... considering its following benefits to studentsof any level when it comes to improving both their receptive skills and their productive skills because the majority of mistakes made by students are collocation ... knowledge of collocations enhances students more fluent use of their second language Proof for this is found in Sung‟s study of international students in the USA, which reveals that knowledge of lexical ... like few knowledge or much hours Lack of knowledge of collocational properties: Many students not have an understanding of the collocational properties of a word To make it clearer, they not...
... higher-level skills as the prediction of meaning by means of context clues or certain kinds of background knowledge at the expense of such lower skills as the rapid and accurate identification of lexical ... follows: To help students understand the texts better (90% of respondents) To improve students enjoyment of the text (80% of respondents) To help students be aware of the language they ... reading skills ………………………………………………12 v 1.3 Teachers and studentsperceptionsof reading strategy training…………………………13 1.3.1 Definition of perception………………………………….……………………….… 13 1.3.2 Teachers and students ...
... second place) 29 11 % of the students put ways of organization at the first place in the list of difficulties 22% think the forms are the most challenging The minority ofstudents (7%) believes ... (Question for students) Contrary to our expectation, most of the students try to sort out their problems in learning writing without the help of their teachers While only 32% of the students ask ... the development of process approach has brought a range ofbenefits to teachers and students (Tribble, 1996: 40) According to Graham Stanley (2007:16), although there are many ways of approaching...
... INTRODUCTION Rationale of the study Aims of the study Scope of the study Method of the study Contribution of the study Design of the study ... are often obliged by circumstances, such as the amount of time we have at our disposal and the number ofstudents there are in the class, to use some form of written test In some cases, of course, ... teaching of writing by 41.7 % of the teachers The role of motivation was shown in the quality of the writing class while the first language and culture were seen in the students writing Three of twelve...
... writing of other forms and the teaching of other skills are not mentioned here because of lack of time and materials Part B: Development Sentences and paragraphs are the most basic components of an ... skill of teaching writing of teachers and learning writing ofstudents will be improved It is hard to present more within the scope of this study, so the author hope that more aspects of writing ... though II Parts of a paragraph A paragraph is a group of related sentences that develops one main idea, which is the topic of a paragraph A paragraph is made up of three kinds of sentences that...
... set of classroom practices As such, it is most often defined as a list of general principles or features One of the most recognized of these lists is David Nunan’s (1991: 279) five features of ... writing requires a number of things: high degree of organization in the development of ideas and information; high degree of accuracy to avoid ambiguity of meaning; the use of accurate and complex ... Suitable All right Boring Unsuitable N0 ofstudents 16 24 64 39 42 Table 8: Students view of writing tasks % 10.7 16 42.7 26 28 Among 150 students addressed, only 16 students are interested in writings...
... Because of the large crowds In spite of the large crowds Because of the meat shortage In spite of the meat shortage Because of the bad condition of the house In spite of the bad condition of ... understanding about everything The sense of equality, atmosphere of excitement, feeling of the games in students reach, spirit of solidarity, the factors of which help students to ignore their shyness ... member of teams: Team A: 1-a,2-b,3-c,4-d,5-e Team B: 1-a,2-b,3-c,4-d,5-e Students in Numbers Because of the cold weather In spite of the cold weather Because of his illness In spite of his...
... writing skills to 11 grade students in the classroom setting at a high school The study of difficulties of other skills thus would be beyond of the scope The study involves the participants of teachers ... organization of an essay Students learn writing which can not be seen as composed of separate skills, therefore, the teachers have to devise writing tasks that lead students to take notice of organization ... much ofstudents English competence to design a suitable lesson and teaching low proficiency EFL students to write whole text is 16 often fraught with difficulties In order to provide students...
