Why student motivation is key to foreign language learning success Author: Christopher Merrifield August 2008 "Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding." Stephen Krashen. The principles of L2 teaching philosophy has greatly changed from the ancient principles of the Grammar-Translation approach historically used
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1.Abstract The area of research is on the factors that cause and propagate the current social group dynamic trends that are prevalent within the United States International University Nairobi campus ( hereby referred to as USIU). It would be prudent to first define what this paper terms as social group dynamics. This term will be taken to include all those activities that are undertaken by students at USIU that involve interaction on a physical‚ emotional and mental level with other members
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A CATEGORICAL INSTRUMENT FOR SCORING SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING SKILLS James Dean Brown Florida State University Kathleen M. Bailey Monterey Institute of International Studies This paper first reviews recent research on evaluating second language learners’ writing skills. It then discusses research on a categorical instrument for evaluating compositions written by upper intermediate university ESL students. The form of the instrument used in this study included five equally weighted criteria for scoring:
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from the media when learning new languages; people have been steadily utilizing this method of watching movies or television series in order to acquire a second language. Every person differs in his or her own method and strategies for learning a new language; however‚ there are a great number of learners who have had positive results using this method. Almost all of these cases were related to young children before or in their critical period to acquire a language. Therefore‚ there are people who
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communicate with ease. This often means that‚ to have an advantage‚ it is necessary to know multiple languages‚ and while some are fortunate enough to be brought up bilingually‚ with parents speaking two languages to the child‚ many need to learn additional languages through education systems. To facilitate this‚ it is imperative to understand how language‚ and in particular‚ how second language acquisition (SLA) works. It was only in the 1940s that SLA became a formal field of research‚ so the amount
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Learning a new language is often begun at a young age and‚ in some schools‚ is continued throughout a person’s education. While it may be easier to learn and retain a second language at a younger age‚ those who are interested in learning a second language later on in life should not be discouraged. In fact‚ the older a person gets‚ the more apparent the need for the English language becomes. Consider the following instances in which mastery of the English language is crucial for success. Obtaining
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SOCIAL Demographics The territory’s population is 7.03 million. In 2009‚ Hong Kong had a birth rate of 11.7 per 1‚000 population and a fertility rate of 1‚032 children per 1‚000 women.Residents from mainland China do not have the right of abode in Hong Kong‚ nor are they allowed to enter the territory freely. However‚ the influx of immigrants from mainland China‚ approximating 45‚000 per year‚ is a significant contributor to its population growth – a daily quota of 150 Mainland Chinese with
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Second Language Teaching in Elementary School with a Multimedia Gloss Marilena Zoi 1‚ Ioanna Bellou 1 and Tassos A. Mikropoulos 1 1 The Educational Approaches to Virtual Reality Technologies Lab‚ The University of Ioannina‚ Greece Abstract. This work investigates the effects of a special designed multimedia gloss on learning outcomes concerning vocabulary learning in German as a second language in elementary school pupils. The gloss involves annotations of unknown words in three different
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In the Name of God THE IMPACT OF USING TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Mahsa Rabiee Khouzestan Science and Research branch‚ Islamic Azad University Ahvaz-Iran Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using technology in teaching English as a second language. It considers some techniques which can promote English language students to take a step forward on their learning skills by using technology. In this research
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Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages‚ Inc. (TESOL) Age‚ Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition Author(s): Stephen D. Krashen‚ Michael A. Long and Robin C. Scarcella Reviewed work(s): Source: TESOL Quarterly‚ Vol. 13‚ No. 4 (Dec.‚ 1979)‚ pp. 573-582 Published by: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages‚ Inc. (TESOL) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3586451 . Accessed: 09/01/2013 08:48 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the
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