... advanced and the standard They are claimed to adopt the latest teaching and learning approaches: communicative approach and learner-centered approach and aim at developing both language skills and ... been more and more active to train activeand dynamic Vietnamese, who can use English fluently for communicative purposes That is the reason why in 2002, the Ministry of Education and Training ... encountered difficulties in ―understanding and knowing how to use sentence structure‖; ―understanding and knowing how to use the comparative form of adjectives‖, and ―identifying the components of...
... For example, one student may learn vocabulary through writing and practicing the vocabulary using cue cards, whereas another student may only read the vocabularyand learn that way e Leaners’ belief ... integrative and instrumental motivation In a pioneering study, Gardner and Lambert (1972: 132) highlighted “integrative motivation” which stresses “a sincere and personal interest in the people and culture ... things, such as: • The understanding of the function of words in sentences • The ability to understand and use grammatical rules • Memory of key words, what they mean and how to use them An important...
... selecting and interpreting information from auditory and visual clues Listening is the process that allows the listener to understand a message and gets them involved in the conversation and be ... tiring and difficult for students Therefore, Ur (2005) and many authors agree that listening tasks should requires quick simple responses and should not demand the skills of reading, speaking and ... aspects of listening such as hearing the sounds, understanding intonation, stress, and redundancy under colloquial vocabularyand understanding different accents 1.3.3.2 Language proficiency level...
... motivation itself involves too many factors and contexts and is “too complex and multifaceted” (Dornyei, 1998: 117), so these above definitions add to the understanding of the motivation nature It would ... choice of what, how and why to learn Sharing the same point, Ellis (1997: 76) said that learners’ intrinsic motivation “involves the arousal and maintenance of curiosity and can ebb and flow as a result ... grammar, it involves an alternation in self-image, the adoption of new social and cultural and behaviors and ways of being, and therefore has a significant impact on the social nature of the learner”...
... students were the vowel pair /æ/ and /e/ They also expressed that the students here often made mistakes between the pairs /ɒ/ and /ɔ:/, /ɪ/ and /i:/, /ǝ/ and/ ɜ:/, /ʊ/ and /u:/ They complained that ... spoken English more easily Or if a person understands and uses the rhythm, intonation and stress correctly, he will make the listeners understand better Even pronunciation has connection to grammar, ... transference and interference Transference means that the similarities between the phonetic and phonemic systems of the first and the second languages can facilitate the acquisition of pronunciation, and...
... the political, economic, and technological advances of the country); the available teaching aids and materials ; and the constant demand to prepare students for the standardized exams all play ... (i.e., extent of teacher and peer support, and the integration of cultural and outside-of-class support into learning experience) Personal attributes (i.e., aptitude, age, sex, and previous language ... succeed, self-efficacy, and anxiety) Goals (perceived clarity and relevance of learning goals as reasons for learning) Involvement (i.e., extent to which the learner actively and consciously participates...
... reliability and validity, and research procedures, which gives details of the research method and describes how the hypothesis of the thesis is interpreted and explained Chapter – Findings and Discussions ... appropriately matched and the identification of similarities and/ or differences d) Problems solving Problem-solving tasks make demands upon people’s intellectual and reasoning power, and, though challenging, ... on the students’ behavior and every has their own right to express themselves - Students’ individuality and creative way of thinking and personal views in understanding and solving problems are...
... adjectives… b Understanding and using verb tenses and forms c Understanding and using prepositions and 24 preposition phrases d Understanding and using unfamiliar 49 45 343 e Understanding identifying ... give us sufficient practice of grammar andvocabulary Teachers are too strict and demanding I lack confidence and motivation I lack vocabulary especially ESP vocabulary I lack professional knowledge ... dependent on the teachers and the text books This one is tracked in learning vocabularyand grammar rules The education model in which the teacher is activeand the students are passive is still the...
