... billions. Every newspaper or magazine has its own features with many articles and column for daily events. In addition, news story always plays an important role and has a remarkable position ... important sentence in the paragraph. It controls and limits the ideas that can be discussed in a paragraph. In grammar, that topic sentence has two parts: the topic and the controlling idea. - ... stalling data By Alex Berenson Published: April 2, 2008 The lead outside investigator on a crucial trial of two widely used heart drugs said in an economic-mail message last July that Merk and...
Ngày tải lên: 02/09/2012, 11:12
Assignment on elt practice Project A Study on Test Designing.doc
... of administration, scoring and interpretation of scores. A test constructor has to take into considerations how long the test will take, what special arrangements have to be made, whether any ... Testing and Assessment. An article on the web of BBC/ Bristish Coucil. 4. Alderson, C., Clapham, C. & Wall, D. (1995). Language Test Construction and Evaluation. Great Britain: Cambridge ... question if the test appears reasonable or too easy or too difficult. In addition, among various types of validity, content and face validity are considered to be most important for teachers...
Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:40
A study on the translation of economic terminology
... translation 25 3.1.2 Translation by a calque or loan translation 26 3.1.3 Translation by loan transcription 27 3.1.4 Translation by paraphrase using unrelated word 28 3.1.5 Translation by paraphrase using a related ... technical translation, and translation of Neologisms will be presented one after another. 1.1.1. What is translation? Translation, a phenomenon traditionally considered as an “art”, has been approached ... like constructing a calque, or loan translation; loan transcription or borrowing directly with or without an explanation. a. A calque translation A calque or loan translation is the way that a new...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:12
A study on the techniques for the improvement to the teaching of oral skills in light of communicative english language teaching for junior high school teachers in quang ngai province part 1
... encourage the process of change in language teaching. 1 • The Functional-Notional Approach In the 1970s teachers of the Functional-Notional Approach stopped teaching grammar and started teaching ... meetings. Approximately half the teachers surveyed have access to a cassette player at school, one quarter to a DVD/CD player and one-fifth to a computer. Access to materials for preparing visual aids ... Mistakes are not “bad”. • They are natural and unavoidable part of learning a language. • They are useful. They show the teacher what their students have and have not learnt. 32 30-34 years ...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:41
A study on the techniques for the improvement to the teaching of oral skills in light of communicative english language teaching for junior high school teachers in quang ngai province part 3
... experience and training 9 • Qualifications 10 2.6.2.2. Information about Schools 10 • Access to resource at school 10 • Conditions that facilitate teaching 10 • Conditions that impede teaching 11 ... support. I am sincerely grateful to Mr. Đinh Tấn Bảo and my colleagues of Foreign Languages Department, Quang Ngai Teachers Training College for their attention and encouragement. I am appreciative ... Limitations and suggestions for further study 38 References 39 Appendix 41 iii 2.6.2. Findings and discussion 9 2.6.2.1. Teachers’ Personal Information 9 • Age of teachers 9 • Teaching experience and...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:41
A study on the opportunities for and constraints on developing students’ oral skills at an upper-secondary school
... important in language teaching. In fact, nearly all of the teachers at DL1USS are very young and energetic as well as they have a good background of vocabulary and grammatical structures. They are ... Positions of speaking in language teaching programs, Difficulties in and constraints on learning to speak a foreign language, and Factors affecting students’ participation in speaking activities. Chapter ... has great influence on English teaching and learning, especially on teacher’s management. *Teacher’s preparation Most of the teachers I observed had prepared their speaking lessons comparatively...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44
A study on possible effective pre-reading activities to improve reading skills for 2nd- year english majors at the military science academy
... study The study was carried out on the basis of qualitative research method including questionnaires and class observation. 2 PART A: INTRODUCTION I. Rationale In many second or foreign language teaching ... the task in hand. There are many advantages of using visual aids in a reading lesson that the teacher can use. First of all, using visual aids can focus attention on meaning and help to make ... The data analysis from the questionnaires and class observations help the author have an overview of teaching and learning reading at MSA. With more details about students’ and teachers’ attitudes...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50
A study on evidential modal markers in english
... interpreted as in appearance, according to the outward appearance or according to what has been heard (Longman, Dictionary of English language and culture, 1999). In Vietnamese, they can be understood ... MODAL ADVERBS Along with adjectives, a wide range of adverbs can be of Evidential modality. Some of them act as prominent markers which are taken into consideration in this section. They are ... 1989), and Palmer (1986, 2000) into consideration as principal ground of theory on which the Evidential modal markers are analyzed. The reason is that we look at Evidentials as devices of modality,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54
A STUDY ON HOW ORAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE CAN CHANGE TRAN NGUYEN HAN 10th graders' attitudes towards grammar learning
... towards internationalization and globalization is developing very fast. So everyone needs to use a common language. So far, many people have learnt and used English as an international language.Vietnam ... study, the data collection method, instruments as well as process of data collection and data analysis. IV. Data analysis and discussion This focuses on presenting, analyzing and discussing ... discussion on the communicative approach as well as oral grammar practice in teaching English grammar . 2.4. Grammar teaching from a CLT perspective As we know, communicative language teaching...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01
A study on teaching oral skills to the first year students at Hanoi University of Industry in the Communicative Approach
... CLT as in the situations in Korean, Indonesian and Japanese context. HaUI teachers' opinions about the traditional grammar based exams as a difficulty and their priority of training in assessing ... information gap between the speaker and the hearer; making a choice from his repertoire of language of what to say and how to say it; and evaluating feedback from what he has done. Information gap ... in a sense, a 'strong' version of the communicative approach and a 'weak' version. The weak version, which has become more or less standard practice in the last ten years,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01
A study on idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms in english and vietnamese
... techniques such as comparison, transformation, and contrastive analysis are applied in a quick-minded and active way to find out a general picture about the idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms ... the author presented a contrastive analysis on the concept, formulation, cultural traditional function, syntactic function and classification of simile in English and its Vietnamese equivalents. ... contain three main literature functions which are perceptive function, aesthetic function and educational function. For example, the proverb Money makes the mare go demonstrates a remark as...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01
A study on some major factors affecting English learning of grade 6 ethnic minority students of a mountainous secondary school to help them learn better
... intelligence, personality, learning strategies, attitude and motivation, teaching strategies, environment and context of learning and social context. Chapter 3 (Data collection and analysis) consists ... teaching and learning situations, learners’ motivation and attitudes towards the target language reveal to have less important effect than the factors mentioned above in this study. The data ... learning and adopting of a language that is not your native language. Once you have acquired a foreign language, you have mastered that language. Second language acquisition may be more difficult...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:04
A STUDY ON EVIDENTIALS IN ENGLISH
... affairs. Illocutionary forces have three types of pre-conditions as components: • Propositional content conditions put restrictions on the propositional content of an illocutionary act of a particular force. ... organization giving it a status of a communicative event. In English, as in many other languages, the clause is organized as a message by having a special status assigned to one part of it. One ... interaction. 1.4. THEME - RHEME STRUCTURE AND EVIDENTIALS Halliday (An Introduction to Functional Grammar, 1985) observes that in all languages, the clause has the character of a message: it has...
Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2013, 14:29
A study on how oral practice can change TNH 10th graders' attitudes towards grammar learning
Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46
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