The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom 1/14/10 11:34 PM Radical Pedagogy (2001) ISSN: 1524-6345 The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom Dimitrios Thanasoulas Member of TESOL Greece and the AILA Scientific Commission on Learner Autonomy akasa74@hotmail.com I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor‚ Dr. Doreen Du Boulay for her assistance and insightful ideas‚ and record my thanks to my friends Joshua Jackson and Eleni
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University of Szeged (SZTE) Institue of English & American Studies Szili Beatrix Lesson Planning Classroom Reserach Paper Supervisor Balogh Erzsébet Szeged‚ 2009. április 30. Table of Contents page Introduction 1 Literature Review 1 Research Question and the Observation Instrument 6 Results 7 Discussion 8 Conclusion 11 Bibliography Appendices Appendix 1 Observation Sheet Appendix 2 Observation Sheets of Five Attended Classes Introduction
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INTRODUCTION Education in Malaysia has undergone many changes throughout the years‚ from the Razak Report in 1956‚ and recently in 2009‚ our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak came out with the idea of fostering unity and prosperity among different cultures through the concept of 1Malaysia. The 1Malaysia concept emphasises on the importance of every race and their roles and contributions in national growth (Hamdan and Mohamad‚ 2011). Thus‚ it is important to inculcate unity and harmony to
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Sino-US English Teaching‚ ISSN1539-8072‚USA‚ Aug. 2004‚ Volume 1‚ No.8 (Serial No.8) Cheng ‚A Connor‚ U. (2005). Comment by Ulla Connor. Journal of Second Language Writing‚ 14(2)‚ 132-136. Connor‚ U. (1987). Research frontiers in writing analysis. TESOL Quarterly‚ 21‚ 677-696. Connor‚ U. (1996). Contrastive rhetoric: Cross-cultural aspects of second-language writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Connor‚ U. (1996).Contrastive rhetoric: cross-cultural aspects of second-language writing. Cambridge:
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References: -Al-Issa‚ A. (2006‚ July) Schema Theory and L2 reading comprehension: implication for teaching - Carrell‚ P. L.‚ & Eisterhold‚ J. C. (1983). Schema theory and ESL reading. TESOL Quarterly‚ 17‚ 218–232. -Erten‚ I.H and Razi‚ S. (2009‚ April). The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension influence on reading.US-China Foreign Language‚ 1539-8080‚ 5‚ 11 Serial No.50 School of Foreign Languages‚ Wuhan University
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Language Learning & Technology http://llt.msu.edu/issues/february2012/kesslerbikowskiboggs.pdf February 2012‚ Volume 16‚ Number 1 pp. 91–109 COLLABORATIVE WRITING AMONG SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN ACADEMIC WEB-BASED PROJECTS Greg Kessler‚ Dawn Bikowski‚ and Jordan Boggs Ohio University This study investigates Web-based‚ project oriented‚ many-to-many collaborative writing for academic purposes. Thirty-eight Fulbright scholars in an orientation program at a large Midwestern university used
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ACADEMIC ESSAY WRITING For students at Charles Darwin University A resource to assist tutors working with Indigenous students Table of Contents Purpose of this booklet This booklet aims to provide resources to tutors who work with Indigenous students at Charles Darwin University. It is intended to provide you with information and exercises to assist you to scaffold students to be successful in their university studies. We focus on writing academic essays‚ because this is a skill student’s need
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References: • The Internet and ELT Eastment‚ D. 1999 The British Council This is a brief but useful overview of the issues concerning the use of the Internet in English language teaching. • CALL Environments Egbert‚ J & Hanson-Smith‚ E (eds.) 1999 TESOL‚ Va. Despite the unpromising title‚ this is a good and very comprehensive account of the use of computers in language teaching. It contains detailed discussions of the pedagogical value of the entire spectrum of computer-based language activities
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Cambridge University Press. Day‚ R. R. and Bamford‚ J. (1998). Extensive reading in the second language classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Eskey‚ D. E. (1995). Colloquium on research in reading in a second language. Paper presented at TESOL 1995 Conference‚ Long Beach‚ California. Fry‚ E. (1991). Ten best ideas for reading teachers. In E. Fry (Ed.)‚ Ten best ideas for reading teachers (pp. 6-16). Menlo Park‚ Calif.: Addison-Wesley. Henry‚ J. (1995). If not now: Developmental readers
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What have been the most important findings in SLA research on instructed/classroom second language learning in recent years? What have been their main influences on ELT? With the growth of our global village and with our seemingly permanent state of interconnectedness the need for a worldwide common tongue is paramount for many people; more often than not that common tongue is English. People have sought to learn such lingua franca for millennia‚ yet the study of how people acquire this ’second
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