POSSIBLE RAESONS FOR DECLINE IN READING SKILLS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS A comparative study by the ministry of education shows a worrying downward trend in reading skills. This is evident from the dismal performance in reading skill test undertaken by the students. Furthermore‚ according to a comprehensive U.S.-wide study of reading skills by the National Endowment for the Arts. (2007).Americans reading a lot less: a study on reading skills. Retrieved from www.washingtonpost.com .in Washington
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learning to ride a bike or more complex phenomena such as; learning how to play chess‚ learning a language? Several learning theories attempted to answer these questions; behaviourist‚ cognitive‚ humanist and constructivist learning theories respectively. In the following lines we will try to outline principles of those theories and how constructivist learning theory can be applied to English Language Teaching domain. LEARNING; FROM DIFFERENT ASPECTS ‘The first coherent theory of learning was
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Communicative Competence as the Aim of Foreign Language Learning Contents 1. Introduction......................................................................................................................2 2. Communicative competence............................................................................................2 3. How to develop communicative competence..................................................................5 4. Conclusion..........................................
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IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN VIETNAM By NGO DUY PHUCAn increasing number of Vietnamese students study English in order to grasp many opportunities for higher education‚ overseas study and future career enhancement as it has become a dominant foreign language in Vietnam. Unlike traditional methods used for a long time in Vietnam‚ Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been likely to meet the Vietnamese students’ needs of communication in English. Since CLT was introduced
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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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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY‚ HANOI HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES THE USE OF ARTICLES IN LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AMONG SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT FELTE‚ ULIS‚ VNU Student: Mai Như Quỳnh Class: K19C Lecturer: Dr. Ha Cam Tam Hanoi‚ June – 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE
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Effective reading strategies “Students‚ like the rest of us‚ need to be able to do a number of different things with a reading text". They need to be able to guess what the text is about before they decide to read it‚ they need to be able to skim a text to_’get a general idea of what it is about‚ and they should be able to scan the text for the particular bits of information that they need. Whether readers skim or scan texts is dependant on ‚ what they are reading‚ and why. Therefore‚ one
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3rd Speaker Good afternoon Chairman and panel‚ ladies and gentlemen. The topic for discussion is “Science drives Technology”‚ clearly my team is here to today to negate that statement to indicate to you that it is not science which drives technology but the other way around. People often confuse science and technology. Briefly‚ scientists (science) discover new aspects of Nature. Engineers and inventors (technology) use scientific discoveries to design and build new things. Scientific endeavors
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RESEARCH IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM Northeast Conference 1998 New York‚ NY Anna Uhl Chamot Sarah Barnhardt Susan Dirstine Materials Contributor: Jennifer Kevorkian National Capital Language Resource Center 2011 Eye Street NW Suite 200 Washington‚ DC 20006 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY/ THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS/ THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY NORTHEAST CONFERENCE 1998 CONDUCTING ACTION RESEARCH Foreign language teachers develop
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Introduction The term critical reading refers to analyzing and judging or evaluating the reading material and comparing the ideas discovered with previous experience or knowledge and then drawing conclusion about the accuracy and appropriateness of the reading material. The reader is required to judge the validity and worth of what is read. In order for critical reading to take place‚ the reader must have at least basic knowledge of the field of the reading material. He or she should also have
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