Teaching Listening Listening is a critical element in the competent language performance of adult second language learners‚ whether they are communicating at school‚ at work‚ or in the community. Through the normal course of a day‚ listening is used nearly twice as much as speaking and four to five times as much as reading and writing . In a recent study of Fortune 500 Corporations‚ Wolvin and Coakley (1991) found that listening was perceived to be crucial for communication at work with regards
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TEACHING VOCABULARY ON THE TOPIC ENVIRONMENT Contents Introduction p. 3-4 Part 1. General Principles in Teaching Vocabulary p. 5 1.1. What need to be taught p. 5 1.2. Criteria for selecting and vocabulary exercises p. 1.3. Receptive and productive p. 1.4. Grouping of items of vocabulary p. 1.5. The amount of items to teach p. Part 2. Presenting vocabulary p. 2.1. Traditional techniques for presenting vocabulary p. 2.1.1. Visual techniques p. 2.1.2. Verbal
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Wanjiku Mwangi ENC 1102 Research Paper Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Fostering Critical Thinking in Writing Classroom Using Film Composition Composition has long been established as a core element to the writing objective. Much effort has been used to classify different themes‚ styles and conventions within written works. This investigation into this particular medium has made for a scholarly outlook on writing. What was once a medium for simple communication; is now able to express varying
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Teaching Strategies Your role as teacher is to create an environment in which all students can participate to the best of their abilities. One of your greatest challenges is to provide a positive learning environment for the students in your classroom. Because each student has his or her own unique set of physical and intellectual abilities‚ perceptions‚ and needs‚ the learning styles of your students may vary widely. Once you determine the special needs of your students‚ you can identify the areas
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Traditional Teaching vs Online Teaching Nowadays‚ education becomes one of the important things in human life. Most of the individual in the earth is aware to obtain the education. Besides that‚ every country always concern on developing the quality of the education to improve the human resources. If the quality of human resources of a country is good‚ indeed‚ the quality of that country will be good too. As the matter of fact‚ we cannot deny that the improvement of technology really influence
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Effective Teaching Strategies That Work with All Students Handout Developed by Jane Cook EASTCONN Staff Dev. Spec./Literacy & Technology Coach Mill #1‚ 3rd Floor 322 Main Street Willimantic‚ CT 06226 (860) 455-0707 jcook@eastconn.org Table of Contents Nine Research-Based Teaching Strategies 1 Identifying Similarities and Differences 1 Summarizing and Note Taking 1 Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition 2 Homework
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The English language teachers‚ as well as any other teachers‚ encounter various professional problems concerning lesson planning‚ class management‚ student motivation‚ coping with unpredicted issues‚ and numerous other problems. There are many specific problems that usually only foreign language teachers meet‚ e.g. the usage of the mother tongue during the lessons etc. Student motivation One of the most important problems the English language teacher faces is student motivation. For learning of
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Some misconceptions about communicative language teaching Geoff Thompson ELT Journal Volume 50/1 January 1996‚ pp. 9 - 15 Although communicative language teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use‚ there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions‚ discusses why they have arisen‚ and why they can be so described. In doing this‚ the article attempts to
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Teaching Listening Listening is the language modality that is used most frequently. It has been estimated that adults spend almost half their communication time listening‚ and students may receive as much as 90% of their in-school information through listening to instructors and to one another. Often‚ however‚ language learners do not recognize the level of effort that goes into developing listening ability. Far from passively receiving and recording aural input‚ listeners actively involve themselves
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Principled Eclecticism Method Fitting the method to the learner‚ not vice versa Today the professional language teacher has a good grounding in the various techniques and new approaches‚ and they know and understand the history and evolution of teaching methodologies. The modern teacher will in fact use a variety of methodologies and approaches‚ choosing techniques from each method that they consider effective and applying them according to the learning context and objectives. They prepare their
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