... Hutchinson & Alan Waters) Table 1: StudentsEnglishlearning time Table 2: Teachers’ and students assessment of students results inlearningEnglish Table 3: Studentsdifficultiesinlearning ... Bad listening skill 100% 95% Poor pronunciation 90% 87% Difficultiesin using Englishin daily conversations 90% 40% Table 3: StudentsdifficultiesinlearningEnglish As what is stated in Table ... boring 90% 23% Difficult but interesting 0% 12% Easy and interesting 0% 20% Easy and boring 10% 45% Sufficient to the studentslearning demand 10% 22% Insufficient to the students learning...
... teaching and learning a foreign language means teaching and learning the culture of the people whose mother tongue is the language being taught and learnt, the teaching and learning of English ... competence, intercultural competence becomes inseparable in language learning and teaching Another issue concerning to intercultural dimension is the influence of native speaking countries‟ cultures in ... who use English as a second or foreign language In conclusion, it is an undeniable fact that learning and teaching ESL and EFL becomes meaningless without learning and teaching cultures In the...
... co–exist in the learners‟ mind, in the learning activities they involve, there is no point in making an attempt to keep L1 from L2 In terms of translation between L1 and L2, some scholars think that ... check meanings of words or sentences, explain grammar, organize class, maintain disciplines, gain contact with individual students and test Aurebach (1993: 21) includes the following in her lists ... facilitating role in the studentslearning of English The study also revealed that teachers believed in the various pedagogic uses of Vietnamese, the major ones being explaining meanings of words...
... to probe difficultiesin teaching and learning listening among the teaching staff and the 10th form students at Que Vo II upper-secondary school, in Bac Ninh province Within this purpose the three ... the students needs, and thereby arousing their interests The purpose underlying in the textbook is to develop 10 students communicative language skills including listening, speaking, reading, ... comprehending main and specific information of the text or dialogue; improving basic listening skills • Speaking: asking-answering, presenting the topics given; using daily communication species: asking...
... culture in ELT Question 1: -“What you think of the role of culture inEnglish learning? ” (Students) - “What you think of the role of culture inEnglish teaching?” (Teachers) 60% 50% 40% students ... speaking Englishin classrooms within the Vietnam vocational high school context It is also pointed out that to improve the teaching and learning of speaking English, English teachers should gain ... skill inlearningEnglish at vocational high school?” Question (teachers): - “What you think of English speaking skill in teaching English at vocational high school?” 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% Students...
... teaching and learning materials evaluation Firstly, the theoretical foundations for evaluating language teaching and learning materials are discussed, including definition of materials in language ... minimize the weaknesses which might incur in the course of teaching and learning Published textbooks materials offer both good points and bad points, so choosing which one as a teaching and learning ... chosen teaching, and learning approach - Over-easiness: Teachers find it too easy to follow the textbook uncritically instead of using their initiatives; they may find themselves functioning merely...
... Press Hinkel, E (1999) Culture in Second Language Teaching and Learning Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Justová, V (2006) Direct and Indirect Speech Acts inEnglish Masaryk university in Brno, ... people.brandeis.edu/~smalamud/ling100/outline12.pdf Nall, S P (2008) An analysis of the face threatening act strategies used in international trade email correspondence.Unpublished manuscript, National Kinmen Institute ... universals in language usage Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cao, T H (2009) Hiding bad feelings in daily conversations in American and Vietnamese University of Languages and International...
... each other in preparing for the individual presentations The findings also showed that studentsin preplanning groups produced better presentations than those in unplanning groups in terms of ... in subsequent independent performance when supporting conditions were no longer available The findings provided convincing evidence to support the role of social interaction in individual’ linguistic ... Participating in group discussion helps students develop “reproductive thinking” into “productive thinking”; and discussion method results in effective learning outcomes in terms of : (a) the mastery of...
... provide students with more chances to interact build a stepping-stone to further study Research questions What truly happens during group discussion in classroom? Do the studentsin pre-planning ... difference in the number of turns among the participants Leadership moves - One or two students seem to be leaders in every talk Individual Presentation Findings most of the participants in PTP ... those in NP group in terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ) Conclusions and Suggestions Group planning prior to individual...
