... writing Students spend time organizing, focusing ideas and outlining their writings in groups in this stage Debating This activity involves oral debates where students discuss in groups and ... not speak in English but in Vietnamese, teacher has I 5’ => Teacher leads students to translate student s answer into the lesson “Writing into English about a friend” “She finds solution, finds ... the past tenses and could present the events by themselves, which was often seen as students’ shortcoming However, writing in groups helped to solve the problems in some cases as good students could...
... Characteristics of reading tasks In each unit, three kinds of tasks are designed Each task has its own aim - Task helps the students to understand words or phrases in the passage - Task helps the students ... reading skill is closely related to writing, listening and speaking skills Understanding relations will help learners succeed 1.2.2 The Roles of the Teacher and the Students in a Reading Lesson ... current speaking competence, and difficulties they encountered in learning reading skills 2.2.2 Class Observation The researcher carried out classroom observations by visiting classes in reading...
... finding will reveal teachers’ difficultiesin using supplementary materials to ESP vocabulary teaching to students of Fashion Designing On the basis of these findings, the solutions inteaching ... difficulties faced by ESP teachers and second-year students of Fashion Designing Faculty at NUAE in using teacher- designed materials for ESP vocabulary lessons - suggesting a set of teacher- designed ... investigating the ESP vocabulary teaching to second-year students of teachers at NUAE - investigating the ESP vocabulary learning of second-year students of Fashion Designing at NUAE - finding out difficulties...
... valid assessments of Englishlanguage speaking and writing skills for business The speaking section is composed of 11 tasks and takes approximately 20 minutes to complete The writing section is composed ... employees with high-level speaking and writing As stated in TOEIC Speaking and Writing Examinee Handbook (2009), speaking is assessed by six different kinds of tasks requiring various types of responses, ... researcher designed the questionnaire into two main parts: difficultiesinteaching TOEIC speaking skills in general, difficultiesinteaching different parts of TOEIC speaking test The suggestions were...
... friends, arranging weak students and strong students into groups is very helpful, most of the students want to practise speaking English in class without the teachers control, the teacher needs ... York: University of York Brookfield, S. D., &Preskill, S (1999) Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms San Francisco: JosseyBass Publishers Doff,A.(1988) ... under teachers management, so as to bring innovation in class The focus is on group work in English language classes The specific purpose of the study was to: - evaluate the different roles of teacher...
... words Students also get difficulties with multi – syllabic words, stress ( words stress, sentence stress), pronouncing the last consonants, linking sounds and consonant clusters Hence, students ... lesson needs not only efforts from the teachers and students but also teaching document and facilities I’ve shown some difficultiesinteaching and learning English which occur during my teaching ... also make dificulties to the teacher and students to carry out a listening lesson The consultants and experts should give suitable teaching document and the teachers should use useful methods...
... or based on authentic sources such as real situations in companies, in markets or good examples of successful businessmen The chosen topics are interesting and motivating for those students with ... interviews Question is aimed at investigating teachers’ perception on the LC of the course book “Head for Business” Questions aims at investigating difficulties the teachers are coping with inteaching ... Basing on how the listeners process the input, researchers have classified them into two types of strategies: bottom – up processing and top – down processing Bottom up processing is text based...
... the students III.4.The instruments The study aims to find out teachers' difficultiesinteaching English vocabulary to minor ethnic students, and ethnic students' difficultiesin learning English ... affixes can change the word class of the added item and establish words as members of the various word classes There are two kinds of derivational affixes in English: class changing and class maintaining ... vocabulary In order to have a deep understanding of this issue, the researcher distributes questionnaires to teachers and students, after that he interviews some of them, visits some of the students'...
... mentioned in this part Part C presents the key issues in the study This part also summarizes its shortcomings and suggests for a further study Tables of content Declaration Acknowledgements Abstract ... a Training and retraining teachers in CLT b Redefining students’ role and teachers’ role c Changing students’ attitude towards learning English d Improving students’ motivation in learning grammar ... thus getting no insight into the Western culture It is therefore the duty of the thesis to a thorough research into the difficulties, classify them and find the best solutions Based on the findings,...
