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Communicative language teaching in practice a study of four post graduate student teachers in thailand

Communicative language teaching in practice a study of four post graduate student teachers in thailand

... Documents Relevant documents, such as the teachers’ self-evaluation notes, lesson plans and classroom materials, as well as exercises and tasks were collected for the interview and analyses The ... 10.10a Teacher evaluates student s responses in structural lessons 300 Fig 10.10b Teacher evaluates student s responses in the lessons relating the other skills 300 Fig 10.11a Negotiating with students ... responses by students in the lessons relating the other skills 306 Fig 10.12ba Responses in complete idea by students in structural class 306 Fig 10.12bb Responses in complete idea by students...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

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The Practice of English Language Teaching

The Practice of English Language Teaching

... organisation Skills The syllabus Structures and functions Vocabulary Situation, topic and task The syllabus and student needs 3.7 Language varieties 3.8 Conclusions Discussion/Exercises/References ... speakers of a language unconsciously know about stress and how it works They know which syllables of words are stressed and they know how to use stress to change the meaning of phrases, sentences and ... in our students and have answers to their questions Teachers, too, must realise the important effect success has on motivation They must be able to assess the students' ability so that the latter...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 11:15

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Techniques for improving listening skills FOR gifted students at Foreign Language Specializing School - College of Foreign Languages - VIETNAM National University, HANOI

Techniques for improving listening skills FOR gifted students at Foreign Language Specializing School - College of Foreign Languages - VIETNAM National University, HANOI

... can see that the teachers of English of FLSS have been using various types of listening texts, such as : stories (10%), conversations (20%), songs/poems(40%), descriptions (12%), news(6%), instructions( 4%) ... to a successful lesson 3.4 IMPROVING THREE STAGES OF LISTENING SKIL 3.4.1 Techniques for pre-listening When students sit in classroom and the teacher says: “Listen to this!” and then switches on ... in mind is that listening skill lesson is task-based, students make interpretations and judgments based on what they know, and assess what they need to know, thus teacher should less up-front...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:26

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Developing critical reading skills for first year students in English department, college of foreign languages, Vietnam national university, Hanoi

Developing critical reading skills for first year students in English department, college of foreign languages, Vietnam national university, Hanoi

... teachers and fifty students (the participants of the study) The questions and issues risen, however, are different between students and teachers as their concern, consciousness and interest are distinctive ... things He may ask questions and cling to the pursuit of the answers - is interested in finding new solutions The desire to search for new things refreshes and fosters oneself If one is satisfied ... parts and evaluate its strengths, weaknesses, and validity, and know how to use its implications Those analyses and evaluations lead to the decision on which information is used and which is rejected...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50

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An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 1

An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 1

... United States It supervises almost seventy-eight million hectares of forests, grasslands, rivers and lakes It is an agency of the Department of Agriculture The first is the threat of fire and fuel ... life Discuss with your partner about this Shopping is a waste of time and money To what extend you agree with this statement? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of tourism Using nicknames to ... pairs and discuss the following topic (Students picked up one among the topics given) How many ways can students earn money to support themselves? Discuss with your partner about this Money is...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58

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An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 2

An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 2

... recording sessions even when they had no class at school, some students missed some sessions due to their personal businesses Thus, their performance should not be treated as a trusted source of ... Self-study Unit Unit Unit Questionnaire Sounds /ð/ and /θ/ Sounds /∫/ and /t∫/ Mock speaking test Sounds /dʒ/ and /ʒ/ Revision Sounds /s/ and /z/ Sounds /d/ and /t/ Sounds /b/ and /p/ Sounds /f/ and ... Revision Sounds /g/ and /k/ Passage Passage Passage Pronunciation assignment 12 (Group 1) Pronunciation assignments Sounds /h/, /w/ and /j/ 13 (Group & 3) Pronunciation assignments Sounds /l/ and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58

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EVALUATION OF AN END TERM LISTENING TEST FOR FIRST YEAR MAINSTREAM STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT – COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES – VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

EVALUATION OF AN END TERM LISTENING TEST FOR FIRST YEAR MAINSTREAM STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT – COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES – VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

... materials, teachers’ attitudes and behaviors in class, past test scores of students and teachers’ comments on students’ in class performance As Bachman (1995) pointed out that these aspects often showed ... materials, teachers’ attitudes & behaviours in class, past test scores of students; teachers’ comments on students’ performance in class were reported For Students’ responses group, themes, i.e ... materials and redesigned tasks using those passages Others will collect listening tasks from other sources, justify them, make necessary adaptation or in some cases, even work out new tasks basing...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:40

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Tài liệu Final report "The Situation of Learning English for Electrical Engineering of D06k52 Students in Faculty of Foreign Language, Ha Noi University of Technology" docx

Tài liệu Final report "The Situation of Learning English for Electrical Engineering of D06k52 Students in Faculty of Foreign Language, Ha Noi University of Technology" docx

