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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Grammar Grammar 45 Name ___________________________________________________ Class _________ Date ____________________ Unit 1: Parts of Speech Lesson 1 Nouns: Concrete‚ Abstract‚ and Collective A noun is a word that names a person‚ place‚ thing‚ or idea. A singular noun names one person‚ place‚ thing‚ or idea‚ and a plural noun names more than one. SINGULAR friend field melody freedom PLURAL friends fields melodies freedoms Grammar Person: Place: Thing: Idea:
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BOOK REVIEW: ASSESSMENT IN THE CLASSROOM Pagkalinawan‚ Kathleen Iza B. December 4‚ 2010 “Assessment in the Classroom” was written by Annie Ward and Mildred-Murray Ward for Wadsworth Publishing Company in 1999. The book with its immaculate layout is intended to be used by students in an introductory course in educational measurement or as foundation for in-service training programs. The focus of the book is on classroom assessment and the text is written specifically to address classroom
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those syntax trees to semantic processing routines. The semantic processing is free to make many passes over the syntax trees‚ even though the parser makes only one bottom-to-top traversal of the parse tree. Exercise 6.6 of the text contains a grammar that describes binary trees where each node of the tree has an integer label. It discusses an ordering requirement that is the same one required by binary search trees. Solve that exercise. Solved in class using synthesized attributes. Think about
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CHAPTER 15 ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR SKILLS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Subject-Verb Disagreement Trimming Sentences Parallelism Comparison Problems Pronoun-Antecedent Disagreement Pronoun Case Dangling and Misplaced Participles Other Misplaced Modifiers Tricky Tenses Idiom Errors Diction Errors Other Modifier Problems Irregular Verbs The Subjunctive Mood Coordinating Ideas 511 512 McGRAW-HILL’S SAT Lesson 1: Subject-Verb Disagreement Finding Verbs The verb is the
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GATE JAPE Grammar Tutorial Version 1.0 Dhaval Thakker‚ PA Photos‚ UK Taha Osman‚ Nottingham Trent University‚ UK Phil Lakin‚ PA Photos‚ UK February 27‚ 2009 Table of Contents Table of Contents...........................................................................................................2 Introduction to General Architecture of Text Engineering (GATE) .............................3 JAPE Rules ...............................................................................
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Introduction Changing of sentences from one form to another is a favorite exercise in public school English. Thus from a sentence like John is writing a letter. May be formed‚ among others‚ the following: John isn’t writing a letter. Is John writing a letter? A letter is being written by John. Very little is ordinarily given by way of clearly formulated rules for these processes‚ yet students seem to learn the technique more or less readily. On the other hand‚ a little examination will show that
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European Education‚ vol. 42‚ no. 3 (Fall 2010)‚ pp. 7–25. © 2010 M.E. Sharpe‚ Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 1056–4934/2010 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI 10.2753/EUE1056-4934420301 Sara Servetti Cooperative Learning Groups Involved in a Written Error-Correction Task A Case Study in an Italian Secondary School Error correction is a classroom activity that rarely interests the students. When students are given back their written tests they are interested in the mark earned—not the errors made. This case
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Lectures in Theoretical Grammar by ass. prof. L.M.Volkova‚ National Linguistic University of Kiev List of books: 1. B.Ilyish. The Structure of Modern English. 2. M.Blokh. A Course in Theoretical Grammar. 3. E.Morokhovskaya. Fundamentals of Theoretical Grammar. 4. И.П.Иванова‚ В.В.Бурлакова‚ Г.Г.Почепцов. Теоретическая грамматика современного англ. яз.. 5. Methods Guides. LECTURE 1(2): THE SCOPE OF THEORETICAL GRAMMAR. BASIC LINGUISTIC NOTIONS
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References: FUCHS‚ Marjorie; BONNER‚ Margaret. Grammar express. Essex: Longman‚ Pearson‚ 2001. LARSEN-FREEMAN‚ Diane. Teaching language: from grammar to grammaring. Boston: Heinle‚ Cengage learning‚ 2002. LOCK‚ Graham. Functional English grammar. New York: Prentice Hall‚ 1996. SWAN‚ Michael; WALTER‚ Catherine. The good grammar book: a new grammar practice book for elementary to lower intermediate students of English. Oxford: Oxford‚ 2001.
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