... people (Ha Tinh Information Portal, 2005), Ha Tinh province is located in the Northern Central region of Vietnam with ten districts and two provincial towns At the time of data collection, Ha Tinh ... 156 6.1.1 Retention and omission of textbook activities 157 6.1.2 Adapting activities 167 6.1.3 Adding and replacing activities 173 6.2 Classroom practices ... of the writing lesson 150 Table 6.1: Overview of teachers’ planning sessions 157 Table 6.2: The activities retained in planning for reading lessons 158 Table 6.3: Activities retained...
... semistructured to provide interviewees with flexibility while offering interviewers adequate power and control over the interview 24 There are main questions in the interview for teachers and ... stimulating their motivation by giving incentive marks in class From the interview: When asked about suggestions to design tasks Two teachers advised that the role of teachers in ESP class via task- ... activities are given to achieve certain goals of the lesson In other words, teachers try to design various activities for getting learners’ involvement to reach purposeful objectives So are activities...
... may involve skimming, scanning, predicting, activating general knowledge, making inferences, following references, and separating main ideas from supporting ideas” (cited in Brantmeier 2002:1) ... considers reading involving the reader, the text and the interaction between the reader and the text However, there are still different points of views on what reading is So far, these views are often ... lower-level processes and “all have in common a viewing of the fluent reader as being actively engaged in hypothesis testing as he proceeds though text” (Stanovich, 1980: 34) In top-down models “higher...
... FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT VIETNAM MARITIME UNIVERSITY BY IMPLEMENTING TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING NÂNG CAO KĨ NĂNG ĐỌC CHO SINH VI N NĂM THỨNHẤT TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC HÀNG HẢI VI T NAM THÔNG QUA VI C ỨNG DỤNG ... questionnaire survey (Vietnamese version) XVI Appendix 6: Pre – treatment test XIX Appendix 7: Post – treatment test XXIII vi LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND ABBREVIATION TABLES PAGE ... 11: Activities students like doing in pre-task phase Figure 12: Activities students like doing in during-task phase Figure 13: Activities students like doing in post-task phase ABBREVIATIONS...
... component in the language classroom because they provide better contexts for activating learner acquisition processes and promoting L2 learning They also provide the basis for an entire language curriculum, ... task stage which incorporates the activities like reporting, conscious-raising and repeating the task The post - task is formfocused as in the Willis model Review of Issues in the Implementation ... settings has not yet been convincingly demonstrated due to institutional factors, classroom factors and teacher development The review also reveals that whilst there is a body of research evidence...
... in AOF IV An overview of the rest of the paper The rest of the paper includes parts as follows: Part B: Development Chapter – Theoretical Background and Literature review – provides the background ... fact, there have been some studies on application of TBLT in ESP so far in many countries including Vietnam , yet they only focused on certain aspects such as effectiveness, syllabus design etc Students ... class In addition, some pedagogical techniques to overcome the problems or disadvantages will be provided as suggestions for TBLT application in the same context In brief, the researcher expects to...
... approach, in improving the students’ reading skills through the research work entitled: “Improving reading skills for the first – year students at Vietnam Maritime University by implementing task – ... Reading Process In Carrell, Devine, and Eskey, eds 1988 22–36 22 Smith, F (1985) Reading Cambridge: CUP 23 Stanovich, K E 1980 Toward an Interactive-Compensatory Model of Individual Differences in The ... function of action research is to facilitate the reflective cycle and in this way provide an effective method for improving professional action” (Wallace, 1997, p 16) Firstly, the researcher used two...
... education system influences Vietnam greatly Vietnam has been putting in great efforts into improving its education systems by allowing foreign investments on education in Vietnam Kinder World International ... regions, but is not uniform in rural provinces At the end of grade 12, all students are required to write a leaving examination held by Province's education service The examination tests students ... educational institutions are increasingly open in Vietnam Most of their fields are English language and information technology Vietnam is currently revisiting its education system It recognized the...
... high school and some suggested activities to help students learn better (khảo sát vi c dạy học từ vựng tiếng anh trờng thpt cửa lò số hoạt động gợi ý giúp học sinh học tốt hơn) graduation thesis ... explained by mime For example: we can act out some home activities such as eating, drinking or school activities such as listening, reading, writing, etc 1.5.1.3 Pictures Bringing a pen into the classroom ... A Study on using Visual Aids to teach Grammar to the 10th form students at Nghi Loc III high school Vinh - 2011 Bựi Yn Nhi - 48A English Foreign Languages Department vinh university foreign...
