Cort Community College on the use of communicative language games for teaching and learning English. The participants for this study were eight English teachers in the college. A survey using an 18-item questionnaire was designed in order to analyse the participants’ views on the use of communicative language games in English lessons. Results showed that English teachers from Henry Cort Community College generally appreciated the benefits and value of communicative game activities in teaching English
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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) ‘Communicative Language Teaching approach evolves as a prominent language teaching methods and gradually replaced the previous grammar-translation method and Audio-lingual method”. -(Warschauer & Kem 2000) Category Elaboration Note Theory of Language Language is a system for the expression of meaning: primary function-interaction and communication. Theory of Learning Activities involving real communication; carrying out meaningful to the learner
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Integrative and Distributive Bargaining Whether a negotiation involves working together toward a goal or working against one another to win‚ each party must use a strategy to reach a solution. The differences of distributive bargaining and integrative bargaining are parallel. The ways in which one method is competitive and the other is cooperative is described and related to a well-known case involving basketball player Juwan Howard. Distributive Bargaining In a competitive bargaining situation
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On Developing Students’ Communicative Competence Lou Ruijuan Most Chinese students‚ especially those with low foreign language levels‚ are used to memorizing the language but reluctant to speak in the target language. They may be familiar with the sentence patterns but do not know how to start and end a conversation and how to express themselves in a particular situation. So it is a main task for a teacher to develop students’ communicative competence. I. Obstacles in Communication While it is difficult
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Communicative Competence refers to the ability of understanding‚ producing‚ and interpreting the different Communicative events taking into account not only their explicit sense (what it seems to be more immediate for us)‚ but also its implications; Linguistic Competence: it refers to the ability of producing utterances in an efficient way in all its grammatical levels. It is formed by these competences: lexical‚ grammatical‚ semantic‚ phonologic and orthographic competence. That is to say‚ what
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heroes are individuals characterized not only by their superior physical and cognitive abilities‚ but also their desire to use those abilities to promote justice—justice‚ for Immanuel Kant‚ being the virtue of “respect [for] other’s freedom‚ autonomy‚ and dignity.” Oftentimes‚ the hero’s desire to promote justice is carried out in the form of retributive vigilantism‚ which‚ in its most basic sense‚ involves the hero operating independently of the state to punish wrongdoers for wrongdoing. Intuitively
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Should medical marijuana be made legal? There are many people who overlook the beneficial effects of marijuana. Society today would say that it is just a gateway drug that is only abused‚ but in reality marijuana is just misunderstood. There are many good uses that we can gain from this natural plant. Marijuana could be beneficial to the body‚ if used properly. There are countless legal proscription drugs and non-proscription drugs that are by far more dangerous than marijuana. Lastly‚ America
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30 March 2014 Up in Smoke The legalization of marijuana in the United States has been a major issue for several years. There are many opinions on this topic‚ some people don’t give marijuana a thought. Many people including most government consider marijuana a “bad drug”. Marijuana actually has many good uses. Marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes‚ to reduce America’s prison population and to boost the economy. The use of marijuana as a medicine is rapidly becoming popular in the
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CHAPTER 1 READING AND VOCABULARY 1.1 BUILDING VOCABULARY FOCUSING ON SYNONYM‚ ANTONYM AND HOMONYM What is a Synonym? A synonym is a word or expression that has the same or almost the same meaning as another word or expression. The noun “synonym” means “equivalent words”. The word “synonym” is a composite of two Greek words: The prefix “syn” means “together” and “onoma” is “name.” In English‚ a language known for its enormous vocabulary‚ most words have synonyms. Words that are synonyms
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Language Education 7:30-10:30 am / Sat. & Sun. _____________________________________________________________________________________ I. REFLECTION A. Summary The article‚ “Shaping a Communicative Curriculum”‚ authored by Sandra J. Savignon‚ explicates the five components proposed to innovate the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach so that it could provide a variety of activities and alternatives that also go with the advent of technology. These said components are: 1.
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