... situation of foreign languages learning and teaching in Vietnam and existing foreign language policies. Finally and also most importantly, it will try to make some recommendations concerning foreign ... foreign language policies in a larger context of manpower planning. Foreign languagesin the international market In the international market, language skills, and intercultural skills which ... question: which foreignlanguages amidst hundreds of languagesin the global market? Undoubtedly, English has been enjoying the lion share in the world market in general and in the international...
... Teachers talking time in speaking lessons’The information obtained from Figure 6 indicates that teachers always take much time explaining in speaking lessons (70%). Only a small minority (10%) ... mother-tongued inference have bad influence on their involvement in English speaking lessons.1.4. Teachers difficulties in teaching speaking in speaking lessons’The result from the survey indicates ... difficulties in speaking lessons‘As shown in Figure 5, 18% of the participants think that finding ideas for the given topic is one of difficulties deterring their involvement in speaking lessons,...
... need in solving problems not only in learning but also in his life time. b. Critical thinking and questioningCritical thinking and questioning have an interrelated relationship. To think critically, ... Critical thinking in learningAs a saying goes ‘To learn is to think. To think poorly is to learn poorly. To think well is to learn well’, critical thinking plays a very important role in learning ... a textInterpreting text by going outside itRecognizing indicators in discourseTranscoding information into other types of display Table 5 - Types of reading tasks in general reading skills...
... of Science, ForeignLanguages 24 (2008) 167-174 168linguistic imperialism in the way that “[t]he dominance of English is asserted and maintained by the establishment and continuous reconstitution ... educational institutions, namely schools, universities, municipal/provincial Department of Education and Training, and Ministry of Education and Training. Besides, there are several foreign- funded ... students and administrators in order that we can take proper steps in language training in the country. 1. Introduction* English, undeniably, has become a phenomenon in the world and...
... them. Explaining means to clarify something in more details and more simply. Interpreting is to expound or in other words, to repeat the message in other way without changing the meaning of it. ... “asking some related questions,” “asking the foreign colleagues to confirm” (by emailing or calling), “watching their reactions,” “talking slowly and moderately, going straight to the point, ... Demonstrating is to give examples to illustrate the ideas. Explaining, interpreting, or demonstrating ideas in a foreign language appears rather difficult, especially for those having poor English....
... to 46use of communicative approach in teaching listening in order to increase interest for the students in listening section. Also in chapter two, findings from the survey show that most of ... students by making them feel that the actual listening text is real interesting , exciting or amazing. Introducing the listening topic often comes well from the teacher, who, in any case, is ... Activating students to work in different stages of listening We know that to have a successful listening lesson, students should willingly join in three stages of listening. When doing listening...
... look 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 ... “Are you in the queue?” (meaning “Don’t you know how to queue properly?”)(Inside Out – Pre-intermediate, p.90)VIAppendix 2: PRETEST (MOCK SPEAKING TEST 1)Part one: Read aloud the following passage:Another ... activities is the introduction to a whole new social work, providing companionship with other like-minded people. New friends can be made through joining a music club, for instance. And social...
... for reading, three for writing, and four for speaking and pronunciation). The pronunciation lesson is incorporated into speaking lesson and lasts one period, accounting for 45 minutes. In each ... When entering university, they faced many problems in life, not only in getting acquaintance to a new lifestyle and living environment, but also with the new style of studying in university, ... However, their listening, writing and speaking skill, including their English pronunciation were of a lower level. The good news was the students were willing and determined to improve these...
... English in VN. In my opinion, I think it is rather good in the big city, but not good in the rural areas. Partly because of lacking of money, so we can’t invest too much money in learning conditions, ... living standard by learning English.Generally speaking, we should learn English as soon as possible, but we are talking about learning English, so what is the real state of learning English in ... the children must sit in the dark room with leaky roof. Sad to say, it is the fact in many provinces. In these areas, learning is not the main problem, they have many things to worry about like...
... densely into pages in the order they appear in the WS, creating a Leaf file. We then create an Inter-nal 1 (I1) file, containing densely packed internal nodescontaining references to each block in ... masseto the on-disk database during file system consistencypoints (checkpoints). Maintaining back referencesin thepresence of snapshot creation, cloning or deletion incursno additional I/O overhead. ... queryRun LengthImmediately after maintenance200 CPs since maintenance400 CPs since maintenance600 CPs since maintenance800 CPs since maintenanceNo maintenanceFigure 9: Query Performance....
... reporting entity’s net investment in a foreign operation and is denominated in the functional currency of the reporting entity, an exchange difference arises in the foreign operation’s individual ... differences are recognised in other comprehensive income in the financial statements that include the foreign operation and the reporting entity (ie financial statements in which the foreign operation ... are within the scope of IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement ; (b) in translating the results and financial position of foreign operations that are included in the financial...