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The Feasibility and Difficulty of Implementing Communicative Language Teaching in the EFL Context
The world has become more and more competitive and interdependent than before, economically and politically. Economists regard English proficiency as a form of human capital in the workplace (McManus, 1985). Kachru (1997) presents his concentric circle model to analyze the spread and diffusion of English. Asian countries, including Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and China, have been categorized in the expanding circle, where English is used primarily as a foreign language.
CALL-Based Instruction: Toward the Teaching of Speech and Oral Communication at Angeles University Foundation
Forty-four sophomore students, who took their Speech Communication for one semester, used the Digital Computerized Laboratory in listening audio materials, recording their voices. The laboratory is internet connected, so they were able to answer interactive quizzes found in the internet. Various exercises such as news delivery, voice recording, pronunciation drills, and poetry interpretation were done.
Item Learning vs. System Learning: Contextualizing the Shift from a Structure-based to a Notional- Functional ESL Syllabus
Of the several disciplines, many aspiring language teachers still find linguistics one of the most formidable. Such condition is brought about by the dearth of instructional materials and a limited number of well-trained teachers who can handle one of its allied fields, especially Systemic Functional Grammar. If this problem remains unattended, producing ill-equipped language teachers shall most likely become a vicious cycle.
Attitudes of Pre-service Teachers toward English Language Learners
Together with global demand for English proficiency, the United States, with its rapidly growing linguistically and culturally diverse (LCD) student population, must prepare teachers to meet the unique needs of these students. This study investigated pre-service teachers’ attitude towards English Language Learners (ELL). Research has suggested that teachers with positive attitudes, adequate preparation, and clear perceptions of effective instruction for LCD students are more likely to engage in appropriate instruction and facilitate student’s learning.
A Comparative Study Between Syntactic Structure Identification Training and Integrated Reading Strategy Training in Teaching English Sentence Reading
The objectives of this experimental study were (1) to compare the effectiveness of syntactic structure identification training and that of integrated reading strategy training in teaching sentence reading comprehension; (2) to identify the relationship between syntactic/sentence structure analysis and sentence comprehension and between translation and sentence comprehension; and (3) to analyze the errors in the students’ translated sentences to find out their strategies in comprehension the text.
Accuracy Order of Selected Grammatical Morphemes in the Monitored Written Compositions of Filipino Adult Language Learners
Studies about morpheme have excited researchers in discovering a “built-in syllabus”. Although accuracy order on the “unmonitored language use” has been established, some variations were obtained depending on the task where the data was elicited (Ellis, 1994). This article asserts that there might be an accuracy order for the “monitored language use”. Very few have tried to identify and establish an accuracy order for the “monitored language use” particularly of the adult Filipino language learners.
Teaching English as a Second Language Through Literature
Language is a social construct. Is is learned through interaction with others, with social structures and with social forces. It allows one to communicate with others and it plays a key role in the development and the maintenance of culture (Avison and Kunkel, 1987: 51). Language is as integral as culture, as culture is to a person’s sense of being.
The Methodology of Task-Based Teaching
The purpose of this paper is to consider methodological procedures for teaching tasks. These are of two basic kinds. Firstly, there are those procedures relating to how the tasks specified in a task-based syllabus can be converted into actual lessons. Secondly, there are procedures relating to how the teacher and learners are to participate in the lessons. This paper will address only the first of these.
How Multicultural Learning Approach Impacts Grade for International University Students in a Business Course
This study surveyed over 700 business degree students in the same university program to determine how their cultural background and learning approach impacted their grades. The research replicated and extended earlier published work, taking an interdisciplinary approach by adding cultural factors to a learning style model.
Interaction Between Processing and Maintenance in Online L2 Sentence Comprehension: Implications for Linguistic Threshold Hypothesis
The present study explores the possible mechanism of the L2 reading threshold phenomenon by focusing on the relationship between processing and maintenance efficiency in self-paced reading performance. The subjects were 62 Japanese college-level ESL learners.
