... insufficient investment in preparing the lessons. In summary, we can see from the findings that the interview can really provide in depth the information about the reality of speaking teaching ... speaking teaching at school, their assessment of the speaking lessons inEnglish 10”, their opinions on the criteria for a good speaking lesson, and their feeling after speaking lessons. The ... been learning English since they started at the lower secondary school. Being a teacher of a high school, within my minor thesis, I would like to investigate the reasons of the students’ inhibition...
... poem. Reading aloud inhibits most pupils and forces them to concentrate on what they are saying as opposed to what they are reading and the meaning is very often lost.Writing In primary schools, ... to predict the general content of the text. Discuss the subject and ask questions to elicit language and to stimulate the pupils' interest inthe text before they begin reading. Also make ... sure that the pupils understand the essential vocabulary they need to complete the task before they begin to read.3. While the children are readingthe text, move around the class providing support...
... of reading into reading aloud and silent reading in terms of reading manner and skimming, scanning, extensive reading, and intensive readingin terms of reading purposes. Last comes inthe ... inthe book “Streamline English – Destination”?a. very interestingb. interestingc. rather interestingd. boring2. What do you think of the length of thereading text inthe book “Streamline ... extensive reading is associated with reading outside the classroom and fluency and pleasure in reading are expected as reading fruits while intensive reading, also called study reading, involves the...
... for Reading Interest and 3.1. Techniques for Reading Interest and MotivationMotivation3.1.1. Making EnglishReading Fun3.1.1. Making EnglishReading Fun3.1.2. Making EnglishReading ... Reading of contrasting texts Reading of contrasting texts Summarizing the textSummarizing the text Reading- based speaking and writing topics Reading- based speaking and writing ... on the Nature of Reading 1.1. An Overview on the Nature of Reading 1.1.1. Definition of Reading 1.1.1. Definition of Reading 1.1.2. Reading comprehension1.1.2. Reading comprehension1.1.3. Reading...
... According to purposes, reading is categorized into intensive reading, extensive reading, skimming and scanning. In terms of intensive reading, Francoise Grellet defined that “Intensive reading ... readingskills such as distinguishing the main idea of a text from the detail, finding pronoun referents, or guessing the meaning of unknown words. In terms of extensive reading, readingin ... improving reading skills, roles of reading teachers and those of reading students, readingin ESP teaching and learning.Chapter II is a close look at present teaching and learning reading English...
... strengthen the bottom line, and employees are better able to succeed inthe workplace when their literacy skills improve. These findings are significant for both business and individuals. Inthe ... The findings contained in this Conference Briefing and inthe forthcoming research report, to be released in summer 1997, show that employers enhance the performance of their businesses in a ... reflects the greater probability of finding full- time work, the greater probability of being employed, and the increased likelihood of receiving training. These factors result in average annual income...
... Which of the following languageskills are/were most emphasized? A. ListeningB. Reading C. SpeakingD. WritingE. Listening and speakingF. Reading and writingG. Listening, reading, speaking, ... to the four statements.(A) They’re leaving the room.(B) They’re turning on the machine.(C) They’re standing near the table.(D) They’re readingthe newspaper.Statement (C), “They’re standing ... often?A. ListeningB. Reading C. SpeakingD. WritingE. Listening and speakingF. Reading and writingG. Listening, reading, speaking, and writing 10. How often has difculty with English affected...
... by defining the strategy for the students, explaining specifically how it would help themcomprehend the oral input, and modeling the use of the strategy by doing athink-aloud while listening ... thus, still inthe process ofdeveloping their Englishlanguage proficiency via instruction in their English as a Second Language (ESL) class. Unfortunately, instruction in effectivelistening strategies ... that the two kinds of processing complement each other andshould be balanced in listening instruction. Accordingly, both bottom-up andtop-down listening instruction was provided inthe training...
... Although in- corporation of this information reduced the num- ber of possible parses, the processing time in- creased because of the addition of the link nodes in the grammar. 2 Constraint Grammar ... the system assigns all of the possible roles the words can have by applying the lexical constraints (which specify legal word categories) and allowing the word to modify all the remaining ... words inthe sentence or no words at all. Each of the arcs in the network has associated with it a matrix whose row and column indices are the roles that the words can play inthe sentence. Initially,...
... class C inthe de-ceptive corpus D is then defined as the ratio be-tween the coverage of the class inthe corpus Dwith respect to the coverage of the same class in the corpus T :DominanceD(C) ... their opinion about the topic. First, they wereasked to prepare a brief speech expressing theirtrue opinion on the topic. Next, they were askedto prepare a second brief speech expressing the ... as test. The results are shown in Ta-ble 3. Although below the in- topic performance, the average accuracy is still significantly higherthan the 50% baseline, indicating that the learningprocess...
... However, the readings that most people obtain for these sentences are quite different. In (1), the reading in which "a" has wider scope is highly preferred; in (3), thereadingin which ... they are inserted into the store in inverse order of preferencc c.g., the qterm that has narrowest-scope preference appears at the front of the list representing the forest. In implementing ... determiners and for these to be used in ascertaining which determiner has wide- scope preference. The properties currently em- ployed are surface position (the integer index of the determiner)...