... trips, interviews, class discussion, small group discussion are additional teaching strategies • Teacher expects students to use other sources of information eg libraries, media, experts The teacher ... Teacher is the student s coordinator of student s learning resources, is a critical guide, a questioner and the principal source of assessment • Teacher analyses information and ideas within an interpritive ... almost axclusive source of and transmitter of knowledge, guidance and assessment • Teacher transmits information, demonstrates skills and imparts moral and social training AMERICAN CULTURE • Teacher...
... year students toward speaking lessons It can seen the high percentage of the students like speaking lesson.38 students (76%) found speaking lesson interesting This is understandable because in ... Dirty jobs? Industrial tribunal Honesty at work -Giving opinions; explaining Expressing interest question discussion -Making decisions, expressing opinions and feeling -Arguing and persuading Group ... very interes ting 8% inters eting not very interes ting 2% not interes ting Chart 1: Students’ opinions toward speaking lessons Question 4-Appendix 1: Students’ opinions toward the role of speaking...
... images and sounds - Reviewing well - Employing action Cognitive strategies: 35 - Practising - Receiving and sending messages strategies - Analysing and reasoning Compensation strategies: - Guessing ... strategies that significantly contributes to success on the two reading measures he used Readers scoring high and those scoring low appear to be using the same kinds of strategies This seems to indicate ... skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing, are stressed equally, in ESP it is a needs analysis that determines which language skills are most needed by the students, and the syllabus is...
... learning, but speaking is also a crucial part of the language learning process 31 Effective instructors teach students speaking strategies: using minimal responses, recognizing scripts, and using ... teachers and students’ preferences; the difficultiesin learning and teaching English speaking and then give some suggestions for teachers to stimulate students inspeaking and overcome the difficulties ... Speaking 2.5.1 Teachingspeaking What is meant by "teaching speaking" is to teach ESL learners to: - Produce the English speech sounds and sound patterns -Use words and sentence stress, intonation...
... 3.2.3 Description of the Speaking Section As being mentioned above, Speaking is the second part in each lesson and it has from to tasks In lesson and lesson 2, the speaking tasks are suitable ... -Offering solutions -Reporting on discussion results 37 10 Conservation tasks 11 National Parks tasks 12 Music 13 Films And Cinemas tasks 14 The World Cup 15 Cities tasks tasks tasks Historical ... and discusses the results from the survey questionnaires and interviews A lot of difficulties when teaching English speaking skill to ethnic minority students such as lack of time in using the...
... in Class To get a successful speaking lesson, teachers should create procedures for presenting dialogue to help students practise Here are sugested steps for presenting a dialogue in a speaking ... and skills of creative expression should be incorporated into and assessed in arts integrated lessons Here are suggested steps for presenting drama inspeaking activities: Creating dramatic situations: ... Speaking 1.2.1 What is Speaking? Communication is an essential need for human beings Speaking is an important skill because one of the keys in English communication is speaking ability Speaking...
... discussed Then, effective reading comprehension is addressed What is more, this chapter also discusses stages of teaching reading Finally, it provides an insight into reading difficulties Having ... readers, improving teachers techniques in reading lessons, equipping facilities, and adapting materials 5.1 Making reading lessons useful One of the English reading difficulties is that a considerable ... This interests both teachers and students To make reading lessons more interesting, teachers sometimes have to read more about the topics However, some topics are difficult for the students, such...
... assessments in language learning along nine dimensions: (a) one-shot tests versus continuous, longitudinal assessment; (b) indirect versus direct tests; (c) inauthentic versus authentic tests; ... helping adult ESOL learners develop their speaking skills It should be clear that teaching adult ESOL speaking classes (or working on speakingin four-skills courses) does not simply involve having ... surveys, teacher observation forms, and learners’ logs) hold promise as programbased means for validly assessing the speaking skills of adult ESOL learners (Weinstein, 2001) However, as Weinstein...
... motivate their students inspeaking lessons To investigate main factors de-motivating students in learning speaking skill To suggest strategies and techniques teachers of speaking can apply ... the study, that is investigating strategies and techniques teachers of English speaking skills apply to motivate their students inspeaking lessons The necessity to motivate students in stages ... possessing inspeaking lessons and their opinions about English speaking as well as the motivational strategies their teachers apply Another survey questionnaire was designed for teachers in...