speakers of English working fit into these categories: ✓ The opportunist who has no training in EFL or any other teaching qualifications but needs to find work. ✓ The teacher who has a basic level of training amounting to 20 hours or fewer. He’s been introduced to the overall principles of TEFL. ✓ The TEFL initiated teacher who has completed a certificate level TEFL course of about 100 hours. ✓ The teacher qualified in another subject who needs to learn the principles of teaching EFL. At this
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MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH Argument Learners’ motivation has become more commonly recognized as perhaps the major determining factor for successful learning in general‚ whether one is a high school student pushing one’s way through the battery of required courses needed to graduate‚ or an adult learner taking distance education courses. In any learning setting‚ the dynamics of motivation will be different. What will help a high school student sustain motivation may not apply to an adult learner
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Behavioral Sciences School of Teacher Education Program of Educational Studies IE Minhui Lu May 2012 W USING THE LEARNERS-AS-ETHNOGRAPHERS APPROACH TO ENHANCE INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AMONG AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS LEARNING CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE UMI Number: 3523438 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent on the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are
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Teaching methods Both the grammar translation method and communicative language teaching are teaching methods for acquiring a foreign language. Whereas the grammar translation method focuses on the translation of certain grammar rules and the translation of vocabulary‚ the communicative approach aims for acquiring the skill of communication for the learner Scrivener (2011). Both methods are effective in their own way‚ although the communicative approach focuses on the actual goal of language‚ namely
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Motivated to Study a Foreign Language Miguel Angelo A. De Matta and Kurt Callum S. Famanila Students‚ College of Liberal Arts‚ De La Salle University April 1‚ 2014 Abstract International Studies (IS) program is a program offered by several universities‚ like De La Salle University (DLSU)‚ both locally and internationally. The program’s goal is to incorporate the culture‚ lifestyle and political practices of countries worldwide. This program also offers a variety of foreign languages to be studied as
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UNIVERSITY Institute for Staff Developing and Refreshing WARM-UP ACTIVITIES AT ENGLISH LESSONS Course paper presented by a fourth year student of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Supervised by Associate professor of the Department of Foreign Languages for the Humanities LVIV - 2012 Content Introduction……………………………………….………………………………3 Chapter I The structure of the English lesson. The place of warm-up activities….5 Chapter II Warm-ups activities as the motivations
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RESEARCH PAPER Discrimination between nests and non-nests is unjust. * Abstract This research paper is about investigating about the discriminations between native English speaker teachers and non-native English speaker teachers. To find the reasons and the effects of this discrimination and to explain it is the most priority of this paper. The data collection method contains interviews and important collections of study from various articles. The data proves the discrimination‚
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currently a renewed interest in language learning. As always‚ political and economic concerns play a major role in the nation ’s perception of the value of learning a second language (Met and Galloway‚ 1992). Furthermore‚ there is now a growing awareness of the role that multilingual individuals can play in an increasingly diverse society‚ and there is also a greater understanding of the academic and cognitive benefits that may accrue from learning other languages (Macro‚ 1998). Recent years have
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Essay Advanced Level Motivational Factors In ESL Language Training Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Degree of PhD in International Business Table of Contents Section | Title | Page | 1 | Abstract and Introduction | 1 | 2 | Andragogy and Self-Motivation | 3 | 3 | Foreign Language Learners vs Second Language Learners | 6 | 4 | The Attitude Motivation Test Battery | 7 | 5 | Excerpts from Long Beach Community College Study | 9 | 6 | Summary and Conclusions | 15 | 7 | References
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of learning every language is vocabulary. With poor knowledge of grammar and rules of pronunciation‚ one can communicate‚ but having an insufficient knowledge of vocabulary may lead to severe problems. Vocabulary knowledge is the most important component of second language (L2) reading comprehension‚ even more so than background knowledge and syntax (Laufer‚ 1997). Because of the vast dominance of vocabulary‚ teaching such a skill is always viewed as a main concern of language teachers. New words
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