From the beginning my academic career‚ I have developed a little interest for passion for writing and literature while my interests for math and science are constantly increasing. In this spring‚ my perception about writing changed significantly due to the combination of science and writing in my Writing for the Science class. This class helped me develop essential skills for professional writing and explore various areas of my interest in the field of science. Furthermore‚ it improved my ability
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fulltime teaching practice and I am not an exception. A week ago I came back from my school practice and I am full of emotions and positive fillings. I was allocated to a comprehensive school in Donetsk. And I did my fulltime practice as a teacher of English and foreign literature. I spent my first week observing lessons in different classes and giving occasional lessons myself. Sometimes I had to substitute some teachers because of their illness. At these moments I understood that teaching is not
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that the expectations they have for their child at a given age are realistic. An understanding of child development is essential‚ allowing us to fully appreciate the cognitive‚ emotional‚ physical‚ social and educational growth that children go through from birth and into early adulthood. As educators‚ we must draw on the variety of theories and perspectives in order to understand how kids grow‚ behave and think. A pre-school teacher needs to study the above stages of development and psychology
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What a journey my writing has experience over the past seven weeks has been. I have grown as writer more in this class than I have previously. Writing has always been a challenge for me. Many people have heard of someone who just can’t get math‚ well that is me with writing. Back in high school there many times that an assignment did not get turned‚ not because I had not worked on it‚ but I could never get the ideas in my head to make sense when I wrote them on paper. I would get so frustrated
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of Media Content Part A Political cartoons‚ unlike written words can express a biased political opinion from the author to the reader. Because all opinions are implied rather than stated‚ the author cannot be quoted for a stance on political objectives. It is up to the reader to define their own individual attitude to the political topic at hand from their prior knowledge of the discourse surrounding the content as displayed by the cartoon. Political cartoons satire government and celebrities by
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of factors that affect the success of English Language Teaching (ELT). One of the factors is teacher. Teacher can determine whether or not other factors can work well. English language learners who have low motivation to learn English can be made more interested in English classrooms because of the way good English teachers involves them in the learning experience. There are four language skills in English‚ such as Listening‚ Speaking‚ Writing‚ and Reading. My action research here emphasized about
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TEACHING IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS TO LEARNERS OF EFL THROUGH A CORPUS BASED ON DISNEY MOVIES Irene López Rodriguez Brown University‚ USA Elena María García Moreno Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Cartagena Abstract: This paper attempts to provide a strategy for the teaching of idioms to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies. Adopting a cognitive approach‚ idioms are seen as being motivated by conceptual metaphors which tend to be grounded in our embodied experiences and which
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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 APPROACHES/STRATEGIES AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES Over the years‚ schools have always been concerned with how to come up with effective teaching-learning experiences for the learners. In an attempt to attain this goal‚ the teacher is expected to possess a thorough knowledge of the criteria of good teaching and the mastery of the subject matter to be taught and a broad knowledge of various teaching approaches/strategies of teaching. With some charges of emphasis on educational goals
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INTRODUCTION In order to understand better English on both spoken and written‚ the most valuable gifts offered the pupils is pronunciation. However‚ as a teacher‚ sometimes it is a bit difficult in contributing this particular gift. It can be a challenge to the teachers when they face the problems such as the pupils’ pronunciation habits are not easy to change and it is also hard to understand and make a correction of the wrong pronunciation made by the pupils themselves. A consideration
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