popular culture in teaching scholarship and outreach the simpsons and futurama

... the background, the content, the characters to perform well The more careful the description is, the more successful the drama is Casting: Before casting for the students, teachers can make the ... + What does the thesis need? + Where is the thesis carried out? + When does the thesis carried out? ♦ Experimental method + Select the experimental and controlled group + Introduce the dialogue ... from the students So, in all the classroom now, teachers should play the role of guiders, so they should let students be free to express their ability in the natural way The more learners talk, the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/12/2013, 20:26

Ngày tải lên: 24/11/2014, 02:11

... I: INTRODUCTION The present chapter of the thesis will be dedicated to introducing the basic principles of a thesis including the rationale, the aims of the study as well as the research questions ... part the rationale, the aims, the research questions, the scope, the method and the design of the study are presented Part II: Development: It consists of three chapters Chapter provides the theoretical ... the best English learning skills for their further study and future job It also helps them to develop their communication competence in English in the area they are studying Since 2008, NUAE have...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:42

... summarizes the discussed parts in the paper and some suggestions for further study Consequently, Part I has dealt with the content of the study In the next part, the author will present the focus of the ... said, on the basis of these notes, develops an outline (alone or with the reporter) The reporter is responsible for the presentation to the whole class later on The other members contribute their ... showing the attitudes and the expectations of the 2nd – year student in HPU towards teaching English speaking skill The first section in the chapter reveals the reality and the second deals with the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:51

... (Pilot class) At the end of the first semester, the students were asked to the same test to compare the results All the target words in the achievement test came from the eight units of the textbook ... and the researcher sat together and discussed the problem The researcher and the participants discussed the four questions in the questionnaires for interview The interview was noted down for the ... of the task - There is some kind of purpose or goal set for the task so that learners know what they are expected to achieve by the end of the task - The task should motivate learners, engage their...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:29

... fluently Usually, they produce utterances about their own experiences, their life, and their family… During the production stage, there is a focus on what is said, rather than on the language itself ... mathematic formulas Most of the students cannot apply them into communication because they not know how to use these structures appropriately and they have not practised them enough yet in their ... they have no chance to practise their use, they not stand in front of the choice among these adverbs When being asked to such tasks, the first reaction of the students is usually to look at the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/12/2013, 20:26

... This can help them to be acquainted with the theme and the language relating to the theme From then, the students can speak, listen and write about the things relating to the theme in the next parts ... stage of the lessons They ask their students to make prediction on the basis of the title of the unit, the pictures enclosed the passages, the students' background knowledge about the topic they ... of the tasks are unsuitable for their students They are rather difficult Their students cannot them by themselves So teachers have to simplify or adapt the tasks to make them suitable for the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:43

... exploiting the Indian people, until the soldiers in the company’s army there rebelled, which became a dramatic turn for the fate of the company The rebellion lasted for one year before the British ... of the study The research aims at explaining the growth of popularity of tea in England and its roles in the society of London over the years To be particular, the objectives of the research ... tea culture, as well as an overview of social classes in England and the East India Company, which is necessary for the researcher to explore further into the subject The latter one reviews the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2014, 07:12

... important to them There are no external factors affecting their study On the other hand, their study completely comes from within them, from the inner desire to learn and depends on their own will, ... talk more When I move them to other groups, they seem not to work They say that they would like to work with the friends they like more.” In fact, grouping students who they prefer to work with ... the teachers always have habits of asking their students about what they like in the speaking lesson when the lesson finishes This helps the teachers to get more success in the next lessons The...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:22

... that the utterances disappear before they can sort them out or they can get the message “They are so busy working out the meaning of one part of what they hear that they miss the next part Or they ... and their spoken forms As students listen, they usually apply the skills, the same uses in listening in their mother tongue, predict what they will hear and try to match them with the things they ... consider the factors which Underwood (1989) mentioned: The time, the material is available or not, the interest of the class and the teacher, the place in which the work is being carried out, the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:32

... matched with the schema, then the listeners have succeeded in comprehending the text; if they are not compatible, either the information or the schema will be discarded or modified The principle ... consider the following factors when choosing pre-listening activities: - The time available; - The material available; - The ability of the class; - The interest of the class; - The interest of the ... then "color" the interpretation of the perceived message - The hearer infers the objectives of the speaker through consideration of the type of speech event, the context and content - The hearer...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:33

