critical periods in language learning
Using Games to Promote Communicative Skills in Language Learning
... more quickly and retain the learned materials better in a stress-free and comfortable environment The benefits of using games in language- learning can be summed up in nine points Games • are learner ... create a meaningful context for language use • increase learning motivation • reduce learning anxiety • integrate various linguistic skills • encourage creative and spontaneous use of language • ... together and communicate using English with each other Furthermore, by integrating playing and learning, students practiced the learned linguistic knowledge in a vivid and meaningful context Many came...
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Personalizing Language Learning in Large Classes(motivation)
... encouraged them to continue reading in English about their topics of interest even while they are not in school When they find the joy of reading and learn from the reading, learning will never be ... check in the dictionary immediately or not and why not? I told students to keep in mind that we were learning information as well as English at the same time We did not have to know every single ... the Internet In the computer lab, I have noticed most of the students only browsed web sites in Chinese I wanted them to explore the enormous information available in English They needed to print...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reductions"" docx
... mom.hands mom.point Value objects child is looking at objects child is touching objects care-giver is looking at objects care-giver is touching objects care-giver is pointing to ing information: ... social cues into account Reducing grounded learning with social cues to grammatical inference This section explains how we reduce ground learning problems with social cues to grammatical inference ... grammatical inference algorithms to grounded learning problems An advantage of reducing grounded learning to grammatical inference is that it suggests new ways to generalise grounded learning models;...
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students’ attitudes towards using technology in language classes in learning pronunciation a survey at a vietnam-based international school
... much more interested in studying and learning in general and better in learning languages in particular 1.6.1 Structural / Behaviouristic CALL It was conceived in the 1950s under the influence ... difficult in the activity of making sounds, but information about progress is often a crucial factor in maintaining motivation 1.5 Pronunciation goal In teaching pronunciation, teachers keeps in mind ... school and training institution with leading quality nationwide in the area of foreign language training at secondary and high school levels; providing customized courses in foreign languages …...
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An investigation into non-English major students’ motivation in English language learning at Phuong Dong University, Hanoi = Nghiên cứu động lực học tiếng Anh
... extrinsic and intrinsic motivation Intrinsically-motivated students think that English is an interesting subject and they learn English to fulfill their other interests such as listening to international ... nothing at all in the class Therefore, investigating students‟ interest and preferred learning styles are necessary to find out whether activities are easy or difficult, interesting or boring ... Lambert, 1959) In fact, it is difficult to attribute learning language success to certain integrative or instrumental because integrative and instrumental motivations are mutually inclusive Most...
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Using Language Learning Strategies in Pronunciation Training for Non-English Major Students = Kết hợp sử dụng các chiến lược học tập ngôn ngữ cùng với huấn luyệ
... Centering your learning B Arranging and planning your learning C Evaluating your learning Group II: AFFECTIVE STRATEGIES A Lowering your anxiety C Taking your emotional temperature B Encouraging ... increased following selfmonitoring Sharing the same view with Varasarin (2007), Ingels suggested that 31 pronunciation training with learning strategy instruction is meaningful to students’ learning ... to be the reference scale in determining what a learning strategy is 3.2 The classification of language learning strategies Just as the definition of language learning strategies, a common taxonomy...
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Using Language Learning Strategies in Pronunciation Training for Non-English Major Students
... used in discovering a new teaching method, improving one’s methods of continuous assessment, continuing professional development of teachers, encouraging students’ motivation towards learning, ... students not finding much development in pronunciation after the training In most of the reflective reports, students reflected that the teacher’s instruction on pronouncing vowel sounds in class ... always clear In general, students made fewer mistakes in pronouncing words but there were some problems that still remained after the training Studies on the use of learning strategies in pronunciation...
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‘‘Sustainability’’ in higher education From doublethink and newspeak to critical thinking and meaningful learning
... content-oriented learning to self-regulative learning; from institutional staff-based learning to learning with and from outsiders; from low level cognitive learning to higher level cognitive learning; ... of integrating sustainability in higher education In presenting this outline we will make use of seven lessons learnt from an earlier project focusing on the integration of sustainability into ... thinking, narrows choices and limits autonomous thinking and degrees of self-determination With the above in mind, an instrumental interpretation of ‘‘education for sustainability’’ or ‘‘sustainable...
