995 showed that the average fat consumption per day for the Thai people was less
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ON TEACHING EURIPIDES’ MEDEA K.O. Chong-Gossard Euripides’ Medea remains one of the most often performed Greek tragedies today‚ and one of the favourite tragedies for secondary school students to read in Classics or English courses. Since there is a tremendous amount of scholarship already published on this play of plays‚ this article is intended to provide a quick reminder of the background to the play‚ a discussion of the character of the chorus and the character of Medea‚ and thus a variety
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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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Remarks concerning the Savages of North America Benjamin Franklin’’s argument was explaining the difference in lifestyles of the Indians and the Americans. Why should they be called savages just because their lifestyle is different than ours. The Indians have no police or anyone to rule the disobedience of their community nor anyone to punish them. The Indian men are the backbone of their culture they are hunters and warriors and the women are there solely to take care of the children and nourish
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fulltime teaching practice and I am not an exception. A week ago I came back from my school practice and I am full of emotions and positive fillings. I was allocated to a comprehensive school in Donetsk. And I did my fulltime practice as a teacher of English and foreign literature. I spent my first week observing lessons in different classes and giving occasional lessons myself. Sometimes I had to substitute some teachers because of their illness. At these moments I understood that teaching is not
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My Teaching Philosophy Philosophy of teaching is a self-reflective statement of your beliefs about teaching and learning. It discuss how you put your beliefs in practice by including concrete examples of what you do or anticipate doing in class. My teaching philosophy is ‘participatory learning’. It a type of learning process whereby learners are put in the centre of every learning situation‚ in other words pupils take active part of the lesson presentation. . I hold this belief in the sense that
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jurisprudence and sovereignty‚ oftentimes cause high school students much struggle when trying to thoroughly understand such conceptual ideas. To teach these theoretical concepts‚ one must not only equivalently utilize David Ausubel’s Expository teaching model‚ but also retain an overall knowledge of other valuable strategies related to Ausubels’s model (Woolfolk‚ 2004‚ p. 281). To Ausubel‚ the most significant idea is that of the advance organizer‚ a statement of introduction that aids students
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Nowadays‚ English is one of important subject which is taught in each level of study. It plays an important role for people to communicate one to another. Moreover English is used to absorb information in aspects of life in this world. There are a number of factors that affect the success of English Language Teaching (ELT). One of the factors is teacher. Teacher can determine whether or not other factors can work well. English language learners who have
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Some misconceptions about communicative language teaching Geoff Thompson ELT Journal Volume 50/1 January 1996‚ pp. 9 - 15 Although communicative language teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use‚ there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions‚ discusses why they have arisen‚ and why they can be so described. In doing this‚ the article attempts to
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