... selected,
remember that mental fitness — your ability to
concentrate, to reason, to visualize, to imagine, to make
decisions, to solve problems, and to think clearly and
creatively— depends greatly ... selected, remember that mental
fitness — your ability to concentrate, to reason, to visualize, to
imagine, to make decisions, to solve problems, and to think clearly
and creatively — depends greatly ... need to pay a visit to the mental gymnasium."
Mack turned around and led Tom through a small doorway to a
spacious, brightly lit room: Mack's mental gymnasium. On the walls
were anatomical...
... enough; they
need to be able to follow the ideas in English. The exercises in this part are designed to help
students develop their ability to follow ideas and thinking in English.
Part four: ... handle subjects related to written materials in English and to
work with their English- speaking colleagues and partners. It is essential for them to acquire
the ability to read English effectively ...
students have to work very hard to gain knowledge of Englishto support for their jobs when
graduating since they use English as main tool in their work. For the last several years,
English teaching...
... forward to spending their
weekends in a queue, waiting for a shop to open or waiting for a parking space at the
furniture superstore.
If you ever decide to visit Britain, you will need to know ... one person to make a queue. If you are
alone at a bus stop, for example, don’t look to relaxed. Make sure that you are in the queue
and look optimistically to your right. If you want to keep your ... p.47)
Part two: Work in pairs and discuss the following topic
(Students picked up one among the topics given)
1. The best way to travel is by bicycle. To what extend do you agree with this statement?
2....
... people use English everyday, it is not an
easy task to measure the length of time they use English, and it is even more complicated to
decide what kind of English it is. It may be business English, ... pronunciation
First and foremost, we would like to justify the reasons for our decision to use continuous
feedback to help first year students of Englishimprove their pronunciation, although the ... control.
However, there is one factor that clearly can be improved so as to bring the most benefits to
learners, which are motivation and concern for good pronunciation. According to
Kenworthy (1987),...
... intended to focus on the barriers that teachers encounter
when teaching oral skills to the first years students in the Communicative Approach. The
investigator chooses to focus on oral skills ... administrators divides the major classes into many
small English classes. That leads to the lack of classrooms, so that most of non-major
English classes have to study English both in the day time and ... the students to volunteer to speak, and the passive students
need the teacher’s attention. They have to be appointed to speak. The easy questions should
be given to the weak ones to assure their...
... course for first-year English majors with the hope toimprove their
pronunciation. That was the reason why I conducted this study “Using software toimprove
first-year English majors’ pronunciation: ... study is toimprove first-year English major students’ pronunciation,
not all aspects but only the basic patterns of intonation in common functions are included in
the pretest.
As for intonation ...
The purpose of this study is toimproveEnglish pronunciation for first-year English majors at
Hong Duc University. Specifically, it has three purposes as follows:
- To identify students’ most...
... dialogue journals
improve the quality of writing by helping non-native English speakers to establish their identities
and voice in English.
Beyond providing a written way to connect to the curriculum, ... Windwalker
IRB Coordinator
RE: New Protocol Approval
IRB Protocol #: 10-09-117
Protocol Title: Using Dialogue Journals toImprove Writing for English Language
Learners
Review Type: EXEMPT EXPEDITED ... of continuation. Failure to receive approval to continue
the project prior to the expiration date will result in Termination of the protocol approval. The
IRB Coordinator can give you guidance...
...
conversation samples.
14. Listen to the tapes and practice to take notes regularly.
15. Apply all the methods above in about 2 - 3 months, and you
should always practice speaking English
... English.
11. Correct faults yourself before your friends or teacher do it for
you.
12. Study in pair or group is the best.
13. Learn by heart the rules of English grammar, new...
... Linguistics
Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge toImprove a
Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English
Andrew Finch
NiCT
∗
-ATR
†
Kyoto, Japan
andrew.finch
@atr.jp
Ezra Black
Epimenides ... automatically acquired on-
tology made by clustering words in a large corpus
of unannotated text.
We have chosen to use hierarchical schemes for
both the automatic and manually acquired ontolo-
gies ... the automatically acquired ontology, showing the word apple
the clusters tend to contain a lot of noise. Rare
words can easily find themselves members of clus-
ters to which they do not seem to belong,...
...
2. Technique toimprove specific problems 40
2.1. Technique for English consonants 40
2.1.1. Technique to pronounce English stop consonants 40
2.1.2. Technique to pronounce English fricative ... some techniques toimproveEnglish pronunciation to Vietnamese, the aim
of the study include:
- To introduce the basic theories of English and Vietnamese consonants and stress.
- To find out what ... with
the top teeth touching the bottom lip. Therefore, the obstruction of airstream occurs
because the bottom lip and the top teeth come together.
The sound /f/, /v/ are referred to as labialdental...