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... by Vietnamese learners of English is still a gap in the literature which needs to be filled to gain a better understanding of learners interlanguage in general, and of Vietnamese learners of English ... (7 males and 13 females) These are subjects of convenience They come from different countries: Australia (9), England (3), the United States (3), Canada (2), New Zealand (2), and Ireland (1) 3.3 ... act of refusal to requests and refusals to invitation in English and Vietnamese, Phan (2001) and Dang (2006) 5 Kwon (2004) examines the refusal expressions in Korean and American English She used...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:31

... help learners have an over view and avoid confusing when facing it I hope that my study can be useful for learners of English in identifying and understanding more about varieties of English and ... ―analyse‖ and ―analyze‖ Eg: ―centre‖ and ―center‖ ―ze‖ vs ―se‖ ―re‖ vs ―er‖ Double consonants Eg: ―install‖ and ―install‖ Eg: ―sulphur‖ and ―sulfur‖ Eg: ―liveable‖ and ―livable‖ Eg: ―licence‖ and ―license‖ ... (66%), Finland (60%), Slovenia (56%), Austria (53%), Belgium (52%), and Germany (51%) Norway and Iceland also have a large majority of competent Englishspeakers 12 Books, magazines, and newspapers...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 16:47

... are verbs of the sentence, and we call them antonymous verbs Similarly, these pairs of antonyms are antonymous verbs (bring and take, live and die, open and close, weep and laugh are antonyms on ... polysemantic word groups and explain their antonyms in different situations With the difficulties I myself can not solve, I discussed with my teachers and friends and asked for their advice and instructions ... early seen unknow and known too late (Hoang Tat Truong, 2005:84) In the example, there are three pairs of antonyms: love vs hate early vs late and known and unknow Love vs hate and known vs unknown...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 09:17

... assessments, meets the standards of The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.15 For assessments, evidence of reliability that meets The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing ... Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School April 2014 Panel Research Staff Scott Baker (Chair) Executive Director, Center on Research and Evaluation, Southern ... Teaching academic content and literacy to English learners in elementary and middle school (NCEE 2014-4012) Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE),...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2013, 16:09

... at a table on your own A woman comesand sits at the sametable and ,volrstart chatting After a while you notice that shc has very big hands,rather a deepvoice and obviouslyshaves You have offered ... and wanted a facelift I told her to come back and seeme in 15 years." The averageage for patientsundergoingplastic surgeryover the last year was 32, down from 34 just the year before.In Englandrecently,a ... refugeeswere arriving this morning and there was nowhereelse for them to go We very much hope the villagerswill welcome them and accept them into the assistance these peopleand come hereas genuineasylum...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 16:20

... all published Visibooks and post your name in the Acknowledgements of the next edition Trademarks and Disclaimer Visibooks™ is a trademark of Visibooks, LLC All brand and product names in this ... through Windows Explorer, creating folders and becoming familiar with file extensions You should also practice using the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands in a standard word processing program When you ... the new page 28 Create e-mail and external links 31 Create an e-mail link 31 Link to an external site 33 Insert and align graphics 34 Capture a...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 12:15

... imperative mood, learners may make mistakes that make the recipient may misunderstand the meanings of language Thus, it’s necessary for learners to grasp imperative mood to use it naturally and effectively ... imperative mood and some errors that learners often make Due to lack of experience and knowledge, this study can not avoid making mistakes Therefore, your truthful comments are very useful and important ... “now” are all stressed, and the tone falls on “now” 4.2 Giving a command Also known as the imperative form, commands are very easy to use Begin the sentence with a verb and end with an object,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:51

... Using these prepositions accurately the listeners and the readers will understand direction and goal we express and they will not misunderstand Besides, through this study you can know prepositions ... place Chapter III : Some errors made by Vietnamese learners, findings 30 and implication Some errors made by Vietnamese learners 30 Findings and implication 35 PART III: CONCLUSION APPENDIX REFERENCES ... limitation of time and knowledge, I have no ambition of covering all kinds of preposition and research errors made by learners of all countries in the word, but only prepositions of direction and some...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:53

