... different path-ways to achieving these outcomes.Who are learners of Englishasasecond language? Standard Australian English is the national language of Australia and it is essential that all ... asecond language in child care or family day care.Children learningEnglishasasecondlanguage need explicit modelling and language teaching, ap-propriate time to acquire the new language ... commu-nication and learning in both the first or home lan-guage and in the secondlanguage (Siraj-Blatchford and Clarke 2000).Supporting Children LearningEnglishasaSecondLanguage in the Early...
... EducationSpecial Programs Branch7 ENGLISH ASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDSIntroductionDefinition of an ESL Student ENGLISHASASECOND LANGUAGE i students are those whose primary language( s), or language( s) ... demonstrates awareness of sound-symbol relationships at the beginning of words ENGLISH ASASECONDLANGUAGE STANDARDS4 English asaSecond Language Standards2001Ministry of EducationSpecial ... such as and, a, the, it attempts phonetic spelling for entire words National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication DataMain entry under title: English asasecondlanguage standardsCompiled...
... with a partner on a common academic task– begin to adapt to a variety of teaching approaches andstrategies used in a Canadianclassroom– respect other cultures– participate with increasingcomfort ... are appropriate, teachersshould consider the following questions:• Do assessments reflect appropriate program adaptations?• Are assessments based on clear statements of expectations?• Do assessments ... understand main ideas invisually supported oral presentations containingfamiliar vocabulary– participate in sustained oraldiscussions and presentationsin small groups– identify main ideas and...
... Italy, and India is at present practicable only if a com-mon language is available. A situation where a Japanese companydirector arranges to meet German and Saudi Arabian contacts in a Singapore ... stop alanguage achieving international status either. A language has traditionally become an international language for one chief reason: the power of its people – especially their po-litical and ... ixPreface to the first edition xii1 Why a global language? 1What is a global language? 3What makes a global language? 7Why do we need a global language? 11What are the dangers of a global language? ...
... introductory paragraph, three paragraphs as the body and a concluding paragraph. This course was delivered entirely in Englishasa Foreign Language (EFL) with a duration of one hundred minutes for each ... (2001) states that “the ability to express one’s ideas in writing in asecond or foreign language and to do so with reasonable coherence and accuracy is a major achievement; many native speakers ... data analysis by aggregating or triangulating the data from different sources and asa result, drawing the theories can be established from the data aggregation or triangulation. In this way,...
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... 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 ... spent on error correction. As you try to manage the preferences and expectations of learners in a large class, your strategies either pave the way or act as major roadblocks. Organize and monitor ... 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...
... relevance and adequacy of content, compositional organization, cohesion, adequacy of vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and spelling (Weir, 1990); content, language use, organizing ideas, lexis, ... aSecondLanguage Investigating Writing Sub-skills in Testing Englishasa Foreign Language: A Structural Equation Modeling Study Vahid Aryadoust National Institute of Education, Singapore ... Publication Corporation. Hamp-Lyons, L. (1991b). Basic concepts. In L. Hamp-Lyons (Ed.), Assessing second language writing in academic contexts (pp. 5-15). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publication Corporation....
... Topic signatures can be useful in a number of Natural Language Process-ing (NLP) applications, such as WordSense Disambiguation (WSD) and TextSummarisation. Our method takes ad-vantage of the ... Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on aSecond Language Xinglong WangDepartment of InformaticsUniversity of SussexBrighton, BN1 9QH, UKxw20@sussex.ac.ukAbstractWe ... a source language to retrieve English topic signa-tures. Nevertheless, our technique should alsowork on other distant language pairs, as long as there are existing bilingual lexicons and largemonolingual...
... cooperation and learning by doing. A natural factor which fosters cooperation among companies is if they operate in the same geographical area. Horizontality and – asa horizontal criterion ... other participants, such as customers, labour market organizations, intermediate-level organizations, etc. They may be open or closed. They may have a reasonably permanent structure or a constantly ... management innovations from Japan”, Organization Studies, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 971-989. Nahapiet, J. and Ghoshal, S. (1998), “Social capital, intellectual capital and the organizational advantage”,...