tips on studying a foreign language

... DEVELOP A GOOD ATTITUDE. Have a clear personal reason for taking the class. Set personal goals for what you want to learn. Leave perfectionism at the door; give yourself permission to make mistakes ... CẦN READING and WRITING a foreign language are analytical skills. You may be good at these if you are a logical person who attends to detail. Train yourself through practice to notice and remember ... through a new passage two or three times, guessing at meaning from context. Avoid word-by-word translation. It is a waste of time! 2. Isolate new vocabulary and study it separately. DON'T...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 16:15

... UNIT 4: LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (Học ngoại ngữ) 1. Vocabulary foreign (adj): (thuộc về) nước ngoài -> foreign language (n): ngoại ngữ Ex: Can you speak any foreign languages? (Bạn ... been a terrible accident on the expressway. (Có một tai nạn khủng khiếp trên đường cao tốc.) oral (adj): nói miệng (không viết) —> oral (n) = oral examination: kỳ thi vấn đáp Ex: He failed ... examination: kỳ thi vấn đáp Ex: He failed his oral examination and has to take it again. (Anh ấy đã trượt kỳ thi vấn đáp nên phải thi lại.) candidate (n): người dự tuyển; thí sinh Website học...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2013, 09:58

... call them an adjacency pair. The adjacency pair always consists of a first part and a second part. The utterance of a first part immediately creates an expectation of the utterance of a second ... characteristics of each group are listed in the following table: Criteria NSE NSV Nationality English, American, Australian Vietnamese Language English as native language English as a foreign language Number ... relevant information as he could, or he may offer utterances ambiguously, etc. In such instances, the conversation 8 1.2.1. Conversation analysis Many conversational analysis researchers have...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2013, 08:49

... cố định (hay gắn) cho một kí hiệu ngôn ngữ một khái niệm – biểu niệm (signifikat) phản -47- đ a lí tự nhiên Nam Bộ mà chúng ta đang quan niệm hiện nay. Đây cũng là quan điểm trong việc xác ... nóng ẩm quanh năm. Độ ẩm trung bình hằng năm từ 80 – 90 %. Thời tiết hai m a m a, nắng. M a m a kéo dài từ tháng tư đến tháng mười. Lượng m a dồi dào, 90% lượng m a tập trung vào m a m a. ĐBSCL ... đảo hay việc vui, đều bày diễn tuồng” [24; 146]. 1.1.3.3. Sự biến đổi và giao thoa văn hoá ở Nam Bộ Văn h a Việt được con người mang theo từ buổi đầu mở đất vào phương nam, do trải qua các...

Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2013, 16:09

... the common features of academic essays (topic sentences, paragraphs, conclusions), but rather the differences, namely connectors and organization, which set compare/contrast essays apart from ... both Hong Kong and Toronto, and would finally end with the complete details of humidity readings. Although writing in a foreign language can be a daunting experience for second language students, ... other academic writings. Within this lesson, learners are made aware that certain connectors are primarily used for compare/contrast essays. These words for comparison include: both, in the same...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:10

... the Atlantic in 1910. Although scouting is mainly for boys, there are organizations similar to the BSA which girls can join. The Girl Guides Association and the coeducational Camp Fire Boys and ... of America is a youth organization. youth organization. Scouting began in America in 1907. Scouting began in America in 1907. William Boyce, an English William Boyce, an English businessman, ... London. businessman, got lost in London. BSA builds character, encourages BSA builds character, encourages good citizenship and personal fitness good citizenship and personal fitness Scout Association...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 03:11

... specialization such as elementary education, special education, secondary education, or higher education because they have a temperament for students in those age ranges. If you are not comfortable ... sense." It may sound a bit corny, but good teachers are practical. They can size up a situation quickly and make an appropriate decision. Whether managing a classroom, leading students on a field ... one should make any career decision without gathering as much information as possible. Tips on becoming a teacher is a start. Teaching is like no other profession. As a teacher, you will wear...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 14:11

... 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 ... 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 ... Lithuania 345 Luxembourg 347 Macau 348 Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of 350 Madagascar 353 Madeira Islands 355 Malawi 360 Malaysia 361 Maldives 363 Mali 365 Malta 367 Northern Mariana Islands 368...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:21

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Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 20:20

... Information Warfare • Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) – Electronic Command and Control • Information weapons: “paramount” attention – Unconventional, asymmetric, force multiplier – ... www.google.com /language_ tools – non-Euro: Japanese, Korean, Chinese • www.babelfish.altavista.com – up to 150 words or a webpage • www.translate.ru (Russian site) • www.freetranslation.com • www.translation2.paralink.com • ... Eutelsat, Inmarsat, Orbita – International Country Code: 7 Translation Software at Work 3 To break Stack For The fun I of the profit: To alepyu one, smash ` aleph1@underground.org. stack` [...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... 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 ... should stay at home and work on the family farm. The situation was disconcerting. On the one hand, Jeff could see why families wouldn't want to pay for an irrelevant, alienating education...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 07:20

... relevance and adequacy of content, compositional organization, cohesion, adequacy of vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and spelling (Weir, 1990); content, language use, organizing ideas, lexis, ... which had the best fit and parsimony. The researcher concludes Idea Arrangement and Communicative Quality appear to have similar conceptual and theoretical foundations and should be considered ... Second Language Investigating Writing Sub-skills in Testing English as a Foreign Language: A Structural Equation Modeling Study Vahid Aryadoust National Institute of Education, Singapore...

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