compare and contrast language acquisition theories

... for you). – SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPARE AND CONTRAST – 72 ■ As you go through your day, compare and contrast things around you. Compare and contrast, for exam- ple, your current job ... (a compare and contrast essay might tell you which car is better) or which savings bond to invest in (a compare and contrast essay will show you which bond is best for you). – SIMILARITIES AND ... essential for the compare and contrast technique. Look what happens, for example, when the writer does not discuss corresponding parts: – SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPARE AND CONTRAST – 70 ...

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... foreign and second language. Good choice and use of learning strategies would help learners become more independent and autonomous as well as improve learners’ language competence and communicative ... differences in language learning, language learning strategies, as well as gender differences in language learning strategies and give rationale for the study. Chapter two describes and justifies ... significance of language learning strategies in language teaching. Firstly, by examining the strategies used by second language learners during the language learning process, educators and researchers...

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... of motivation and speaking teaching. In the chapter, the main approaches to motivation and de-motivation in foreign language teaching are discussed. The main theories of foreign language speaking ... The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 15.Gardner, RC. (1985). Social Psychology and second language learning: The roles of attitudes and motivation. London: ... studies by Rubin (1975) and Naiman et al. (1978), and drew on a number of characteristics and the qualities of the good language learners. According to them, a good language learner would: -...

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... zip buzz piece price peas prize Listen and Repeat: IV. Homework: A. Use Wh-questions to rewrite the following sentences: 1. He will have bread and milk tomorrow. 2. Peter went fishing ... folk inging folk s s ong ong s s . . 6. 6. I’d like a pie I’d like a pie ce ce of bread and of bread and s s ome pea ome pea s s , plea , plea se se . . Choose the word that contains the ... lesson: A. A. ACTIVITIES : ACTIVITIES : 1. Activity 1: 1. Activity 1: a. Listen and a. Listen and repeat: repeat: FOR EXAMPLE: WHO ? : WHO IS HE? WHERE? : WHERE WAS HE BORN? 1 3 2 4 5 To...

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... the green dress? ASSISTANT: It’s 30,000 dong LAN: And what about the violet dress? ASSISTANT: It’s 35,000 dong UNIT 9: AT HOME AND AWAY LANGUAGE FOCUS 3  1.How much is it ?  2. Prepositions.  3. ... , …………………………………………….…… , and ……………………………… ………………. Minh: How about tomorrow? Nga: I …………………………………………………… , …………………………………… , ……………………………………… , ………………………………………… , ……………………………………………… …… , and …………………………………………… ... Stayed at Hoa’s house will study English clean room help my Mom see a movie visit my grandmother B. Ask and answer the questions with a partner, using HOW FAR ã - HOW FAR ã How far is it from....

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... second language, the study of another language and culture can only enhance their perception and understanding of other cultures. No matter what the underlying motivation to study a second language, ... in Second Language Acquisition Jacqueline Norris-Holt This paper explores Gardner's socio-educational model and the significance of motivation as a contributing factor in second language (L2) acquisition. ... the amount of time spent studying the language and then output, expressed as linguistic performance when investigating language learning. In order to examine language learning in the Japanese context...

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... 1: Getting Started - Listen and Read + Language focus 1 Saturday, october 9 th 2010 1. Ba and his family had a two - day trip to their home village. -> Ba and his family had a day trip ... They visited Ba’s uncle. Listening Listen and Answer the questions Lesson 1: Getting Started + Listen and Read We will listen to the text about Ba, Liz and family taking a day trip to the countryside Saturday, ... wish ? Homework: - Learn the new words by heart. - Do exercise 1 (Language focus) page 28,29 - Prepare for ‘speaking + Languagee focus 2,3‘ 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 4 d/ Collecting eggs e/ Harvesting...

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... relationships between achievement and school and family variables, 7. to reinforce the call for high academic standards and educational reform, and 8. to argue for system and school accountability. The ... Disabilities and English -Language Learners, Summary of a Workshop. Judith Anderson Koenig, edi- tor. Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and ... with Disabilities and English -Language Learners Summary of a Workshop Judith Anderson Koenig, editor Board on Testing and Assessment Center for Education Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education NATIONAL...

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... plans. precision, recall, and F1 (harmonic mean of preci- sion and recall) of these plans are shown in Table 2. Compared to Chen and Mooney, the plans produced by SGOLL has higher precision and lower recall. This ... a precision, recall, and F1 of 87.07, 71.67, and 78.61, respectively for the in- ferred plans. The trained semantic parser’s preci- sion, recall, and F1 were 88.87, 58.76, and 70.74, re- spectively. ... se- mantic understanding of navigation instructions. 2.1 Navigation Task The goal of the navigation task is to build a sys- tem that can understand free-form natural -language instructions and follow...

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... Springer-Verlag. D. Jurafsky and J. Martin. 2008. Speech and Language Processing, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall. R. Kneser and H. Ney. 1995. Improved backing-off for m-gram language modeling. The 20th ... parsing and language modeling. Computational Linguistics, 27(2):249-276. S. Wang et al. 2005. Exploiting syntactic, semantic and lexical regularities in language modeling via directed Markov random ... three linear Markov chains. We generalize Jelinek and Mercer’s original recursive mixing scheme (Jelinek and Mercer, 1981) and form a lattice to handle the situation where the context is a mixture...

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... e.g. Lee and Myaeng’s (2002) genre and subject detection work and Boulis and Ostendorf’s (2005) work on feature selection for topic classification. For our LM classifiers, we followed Boulis and Ostendorf’s ... development and test sets. The dev and test sets are the same size and each consist of approximately 5% of the data for each grade level. measures. For comparison to other methods, e.g. Flesch-Kincaid and ... lists and/ or a superfi- cial representation of syntax. Our approach uses n- gram language models as a low-cost automatic ap- proximation of both syntactic and semantic analy- sis. Statistical language...

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