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 Pragmatics explores the teaching of pragmatics through lessons and activities created by teachers of English as a second and foreign language. This book is written for teachers by teachers. Our teacher-contributors teach in seven different countries and are both native-speakers and nonnative speakers of English. Activities reflect ESL and EFL classroom settings. The chapters included here allow teachers to see how other teachers approach the teaching of pragmatics and to appreciate the diversity
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SESSION PLAN Sector : TOURISM SECTOR Qualification : Bread and Pastry Production NC II Unit of Competency : Prepare and Produce Bakery Products Module Title : Preparing and Producing Bakery Products Suggested Duration : 20 Hrs. |Learning Outcomes:
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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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Teaching speaking skills 2 - overcoming classroom problems Submitted by TE Editor on 16 February‚ 2004 - 13:00 This article is written for teachers with large classes of students who have encountered some of the following or similar problems during speaking activities in their classroom. * Why should we teach speaking skills in the classroom? * Motivation * Speaking is fundamental to human communication * Dealing with the arguments against teaching speaking skills * Student’s
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Unit 8 Teaching Vocabulary I) Understanding Vocabulary & vocabulary learning The acquisition of vocabulary at first sight seems straightforward; we all know you need a large number of words to speak a language. That is to say‚ the role of vocabulary seems to have received people’s consistent understanding in foreign language learning. However‚ people are still uncertain about which vocabulary items should be taught and learned‚ in what order and how they can be taught and learned most effectively
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is a Lesson Plan? A lesson plan is organized and Time-bound. It is simply a teacher’s “plan” for teaching a lesson. Its purpose is to outline the “program” for a single lesson. The Importance of having a Lesson Plan 1. It allows you to manage your time‚ effort‚ and resources efficiently. 2. Lesson plans helps you get rid of problems or avoid them. 3. It definitely improves your teaching skills. Parts of a Lesson Plan 1. Heading/Header- Teacher‘s name‚ Course name‚ Lesson number
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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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learned about their topic. The teachers teaching styles should be organized for the students in able to understand the lesson. The teachers should have a great personalities and effective learning styles to their curriculum. The students really learned when they felt comfortable to their teacher way of teaching. Student environment can also effect to their learning. But the objective here is find out what is really the most major effective personality and teaching style that the teacher may use or apply
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Section B Hardware: Graphics Card - Graphics cards processes all your graphics in your computer. All Graphics Cards have memory‚ these come in 128MB‚ 256MB and 512MB. The more memory your computer has‚ the faster it will run and combine it with a good processor. Internal Memory - Cache memory is a added memory system that temporarily stores frequently used instructions and data for quicker processing by the central processor of a computer. RAM - Random Access Memory is the "working memory" in
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