... these difficultiesTo gain these aims, some main objectives were defined as followings: - To find out students attitude towards learning Englishin general and learning English pronunciation in ... attitude towards learning English speaking in general and towards learning English pronunciation in particular The seven questions left were employed to find out whether they had difficultiesin learning ... to intonation Doan Thien Thuat explained that they not pay much attention to intonation because a tone language often has very limited intonation In fact, it has intonation, but the role of intonation...
... brainstorming a topic, narrowing the topic, writing a simple paragraph outline, writing a proper topic sentence, writing supporting sentences, writing concluding sentence, developing the topic in ... with studentsdifficultiesin writing paragraph I hope that the 49 findings might bring about certain changes in the teachers’ strategies of teaching paragraph writing at NEU in order to help students ... and definite the content that the writer is going to inform, etc Working with ideas: Using maps, picture or sketch, etc to ask students brainstorm in order to get ideas After noting down, students...
... reading according to the purposes of reading According to purpose of reading, many researchers categorized reading into four kinds: extensive, intensive, skimming and scanning * Extensive reading ... of difficulties VD D E VE Total score 12 In the area of reading skills a Skimming to get the main ideas 25 48 25 296 b Scanning to get the specific information 22 48 26 288 c Scanning to get interesting ... are readily available in the text The remaining items 12a (Skimming to get the main ideas); 12b (Scanning to get the specific information); 12c (Scanning to get interesting information) and 12i...
... psychological barrier in order to make students freer in speaking class 3.2 .9 Students perception towards the effect of cultural factors to learning to speak English According to Trudgill ( 198 3) language ... Teaching of Speaking to first year studentsin FIT As it has been shown in the last chapter, it is clear that the studentsin FIT encounter difficultiesin learning to speak EnglishIn order to ... itself to total information input, both linguistic and paralinguistic, of one or more interlocutors” (p .9 cited in Nunan ( 199 5, p.226)) As for Canale ( 198 3, p.5) “communicative competence refers to...
... 6% Table 1: Difficultiesinlistening skill 79% never 35 According to the studentslistening skill is the most difficult of all The table shows that the main difficultiesinlistening skill are ... should group weak students and good studentsto work in pairs or groups in class in order that students can have chance to help each other in learning In addition, in teaching listening skill, teacher ... and students seem to be very lazy to speak Englishin class In many cases, in class English, teachers and students both talk in Vietnamese A recent survey of the Ministry of Education and Training,...
... in learning speaking English and speaking ability An exploratory research was also conducted to compare the participants’ extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in learning speaking English and to ... were to collect information about students motivation in learning speaking English, students speaking ability as well as to find out possible ways for enhancing students motivation in learning ... between students motivation in learning speaking English and their speaking ability .62 4.3.2 Findings from the interview on the correlation between students motivation in learning speaking English...
... if/as though when we find the linking verbs to be, to feel, to look, to seem, to sound… .in the principal clause e In attributive clauses modifying the noun time in the principal clause “It is ... expressed by the past indefinite of the indicative mood In the principal clause, we find the analytical subjunctive consisting of the mood auxiliary should or would and the indefinite infinitive Should ... forms in the present subjunctive mood In their mind, they think the verb in this form have to be put in the correct tense In my survey, the English major students rarely made mistakes in this...
... teaching of meaning 14 1.5.2 Encouraging the development of effective strategies 14 1.5.3 Exposing learners to vocabulary through reading and training lexical inferencing 14 1.5.4 Teaching the effective ... Subjects of the study 17 2.4 Data collection instruments 17 2.4.1 Questionnaire 17 2.4.2 Test 17 2.4.3 Interview 18 2.5 Data collection procedure 18 Chapter 3: Data analysis, major findings and suggested ... spelling 12 1.4.4 Prototypes 12 1.4.5 Contextualization 13 1.4.6 Learner autonomy 13 1.5 Strategies to enhance students vocabulary 14 1.5.1 Developing a variety of techniques for the teaching...
... certain ways in teaching and learning vocabulary to help the students overcome these difficulties so that they can be confident not only in learning maritime English vocabulary but also in using ... questionnaire, to take The results of this minor test will help find out the students actual difficultiesin learning maritime English vocabulary Besides, an interview with four other teachers teaching English ... Navigation Studentsto the second-year students is also conducted Each teacher is given four questions and their answers will contribute to consolidating our findings about the studentsdifficulties in...
... product in one language into that of other language keeping content (or meaning) unchanged.” Bao and Thu ( 199 9) defines that “Translation is rendering a written text into another language in the ... meaning and second in term of style.”(Nida & Taber ( 196 9) Hartman and Stork (Newmark, 199 5) also defines that “Translation involves replacing a text in one language by an equivalent text in a ... learning to study and practice more if they want to limit grammar errors in using Englishin general and specially in studying translation subject to become a professional translator 1.5.3 Difficulties...
