students judgments on difficulties in using eap

... speaking involves two kinds of routines in the process of communicating They are information routines and interactional ones Information routines may be described to involve two sub-routines: expository ... evaluation The former includes description, narration, comparison and instruction The latter consists of explanation, prediction, justification, preference and decision Interaction routines are routines ... much on sequences of kinds of term 18 occurring in typical kinds of interactions such as telephone conversation, interview conversations casual encounters, conversations at parties, lessons,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:01

... communication vehicle among people This activity, in the past few decades, has developed because of rising international trade, increasing migration, globalization, the recognition of linguistics minorities, ... poison However, in English these are clear distinction as follow: Drink beer/ water/ wine/ coffee Take medicine/ poison  ( Painkiller – by FREESTYLERS ) “ I'm reaching in my cupboard for a painkiller ... language text, analyzing it in order to determine its meaning, and then reconstructing this same meaning using the lexicon and grammatical structure which are appropriate in the receptor language...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:48

... quickly in order to find a particular point of information” In contrast with skimming, scanning is far more limited since it only means retrieving needed information This kind of reading is widely ... recommendations to reduce the students difficulties in reading English for EEE and improve the teaching and learning of English for EEE 4.1 Increasing students reading interest and motivation According ... phrases without dictionary: Using structural formation and using context clues + Using structural formation: The meaning of new words can be worked out by referring to their information such as suffixes...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33

... the difficulties in finding, evaluating and integrating references in doing secondary research of second English majors at Hanoi University It is obvious that using references in doing secondary ... Based on this numbers, we can focus on the difficulties of finding materials in Hanu’s library and on the Internet To be more specific, we categorize difficulties into printed sources (mainly in ... first things we figure out about difficulties in finding references are time consuming When being asked about time, 20 of 30 respondents answer that they spend much their time on finding references,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 01:20

... listening skills • Speaking: asking-answering, presenting the topics given; using daily communication species: asking and giving opinions, instructions, asking directions, and so on • Reading: ... and students attitudes to listening teaching and learning The very beginning part of the questionnaire focused on finding all information about teachers and students viewpoints in listening ... qualification of tasks attracts 44% who did not know whether it is boring or interesting Question 6: In your opinion, which factors have influenced in students motivation and interest in listening...

Ngày tải lên: 05/02/2014, 22:02

... Students expectations in material Table 7: Students expectation in methodology PART I: INTRODUCTION Rationale Owing to the ongoing process of regional and global integration in Vietnam, the demand ... language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method are based on the learners reasons for learning” For Hutchinson and Waters, starting point in determining appropriate input for ESP ... research including Reading and reading comprehension, ESP reading and problems in learning ESP reading 3 Chapter discusses the present situation of teaching and learning reading English in Faculty...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:27

... are conventional ways of presenting information: Information routines and interactional routines He explained informational routine recurring types of information structures, including stories; ... another definition on speaking He considered speaking is “an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and meaning and processing information, it is often spontaneous ... descriptions of places and people; presentation of facts; comparisons; instructions Meanwhile, interactional routines are routines based not so much on information content as on sequences of kinds...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:27

... exam yesterday In inversion of second conditional sentences, adverbial clauses of second condition containing were in subordinate clause is often introduced without any conjunction It refers to ... subjunctive mood is used in the following circumstances: 10 a In conditional clauses implying a negative or in clauses in which the condition is combined with reality In second conditional sentences, ... subjunctive In an object clause In the second type conditional In clause beginning with “If only” and In “Only if” the past In clauses with subjunctive conjunctions “as if”/“as though” In clause...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:34

... NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES TRẦN THÁI SƠN A STUDY ON SECOND-YEAR NAVIGATION STUDENTS Difficulties IN LEARNING ... 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 ... Materials 11 1.4.3 Pronunciation and 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...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:36

... 10-12 months The remaining students have a minimum of one month and a maximum of months for getting to know TOEFL IBT Question What is your opinion of writing skill? Figure 5: Learners’ opinions ... interviews, students also express their concerning about activities motivating them to write These include group discussion before writing, writing in pairs in class, creating an online writing ... relation to the relevant information presented in the reading, but it may have minor omission, inaccuracy, vagueness, or imprecision of some content from the lecture or in connection to points...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:15

