China has made learning English a national priority. English‚ with its unique status‚ has been taught in China for more than 100 years. Today‚ English is becoming more and more popular. It is a compulsory course for all Chinese students from primary school to university. Clearly it is relatively easy to demonstrate the importance of English in current China. This essay intends to argue that to achieve success in English learning for Chinese students the methods of teaching must be reconsidered. Therefore
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Using Technology to Support English Language Learner Students ’ Learning Experiences MED 7710 DIS B2T.01 March 23‚ 2013 Resource #1: According to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001‚ each and every ESL‚ LEP‚ or ESOL student must be technology literate by the eighth grade. This is the same provisionary standard for regular education students who speak English on a first language basis. With this Act in place‚ it puts high expectations on our students and educators. With this high expectation
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The Role of Culture in English Language Teaching: A Case Study of Schools of the Khasi Community in Semi-urban Areas. Introduction English Language is traditionally viewed as a code made up of words and a series of rules that connect them together. Language learning here‚ involves only vocabulary learning‚ and the rules for constructing ‘proper’ sentences. In most schools in Meghalaya‚ grammar is being taught at a very early age and students are expected to understand complex idiomatic
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TECHNIQUES TO ENHANCE ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE English is an international language‚ spoken in many countries both as a native and as a second or foreign language. It is taught in the schools in almost every country on this earth. It is a living and vibrant language spoken by over 300 million people as their native language. Millions more speak it as an additional language. English is spoken habitually almost everywhere in the world. English is the associate official language of India which
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and student against school. The issue is whether or not courses in a foreign language should be required to attain a Bachelor’s degree. Some believe the idea is absurd‚ while others believe it is a progressive move toward 21st century education. Although some people believe the entire world should speak English‚ the reality is that all Americans should have some degree of formal education in a foreign language. Foreign language skills could have a positive impact on race relations in America. The
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CHAPTER I – Theoretical basis of the Teaching-learning Process of in English language 1. Some theoretical considerations about foreign language teaching 2. Historical evolution of the English teaching-learning process. 3. Historical methods in English language teaching 4. General background on oral communication in the English teaching-learning process. 5. English as a subject in secondary school in Angola 6. The Psychological Theory of Vocal Activity 7. Communication as a linguistic ability. 8
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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 and methods
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Teaching English Grammar to Beginners : A Way to Speak Accurately Some people say that learning foreign language should be an activity in which the learners try to use that language as often as possible‚ not only try to know about that language which means the learners only try to understand the grammar. They believe that the most important thing in learning foreign language is that the learners can speak ‚ communicate or delivers their ideas to other people‚ without considering or minding whether
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PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES IN TEACHING ENGLISH IN MIXED ABILITY CLASSROOMS (M.SENTHILKUMAR‚VMKV ENGINEERING COLLEGE‚SALEM) All children are born with potential and we cannot be sure of the learning limits of any child (Robert Fisher‚ 2001:1) Presently‚ the English language teachers throughout the world keep on buzzing a word that their students are in mixed level. In the past teachers may well have said that the problem was just that some students were cleverer or simply ‘better’ than others in
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The use of first language or second language (L1/L2) is still used in teaching English classroom as a Foreign Language. Actually‚ the term of using L1/L2 in EFL classes is ongoing debates in some occasion by looking some consideration between pro and contra of using L1/L2 in EFL classes. In any cases‚ the term of first language is the first language that the students got from their mother and they may continue to use it in the rest of their life and second language is a language that the students
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