... different path-
ways to achieving these outcomes.
Who are learners of Englishasasecond
language?
Standard Australian English is the national language
of Australia and it is essential that all ... asecond
language in child care or family day care.
Children learningEnglishasasecondlanguage
need explicit modelling and language teaching, ap-
propriate time to acquire the new language ... commu-
nication and learning in both the first or home lan-
guage and in the secondlanguage (Siraj-Blatchford
and Clarke 2000).
Supporting Children LearningEnglishasaSecondLanguage in the Early...
... Education
Special Programs Branch
7
ENGLISH ASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDS
Introduction
Definition of an ESL Student ENGLISHASASECOND LANGUAGE
i
students are those whose primary
language( s), or language( s) ... demonstrates awareness of sound-symbol relationships at the
beginning of words
ENGLISH ASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDS
4
English asaSecond Language
Standards
2001
Ministry of Education
Special ... such as and, a, the, it
attempts phonetic spelling for entire words
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
English asasecondlanguage standards
Compiled...
... with a partner on a
common academic task
– begin to adapt to a variety
of teaching approaches and
strategies used in a Canadian
classroom
– respect other cultures
– participate with increasing
comfort ... are appropriate, teachers
should consider the following questions:
• Do assessments reflect appropriate program adaptations?
• Are assessments based on clear statements of expectations?
• Do assessments ... understand main ideas in
visually supported oral
presentations containing
familiar vocabulary
– participate in sustained oral
discussions and presentations
in small groups
– identify main ideas and...
... Italy, and India is at present practicable only if a com-
mon language is available. A situation where a Japanese company
director arranges to meet German and Saudi Arabian contacts in
a Singapore ... stop alanguage achieving international status either.
A language has traditionally become an international language
for one chief reason: the power of its people – especially their po-
litical and ... ix
Preface to the first edition xii
1 Why a global language? 1
What is a global language? 3
What makes a global language? 7
Why do we need a global language? 11
What are the dangers of a global language? ...
... introductory paragraph, three
paragraphs as the body and a concluding paragraph. This course was delivered entirely
in Englishasa Foreign Language (EFL) with a duration of one hundred minutes for each ... (2001) states that “the ability to express one’s ideas in writing in asecond
or foreign language and to do so with reasonable coherence and accuracy is a major
achievement; many native speakers ... data analysis by aggregating or triangulating
the data from different sources and asa result, drawing the theories can be established
from the data aggregation or triangulation. In this way,...
... Andorra
010 Angola
011 Anguilla
012 Antigua and Barbuda
015 Argentina
016 Armenia
017 Aruba
020 Australia
025 Austria
029 Azerbaijan
030 Azores
035 Bahamas
040 Bahrain
045 Bangladesh
050 Barbados
094 ... is a registered trademark of Thomson Learning.
VISA is a registered trademark of VISA International Service Association. MasterCard is a registered trademark of MasterCard International Inc. American ... any depart-
ment not listed.
001 Afghanistan
003 Albania
005 Algeria
007 American Samoa
008 Andorra
010 Angola
011 Anguilla
012 Antigua and
Barbuda
015 Argentina
016 Armenia
017 Aruba...
... prioritization, comparison,
contrast, and generalization. Jeff appreciated communicative lessons based on problem posing
and content-based English because they allowed his students to analyze and ... spent on error correction.
As you try to manage the preferences and expectations of learners in a large class, your
strategies either pave the way or act as major roadblocks. Organize and monitor ... experiences.
ANALYTICAL LEARNERS
Analytical learners are most comfortable in the second step of the Learning Cycle, in the
quadrant between Reflective Observation and Abstract Conceptualization. The...
... relevance and adequacy of content, compositional organization,
cohesion, adequacy of vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and spelling (Weir, 1990);
content, language use, organizing ideas, lexis, ... aSecondLanguage
Investigating Writing Sub-skills in Testing Englishasa Foreign Language: A
Structural Equation Modeling Study
Vahid Aryadoust
National Institute of Education, Singapore ... Publication Corporation.
Hamp-Lyons, L. (1991b). Basic concepts. In L. Hamp-Lyons (Ed.), Assessing second
language writing in academic contexts (pp. 5-15). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publication
Corporation....
... Topic signatures can be useful in a
number of Natural Language Process-
ing (NLP) applications, such as Word
Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and Text
Summarisation. Our method takes ad-
vantage of the ... Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on
aSecond Language
Xinglong Wang
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
xw20@sussex.ac.uk
Abstract
We ... a
source language to retrieve English topic signa-
tures. Nevertheless, our technique should also
work on other distant language pairs, as long
as there are existing bilingual lexicons and large
monolingual...
... cooperation
and learning by doing.
A natural factor which fosters cooperation among companies is if they operate in the same
geographical area. Horizontality and – asa horizontal criterion ... other participants, such as
customers, labour market organizations, intermediate-level organizations, etc. They may be
open or closed. They may have a reasonably permanent structure or a constantly ... management innovations from Japan”, Organization
Studies
, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 971-989.
Nahapiet, J. and Ghoshal, S. (1998), “Social capital, intellectual capital and the organizational
advantage”,...