... maximum-density indices were lower than the estimated indices in 1966, in 1969, from 1971 to 1974, from 1978 to 1979, from 1981 to 1982, in 1987 and in 1989 In particular, actual ring-width indices were ... Reconstructing summer Hughes temperatures in northern Fennoscandinavia back to AD 1700 using tree-ring data from Scots pine, Arct Alp Res 20 (1988) 385-394 growing in Hokkaido, Japan, in: Ohta ... precipitation in the previous October Our results show the influences of temautumn and current spring on ring width of Yezo spruce growing at Tomakomai Ring width of Sakhalin spruce growing close...
... had information related to prevention of spinal pain Regarding information expressing negative aspects of medical interventions or vaccines, 16 (34%) of sites contained obvious antivaccination information, ... of spinal pain, innate or presented anti-vaccination, anti-drug or anti-medical viewpoints The site was judged using the principles defined by HON: 1–Information must be authoritative giving qualifications ... credibility of information on the sites, and a minority of sites containing evidence-based information related to back pain [8] Mathur and associates investigated the quality of information related...
... Interactions inEnglish as a lingua franca and the myth of mutual intelligibility In: Gnutzmann, C (Ed.) Teaching and LearningEnglish as a Global Language Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 73-89 Jenkins, ... Deterding, D., and Ee Ling, L (2000) The English language in Singapore Research on pronunciation Singapore: Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics Brumfit, C.J (Ed.) (1982) English for International ... and finally some suggestions for further studies to all of those who share the similar interest in the issue References InEnglish Adamson, B (2004) China’s English A history of Englishin Chinese...
... many other colleges in some Northern mountainous province in Vietnam The Lifeline (Elementary) has been the main course book for all the non -English major students there since 2006 Though, it ... be of practical value to teachers and teacher trainers in other colleges in some Northern mountainous province in Vietnam whose students and teaching context are the same as the author’s 1.3 Research ... Press, 2002) which is in use for the non -English major students at Laocai Teacher Training College Specifically, it seeks to examine the suitability of the course book to those students That is,...
... speaking skills in the textbook NH Pre will help me find the situation of teaching and learning speaking skills, in general and teaching and learning speaking skills in the textbook NH Pre in particular ... year students when using this textbook to teach and learn speaking skills 2.3.1.1.3 Studentsdifficultiesin speaking lessons Regarding their difficultiesinlearning the speaking subject, the researcher ... importance of learning speaking for their learning English, further study of the language and future career Learning speaking, to them, is useful because they think that being good at speaking helps...
... in the latest curriculum for English Translation and Interpreting at Can Tho University, the subjects namely Interpreting and Interpreting focus mainly on basic consecutive interpreting and Interpreting ... operations involved in the process of consecutive interpreting (Sladovnik, 2014) There are three basic stages in consecutive interpreting including understanding, analyzing and re-expressing (Jones, ... Interpreting In China, Liu (2012) investigated the characteristic of the notes taken by students to find out the role of note-taking instudents interpreting process and the language they mainly...
... training Thus, continued participation in export markets requires continuous skill upgrading through training There is also increasing interest in the impact of global value chains on upgrading ... and internationally recognised standards in business education International education providers are increasingly setting up centres in developing countries Host-country governments increasingly ... chains force countries to specialise in certain functions (lock in) , e.g when large importers of clothing require developing country firms to maintain simple operations where little training...
... graduated in Mechanical Engineering from G.R.I.E.T Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, A.P -INDIA in the year 2008 He did M.Tech in Thermal Engineering from Indian Institute ... graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mestra, Ranchi-INDIA in the year 2005 He did M.E in Heat Power from Birla Institute of Technology, Mestra, Ranchi-INDIA in the ... MP-INDIA He did his doctorate in perform profile mapping in upsetting process from Department of Applied Mechanics Department from MANIT, Bhopal, MP-INDIA in the year 2011 Presently he is working...
... C D Internet access Internet content regulation Blocking, filtering and content removal Licensing and liability and Internet hotlines Part I of the study provides the summary of main findings, ... case in Albania and in Germany (Section 184 German Criminal Code: 333 convictions in 2007, 264 in 2008, and 214 in 2009) In Lithuania, Article 4(3) of the Law on the Protection of Minors against ... ISPlevel blocking, other ISP-level blocking systems are used in other participating States where voluntary blocking measures exist In almost all instances, blocking lists and blocking criteria...