... subjunctive mood and their uses and examples In this way, the learners and the readers easily understand use subjunctive mood properly Furthermore, based on some related problems and suggested recommendations, ... help learners to have a thorough understanding and usage of this topic, some suggested solutions and exercises are introduced in the last chapter I hope these will be helpful and useful for learners ... time and the range of study, I just concentrate on subjunctive mood – one kind of mood, and some errors made by Vietnamese learners, and how to solve these errors Due to lack of knowledge and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:53

... the learning and teaching of 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 ... Ehrman (1990) and Chamot et al (1987) find the differences in both the range and the frequency of strategies use between learners of different levels, favoring professional linguists and learners ... gender and strategy use have come to mixed conclusions Ehrman and Oxford (1989) and Oxford and Nyikos (1989) discovered distinct gender differences in strategy use The study by Green and Oxford...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 00:23

... other situations P may vary while D and R are constant or R may vary and P and D constant etc 1.2.3 Indirectness and politeness It is believed that indirectness and politeness are closely related ... roles They also observe that P, D and R are independent variables in the sense that in some situation P and R are, for instance, constant and have small values and only the expression of D varies ... teaching and learning English in Vietnam This study once again emphasizes the need to pay more attention to the teaching and learning of pragmatics in Vietnam in general and the teaching and learning...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:36

... 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 ... 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 ... relationships between achievement and school and family variables, to reinforce the call for high academic standards and educational reform, and to argue for system and school accountability The...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 09:20

... careful, progressive and systematic training, and from practice and language use Conclusion This study has compared several intonational features of Vietnamese and those of English, and provided some ... classrooms and self-paced or self-directed learning - Create classroom exercises which promote learners cognitive ability to correct both themselves and their peers - Employ both perception and production ... mature, casual, standard, and good (according to Joos’s criteria) Vietnamese is used as the native language and English as the target language The Vietnamese word structure and the Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... LIBLINEAR 1.89 and a CRF and a MAXENT model with CRF++ 0.54.10 We use the default parameters for each toolkit In every method, we use the same features and feature described in Section 3, and use T-correction ... Results Figures and show the Precision-Recall curves of the error detection and correction performance of each model The figures are grouped by error types: tense, aspect, and both tense and aspect ... context: the relation between target and preceding/following verb phrases In this paper, we formulate the task as sequence labeling, and use Conditional Random Fields (Lafferty, 2001), which...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... Content Standards L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 Recognizing vocabulary Understanding imperatives, instructions and requests Interpreting grammatical structures Understanding conversation Understanding non-face-to-face ... board Put learners in pairs (or leave as a whole group) Read the story aloud again Ask learners to ask and answer the questions orally from the board To give learners practice understanding non-faceto-face ... second time while learners arrange the pictures in order Read the text aloud a third time so learners can check their work and make any revisions Hand out the uncut photocopies so learners can check...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 07:20

... improvement: cost, color and design and clarity and reception CORRECT: The new cell phone design has three areas of improvement: cost, color and design, and clarity and reception  comma The ... the information changes whether the sandwich was eaten before or after the person went home EXAMPLE A) I went home and ate a sandwich B) I ate a sandwich and went home Many students in Korea ... provided the transmission bandwidth is large enough and the distance between a base station and mobiles is short The words those restrictions summarizes the bandwidth and distance restrictions...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 08:20

... experiences and knowledge as English language learners in methods courses that we teach in teacher education programs in the United States We both were born and raised in Poland, and share our ... English language learners need encouragement and praise We must be honest and sensitive and, every time they convey a valid answer or input, we should share these with the class and give them credit ... English language learners spend most of their academic life with teachers who speak only English and who are not prepared to fully understand their varying needs as English language learners In order...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 08:20

... Asian/Pacific Islander, and 1.3% Black Further, changing demographics and growing numbers of English language learners are placing increased demands on the resources of schools and the expertise ... 2/2/07, 11:21 AM OLSON AND L AND A Cognitive Strategies Approach to Reading and Writing Planning and Goal Setting • Developing procedural and substantive plans • Creating and setting goals • Establishing ... Vaughn and Klinger (2004) Exploring promising practices for ELLs and the link between literacy instruction and language development, other researchers, such as Wong Fillmore (1986), Anderson and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 19:20