... categories: Students' ability to learn paraphrasing skillsStudents preference and difficulties of paraphrasing Students awareness of, and avoidance of plagiarism Students improvement of paraphrasing ... of other people All of the above 56% 13 14 4.2.1.4 Students Improvement of Paraphrasing Skills 4.2.2 Data Collected from the Diagnostic Test Table 4.4 Students Improvement of Paraphrasing Skills ... 4.2.1.2 Students Preference and Difficulties of Paraphrasing 4.2.1.3 Students Awareness of Plagiarism and Its Avoidance Table 4.2 Students Preference and Difficulties of Paraphrasing Table 4.3 Students ...
... prevent students from the production of ideas Step 2: Students extend ideas into note form Step 3: Students organize ideas and produce an outline Teacher gives out the checklist And then students ... CHARADES GAME: - Students work in small groups of - Teacher asks the students to think of one thing they are allowed or not allowed to at school and write it on a piece of paper - Representatives ... point of view - For many students writing is probably the most boring but the least important of the four skills, so they lack motivation to write - Teachers not have enough time to correct students ...
... prevent students from the production of ideas Step 2: Students extend ideas into note form Step 3: Students organize ideas and produce an outline Teacher gives out the checklist And then students ... - Students discuss in groups the outline of a letter of job - Teacher asks students to give the outline of a application letter of application - Some students give the answers Address and date ... the outline of a book report - Students write the outline of a book report Expected outline: General introduction + the title of the book + the author + type of the book is it Summary of the book’s...
... voice occur less often, but they also show us the students weakness in the use of English language The analysis ofstudents writing shows that vocabulary is also one of the students weaknesses ... to studentsof English include some reasons as follows Firstly, it is reinforcement Most ofstudents gain great benefits from seeing the written language especially the visual demonstration of ... subset of the population by means of cluster sample There are 43 students who are examined and questioned They are at the same age of 19 They come from different parts of Vietnam, but most of them...
... she believes is one of the important aspects of learning writing skills It oftentimes leads students to become lazier as they just rely on the ideas of the author instead of creating their own ... proficiency writer 2.1.3.2 Advantages and disadvantages of model essays 2.1.3.2.1 Advantages As one of powerful strategic tools, model essays offer substantial benefits to both teachers and students ... procedure: provision of time for students analyses and discovery of the model essays, elicitation ofstudents ideas and teachers’ wrap-up This result can be explained from the concept of “learner independence”...
... limited use of authentic materials, overuse of Vietnamese, ineffective activities, students unreal communication, students low English proficiency, in efficacious organization of group work, students ... definitions of grammar are followed by a presentation of different views of grammar and the importance of it in teaching a foreign language 1.1.1 Definition of Grammar There have been many ways of defining ... difficulties 41 are: lack of motivation, low English proficiency, over use of Vietnamese in the activities Over half of the teachers complained that students lack of motivation in class participation...
... Frequency of using tasks in ESP class 4&5 Studentsperceptionsof tasks and features of tasks 6&7 Frequency of types of tasks in class and students preferable types of tasks Organization of task ... Thirdly, it is noteworthy that the sample of the research is restricted to 60 students and 10 teachers in Faculty of Foreign languages in AOF IV An overview of the rest of the paper The rest of the paper ... Table 1: Teachers and Students opinion about ESP Table 2: Teachers and Studentsperceptionsof tasks Table 3: Studentsperceptionsof task features Table 4: Frequency of task types used ESP...
... 93.3% of the students reported that they liked learning English with chants, songs and games 12 of 30 students that take up 40% ofstudents said that they liked the lessons with the use of chants, ... deviation 31 Notes: - Mean or average is the sum of all the elements of a set divided by the number of elements in the set - Median is the middle value of a set If a set consists of odd number of sets, ... shows that students in class 3B seem to get higher scores than class 3A In the class 3A, some of the students have mark three and four that are taken up of 13.3% whereas only 6.7% ofstudents in...
... us, teachers of English, it is very useful to have the software installed It makes easier for us whenever we give tests to students, and whenever we are unsure of the pronunciation of a certain ... efforts to learn Although regrettably, there are often a number of lazy students present in each class I have asked my students to install nice software for pronunciation available on the Internet ... learners of English from the publishing house Oxford University Press or Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary are recommended Nowadays most of our students can use computer and many of them have...