... 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 ... the Peace Corps, Kathleen had taught Englishasa second language to large classes of refugees and immigrants in Los Angeles. Her students had included Russian artists, Salvadoran migrant workers, ... 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...
... 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 asaforeign language, as opposed to a second 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...
... Second Language Investigating Writing Sub-skills in Testing EnglishasaForeign Language: A Structural Equation Modeling Study Vahid Aryadoust National Institute of Education, Singapore arya2004v@yahoo.com ... 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 EnglishasaForeignLanguage (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. , ... productive, quasi-transcendental, receptive, reciprocal, self, transcendental scaffolding. Scaffolding an EFL (English asaForeign Language) ‘Effective Writing’ class in a hybrid learning community...
... 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 teachingasa second language - BritishColumbia. 2. Englishlanguage Study and teachingasa second language ... Hamayan, Sarah Hudelson, JeanRamirez), ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students (Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English toSpeakers of Other Languages Inc., 1997). ENGLISHASA SECOND LANGUAGE STANDARDS12Administrative ... EducationSpecial Programs Branch 7 ENGLISH ASA SECOND LANGUAGE STANDARDSIntroductionDefinition of an ESL Student ENGLISHASA SECOND LANGUAGE i students are those whose primary language( s), or language( s)...
... different path-ways to achieving these outcomes.Who are learners of Englishasa second language? Standard Australian English is the national language of Australia and it is essential that all ... second language in child care or family day care.Children learning Englishasa second language need explicit modelling and language teaching, ap-propriate time to acquire the new language and ... the basis for communication and for learning in both the home language and Englishasa second language. It estab-lishes the basis for ongoing development of language in the early years. A...
... 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 ... second -language, and foreign- language speakers – it is inevitablethat a global language will eventually come to be used by morepeople than any other language. English has already reached thisstage....