Assumptions behind Singapore’s language-in-education policy: implications for language planning and second language acquisition L. Quentin Dixon Received: 30 September 2007 / Accepted: 14 January 2009 / Published online: 27 February 2009 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract Singapore’s officially bilingual education policy‚ in which the majority of children are schooled through a non-native medium with their ‘Mother Tongue’ (an ethnic heritage language that is not necessarily
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A guide to writing an academic paper By Valerie Strauss I keep hearing from college professors that too many of their students don’t write well. So here’s a primer written for college students on how to write an academic paper‚ though some of the advice would be useful for anybody writing anything. The author is Steven Horwitz‚ a professor of economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton‚ NY. He is the author of two books‚ Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective and Monetary
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LEARNING TEHORIES How do we learn? How do we learn simple things such as; 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.
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Speaking a second or foreign language is‚ undoubtedly‚ a highly complex‚ and fascinating human activity. During the past few decades‚ there has been a growing interest in enhancing and encouraging the active use of the L2 in instructional contexts. There has been an emphasis on the crucial role of practicing and internalising a structure; fostering the balanced development of learners’ fluency‚ accuracy‚ and complexity of language; or enabling and encouraging learners to communicate their own meanings
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communication is directed toward keeping an individual society going; that is‚ an important function of communication is social maintenance. Language is used to sustain reality. Consequently‚ a second purpose of this chapter is to look at ways in which individuals cooperate with one another to sustain the reality of everyday life and at how they use language as one of the means to do so. Varieties of Talk It is instructive to look at some of the ways in which various people in the world use talk
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PSZICHO- ÉS SZOCIOLINGVISZTIKA ANGOL SZAKOSOKNAK 1. The formation of psycholinguistics. A science for the study of language development‚ understanding and production. Basic terminology Classification of sciences 24 main branches (e.g. linguistics) 221 branches (e.g. applied linguistics) 1995 sub-branches {applications} (e.g. sociology) Linguistics can be: 1. theoretical or applied; 2. synchronic (descriptive) or diachronic (historical). Diachronic linguistics: 1. comparative;
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The Evolution of Accepted Learning Theories Micheal Irwin Professor Harrop College 100 31 July 2010 Education has traditionally been seen as a pedagogic relationship between the teacher and the learner. It was always the teacher who decided what the learner needed to know‚ and indeed‚ how the knowledge and skills should be taught. In the past thirty years or so there has been quite a revolution in education through research into how people learn‚ and resulting from that‚ further work on how
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Social Learning Theory in Practice Jordan M. Pahl University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Introduction Social learning theory is one of the most frequently looked at theories in the field of criminology. The theory clarifies that criminal and deviant behavior stems from imitation and reinforcement of one’s environment. Its applications attempt to describe why certain people tend to participate in criminal activities and why others abstain from it. Social learning theory specifies the importance of
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Comparison of Learning Theories Learning is defined by The American Heritage College Dictionary as‚ “the act‚ process‚ or experience of gaining knowledge or skill” (p. 772). The process of learning focus on what happens when learning is taking place. Learning theories were developed to address how individuals learn‚ explain what happens when learning takes place‚ and why learning occurs. Learning theories have been around for a long period. Three common learning theories will be discussed
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Experiential Learning Theory Introduction The experiential learning theory model is used to understand the process of how adults learn‚ grow and develop. The theory is called experiential is because of its intellectual origins from the works of Dewey’s philosophical pragmatism‚ Lewin’s social psychology‚ and Piaget’s cognitive development genetic epistemology form a unique perspective on learning and development (Kolb‚ 1984). Experiential learning is “the process whereby
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