... Moreover, glossary should be written at the end of each of lesson to help students understand lesson more and easier And finally, some methods should be done to check student s lesson correctness Le Thi ... materials related to each lesson s topic to support the lesson During the lesson - Students are expected to take full and active participation in all class activities After lesson - Students should ... d06, k52 students in FOFL, HUT is investigated through questionnaire survey Questionnaire was designed in form of respondent-completed one, and consists of questions: pre-coded questions and attitude...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 12:15

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Tài liệu Examples of the Standards for Students’ Writing 2009: English Language Arts Grade 9 ppt

Tài liệu Examples of the Standards for Students’ Writing 2009: English Language Arts Grade 9 ppt

... Learner Assessment staff members to discuss any questions or concerns Maintaining Consistent Standards For all achievement test scoring sessions, teacher working groups for Exemplar Selection, ... responses.” Wiggins, Grant P Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993, p 40 To facilitate fair and valid assessment ... the standards that governed the 2009 marking session and that anchor the selection of similar sample responses for marking sessions in subsequent years The sample papers and commentaries were used...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining Source and Target Language Information for Name Tagging of Machine Translation Output" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining Source and Target Language Information for Name Tagging of Machine Translation Output" ppt

... select the best transliteration The source text, annotated with name translations, is then passed to a statistical, phrase-based MT system (Zens and Ney, 2004) Depending on its phrase table and ... Results on Corpus1 On this small training corpus, we test each subset with other subsets as training data, and calculate the total performance on the whole corpus The best result comes from Set2 ... The MT system we used generates monocase translations, so we show all the translations in lower case 20 It is hard to recognize from this example that kumaratunga is a person name unless we are...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20

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Báo cáo toán học: "Systematic use of mother tongue as learning/teaching resources in target language instruction" docx

Báo cáo toán học: "Systematic use of mother tongue as learning/teaching resources in target language instruction" docx

... analysis and task design towards syntactical similarities between MT and TL She asked students to observe how Chinese and English imperative sentences were formulated, and then compare the rules ... When‘有’[have] indicates possession, the subject of the sentence is the possessor and the object is the object/entity or person that belongs to the possessor (Yip & Rimmington, 2004) For instance, in ‘他有一支笔’, ... 49) In a corpus based study of Hong Kong English classrooms, He (2006) observed that English lessons focus almost exclusively on pre-selected discrete grammatical structures and here -and- now or...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

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báo cáo hóa học:" Systematic use of mother tongue as learning/teaching resources in target language instruction" potx

báo cáo hóa học:" Systematic use of mother tongue as learning/teaching resources in target language instruction" potx

... analysis and task design towards syntactical similarities between MT and TL She asked students to observe how Chinese and English imperative sentences were formulated, and then compare the rules ... When‘有’[have] indicates possession, the subject of the sentence is the possessor and the object is the object/entity or person that belongs to the possessor (Yip & Rimmington, 2004) For instance, in ‘他有一支笔’, ... 49) In a corpus based study of Hong Kong English classrooms, He (2006) observed that English lessons focus almost exclusively on pre-selected discrete grammatical structures and here -and- now or...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

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Research report: "Writing in teams to improve writing skills for students of English Language at the University of Vinh" doc

Research report: "Writing in teams to improve writing skills for students of English Language at the University of Vinh" doc

... others Students are easy to distract from main points Some students may dominate the group, while other remains passive Students often use their mother tongue in discussion Ideas or suggestions ... two systems of grammar in English and Vietnamese, much stress is put on grammar in the syllabus, which makes Vietnamese students often obsessed by the fear of making grammatical mistakes and ... brainstorming and working d Other ways (please state) Please state the way of your correction and assessment of students group papers How exactly you think group writing helps you to assess students...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 13:20

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A study on an example of non-verbal interaction between the presenter and audience for English majored students at the School of Foreign Language

A study on an example of non-verbal interaction between the presenter and audience for English majored students at the School of Foreign Language

... listeners for a specific purpose Presentation is the process of sending messages and receiving feedbacks in order to share meanings in terms of speakers and vice versa, receiving messages and sending ... language, visual aids, interaction skills, etc are discussed Part C - Conclusions is followed by the results and discussion from the investigation; and some suggestions and applications of the study ... easier to adapt to whatever occurs 3.2 Pedagogical Implications This section consists of two implications; firstly, some suggestions for students are discussed; secondly, some suggestions for teachers...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:37

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A study on using short stories to improve the effeciency of teaching speaking and listening skills to students at Haiphong Foreign Language Centre = Nghiên cứu

A study on using short stories to improve the effeciency of teaching speaking and listening skills to students at Haiphong Foreign Language Centre = Nghiên cứu

... analysis and findings Chapter discusses some suggested techniques for using short stories in teaching speaking and listening skills Part points out the limitations of the study and gives conclusion ... every student in story reading 3.3 Summary This chapter has presented the results analysis and discussion, as well as findings based on the data The assessment of the students proves that short stories ... listening and speaking skills 19 Data collected from the students‟ answers to the first questionnaire was used as the basis for the selection of short stories and for developing lessons plans...

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