... contexts The objective of prediction is to have children use their prior knowledge to predict what happens in the story depending on their schema of the story structure, the title of the story, the ... but to understand what is behind the lines they have to activate their world knowledge, which means they top-down approach has to be used in order to get the understanding In general, whatever the ... SELECTING TOPICS I have been teaching English for more than ten years I love teaching and I want to be a good teacher In other words, I want tohelpthestudents achieve the goal they hold in their...
... may influence their reading in their mother tongue 19 19 Part Conclusion The study seeks to gain insights into the influences of extensive reading on the L2 competence of eight students at lower ... invited to simply put a tick next tothe one By the end of the project, with consent from the students, the researcher read the diary thoroughly and identified the most salient features regarding the ... was reported to be gained after thefirst year, and wider gains in oral and written skills after two years c The increase of thestudents' exposure tothe language It is a fact that the quality...
... These observations give rise tothe question: in the light of the difficulty in obtaining reliable discourse information on the one hand and the effectiveness of exploiting the reflexes of discourse ... through the distribution of discourse referents in a text These discourse referents basically correspond tothe constituents that our surface realisation model has to put in the right order As the ... correspond to a topic shift In Example (2), both instances are realised in the Vorfeld, such that the topic of the first sentence is carried over tothe next In Example (3), we illustrate a further...
... asked to review the data and also comment on the emerging trends The authors shared with them the data and the paper They made few collections on the figures and shared with the authors their ... non-government organizations The proportion of the government recurrent expenditure tothe total expenditure of the sector is difficult to estimate No data is collected either for the non-government organizations ... expenditure for the health sector over a period of ten financial years Three messages are noticeable from the results First, during theyear 2000-01, there was a pronounced increase in the amount...
... reasons to choose the topics Firstly, through the task, the teacher can realize whether his studentsimprovetheir writing or not in order to have necessary timely adjustment tohelpstudents ... overcome their difficulties Secondly, students have chance to choose the topic that they are interested in, so they can write the paragraph with their own ideas basing on the topic they like, which helps ... improvetheir paragraph writing The teacher has to know how to correct students writings tohelp them avoid those mistakes in their next writings To understand students desire for their teacher’s...
... applicable to other groups emerged from the meeting First, we found the term ‘trainee’ was more contentious than we had foreseen Some members felt the term would soon cease to apply as members began their ... exercise to garner feedback, wherein attendees were asked to list two things about the meeting they enjoyed and one thing they would like to see changed or improved, attendees indicated they felt: ... 3) In order to respond to these challenges and opportunities, and particularly in order to maintain our momentum, attendees decided to devote the subsequent six to twelve months to creating a...
... that theirstudents can use more English in group work when they required theirstudentsto increase the amount of English use day by day or when they reminded students not to use their mother tongue ... with the needed language tothe task because theirstudents were at thefirst year, they did not have wide vocabulary Others, meanwhile, explained that the teachers should let students manage themselves, ... require them to increase the use of English and let them decide to choose the strategies they want Students seemed to share the same view with their teachers on two strategies: ask studentsto self-report...
... by their family with 92.9% (from parents or sister/bother, and their relatives), some of them (5.1%) were partially supported by their parents and the rest was earned by themselves, the others ... objectives The general objectives of this study are to measure the prevalence of depression; to determine the sources of stress; and the factors related to depression among thefirststudents in ... − To assess the prevalence of depression among thefirstyear Medical students by using the Center for Epidemiologic studies depression scale − To determine the sources of stress among the first...
... chance toimprovethe four English skills for learners, especially for thefirstyearstudents Through the research, some questions below are mentioned: What is attitude of the first- yearstudents ... employed to investigate the subject ideas and opinions on the issue The primary focus of research is to find the first- yearstudents attitudes towards learning phrasal verbs More importantly, the ... verbs, the particle cannot be separated from the verb For example: What are you getting at? Let’s look round the town today! The government is looking into the problem If the object is a noun, there...
... discuss the following topic (Students picked up one among the topics given) The best way to travel is by bicycle Towhat extend you agree with this statement? Money is the most important thing ... need to choose their own hobbies, instead of having them imposed by their parents (Time to waste, Objective IELTS, Intermediate, Teacher’ book, p.47) Part two: Work in pairs and discuss the following ... than 45 minutes per week d There was no pronunciation lesson but the teacher taught thepronunciation of new words and corrected studentspronunciation mistakes during the lesson (If yes, how long...
... learning, theirpronunciation doesn’t seem toimprove much, not to mention the fact that their frequent mistakes are maintained as thefirst day they enter the university This reflects the fact that the ... as the research was conducted during thefirst semester of thestudentsfirst year, there were some problems relating tothe consistency of the participants After thefirst two weeks of thefirst ... accepted to another college using the marks they got at this exam However, totheir surprise, they passed it The truth was that they passed the exam thanks totheir exceptionally high marks in mathematics...
... with theirstudents in class could help them identify how good theirstudentspronunciation was Only 11 % of them thought that theirstudentspronunciation was OK, 53 % commended that theirstudents ... material mostly on their own The teacher is expected to give them the guidance to gain their goal of learning pronunciationThecourse books encouraged the teachers to exploit to teach both segmental ... intelligible pronunciationto catch the missing words The form of the tests was informed to all the teachers and students at the very beginning of each courseThe teachers would complete their mission...
... in the documentaries of the early 1940s Nonetheless, the film made cinema audiences sit up once again and pay attention tothe fact that they needed to remain united in order to win the war The ... from the dangers of falling bombs Despite on screen warnings of impending air raids, many patrons chose to stay in their seats as they felt safer in the cinema than in their own homes due tothe ... opportunity to challenge their previously subservient positions, they were made to realise that their part in daily life was as important tothe war effort as those on the frontlines The government noted...
... containing questions that relate tothe use of specific research evidence, on the other hand, provide a context for respondents and enable them to relate their responses totheir work This was illustrated ... due to chance, and posttest scores may not be sustained overtime Therefore, we hypothesized the pretest scores would be a more accurate reflection of theextentto which nurses use research in their ... identified prior to initiating the search The derivatives of the search terms were captured with the use of truncation symbols appropriate tothe respective databases searched Due tothe differences...
... stimulate thestudentsto volunteer to speak, and the passive students need the teacher’s attention They have to be appointed to speak The easy questions should be given tothe weak ones to assure their ... to put questions tothe teachers, to show their disagreements with the teachers Teachers, on the other hand, are no longer “knowledge-transmitter” They play the role of a facilitator of thestudents ... investigates the reality of the teaching oral skills tothefirstyearstudents in HaUI when the teachers are considered to be applying CLT approach in their teaching The main goal of the research is to...