... Continental divide game Van Huyck, Cook and Battalio (1997) studied a coordination game with multiple equilibria and extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, which we call the continental divide ... not hard to spot likely deviations and counterexamples Until recently, most of the experimental literature consisted of documenting deviations (or successes) and presenting a simple model, usually ... power than those models in many games (adjusting for complexity, of course) Consequently, fEWA can serve as an empirical device for nding the behavioral resting point as a function of the initial...
... psychological evidence and ‘humanistic’ approaches • between the priorities of the professionals/service providers and service users • between managers and frontline staff (Marsh and Fisher 2005; Whittington, ... develop skills in accessing, evaluating and applying research-based evidence is twofold First, these skills provide a systematic and reviewable approach to improving both the content of assessment ... variety of professional views may be needed and that they should be sought in a manner that avoids the service user having to repeat information to different service providers or professionals...
... participant took part in three videos, playing the interviewer, child and as a monitor Reviewing the taped interviews provided immediate feedback to participants about their interviewing style, as well ... client’s needs.16 The involvement of service users at Kings involved far more than issuing an invitation to local service user groups Service user groups were invited to nominate members who could ... to actually conducting assessments, it has been argued that supervision is crucial for those new to making assessments52 in that supervision can provide a forum for articulating and challenging...
... ahead “开绿灯” is likened to not preventing others’ action and providing convenience Mainly used in preventing bad action, even illegal activity Also used in supporting useful action 【情景1】丁卫与外国朋友拉西姆一起看完电视新闻,又开始了议论。 ... drink the northwest wind, is likened to living on air, having nothing to eat , It is mainly used to remind people of preparing for cost of living or having a job and income 【情景1】外国留学生尤龙约中国朋友郑义民去旅行。 ... repeating (3) VIDEO STORIES Name: (for free) http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/chinastories/video_stories/liu_xiao How to use: Go straight on to the website Introduction: This website provides...
... working toward understanding and possibly resolving these problems by setting goals and creating and initiating a plan of action, as well as reflecting on the degree to which the plan work At another ... Chapter 1: Literature review not only deals with an overview of background to the study, including key concepts and theories to the research topic but also discusses previous studies of the field ... Disciplines of lexicography Lexicography is divided into two related disciplines: Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries Theoretical lexicography...
... have the overall purpose of facilitating language learning- from simple and brief exercise type, to more complex and lengthy activities such as group problem- solving or simulations and decision- ... really a special form of technique e.g problemsolving task/ technique In other cases, several techniques may comprise a task e.g a problem-solving task includes grammatical explanation, teacher ... 1981,citedby Nunan,1990) • According to David Nunan (1989), TASK includes the following elements; • • • • • • input data- verbal or non-verbal an activity- derived from input & what students are...
... scopes, the methodology and the organization of the study Chapter II, Literature Review, provides issues relating to Reading, Reading comprehension and Task- based language teaching in Reading ... students’ receptive knowledge of the language and in terms of classroom activities, it is also an effective way of stimulating students to talk and write As we read, we go back to the time, pass ... Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Among these skills, reading is an important one because it does not only help students develop other language skills, but also provide them knowledge on the target...
... teachers used in your vocabulary lesson? a b c d Very interesting and useful Rather interesting and useful Interesting and useful Uninteresting and useless How could your classmates help you to learn ... Games can provide language practice Games encourage learners to interact and communicate with one another Games can motivate learners by bringing fun to classes Games are highly motivating because ... Intermediate level learn vocabulary more effectively? Part two: Development Chapter one: Literature review 1.1 Vocabulary 1.2 Vocabulary in language teaching and learning 1.3 Approaches to language...
... (EACL), pages 353–360 Andrew Gargett, Konstantina Garoufi, Alexander Koller, and Kristina Striegnitz 2010 The GIVE-2 corpus of giving instructions in virtual environments In LREC Michael A K Halliday ... realisation (SR) They provide the observation sequence to the HMMs The HMMs represent generation spaces for surface realisation An example HMM, representing the generation space of ‘destination’ instructions, ... ‘process’, ‘destination’),2 what is the most likely sequence of words corresponding to the symbols? Figure provides a graphic illustration of this idea We treat states as representing words, and...