... ( 199 7) Extensive and Intensive reading in an EAP setting, ESP Journal [5] Carrell Devine and Eskey ( 198 8) Interactive Approaches to second language reading [6] Doff ( 198 8) Teaching: a training ... Principles of language learning and teaching [8] Durkin ( 198 1) Reading comprehension instruction in five basal reader [9] Elias and Ingram ( 197 7) Cultural Components of reading, Publisher: Singapore ... language message, first in term of meaning and second in term of style.”(Nida & Taber ( 196 9) Hartman and Stork (Newmark, 199 5) also define that “Translation involves replacing a text in one language...
... things the teacher explains inEnglish That is the reason why the teacher has to use both English and Vietnamese in lecturing After explaining in English, she has to translate into Vietnamese in ... Matching, Gap-filling Students are asked to guess meaning in context or finding words from context to match or to fill in the blank Matching is the most popular exercise in Task In task 2, to help ... explanation inEnglishIn order to help the students understand the lecture inEnglish easily and maintain their interest in reading class, improvement should be made regarding the teaching method In...
... learning Englishlistening 1) Students' motivation in learning listening *Students' interest inEnglishlistening learning To know how interested students are in learning English listening, let ... 17 3.1.1 Factors affecting students' motivation in learning Englishlistening17 3.1.1.1 Learners- related factors affecting students motivation in learning Englishlistening17 ... factors affecting their motivation inlistening learning - Teachers' opinions about factors affecting their students' motivation inlistening learning - What teachers to motivate students to...
... Definition of listeningTo define listening, theoreticians distinguish listening and hearing Listening involves an active process, which requires an analysis of sounds, in contrast to hearing that ... to actively engage in the activities Underwood ( 198 9: 19) says: “If students find the topic interesting, they will find concentration easier.” That i s , when the listening topic is interesting, ... uneven intonation Students used to the former kinds of listening material may sometimes find the latter difficult to understand Yagang ( 199 4: 190 ) This seems the reason why Underwood ( 198 9: 99 ) criticizes...
... for listening by guiding students some types of ways to approach the listeningtexts such as listening for specific ideas, listening for general ideas, extensive listening and intensive listening, ... listening again the in class” listeningtexts or new listening exercises from internet and other sources They must have extra practice including watching English TV programs, listeningtoEnglish ... Nunan, D& Miller, L.( 199 5) New way in Teaching Listening Illinois: Pantograph Rixon, S.( 199 6) Developing Listening Skills London: Macmillan Richards, J.C &Harper, A, ( 199 5) Listening for it Oxford:...
... should find ways to solve their difficultiesin teaching ELS and stimulate studentsto involve in their listening lessons Question 3: What you think about listening topics and tasks in the textbook? ... 11 students, the objectives are to develop listening comprehensive skills such as intensive listening, extensive listening, listening for specific information, listening for gist, etc 2.2.2 Listening ... 38 4.1.2 Students attitudes towards learning ELS 38 4.1.3 Studentsdifficultiesin learning ELS 39 4.1.4 Teachers’ difficultiesin teaching ELS to grade 11 students 39 4.2 Suggested...
... is listeningtoEnglish songs c The aim of the innovation : - To make listening lessons more interesting - To decrease students tense while listening - To motivate studentsto practice listening ... felt more relaxed while listeningto songs - The students started being interested inEnglish songs - The students liked singing English songs , so they practiced listeningto them more often - ... while listening, make them feel more interested inlistening and enrich their vocabulary INTRODUCTION Listening is one of the four main skills in learning English After many years of teaching at...
... from Nunan, David, 199 9: 226) According to Nunan, David ( 199 9) what are needs to know and be able toin order to speak in another language is to know how to articulate sounds in a comprehensible ... skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) As for Nunan, David ( 199 9) being able to claim knowledge of a second language means being able to speak and write in that language Listening and ... aims ( 198 7:3) Being the importance of teaching speaking to students, the researcher wishes to a research on “How to maximize part-time students involvement inEnglish speaking lessons?” to help...
... TIMES YEAR WINNER 193 0 193 8 195 0 195 4 Uruguay 196 6 11 13 15 16 17 197 8 198 6 199 4 199 8 2002 Uruguay SCORE UP Argentina SCORE HOST COUNTRY France West Germany Netherlands England Argentina Brazil ... opportunities to develop speaking skill inEnglish learning The second reason, in my opinion, is the names of characters and scenes in the text book Students may not be interested in the book since learning ... listed in part 2.4 • Students attitudes towards the role of presentation inEnglish teaching and learning (question – How important is presentation toEnglishtoEnglish learning and teaching?,...