Lexical Approach on College English Teaching in China I. Introduction 1.1 Background In recent years‚ college English teaching research focuses on exploring more effective teaching methods to improve the students’English proficiency and self-learning ability. China ’s college English teaching find itself caught in a dilemma of time-consuming but low-efficiency. The undesirable language teaching situation drives the teaching researchers to make great efforts to innovate present teaching ideas
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Developing Communication Skills through Cooperative Teaching Method Dr M V Raghu Ram Prof & Head Dept of Sciences & Humanities R.Vidyadhar Lecturer‚R.V.R & J.C.C.E “Lack of communication skills lands Indian students in Australia in low paid jobs.” - Consul General of India in Melbourne Anita Nayar "India is a vibrant country brimming with potential… we should develop much needed soft skills throughout India." -An English Teacher “With the business environment rapidly expanding
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English is the only foreign language worth learning I likely diasgree with this statement. Every language is worth learning because it is how we communicate with each other. English is third most spoken language in the world‚ after Chinese and Spanish. I think English is leading language on this planet because Chinese and Spanish are spoken only in few countries. There are approximately 370 million native English speakers all around the world. On top that‚ there are roughly the same amout who
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My teaching approach I have taught more than 200 lessons in my teaching career at school so far. This amount of lessons showed me many reasons for using suitable teaching methods for a particular class. What is a teaching method? In general‚ the teaching method refers to pedagogy strategies which are used in giving class instructions. The methods primarily fall into two approaches: teacher-centered and student-centered. Personally‚ I like more the students-centered approach when teachers and students
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INTRODUCTION The name of our work is “Teaching Writing Skills”. The aim of our term work is to develop communicative language competence in writing skills. Without a doubt‚ the most important invention in human history is writing. It provides a relatively permanent record of information‚ opinions‚ beliefs‚ feelings‚ arguments‚ explanations‚ theories. Writing allows us to share our communication not only with our contemporaries‚ but also with future generations. It permits people from the
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review. The search for better ways to teach languages has been underway for centuries and with some historical perspective we can analyse that each development should be assessed individually. Traditional forms of teaching and syllabus design concentrated more on the teacher playing a central role in the classroom‚ teaching also focused much more on form rather than meaning and there was a great importance given to testing and assessments. Nowadays teaching and syllabus design concentrates on both a
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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY‚ HANOI HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES THE USE OF ARTICLES IN LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AMONG SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT FELTE‚ ULIS‚ VNU Student: Mai Như Quỳnh Class: K19C Lecturer: Dr. Ha Cam Tam Hanoi‚ June – 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE
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Communicative Language Teaching The aim of this unit • To make you think about communicative approach to teaching languages • To analyse the concept of communicative competence • To reflect upon the communicative teaching techniques What do you have to do in this unit? • Warming up discussions • Input reading • Self-assessment questions (SAQS) • Exploratory tasks • Integrated task Warming up discussion 0 Warm up the concept of a “communicative situation” (situation‚ in which
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Central Institute of Indian Languages-University of Mysore 2012 Email: f_shojae24@yahoo.com Interrelationship between Culture and English Language Teaching Abstract: The relationship between language and culture is deeply rooted. Language is used to maintain and convey culture and cultural ties. Different ideas stem from differing language use within one’s culture and the whole intertwining of these relationships start at one’s birth. The dialectical connection between language and culture has always
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English is the Only Foreign Language worth Learning? Nowadays English is used almost in all spheres of international communication: business‚ politics‚ science‚ culture‚ etc. Speaking English is one of the main conditions to get a good job. For this reason one may think that English is the only foreign language worth learning to feel confident in the society. But is that really so? I strongly believe that a modern person should learn more languages or speak any other language but English for
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