Kul The Importance of Teaching Listening in the EFL Classroom 2010-08-28 24p. Guides – Classroom – Teacher English (Foreign Language); Listening Comprehension; Listening Skills; Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods Teaching Listening Skills This paper discusses the importance of listening comprehension in learning English as a foreign language (EFL) and argues that more emphasis should be given to listening comprehension. It cites significant research findings in second language acquisition
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Language is a constant. It is a component that will be forever intertwined into the fabrication of our global society. This multi-sensory means of communication‚ consists of not only the verbal and writing‚ but also touch‚ smell‚ sound‚ body‚ and gestural elements. As human beings are social animals‚ people have the instinct to communicate with others‚ to share our feelings and thoughts‚ and as a result‚ language development in each individual becomes an instinct (Pinker‚ 1994). Since language is
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every sob’ 3.Let us pray’ 4.You are a real comedian aen’t aren’t you 5.And it still weeping III.Answer the following questions (any 5) 1.Why was scotts appeal rejected? 2.Who was the commanders –in-chiet? 3.what was he like when scott met him? 4.what is photic sneezing? 5.what causes a person it hiccllps? 6.when do we yawn? 7.how binger nails are help full it us? Section-b Iv.Homophones: 1It’s very bael it say ----------to a person whom you -------------very well (steal‚
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Chapter 1 1. The first was our transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural way of life‚ known as the agricultural revolution. As people began to grow crops‚ raise domestic animals‚ they found it easier to meet their nutritional needs. As a result‚ they began to live longer and to produce more children. The second was known as the industrial revolution which entailed a shift from rural life‚ animal-powered agriculture‚ and handcrafted goods to an urban society provisioned by the
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The Lottery - Reading Comprehension By Karen N - 9C · The townspeople are holding the lottery because it is their tradition that they have followed for many‚ many years. · The people didn’t stop the lottery because it was considered [kind of] absurd to do so. It is a ritual that they did‚ and it was part of who they were. · I don’t think the writing style of this story would be considered horror. The way the author describe the story throughout and at the end did not send me any chills
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Brain and Languages. By the sense of hearing‚ is how we learn to speak and communicate. The audible speech perception is produced in the rotation Heschl in the right and left hemispheres. Understanding how the brain works can help us to learn another language more easily. Language occupies its own section of the brain. Actually‚ there are two main areas; Wernicke’s area allows us to understand words spoken to us and Broca’s area allows us to speak to others. This information is transferred to
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Language as a tool and language as a reality Language‚ as a system of acquiring and using complex structures of communication‚ is distinguished between two components in theory of knowledge; language as a tool and language as reality. There are several manners in which language is used as a tool and in which aids cognition; one is memory augmentation‚ in which language allows the environment as an extra-cranial memory store such as physical materials capable of systematically storing large
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Effects of Google Translate on Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension Abstract With the rapid development of technology‚ more modern ways are applied to English learning. Though technology towards language learning has been extensively studied in recent years‚ the influences of online translation are seldom examined. This study investigates the effects of Google translate on English vocabulary acquisition and article comprehension. It was hypothesized that Google translate can improve students’
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Reading Reaction: The Neurology of Language. Neurolinguistics is important because it studies how the brain process language. In other words‚ it is the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain which control the comprehension‚ production‚ and acquisition of language. In accordance with the anatomy of the nervous system we can mention terms like neurons‚ cell body‚ axon‚ dendrites‚ and synapse in order to understand how our brain is composed. But the most important part of the nervous
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Introduction After going through Teaching Listening Comprehension book by Penny Ur‚ I feel that it is a very suitable book to be owned by teachers of English. The book was published by the Cambridge University Press Cambridge at London‚ New York‚ New Rochelle‚ Melbourne and Sydney. There are many interesting exercises or task that they can use when they are teaching listening comprehension. This book can help teachers to device kind of exercises on listening for their students. In part
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