... tograduate from a Canadian high school and go on tograduate from a Canadian high school and go on tograduate from a Canadian high school and go on tograduate from a Canadian high school and ... Grade 10 class. His parents want him tobeen placed in a Grade 10 class. His parents want him tobeen placed in a Grade 10 class. His parents want him tograduate from a Canadian high school and go ... Prototype Oral Interviewã Table 4.12 in O’Malley, J.Michael and Lorraine Valdez-Pierce, Authentic Assessment for EnglishLanguage Learners:Practical Approaches for Teachers (Reading, MA:Addison-Wesley,...
... bibliographical references: p.5ISBN 0-7726-4550-71. Englishlanguage Study and teachingasasecondlanguage - BritishColumbia. 2. Englishlanguage Study and teachingasasecondlanguage ... EducationSpecial Programs Branch 7 ENGLISH ASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDSIntroductionDefinition of an ESL Student ENGLISHASASECOND LANGUAGE i students are those whose primary language( s), or language( s) ... Hamayan, Sarah Hudelson, JeanRamirez), ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students (Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English toSpeakers of Other Languages Inc., 1997). ENGLISHASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDS12Administrative...
... 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 learning Englishasasecondlanguage need explicit modelling and language teaching, ap-propriate time to acquire the new language ... the basis for communication and for learning in both the home language and Englishasasecond language. It estab-lishes the basis for ongoing development of language in the early years. A...
... 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, ... meetings. A former Volunteer in Ghana who later returned to Africa asa Peace Corps staff member, reminisced about his teaching days, saying: When I was in Ghana, I would rather have hat my tongue ... Another assignment that improves public speaking skills is to ask students to adopt an endangered animal and give an oral report that includes a visual aid and a description of the animal and...
... 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 ... 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 ... increasing confidence to a variety of teaching approaches andstrategies (e.g., an informalclassroom atmosphere, activelearning, the use of games as a learning activity, activitiesthat involve...
... 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 ... communicative language teaching. It is referred to as an approach that ims to make communication the goal of language teaching. Several models have evolved around this rinciple. This chapter...
... 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 ... 39Australia and New Zealand 40South Africa 43South Asia 46Former colonial Africa 49South-east Asia and the South Pacific 54 A world view 59v Why a global language? complex realities of a ... Australia, the Indian languages of Canada and theUSA, and some of the Celtic languages. Although often too late, in certain instances the decline of alanguage has been slowed, andoccasionally...
... aSecondLanguage Investigating Writing Sub-skills in Testing Englishasa Foreign Language: A Structural Equation Modeling Study Vahid Aryadoust National Institute of Education, Singapore ... 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 ... Malaysia, Melacca. About the Author S. Vahid Aryadoust is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics from National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His areas...
... 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...
... cognitiveadvantages that the contact with more languages can offerand uses this approach as the basis for future language teaching and learning. Chapters cover topics such as performing in a third language, ... awareness in multilingual proficiencyand language learning. In view of the widespread acquisitionof English by those who are already bilingual or are alsoacquiring a regional lingua franca ... language, metalinguistic awarenessin multilinguals and in multilingual education, and English as a third language in Europe.Features:ã The first study of the important role metalinguistic awareness...