advantages of learning a second language? Learning a foreign language can take many months of dedication‚ however the venture will more than likely open the door to many opportunities. Learning a foreign language is an investment for the future that can produce many benefits whether it is for ones career‚ travel adventures or personal growth. Learning a second language takes time‚ patience and sometimes money. However‚ French‚ Arabic and Mandarin Chinese‚ among many others‚ are all languages that can
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study at least one foreign language today. That’s why pupils have got such subject as a foreign language at school. The problem of learning foreign languages is very important today. Foreign languages are socially demanded especially at the present time. We know that the progress in science and technology has led to an explosion of knowledge and has contributed to an overflow of information. The total knowledge of mankind is known to double every seven years. Foreign languages are needed as the
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INTERACTIVE METHODS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES Oksana Siutkina (Kyiv‚ Ukraine) A wide variety of foreign language teaching methods developed in the 20th century. This fact strongly influenced the process of second language teaching and learning. Teachers choose the method that seems to them the most convenient and appropriate. However‚ it is a quite subjective and individual process. Basic teaching methods can be classified into the following categories: 1) structural methods: the grammar-translation
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The Learning of English as a foreign Language In order to communicate their ideas and survive in a society‚ human beings needed to use languages which vary depending on the country they live or are from. The acquisition of such languages involves no effort providing that such a process is natural. Individuals develop their communicative skill as they are exposed to the language‚ but when these face the learning of a second language‚ such a process gets complicated. Due to globalization‚ an urgent
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essential steps for people learning a new language. English is not my first language‚ it is my third‚ and I have spent a lot of time and effort to going through these steps. As an individual learning a new language‚ I can definitely say it is hard. Believe me‚ there is no way that a person can learn to run before he learns how to walk; the same applies to learning a new language like English. One of my English teachers from De Anza College said‚ “English is one of the hardest languages in the world‚ so you
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made the room smell like Chinese for longer than it needed to. He has done this since the beginning of the year. I have no idea as to where my roommate might have learned this. It could have been from either observational learning or vicarious conditioning. Observational learning is when the process is learned from watching a model. My roommate could have seen his dad do this a lot and mimicked him. Vicarious conditioning is the act of watching
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Introduction Computers can be tremendously useful tools for English language instruction. They process data quickly and integrate voice‚ music‚ videos‚ pictures and text into lessons. They can be programmed to tailor instruction and test for each individual learner. They can even used to make students feel more comfortable and willing to take risks‚ because of their “untiring‚ unjudgmental nature” (Butler-Pascoe 1997:20). While there are many potential benefits to be derived from these “machines”
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linguistics community the importance of errors in language learning process. Corder (1967) mentions the paradigm shift in linguistics from a behaviouristic view of language to a more rationalistic view and claims that in language teaching‚ one noticeable effect is to shift the emphasis away from teaching towards study of learning. Corder further argues that in L1 we interpret child’s ‘incorrect utterances’ as being evidence that the child is in the process of acquiring language and that for those who
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EFFECTS OF PICTURES ON MEMORY & LEARNING Walter KLINGER ウォルター クリンガー Foreign language instruction material has become increasingly highly visual--from pictures on flashcards for vocabulary learning‚ to richly illustrated textbooks‚ to multimedia software‚ to films and movies. In this article‚ we consider what the advantages and disadvantages may be of using visual material. What happens when we look at pictures‚ or at written words‚ or at pictures and words together? Is there a further
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The importance of language Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” (385-391) makes us aware of our use of language in daily life. In her essay Amy Tan describes how all of the English’s that she grew up with‚ normal English and "mother tongue" English‚ has molded her first view of life. I strongly agree and can definitely relate to Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” (385-391) inferences to language‚ as I also have smart parent’s who are immigrants and am their main source of communication with people who don’t take
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