Some people insist that the main emphasis in foreign language teaching should be on speaking and writing correctly‚ while others feel that teaching learners how to communicate and express their ideas fluently should be the main goal. What’s your opinion? Support yow ideas with reasons and examples from your own language-learning experience. Which is more important in learning a language: speaking and writing correctly‚ or expressing yourself fluently but inaccurately? Although both are important
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World Languages Nowadays‚ multilingualism has become more than just ‘important’. Knowing a foreign language different from your mother tongue has evolved/become/turn_out to be extremely beneficial. Whether viewed from the financial or social aspect‚ being able to communicate in a foreign language helps to make ‘real’ connection with people and provides a better understanding of your language. Why should you learn a foreign language? 1. To begin with‚ the first advange is that Learning a foreign
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results of experiment – testing‚ questionnaires‚ classroom observation‚ and interviews held in the experimental (students grouped according to MI type) and control groups (no such grouping) – all support the hypothesis about the positive impact of taking into consideration the students’ dominant type of intelligence in the process of teaching reading. Introduction In my previous article in this journal (Çelik‚ 2012) I viewed some theoretical issues concerning MI as well as some activities that
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Learning English: A surprising experience Learning a new language can be a scary and frustrating experience but for other people it is not. This is the case of a girl named Lindsay. She is 22 years old and she is studying a Bachelors of Arts in English Language Teaching. She started to learn English when she was ten years old because it was a mandatory subject at the school she attended. The interesting thing about her case is the fact that‚ even though it was a compulsory course‚ she mentioned
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Second language acquisition (SLA) research: its significance for learning and teaching issues Author: Florence Myles © Florence Myles Abstract The purpose of this general overview article is to outline how research into second language acquisition (SLA) over the last few decades has fed into our understanding of learning and teaching in foreign language classrooms. After a very brief overview of SLA research findings concerning both route and rate of L2 development‚ theoretical models attempting
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Did you know that animals are learning our language? And also some animals can even speak using our language such as bonobos? Animals are starting to learn our language. Such as a bonobo since in source 1 Speaking Bonobos paragraph 2 it says”...kept adding symbols to Kanzi’s keyboard …”Then in paragraph 3 it says”Kanzi learned to combine in regular ways…” In other words what this means is that the chimp would have symbols that they would press with other ones to make words or phrases. Also not
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Taking Private Lessons and Learning in a Classroom Technological and social advances have led to a great many changes in all aspects of life. People have changed their way of living‚ entertaining‚ working and studying. These changes have created different forms of learning and teaching methods. Some students prefer taking private lessons whereas some others prefer learning in a classroom. Even though there are a great many similarities between private lessons and classroom lessons‚ there are also
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Misconceptions about Second Language Learning” In his article‚ “My and Misconceptions about Second Language Learning‚” published in 1992‚ Barry McLaughlin listed five major myths and misconceptions held by the general public‚ or specifically by some second language teachers‚ as well as some contradictory viewpoints about second language learning held by different scholars. In his five main arguments‚ he puts specific emphases on his suggestions for second language teachers about second language teaching and
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conversation. Tom could be placed into piaget’s pre operational stage of language acquisition which he is in the right age group for. Tom is also on track for Jean Aitchison’s ideas for at which ages language is acquired as they are expected to be able to use complex sentences at age 5 with few mistakes and Tom is only 4. He is also conscious of conditionals‚ which could place him in stage five of David Crystals theory on child language acquisition. Tom understands that he will only be able to properly
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