... different path-
ways to achieving these outcomes.
Who are learners of Englishasasecond
language?
Standard Australian English is the national language
of Australia and it is essential that all ... asecond
language in child care or family day care.
Children learningEnglishasasecondlanguage
need explicit modelling and language teaching, ap-
propriate time to acquire the new language ... for Englishasasecondlanguage and Multicultural Education
Interpreting and translating services
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Columbia. 2. Englishlanguage Study and teaching asasecondlanguage -
Standards - British Columbia. I. British ... demonstrates awareness that pages are
read left to right and top to bottom, and
that books are read front to back
uses pictures, patterns, and print to
attempt toread
begins to develop a ... Education
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ENGLISH ASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDS
Introduction
Definition of an ESL Student ENGLISHASASECOND LANGUAGE
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students are those whose primary
language( s), or language( s)...
... begin to adapt toa variety of
teaching strategies used in a
Canadian classroom
– begin to respond to social
situations appropriately
– begin to work with a partner
on a common academic task
– call ... with a partner on a
common academic task
– begin to adapt toa variety
of teaching approaches and
strategies used in a Canadian
classroom
– respect other cultures
– participate with increasing
comfort ... increasing
confidence toa variety of
teaching approaches and
strategies (e.g., an informal
classroom atmosphere, active
learning, the use of games
as alearning activity, activities
that involve...
... They enjoy analyzing the structures
of English, taking the language apart and putting it back together again. They appreciate a
straight-up approach to grammar, explaining the rules and also the ... not learning how to communicate, how to take
ownership of English, to tolerate the ambiguities of language learning. They couldn't use the
language to say what was on their minds. They had ...
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 aids reinforce your instruction,...
... world spread. Indeed,
such factors cannot even guarantee survival asa living language –
as is clear from the case of Latin, learned today asa classical
language by only a scholarly and religious
few. ... Indian languages of Canada and the
USA, and some of the Celtic languages. Although often too late,
in certain instances the decline of alanguage has been slowed, and
occasionally (as in the case ... Italy, and India is at present practicable only if a com-
mon language is available. A situation where a Japanese company
director arranges to meet German and Saudi Arabian contacts in
a Singapore...
... online learning. As
a 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, ... (2001) states that “the ability to express one’s ideas in writing in asecond
or foreign language and to do so with reasonable coherence and accuracy is a major
achievement; many native speakers ... expected to write well-
organised five-paragraph essays, consisting of an introductory paragraph, three
paragraphs as the body and a concluding paragraph. This course was delivered entirely
in English...
... indicated that vocabulary and grammar
accuracy appear to be complementary and are possible to be classified under a single
rubric (Banerjee, Franceschina, & Smith, 2007). Such a proposal ... holistic approach to scoring writing would be more practical
than a very analytical, pedantic approach. Also, Mickan and Slater (2003) took issue
with the analytic scale since, as they claimed, ... (Shaw &
Falvey, 2008); for example, it was agreed to separate the SSV criterion into
vocabulary and grammar. Also, the CC was found to be the most difficult area for
raters to score. The second...
... an alternative, automatic or semi-automatic ac-
quisition methods have been proposed to tackle
the bottleneck. For example, Agirre et al. (2001)
tried to automatically extract topic signatures ... the assumption that mappings of words
and meanings are different in different languages.
Gale et al. (1992) proposed a method which au-
tomatically produces sense-tagged data using par-
allel ... Peo-
ple’s Daily On-line
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, which is the website for Peo-
ple’s Daily, one of the most influential newspaper
in mainland China. It maintains a vast database
of news stories, available to search by...
... (letters or radicals)
Learning toRead Chinese
(Van and Zian, 1962)
Starts with learningtoread characters
Three stages
Relate sound/meaning to global shape of
character
Associate sound/meaning ... orthographies really are well
suited for the languages
Each orthography has its advantages and
disadvantages that balance each other out
Perhaps switching to an alphabetic system
in China would ... general information and
verbal memory is a good predictor of ability
to read Chinese and Japanese
Differences appear to be related to the
differences in orthography
Comparison
Similarities
Learning...