... of language - Your view of the social context of language - Your view of learning and learners - Your view of teaching ARTICULATING BELIEFS (cont.) BELIEFS ABOUTLANGUAGE Questions: - What language ... Is he a partner in the learning process? ARTICULATING BELIEFS (cont.) BELIEFS ABOUT TEACHING Beliefs about teaching and the role of teacher are connected to beliefs aboutlearning However, sometimes ... recipient of it; 4- Learners may be partners and the decision-makers in the process or subordinates BELIEFS ABOUTLEARNING AND LEARNERS (cont.) Regarding LEARNING FOCUS: - Learning may be focusing...
... Students’ beliefs and languagelearning 1.1.1 What is belief? 1.1.2 Beliefs aboutlanguagelearning 1.1.3 Nature and origin of beliefs 1.1.4 Types of learner beliefs 1.1.5 The sources of learners beliefs ... epistemological beliefs (i.e beliefs aboutlearning in general) and beliefs aboutlanguagelearning and also the relationship between beliefs and second language achievement She found that strong beliefs ... literature on language learner beliefs will be reviewed It will begin with the definition of beliefs and beliefs aboutlanguage learning, the origin and types of languagelearning beliefs Finally,...
... learners actively participate in the learning process 2.2.2 Students’ Perceptions about Social Benefits of Collaborative Learning Despite of perceptions about academic benefits, perceptions about ... Collaborative Learning in Studying English 2.2 Some Students‟ Perceptions about Collaborative Learning in EFL 2.2.1 Students‟ Perceptions about Academic Benefits 2.2.2 Students‟ Perceptions about ... students‟ perceptions about collaborative learning in EFL such as students‟ perceptions about academic benefits, students‟ perception about social benefits, students‟ perception about generic benefits,...
... An Introduction to Child Language Development Susan Foster-Cohen The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics Henry Rogers An Introduction to Foreign LanguageLearning and Teaching Keith ... to foreign language learning, focusing on the potential of basic level, metaphor and metonymy, figure and ground as well as gestalt, to facilitate cognitive access to the languagelearning process ... W Lorscher and R Schulze’s (eds) Perspectives on language in performance Studies in linguistics, literary criticism, and language teaching and learning To honour Werner Hullen on the occasion...
... Content OStyles of learninglanguage OSome activities to learn language OTime spent on learninglanguage Styles of learninglanguage O Large proportion of people choose ... plays an important role in learning language; however, it depends on what they read Chart : How important each activity is in learninglanguage Time spent on learninglanguage O Reason: interviewers ... learn language People can get help and experiences from others => improve quickly Some activities to learn language O Most : speaking practicing O O is a very important way to learn language...
... instruction learners become reactive learners as they increase their awareness, practice, use and monitoring of the languagelearning strategies they are using while learning a second or foreign language ... awareness of languagelearning strategies, to highlight the relationship between strategy use and languagelearning tasks, and to methodically increase students' existing repertoire of languagelearning ... have experimented with instructing languagelearners to use selected learning strategies as a way to improve language performance Cohen and Aphek (1980) trained learners of Hebrew how to recall...
... to implement my philosophy that successful languagelearners are researchers and lifelong learners I encouraged them to continue reading in English about their topics of interest even while they ... in They just cared about getting grades from the class They didn't care about critical thinking or global issues They just didn't understand what these issues had to with learning English But ... I chose the topic I really care about the environment and am very interested in knowing what's going on about the issues I chose an article from the textbook about car recycling Before the reading,...
... games in language- learning can be summed up in nine points Games • are learner centered • promote communicative competence • create a meaningful context for language use • increase learning motivation ... learning motivation • reduce learning anxiety • integrate various linguistic skills • encourage creative and spontaneous use of language • construct a cooperative learning environment • foster ... atmosphere to the competition The participants were college freshmen at lower-intermediate language level (about 18 years old) The tasks are described as follow: I Mysterious Landmarks Competitors...
... introduction and conclusion, reflection of comprehension Languagelearning seems to occur most effectively when students have opportunities to use language for real purposes Purposeful activities help ... observed real involvement and language use resulting from focus on content rather than on language While creating esthetic presentations in English, students use the language productively and enjoyably ... The lengthy involvement in the integration of content and form adds value to the experiential languagelearning process These observations are consistent with the results reported by Phinney (1996)...
