... is “face” that Chinese students not want others laugh at them or at their mistakes because they will lose face in the classroom The concept of face is central in China as well asin many Asian ... to the Japanese: A guide for Americans InterAct series Yarmouth, Me: Intercultural Press, 1984 [15] V LoCastro, Intercultural pragmatics A JapaneseAmerican case study Lancaster [England]: University ... enhance learning 2) Students pay much attention to grammar, vocabulary, and reading They are not active in class and the main purpose they are in class is only to listen They are not willing...
... Bilingualism Clevedon: Multiingual Matters, 96-116 Canagarajah, A S (2006) Negotiating the local inEnglishasalinguafranca Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 26, 1970218 Canagarajah, A S ... Applied Linguistics, Madison, WI Canagarajah, A S (2007) Linguafranca English, multiplingual communities, and language acquisition The Modern Language Journal, 91, 923-939 Canagarajah, S., & Said, ... Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre House, J (1999) Misunderstanding in intercultural communication: Interactions inEnglishasalinguafranca and the myth of mutual intelligibility In: ...
... maintaining the first language include: • playing picture lotto, bingo and card games, using two languages or playing ina language other than English 11 Supporting Children Learning Englishas ... CDs in languages other than English • learning skipping and counting games in languages other than English • asking parents to teach games and words in other languages • providing bilingual story ... Englishasa Second Language in the Early Years (birth to six years) but also includes the development of communicative aspects such as attracting and sustaining attention, managing interactions in...
... components as lexis, syntax, spelling, and communicating ideas in assessing writing and yet expand on the list in analytic writing Writing researchers have articulated other crafting skills influencing ... Conference in Malaysia, Melacca About the Author S Vahid Aryadoust is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics from National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore His areas ... Description and elements Arrangement of Ideas and 1) presentation of ideas, opinions, and information Examples (AIE) 2) aspects of accurate and effective paragraphing 3) elaborateness of details 4)...
... result, a range of terms and definitions are used to describe online learning such as web-based training, Internet-based training, e-Learning, advanced distributed learning, and distance education ... students aware that there has been a shift in the emphasis from “learning by the individual” to “learning as part of a community” (Kilpatrick, Jones, & Barrett, 2003) In many cases, like most Asian ... a Foreign Language (EFL) program at Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) located in Karawaci–Tangerang, (Indonesia) In order to keep up with the advance of technology in education, the Universitas...
... english over the last decade and has now become more important, as is the case in the trilingual area of the Ladin valleys, where English is learnt asa fourth language and used asalinguafranca ... Global Language, International English, World English, World Englishes, World Language and Global LinguaFranca (McArthur 2001: 4f.) Englishas International Language (EIL) and EnglishasLingua ... multilingualism dynamic systems theory Englishasa foreign language Englishaslinguafranca enhanced multilingual monitor ‘even more mysterious apparatus’ Englishasa second language foreign language...
... to actively participate in tasks when working in pair and in group 19 Working in pair and in group is not a valuable to my education 20 In working in pair or group, it encourages laziness among ... and a confrontational exchange of ideas, such asa debate In addition, the traditional Asian classroom had looked down the importance of CL because of wasting precious curriculum time (So, Tan and ... using a five-point scale of “always”, “usually”, “sometime”, “rarely”, and “never” Data obtained from the questionnaire was analyzed using percentages and presented in tables and charts Data...
... Southeast Asian Nations CAMSET= Cambodian Secondary English Language Teaching CFA= Confirmatory Factor Analysis EFL= Englishasa Foreign Language ELT= English Language Teaching ESL= Englishasa ... memorising facts and details of the learning materials to handle the assessment tasks) rather than using a deep learning approach (i.e., understanding, integrating and relating the learning materials ... linking assessment and learning Others (Lamprianou & Athanasou, 2009; Chappuis et al., 2012; Popham, 2014) have argued for “assessment for learning” and “assessment of learning”, given that assessment...
... Englishasa singular form, and the view of teachers as masters and students as disciples In 2010, I left Cambodia for Australia asa recipient of a prestigious Australia Leadership Award (ALA) As an ... of language and literacy was orientated around my practice asa language educator My background in applied linguistics was shaped by an adherence to grammatical rules, an understanding of English ... ethnographic investigation of the literacy practices of Englishasa foreign language and Cambodian young adult learners’ identity List of Abbreviations ALA Australian Leadership Award ASEAN Association...
... effect is examined not only in many areas, asin natural science, e.g Mathematics, but also in well-structured domain, e.g literacy text (Kalyuga & Renkl, 2010) In literary text, McNamara, Kintsch, ... specifically, Carrell (1988) explained some causes interfering reading process or schema theory as schema availability, schema activation, and skill deficiency Schema availability occurs when learners ... Furthermore, in the learning phase, participants may have answered significantly better than those in the test phase, because in the test phase participants were not able to look at the text to find key...
... than drawbacks We shall discuss the benefits in the following section Benefits of project-based learning in teaching Englishasa foreign language English has been taught asa foreign Languages ... participate, and can promote learning PBL is said to motivate students as they are wholly engaged in the learning task Enjoyment and motivation also derive from the fact that classroom language is ... Languages in Vietnam for a very long time However, there has been little application of the Project-Based Learning in teaching In fact, PBL has several benefits in second and foreign language settings...
... (Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc., 1997) ENGLISHASA SECOND LANGUAGE STANDARDS ENGLISHASA SECOND LANGUAGE STANDARDS Introduction Definition of an ... Canada Expectations ENGLISHASA Family Parental Parental education employment SECOND LANGUAGE STANDARDS 13 Principles of Effective Second Language Learning Based on Margaret Early, Enabling ... Intermediate Writing Sample: Level Task: Write a report about an interesting animal of your choice 36 ENGLISHASA SECOND LANGUAGE STANDARDS An Interesting Animal Dogs A [type of] animal that I...
... available in internet databases While the procurement of such agents from nature is still the easier and cheaper method today, that may change In addition, certain pathogens such as Ebola or Marburg are ... Researchers have already succeeded in producing an antidote to malaria within bacteria It is also conceivable that bacteria could be constructed to indicate the presence of certain substances such as explosives ... certain medicinal substances in bacteria – as final products of their metabolism – or for breaking down environmental pollutants through a specially constructed bacterial metabolism Researchers...
... in building cabinets or storage space RESOURCES The facilities in your classroom have a direct impact on the learning that can take place If reading materials are readily available and visual ... these learners lie in patterning, organizing, analyzing, seeing relationships, identifying parts, ordering, prioritizing, classifying and comparing They prefer a teacher to maintain a traditional ... well-established programs such asin francophone Gabon, or Teaching Englishasa Second Language (TESL) in newer projects such as Namibia The language learning and teaching theory you will find in...
... French, English, Hindi, Portuguese and several other languages have developed a major international role asalingua franca, in limited areas of the world The prospect that alinguafranca might ... such as East Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe – areas where English has traditionally had a relatively low presence The issues are beginning to be addressed – for example, many Australian ... out, and gives it a cosmopolitan character which many see as an advantage for a global language From a lexical point of view, English is in fact far more a Romance than a Germanic language And...
... games as teaching approaches and a learning activity, activities strategies (e.g., an informal that involve asking questions classroom atmosphere, active of a teacher) learning, use of games as ... understand main ideas in visually supported oral presentations containing familiar vocabulary – participate in sustained oral discussions and presentations in small groups – identify main ideas and ... English- speaking peers are available on a regular basis; • mistakes are accepted asa part of learning; • the purpose of various oral communication, reading, and writing tasks is clear to the learner;...