... become huge in teaching and learning the language in addition to the instructor's role In other words, the role of the instructor together with the role of the technology can lead to advanced ... before the interview, the researcher informed to the participants the aims of the study Each teacher was asked with the same interview questions to get more detail information and the places of the ... teaching ESP in the classroom?" The results from the group discussions during months and the notes taken by the researcher as well as and the 31 answers to the interviews showed that the reasons...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:10

... which presents the rationale, the aims, the research questions, the scope, the methods, and the design of the study Part B is the development which consists of three chapters Chapter is the literature ... families in the remote mountainous villages in the northern provinces They are pure ethnic students, they have their own first language; they often use it to communicate with their parents and other ... text context Each of these ways contains half of the target words in the students‟ L1 and the other half was explained in English The results indicate that the words with the L1 translation were...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:35

... just taught the observed periods Summary In this the first part, the author introduced the thesis with the aims that inspired her to conduct the study as well as the research questions The author ... Most of the students in the school come from farmer families in the remote mountainous villages in the northern provinces They are pure ethnic students, they have their own first language; they ... teach the students the usage and meaning of the words 50 33 17 Linking the word meaning with their mother tongue help students remember the words more easily Other reasons: (Please specify) The...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:00

... Three shows the findings and discussions, the results of the study are shown The Conclusions ends the report with the recapitulation of main ideas, the limitations of the study and the suggestions ... 24 The 6th week: After the intervention, a post-test and a questionnaire were given to the subjects The process of conducting the post-test was the same as for the pretest The analysis of the ... Question in the Questionnaire Before the Intervention The data collected from the table show that 47.5% of the participants reported that the activities in their class did not help them improve their...

Ngày tải lên: 10/07/2015, 14:23

... express themselves freely in the front of the others Besides, the fear of being corrected by other members in the group may also cause the uneasy collaboration and lead to unproductive groups On the ... provide them with activities which involve dialogues and functional use of the language, stating the goal of the activities to the students Fluency in speaking, on the other hand, is the ability ... others to get the job done While some others may dominate the discussion, they may pressure others to confront to their opinions As a result, lazy students become even lazier in group work There...

Ngày tải lên: 19/07/2015, 19:05

... mind by the investigators: * The objective of the task must be stated very clearly * The task must be appropriate for the level of the learners * The task must equip the learners with the ability ... aims of the study, the scope of the study, the research questions and organization of the study Chapter - Literature Review and Theoretical Background Theoretical background related to the topic ... at the secondary school and they used the new English textbooks designed by the MOET There is a fact that most of the students at NSS high school choose to pursue the Natural Science Stream; therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/07/2015, 20:18

... and many are not They have the similar background, that is, they all come from countryside At the time of the study, they were in the first term of the school year 20132014 18 There are teachers ... through real life situation and to make the writers their best, the audience is not only the teachers but the students also become the readers for each other They can respond, rewrite, summarize ... Writing Chapter discusses the method of the study, the research questions, the research design, the data analysis and discussion Part three concludes the major findings of the thesis, offers some implications...

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2015, 17:18

... Definition of popular culture The term popular culture was coined in the 19th century Back to that time, popular culture was associated with poor education and the lower classes, as opposed to the ‘official ... the other with their back to it Then, after turning off the sound, the teacher begins playing the movie The person who can see the screen tells the other person what is happening Then, after a ... Meyer (2012), popular culture is an “amorphous concept” (2012, p.1) and the term popular culture has been defined in numerous ways Mukerji and Schudson view popular culture as the beliefs and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2016, 17:36

... comfortable and they were not pressured Some of them said that this approach made them help the other and learn from each other With the reference to the continuance of the new teaching method in the future, ... about 85% of them wanted the teacher to continue to teach grammar as following the new method Ten percent of them said that they did not like the way the researcher taught them To answer the second ... After discussing the students’ problems in the group, the secretary of the group must write down the advice to each person in the group then the spokesperson reports to the class +Example:...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2017, 15:43