... different path-ways to achieving these outcomes.Who are learners of Englishasasecond language? Standard Australian English is the national language of Australia and it is essential that all ... asecond language in child care or family day care.Children learningEnglishasasecondlanguage need explicit modelling and language teaching, ap-propriate time to acquire the new language ... Kindergarten Asso-ciation, Children’s Services, Richmond, Victoria, Australia.Clarke, P and Milne, R 1996, ‘Maintaining the first language and learningEnglishasasecondlanguage , Talking...
... receive ESL assistance are, by ENGLISH ASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDS14Principles of Effective SecondLanguage Learning Based on Margaret Early, Enabling First and SecondLanguage Learners ... 0-7726-4550-71. Englishlanguage Study and teaching asasecondlanguage - BritishColumbia. 2. Englishlanguage Study and teaching asasecondlanguage -Standards - British Columbia. I. British ... Programs Branch7 ENGLISH ASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDSIntroductionDefinition of an ESL Student ENGLISHASASECOND LANGUAGE i students are those whose primary language( s), or language( s)...
... with a partner on a common academic task– begin to adapt to a variety of teaching approaches andstrategies used in a Canadianclassroom– respect other cultures– participate with increasingcomfort ... increasing confidence to a variety ofteaching approaches andstrategies (e.g., an informalclassroom atmosphere, active learning, the use of games as alearning activity, activitiesthat involve ... students,in English or a shared first language – state basic information aboutthe neighbourhood, munici-pality, province, and Canada– participate in all regular class activities– participate in...
... ixPreface to the first edition xii1 Why a global language? 1What is a global language? 3What makes a global language? 7Why do we need a global language? 11What are the dangers of a global language? ... such as East Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe –areas where English has traditionally had a relatively low pres-ence. The issues are beginning to be addressed – for example, many Australian ... such as in relation to the Maori in New Zealand, the Aboriginallanguages of Australia, the Indian languages of Canada and theUSA, and some of the Celtic languages. Although often too late,...
... introductory paragraph, three paragraphs as the body and a concluding paragraph. This course was delivered entirely in Englishasa Foreign Language (EFL) with a duration of one hundred minutes for each ... SCAFFOLDING AN EFL (ENGLISH ASA FOREIGN LANGUAGE) ‘EFFECTIVE WRITING’ CLASS IN A HYBRID LEARNING COMMUNITY Agus Santoso, S.Pd., M .A. B .A. , Satya Wacana Christian University, 1990 M .A. , ... study was conducted in the ‘Effective Writing’ classes at the English Department at Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH), LippoKarawaci, Indonesia. This ‘Effective Writing’ was a subject which was...
... the Peace Corps, Kathleen had taught Englishasasecondlanguage to large classes of refugees and immigrants in Los Angeles. Her students had included Russian artists, Salvadoran migrant workers, ... everything laid out in black and white, with all the details squared away. Paul was organized too, but if a lesson wasn't going well, his instinct was to try other ideas and change his plans in ... However, research shows that languagelearning is a process, and mistakes are part of that process. Learners have their own internal syllabus and will eventually correct themselves as long as they...
... would be more practical than a very analytical, pedantic approach. Also, Mickan and Slater (2003) took issue with the analytic scale since, as they claimed, “Highlighting vocabulary and sentence ... in analytical rating in L2 writing, it seems theoretically and statistically plausible to rate two major areas of the scripts: sentence structure and vocabulary and arrangement of ideas and ... correlate. TESL-EJ 13.4, March 2010 Aryadoust 8 A second round of scoring was conducted by two EFL teachers (as a measure of inter-reliability) and then the researcher himself (as a measure...
... Competency-Based Approach. Language skills and grammar and abulary are sequenced according to the learner's needs. Translation is used only if necessary for munication. Context is used as much as ... the same item to class. [Adapted from Patricia A. Richard-Amato. Making It Happen. Longman Inc., 1988.] This exercise has been presented asa class activity for adolescents, but clearly ... taught asa foreign language, as opposed to asecond language, some the science or technical sections, are allocated as little as one hour of English Fi Showing that you are familiar with the...
... Topic signatures can be useful in a number of Natural Language Process-ing (NLP) applications, such as WordSense Disambiguation (WSD) and TextSummarisation. Our method takes ad-vantage of the ... wordsand meanings are different in different languages.Gale et al. (1992) proposed a method which au-tomatically produces sense-tagged data using par-allel bilingual corpora. Diab and Resnik ... sense-tagged corpus,the TWA Sense Tagged Data Set, manually pro-duced by Rada Mihalcea and Li Yang (Mihalcea,2003), from text drawn from the British NationalCorpus. We calculated a ‘supervised’...
... innovations from Japan”, Organization Studies, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 971-989. Nahapiet, J. and Ghoshal, S. (1998), “Social capital, intellectual capital and the organizational advantage”, Academy ... characteristics depicting the ability of a project to function asalearning network. In actual fact, a project’s ability to function asalearning network depends on many other factors too, as ... other participants, such as customers, labour market organizations, intermediate-level organizations, etc. They may be open or closed. They may have a reasonably permanent structure or a constantly...
... raɪz njuː wɜːdz and grammatical rules. In fact, learningEnglish can be a piece of cake. ənd ɡrə ˈmæt ɪk əl ruːlz ɪn fækt ˈlɝːn ɪŋ ˈɪŋ ɡlɪʃ kæn biː ə piːs ʌv keɪk Don’t worry about ... http://langmaster.edu.vn | Crazy English Trainers: WaNo: 01653.994.122 | Chuẩntt : 0985.82.87.87 In fact, she is a sales person! 7. “Improve” = cải thiện, cải tiến. I want to improve my English! ... worry about pronunciation. Don’t worry about grammar. doʊnt ˈwɝːɪ ə ˈbaʊt prə ˌnʌnts i ˈeɪʃ ən. doʊnt ˈ wɝːɪ ə ˈbaʊt ˈɡræm ə Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Just try to speak. doʊnt biː ə...
... natural language analyzers. InProceedings of LREC’02, Las Palmas de Gran Ca-naria, Spain.Xavier Carreras, Llu´ıs M`arquez, and Llu´ıs Padr´o. 200 3a. Named entity recognition for Catalan ... performing an accurate classification, as in thecase of classes object and miscellaneous. This maybe due to a poor representation of the classes in thetraining set, for instance the class object has ... Bikel, Richard Schwartz, and RalphWeischedel. 1999. An algorithm that learns what’s in a name. Machine Learning, Special Issue on Natural Language Learning, 34(1–3):211–231, February.Andrew Borthwick....
... academic essays in asecond language: A case study Luong Quynh Trang* , Nguyen Thi Mai Hoa Department of English - American Language and Culture, College of Foreign Languages, Vietnam National ... called “Asian Architecture B: China, Korea, Japan”. He was given a handout with eight topics for the assignment and had to choose one to write about. In addition, he was pleased to take part ... Thi Mai Hoa / VNU Journal of Science, Foreign Languages 24 (2008) 184-197 190database, and a chain of evidence (Yin [25]) and adopting a systematic and comprehensive data analysis scheme has...