... practical goals, and integrative reason) and learners‟ effort and interest in learning and practicing listening Students’ lack of basic knowledge of English: Among these factors, the first and most influential ... through the ears (aural) and through touch and body movement (hap tic) - Cognitive learning styles: field-independence and field-dependence, reflectivity and impulsivity and ambiguity tolerance ... each lesson Social and cultural background knowledge is known with the understanding of society and culture in both the second language community and the mother tongue community and shown in teaching...
... describe Listeners must discriminate between sounds, understand vocabularyand grammatical structures, interpret stress and intention, retain and interpret this within the intermediate as well as the ... ALHS still focus on grammar andvocabulary Therefore, both teachers and students not pay much attention to listening skill Consequently, students are weak at listening and have a lot of difficulties ... motivation is categorized: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and some others, it is classified: integrative and instrumental motivation 1.1.3.1 Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Harmer stated...
... In order to obtain in-depth, rich data and information for investigating the situation and the difficulties that teachers and students have in teaching and learning pronunciation, the study used ... are always in written form, so most teachers and students have little motivation to teach and learn pronunciation As a result, students are often shy and unconfident to speak in English This situation ... This is inappropriate because pronunciation is central to language learning and learners’ abilities to build, expand and refine their pronunciation on their own outside their classrooms can be...
... motivation and self-confidence, monitoring and evaluation, learning strategies, and cooperation and group cohesion While motivation and self-confidence refer to the intrinsic motivation and willingness ... monitoring and evaluation, learning strategies and finally cooperation and group cohesion Particularly noteworthy is their emphasis on monitoring and evaluation According to Scharle and Szabo ... Scharle and Szabo (2000) They identify the building blocks of responsibility and autonomy on the part of learners and teachers The building blocks required of learners include motivation and self-confidence,...
... LLM and learning achievement 1.4 Previous studies about LLM and the correlation between LLM and learning achievement 10 CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY 14 2.1 Participants and ... participants, setting of the study, and data collection and analysis tasks Chapter – FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION – interprets the statistics from data collected and figure out the hindering of the ... desire and feeling enjoyment Besides, other understandings of the concept of orientation have been suggested For example, according to the understanding of Belmsihri & Hammel (1998), and others...
... reliability and validity, and research procedures, which gives details of the research method and describes how the hypothesis of the thesis is interpreted and explained Chapter - Findings and Discussions ... with form and structure of words and their relationships in sentences” According to Fromkin and Rodman (1998), "The sounds and sound patterns, the basic units of meaning such as words and the rules ... teaching And the conditions for teaching and learning, such as: size of classes and teachers’ preferences to textbook-based instruction, all affect their teaching In Thailand, McDonough and Chaikitmongkol...
... motivation for studying and so on Because of learner difference and learning context difference, a varied view on motivation in language learning should be taken by researchers and teachers in order ... aims and objectives of the study, the scope of the study, the significance and the structure of the research Part B includes three chapters Chapter I discusses the theoretical background and ... setting, the approach adopted, and the methods of collecting data, the data collection techniques, and data analysis techniques Chapter III deals with findings and discussion of the study It...
... “Simon says” +If the teacher says, “Simon says: stand up”, the students will stand up + If the teacher says, “stand up”, the students will not stand up + The students who make mistakes will be ... become dull, and the chance to imagine difference situations adds interest to the lesson Children and even teenagers and adults often imgine themselves in different 13 situations and roles when ... help of some vivid and propar pictures or 14 sounds The interesting sounds and flashes can cheer students up in class Thus students may be more impressed and remember the vocabulary or sentence...
... to understand and convey communicative purpose by interpreting and performing language functions such as complimenting, reporting, agreeing/disagreeing, predicting, and suggesting and so on Discourse ... learner’s ability to apply and use grammatical rules, but also his ability to produce accurate utterances and to apply these utterances appropriately Canale and Swain (1980) and Canale (1983) define ... on the knowledge and skill essential for understanding and expressing the meaning of utterances Sociolinguistic competence means that utterances are appropriate both in meaning and form given in...