... groups in class in order that students can have chance to help each other in learning In addition, in teaching listening skill, teacher should explain content or supply information of the lesson ... involve one person interviewing another person for personal or detailed information The lower secondary school English teachers were interviewed in this study They were asked to give opinions on the ... important part in the learning and teaching process However, as I mentioned above, there are a lot of constraints in using the current textbook Therefore, an investigation into the difficulties...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:35

... thesis which contains six main points: place of pronunciation in oral communication and foreign language learning, preliminary considerations in teaching pronunciation, pronunciation teaching methodologies, ... little attention 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 ... communication 4.1.1.4 Students evaluation on difficulties in learning English pronunciation With regards to the difficulties in learning English pronunciation (Q4), it is interesting To find that...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:04

... Definition of reading As in learning a foreign language in general and learning English in particular, reading is considered the most skill of the four ones to ensure students in mastering second ... Interpreting texts by going outside it - Identifying the main point or important information in a piece pf discourse - Distinguishing the main ideas from supporting details - Extracting salient points ... complete the text in reading lesson? is given to both teachers and students And this is the result for this question: In reading lesson, students Teachers’ opinion Students opinion complete the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 10:36

... It only changes its distribution in the syntactic structure For example, dog dogs, cheap - cheaper, speak - spoke The inflections may show some variation in spelling and pronunciation so that inflections ... are two kinds of derivational affixes in English: class changing and class maintaining Class maintaining derivational affixes not change the word class of the word but change the meaning of the ... motivating The interviews with students were conducted in Vietnamese In order to get the faithful information, the interviewees were encouraged to take part in the interviews III.4.3 The students' ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:45

... their own solutions III.2 Suggestions III.2.1 Suggestions for overcoming the difficulties in teaching grammar communicatively a Training and retraining teachers in CLT b Redefining students role ... role c Changing students attitude towards learning English d Improving students motivation in learning grammar e Encouraging students participation in class activities f Correcting students ... Chapter III: Findings and suggestions III.1 Findings III.1.1 Difficulties faced by the students in learning grammar and their expectations III.1.2 Difficulties faced by the teachers in teaching grammar...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:45

... according to student’s opinion In conclusion, it might be possible that, because of studying English for the secondary school, many students concentrated in Reading as test lesson and also regarding ... learning and using of grammar structure in Reading lesson is not simple for student It is raised the opinion that we should asses again the TOEIC Reading teaching: Is teaching method interesting? ... Among thousands of individuals taking reading training, in most cases an increase in rate was accompanied by an increase in comprehension and a decrease in rate brought decreased comprehension...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:53

... passive voice in each of the language will be made to give readers certain background information about this interesting language phenomenon In the second part, several contrastive points will be ... sentence and second, because the actor is not mentioned, the action itself gets the focus of the information In our daily world we can mainly find two reasons why the actor is not mentioned in a sentence ... Study The linguistic contrast in our thesis is intended to be description-induced and comparison-induced rather than data-induced A number of materials on grammar, notably on passive voice are...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:03

... of difficulties when translating news in general and news in brief, in particular This paper focused on finding some difficulties facing students in translating news in brief Some suggestions ... translation in the change of form while the meaning is remained Accordingly, there are two main types of translation basing on form and meaning; the form based one and the meaning based one.( Larson, ... (Larson, 1984) 1.1.2.2 Meaning Based Brian G Rubchecht in Ten Concepts Students Should Understand Prior to Enrolling in a University Translation or Interpretation Class said, “One of the main goals...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:03

... Increasing students reading interest and motivation 4.1.1 Making ESP interesting 64 64 64 4.1.1.1 .Using visual aids in teaching reading 65 4.1.1.2 Diverstifying reading activities 67 4.1.2 Raising ... LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Reading and reading comprehension 8 2.1.1 Definition of reading 2.1.2 Reading comprehension 2.1.3 Factors involved in reading comprehension 11 2.2 Reading difficulties for foreign ... motivation, consisting of curiosity in learning about a particular topic of interest, the pleasure gained from being engaged in reading interesting materials, and the challenge in learning complex...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:03