... Information The Comprehensive English LanguageLearning Assessment (CELLA) is a four-skill language proficiency assessment for English LanguageLearners (ELL) students Testing window April ... NR, 0-1-2-3-4 Rubric Summarize and make comparisons Get ready to learn about the Rubrics! 18 Comprehensive English LanguageLearning Assessment (CELLA) Speaking Sections 19 Rubrics Rubrics are ... Test Read directions that are in bold type exactly as they are written Answer any questions about the directions Do NOT give help on specific test questions, and NOT translate any part of...
... experimentation with the language which triggers students’ creativity, a vital dimension of the languagelearning process Rüschoff ( 1993) , for example, reminds us that languagelearners not only ... language, students must actively gather new information, and then process, reorganize, and internalize it Already in 1985, Ellis pronounced that languagelearning results from communicative language ... integrating technology into languagelearning not, however, as a mere additional component or expansion of current classroom practices, but as an opportunity to transform the languagelearning process itself...
... importance of motivation in second languagelearningLanguagelearning is remarkably different from other kinds of learning because of its social nature Learning a foreign language means living in a ... importance of motivation in second language learning, (3) Types of motivation in second language learning, (4) Literature in language teaching, (5) Literature in teaching language skills , (6) Folktales ... motivation in second languagelearning ……….9 Types of motivation in second languagelearning ……………… 10 Literature in language teaching…………………………………… 12 Literature in teaching language skills……………………………….15...
... structure of children’s learning environment using “ideal learner” models We used our models to investigate scientific questions about the role of social cues in grounded languagelearning Because the ... are a crucial information source for grounded languagelearning We also showed that the importance of the different social cues in grounded languagelearning can be evaluated using “add one cue” ... work on the role of social cues in language acquisition The language acquisition research community has long recognized the importance of social cues for child language acquisition (Baldwin, 1991;...
... crucial role in languagelearning Engkoo offers new methods for the self-exploration of language based on the applied linguistic theories of learning as discovery” and Data-Driven Learning (DDL) ... examining extracting language 49 knowledge from the real-time web for translation in news scenarios Additionally, we are actively mining other language pairs to build a multi -language learning system ... by exploiting its massive language resources Direct user feedback and implicit log data suggest that the service is effective for both translation utility and language learning, with advantages...
... a sublanguage , essarily of ) we denote by the set of syntagmas generated by reduced to the sublanguage Given a grammar rule , we call the set of syntagmas generated by reduced to the sublanguage ... examples is used by the grammar learning model to generate the candidate hypotheses For generalization, a larger sublanguage is used, which we call representative sublanguage 10 f 6e I ... are made constants) The language of examples, are syntagmas of the representative sublanguage, which are ground atoms We only have positive examples The hypothesis language, , is a LWFG lattice...
... University of Chicago Press M.Nagao ( 1996 ) : “ Natural Language Processing ”,Iwanami-Shoten V M Holland, J D Kaplan, M R Sams ( 1995 ): “ Intelligent Language Tutors – Theory Shaping Technology – ”, ... ( 1991 ) : “ Designing Environment for Constructive Learning ”, NATO ASI Senes Vol.F105, Springer-Verlag H G Widdowson ( 1977 ) : “ Teaching Language as Communication ”, Oxford University Press ... Situation-Functional Indices for Diagnosis and Dialogue Database Retrieval in a Learning Environment for Japanese as Second Language ”, Proceedings of AIED ’97, pp.247-254 ...
... hypothesis, we measured the impact of the algorithm on the time required by SVMs for the learning of about 122,774 predicate argument examples annotated in PropBank (Kingsbury and Palmer, 2002) ... T Joachims 1999 Making large-scale SVM learning practical In B Sch¨lkopf, C Burges, and A Smola, editors, o Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning Junichi Kazama and Kentaro Torisawa ... Krugler, Wayne Ward, James H Martin, and Daniel Jurafsky 2005 Support vector learning for semantic argument classification Machine Learning Journal Libin Shen, Anoop Sarkar, and Aravind Joshi 2003 Using...