I love language because it carries beauty and thought. While the study of languages seems monotonous and meticulous to many people‚ to me it is an unfathomable ocean of fun. My initiation of English study originated from my obsession to literary aestheticism. It was a step-by-step aesthetic pilgrimage to the glorious palace of western literature when I started from ABC on‚ then read simple passages‚ later moved onto the beautiful essays and poetry and at last plunged into the classics by literary
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Challenges and Suggestions for Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Date of Submission: 29/12/2013 This paper aims to identify the challenges of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and offers some suggestions to encounter them. First‚ the paper provides the definition of ESP‚ its characteristics‚ types and developments. Then‚ it describes six main challenges facing the ESP practitioner which are insufficient knowledge‚ lack of proper needs
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Introduction According to Definitions.net‚ teaching method is defined as the principles and methods of instruction. Whereas‚ according to Claudine Kirsch in her book ‘Teaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School’‚ language teaching method is a comprehensive approach that helps teachers to decide what language skill(s) to develop‚ what activities and resources to choose and how to plan for progression. However‚ teaching method often confused with teaching approach. According to Differencebetween
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Communicative Approach in English Teaching Outline I. Problems in the present English teaching and causes of these problems II. Introduce the communicative approach 1. The definition of communicative approach 2. Two principles of communicative approach (1) Create a realistic situation (2) The class should be students-centered III. Adopt communicative approach to improve students’ ability to listen and speak‚ and achieve the goal of English teaching 1. Three stages in
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My work is devoted to the methods of teaching English. Language came into life as a mean of communication. It exists and is alive only through speech. When we speak about teaching a foreign language‚ we first of all have in mind teaching it as a mean of communication. In teaching speech the teacher has to cope with two tasks. They are: to teach his pupils to understand the foreign language and to teach them to speak the language. So‚ speech is a bilateral process. It includes hearing‚ on the one
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S H A R O N J O H N S O N A life time experience as an English Language Learner… My great-grandparents were from the West Indies who came to Panama with the sole purpose of working in the Construction of the Panama Canal. Therefore‚ my grandparents and parents first language was English having the opportunity also of studying at the former Panama Canal Zone schools. In my early years‚ I understood English and was able to communicate but only did so when needed. I did all my talking in Spanish
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LALI-441 TEFL TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEFL Portfolio Task Descriptions & Criteria Evaluation Criteria: Your grade will be determined by how many marks you earn during the semester. Marks are based on the following assignments: 4. Design & Planning: Lesson Plan 20 % 5. Micro-teaching 20% Lesson Planning - Chapter 22 You are required to micro- teach for 30 minutes in your TEFL class. Micro-Teaching Practice Arrangements Normally‚ Micro-teaching will be undertaken
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not looked at holistically in terms of basic assumptions about language learning / acquisition (how language learning takes place)‚ learner profiles and the contexts in which learning takes place‚ and the recent developments in language learning-teaching. Most states refuse to move beyond the good old structural approach of the 1950s and the 60s‚ while they stress for communication skills to help the learner for an upward movement. This‚ in reality‚ reveals the paradoxical situations of an English
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in Language Teaching | SourceYear | Rel.sagepud.com at Victoria Univ of Wellington on January 3‚ 2011RELC Journal2010 | II. Summary and responses This article on the nature of competence and performance in language teaching is about the knowledge‚ beliefs and skills that language teachers make use of in their practice. A language teacher must master and combine certain dimensions of teaching knowledge and skills which are the language proficiency‚ the role of content knowledge‚ teaching skills‚ contextual
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The Importance of Methodology in Teaching English The University of Jordan Done by: Lana Abd AL-Rahem AL-Rewashed. 2013-2014 Abstract I wrote this research to shed light on one of the practice field in applied linguistics is the educational linguistic‚ this field very important to me‚because I am student in English language specialization‚interested in methodology in teaching English. Introduction _Back ground: linguistic in educational
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