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t knowledge in second language learning, testing and teaching ellis rod, loewen shawn, elder c
... Knowledge in Second Language Learning, Testing and Teaching SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Series Editor: David Singleton, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland This series brings together titles dealing with ... Knowledge in Second Language Learning, Testing and Teaching Rod Ellis et al Second Language Acquisition: 42 Includes bibliographical references and index Second language acquisition Language and languages–Study ... says as ‘input’ rather than as ‘information’ In such a case, explicit instruction can result in implicit learning as a result of the incidental noticing of instances of language Equally, in the...
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Technology in english language learning foreign language instruction
... (Computer Assisted Language Learning) as a way to locate current computer mediated applications to language teaching and learning • Show examples of two online communities for learning languages and ... implications in terms of the language, learning, the roles of the computer, the teacher and the students Before starting What differences you notice in the following websites for language learning? ... Language Learning (TELL), Network-Based Language Teaching (NBLT), Web-Enhanced Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for language...
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Study habbits for language learning
... activity is in learning language Time spent on learning language O Reason: interviewers are RMIT students, they spend almost time learning at school and working in groups O However, learning language ... Content OStyles of learning language OSome activities to learn language OTime spent on learning language Styles of learning language O Large proportion of people choose working in groups as the ... exchange knowledge => improve fast Reading books:many choose Reading newspapers: many think it’s not important Reading plays an important role in learning language; however, it depends on what...
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Integrating Language Learning Strategy Instruction into ESL
... consider integrating it into their language teaching repertoire From a learning perspective, direct instruction in how, when and why to use language learning strategies can help learners in the ... to match the needs, instructional resources and time available according to the learning- teaching context A final comment, integrating language learning strategy instruction into ESL/EFL classrooms ... more active role in language learning process In becoming active participants in the learning process, learners can become more efficient and positive in their approach to learning Through this...
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Using Presentation Software to Enhance Language Learning
... purposeful activity in that it entails finding information, reflecting upon that information, interpreting it and creating something new The process culminates in the sharing of the created product ... Accordingly, in recent years we have included some writing tasks in our reading courses for two main reasons Firstly, when students have to write about what they read, they need to interact more intensively ... print out their work PowerPoint has two ways of creating an outline: Outline templates according to type of writing or presentation the user wishes to - e.g recommending a strategy, reporting...
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Tài liệu COMMUNICATION IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE doc
... Spanish language by examining together in class the complexity of Spanish-speaking societies so that students become familiar with the diversity that exists in the world's Spanish-speaking areas ... and 2) bring a letter to the instructor from the SDRC indicating that the student needs academic accommodation and specifying the type(s) of accommodation needed This should be done during the ... first three will reduce the final grade (to be calculated on a scale of 100% by five (5) percentage points Excused absences include the following: (a) participation in a scheduled event as a member...
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Tài liệu Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment ppt
... General Information The Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) is a four-skill language proficiency assessment for English Language Learners (ELL) students Testing window ... Assessments Listening Reading Writing One-on-One/Speaking Materials Needed 2009 Directions for Administration & Scoring Guides (DFA) C2 – Purple (Grades through 8) Listening & Speaking (Student ... 25 minutes 26 questions approx 45 minutes 25 questions approx 70 minutes Administered in large groups Administered in large groups Multiple choice, short answers, and extended responses Administered...
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Tài liệu Technically Speaking: Transforming Language Learning through Virtual ... docx
... a process integral to gaining self-esteem as learners By working on questions of culture, they were using a FL to develop critical thinking skills Finally, by creating and maintaining a public ... domain to the next, and the findings from educational research in one domain are not n ecessarily applicable to th e n ext Researchers in second language learning are adding to our understandings ... course, in troducing cultural studies themes and approaches into the classroom is in tegral to ch an gin g th e meaning The Modern Language Journal 85 (2001) and activities of language learning, ...
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