... that collocations not create difficulty in comprehending a text as they are mostly made up of familiar and simple words That is why language teachers not draw students attention to the collocations ... collocation by helping them to pay more attention to words and their combinations in reading “This does not mean finding rare words but rather finding relatively common words which intermediate students ... makes it hard to provide an accurate categorization of collocations 10 First, collocations are divided into two types: lexical collocations and grammatical collocations by many researchers According...
... related to what students were trained to while dealing with a readingtext through three stages: pre -reading, while -reading and postreading Chart 4: Pre- reading Strategies Pre -reading strategies ... anticipate the text content, “relating pictures illustrations to the text content” allows the students to have an idea about what the text is about Despite the fact that students stated that they ... 1 1 3 3 3 3 text before reading Asking students warm-up questions related to the text before reading Teaching vocabulary before students read the text Asking students to relate the text/ topic...
... teachers and students of grade 10 with the new textbook “English 10” at Dong Da highschool only Especially, the study deals with the current situations of English teaching at Dong Da high school, ... exercises which manipulate relevant language forms and finally, students create texts To write in a particular genre, students must be aware of the formal patterns that shape a text Genre analysis, ... for students were translated into Vietnamese so as to avoid misunderstanding The questionnaires were delivered to 250 studentsat Dong Da highschoolat the beginning of the class time so that...
... time, students had to write at home, which was very difficult when they were not motivated enough and lacked teachers’ control 2.5.1.4 Students communicative competence Mistakes that students ... facilitated due to its similar features with the mother tongue and negative in the sense that their different features impeded learning Although this theory has 11 been vulnerable to critical attacks ... only organizational but also pragmatic and socio-linguistic knowledge Without a real audience is rather difficult – the writer cannot identify what the communicative goals and the features of the...
... methods for my study: - reading references of different sources - consultation with colleagues - personal observations and nine-year-experience in teaching English athighschool III Scope of the ... with other skills, is very important when we want to evaluate the English level Many students, as well as teachers, consider writing so difficult that they hardly master it However, the students ... highschoolstudents with the hope that it would contribute to the promotion of enhancing the teaching and learning writing among teachers and studentsathighschool II Methods of the study I have...
... communicative meaning as exemplified in discourse (1986:161) In summary, Littlewood (1981:1) states “one of the most characteristic features of communicative language teaching is that pays systematic ... idea-generating is particularly important as an initiating process Even in later stages, however, ideagenerating continues to take place, so that techniques used to stimulate ideas at initial ... of previous grades textbooks with 16 units covering different topics which were contextualized and developed naturally to attract and to help students practise communicative skills Each unit includes...
... tables of the statistics above, we can see that the rates of the students who didn’t master the knowledge and those who applied all the skills weakly are rather high It has shown that students didn’t ... and learning English athigh schools English is one of the most important subjects at schools but it is not easy enough for any students to learn Some students, especially the students who have ... table of statistics above, we can see that the qualities of the subject have changed dramatically in all skills They are much higher and better than those at the beginning of the school year...
... six subjects in the national examination that students have to take to get General Certificate of Secondary Education (G.C.S.E) at secondary school Since the New English Textbook Tieng Anh 10, ... viewed sympathetically, the teachers should hope to make writing more rewarding activity for students, not look so much at what the students have failed to achieve but rather than at what they have ... Learning Writing Skill at Tran Nguyen Han HighSchool in Hai Phong and Recommendations 41 APPENDIX APPENDIX : OBSERVATION FORMS Observation Date: August 28th , 2013 Class attended : 11A2 Length...
... Graduation Papers were the main sources of data 3.3.2 Data Analysis The Questionnaire was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively into categories: Students' ability to learn paraphrasing skills ... THE STUDY 1.1 RATIONALE The research title “An investigation in paraphrasing What are strategies to create a good paraphrase? Which mistakes students often make when paraphrasing (at experienced ... paraphrasing skills in Summarizing highschool 2.2.4.2 Reasons for Paraphrasing - The handout by Matthew Hedstrom, Undergraduate Writing Center, 1) It is better than quoting information from an...
... Your signature Unit 4: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM – Describing school education system in Vietnam SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM VIETNAM - Students work in pairs to askIN and answer questions about school ... think I meet all the qualifications that you specify I had highschool diploma two years ago and evening English course at 30 Nguyen Huu attended Canh high an school National University of Hanoi ... Day, our school s sports club recently played a friendly football match with Nam Ha Highschool s Football team The match was held at 2.30 pm on 24th March on our school s playground The match took...
... Your signature Unit 4: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM – Describing school education system in Vietnam SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM VIETNAM - Students work in pairs to askIN and answer questions about school ... Day, our school s sports club recently played a friendly football match with Nam Ha Highschool s Football team The match was held at 2.30 pm on 24th March on our school s playground The match took ... the qualifications that you specify I had highschool diploma two years ago and attended an evening English course at National University of Hanoi I have worked as a receptionist at a two-star...
... Stage 1: Students study a model text and mimic its highlighted features Stage 2: Students are involved in controlled practice of the highlighted features, usually in isolation Stage 3: Students ... background and students recommendations though the students compositions and the questionnaires Secondly, based on data analysis and the students background some appropriate strategies in teaching ... Teachers create a piece of writing for students to write by the way of stimulating students interests through listening, speaking or reading activity Then teacher asks students to discuss the text...
... writing skills in terms of the relationship between reading and writing Eschholz (1980) points out that what learners write depends on what they read and they can improve their writing skills by reading ... refer to texts written by a native or a writer of native-like proficiency” It is this feature that bothered teachers to decide on the appropriate ones Regarding the latter challenge, justification ... differs from that of TOEFL, GMAT or any other tests in that students have to describe visual information (data) presented in charts, diagrams…Thus, when teaching Task 1, this is what I focus on”...
... not very satisfied with the effort that they have made to involve students in their lessons Not satisfied Not very at all satisfied No Satisfied No % No % % 30 Very Completely satisfied satisfied ... communication despite limitations in his or her communicative competence Fluency is developed by creating classroom activities in which students must negotiate meaning, use communication strategies, ... information, opinion, affect, or reason that students seek to bridge - They encourage students to be creative and contribute their ideas - They focus on the message and students concentrate on “what‟...
... thought that teachers should give them more new words to look up before class with readingtext but the text should be updated Another expectation from students was that real- world situations should ... discrete items and contextualisation purpose and contextualisation Focus on discrete items Purposefulness and/or skills and contextualisation (Littlewood, 1993) It can be seen that an exercise is ... transcribed into texts for data analysis (Appendix 5&6) The information from the interviews is analyzed as qualitative data and helped to clarify some matters in the questionnaire Observation Two ESP...
... language patterns, vocabulary and pronunciation - They can help to improve attention span, concentration, memory, listening skills and readingskills - Pupils are encouraged to participate; shy ... should create a safe, welcoming and non-intimidating teaching environment Finally, teacher also motivates students to develop high but realistic intrinsic motivation Teacher encourages students ... learning Text books and authentic material can be seen as important resourses that encourage students in their learning Text books give students knowledge They can be considered as students ...
... months after moving from junior to senior highschool I think that if all of my students concentrated on practising pronunciation, their pronunciation skills would be much better, and they would ... in pronunciation, particularly, the words that frequently appear in everyday life and in colloquial conversation as well as in the textbooks We can teach students accurate pronunciation by giving ... Province – 55 I can say, with confidence, from my experience - teaching students English athigh school, that one third of my students can now pronounce words with not more than four syllables quite...