... The explainer: this kind of teacher knows their subject matter very well, but has little knowledge of teaching methodology He relies mainly on ‘explaining’ or ‘lecturing’ as a way of conveying information ... useful to think of the definition of motivation in terms of the motivated learner: one who is willing or even eager to invest effort in learning activities and to progress Interestingly, in the search ... teachers, some of whom feel contented in the deeprootedly traditional way of punishment to maintain discipline In most of the cases, the result would be disappointing The outlined interrelationship...
... out in order to (1) find out strategies which learners use in learning a language, (2) find out the causes of learner errors and (3) obtain information on common difficulties inlanguage learning, ... ON, IN by Vietnamese learners at our English center - Finding the causes of their errors - Proposing pedagogic solutions for the teaching and learning of the prepositions “AT, ON, IN at our English ... Usage of AT and INin comparison Table 2.2 Usage ofIN and ON in comparison Table 2.3 Usage of temporal AT -IN - ON in comparison Table 2.4 Some expressions of temporal AT Table 4.1 Results of multiple-choice...
... reading skills has substantially advanced our understanding of the reading process, including reading failure Since the concept of learning disability was first outlined by Samuel Kirk (1963), investigators ... students in grades and who were either native English speakers, Chinese -English speaking, or Spanish -English speaking For both the Chinese and Spanish ELL groups, English was the languageof school instruction, ... development of reading inEnglish and Italian in bilingual children Applied Psycholinguistics, 22, 479–507 Doctor, E A., & Klein, D (1992) Phonological processing in bilingual word recognition In R...
... proficient in school English? Journal of Educational Issues ofLanguage Minority Students, 5, 26-38 Cummins J (1991) Interdependence of first- and second -language proficiency in bilingual children In ... because of their developing English oral proficiency, and report on best practices in supporting Englishlanguage development in the context of literacy instruction for these students Of primary interest ... limited English proficient or LEP, non -English speaking, bilingual, linguistic minorities, and/or immigrants) were combined with keywords describing reading and language (reading, literacy, language...
... product Final assessment based on the combination of individual writing assignment; if students not joining this activity, their final mark reduced The final mark being the average of the marks of ... success of group writing are selecting ideas, proofreading and revising Though these techniques are the same as with any kind of writing when employed in group writing, their strengths are much intensified ... requires an understanding of the need and interest of each class on the part of the teacher Vietnamese classes ofEnglish are often very big In regular classes, students are often of the same age,...
... qualification distinguishing researchers who are fluent inEnglish from others lagging behind in many non -English- speaking countries German investigators might also present abstracts inEnglish at their ... presented at an Englishspeaking international conference Finally, it is possible that the organizing committee of the studied conference might have invited the use ofEnglishin an attempt to increase ... penetration of the Englishlanguage into various expressions of human activity, including science [6-9] It is estimated that half of the world population will use English by the year 2015 The results of...
... OFENGLISHLANGUAGE TEACHING Much of what we say, then, is conditioned by the purposes we have, e.g apologising, greeting, denying, warning, offering etc Using language appropriately is one of ... Evaluating materials 276 Bibliography 285 Index 289 Preface Since the publication of The Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching in 1983 much has happened in the world oflanguage teaching: new ... target language community (TLC) is one where the inhabitants speak the language which THE PRACTICE OFENGLISHLANGUAGE TEACHING the student is learning; for students ofEnglish an English- speaking...
... detection ofEnglish inclusions in mixed-lingual data with an application to parsing Ph.D thesis, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh ... stem frequency in Covo during year t and frequency change in MZEE between t and year u = t + i Initial frequency and dissemination in MZEE In studying the fate of all words in two English Usenet ... portion of the MZEE corpus, the training data consisted of the disjoint subsets of the English and German CELEX wordlists (Baayen et al., 1995), as well as the words used in Covo (to obtain coverage...
... determiner, Noun Phrases of Place with various sorts of determiner, and coordinate Noun Phrases of Place Mnemonics are the "working nonterminals" of the grammar; our parse trees are labelled in ... unconstrained training, of maximizing the likelihood of an unbrackctcd corpus We will later describe the modifications necessary to train with the constraint of a bracketed corpus To describe the training ... expressed in terms of the set of mnemonics (that is, by the nodes in the mnemonic tree), rather that in terms of the actual nonterminals of the grammar It is in this manner that we can obtain efficient...
... rather late in the nineteenth century He was not a link in the chain of influence which I was tracing I am glad to find my justification in a passage of Mr Saintsbury's "History of Nineteenth Century ... seen in Scott, in Byron, and in Keats, not only in the modelling of their tales, but in single lines and images In the first stanza of the "Lay" Scott repeats the line which occurs so often in ... faint outlines of landscape painting in Dante, who are blind to the beautiful, distinct, and profuse scenery in the pages of Ossian?" She goes on to complain that the poem, in its English dress,...
... to include teachers with varying credentials and training (Appendix A1), who were teaching Englishlanguage learners in a variety of programs including bilingual, dual immersion, structured English ... students including ELD, ESL, & SDAIE Providing Englishlanguage instructional services to EL students including ELD, ESL, & SDAIE Providing Englishlanguage instructional services to EL students including ... range of professional development topics that would most help them improve their teaching ofEnglishlanguage learners Their top choices included second language reading/ writing, various kinds of...
... routines Reference J Barton The Application of the Article inEnglish Proceedings of the 1961 International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis (Teddington), ... question is meaningful only in terms of the incrementing of consumer appeal of the product, and it would be difficult to answer without research in that very area From the point of view of an MT research ... distressingly vague and little more can be got from it than the fact that they are thinking in terms of eight noun classes, not five. 1 The intuitively satisfying homogeneity of the contents of each...
... Methods: evaluating the use oflanguage To assess the use of value-laden language we began by formulating a list of adjectives we had noticed appearing with increasing frequency in the scientific ... ascribing bias in the following sentence: " Complex A plays a major role in calcium signaling" but ignored in the following: "Substrate A targets the major binding site." Further exemptions include ... use of biased languagein clinical journals was infrequent, with no increase in the use of value-laden words over the twenty year interval (figure 3) When the fundamental journals and clinical...