... has become an international language of this century because most people are always using English to communicate with others. Students have an easier time learning a foreign language such as English because at a young age it is easier to learn a new language, so they should start learning English for three years in high school. Therefore, the three main advantages of studying a foreign language are communicating with ... foreigners, working with future career and using for further education. First of all, students use English for communication. Students have to use English to communicat...

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... , the teacher may conduct the lessons with creativity. Besides, environment is another very important aspect to reduce the students' anxiety. Teachers need to pay attention to the students' learning rate and their different cultural background. Teacher should relate the teaching plan with updated issues discussed in the society to attract the students' attention and the students can remember what ... who took French, German, and Spanish class. The teachers were complained by the students saying that their teacher spoke too fast and refuse to use English to make further explanation. This ...

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The Integration of English Language Development and Science Instruction in Elementary Classroom written by Susan Gomez Zweip, William Straits, Kristen Stone, Delores Beltran, and Leena ... only have to test in a language they were not fluent in, but also be proficient in the subjects of math and English. Schools put the focus on teaching math and English to the ELL students in hope that their test scores would go up. This meant that Science content was at the bottom ... with a high ELL population created a blend of both science and ELD, developing students' English skills with science as th...

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The Integration of English Language Development and Science Instruction in Elementary Classroom written by Susan Gomez Zweip, William Straits, Kristen Stone, Delores Beltran, and Leena ... only have to test in a language they were not fluent in, but also be proficient in the subjects of math and English. Schools put the focus on teaching math and English to the ELL students in hope that their test scores would go up. This meant that Science content was at the bottom ... with a high ELL population created a blend of both science and ELD, developing students' English skills with science as th...

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... to avoid misunderstanding and better connect others, it seems only logical to implement a universal language. Since there is no discernible coercion, I believe that English should become the global lingua franca. Thanks to globalization, the need for some world-wide lingua franca is more pressing than it ever was in the ... goes on it shall continue to maintain its popularity and authority, if not grow even more prominent. Since the world needs a lingua franca, English is undoubtedly a good choice because standard words are short and relatively easy to pronounce. There is also very litt...

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... ebony" and "phonics" - has been the subject of a bitter and contentious national debate since the school board in Oakland, Calif., voted last to treat black English as a second language in its classrooms and to begin instructing African-American students in the tongue as a way to build reading, writing and language skills. To ... country. Behind all the furor is a long history of serious research by linguists and educators on the existence of black English, or ebonics as it's called, and its impact on learning problems. In Oakland, blacks make up a little more than half of the 52,000 stu...

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... compared to a traditional teacher-centered classroom that focused on drilling and memorisation of facts. According to Vygotsky (1978), children first develop lower mental functions such as simple perceptions, associative learning, and involuntary attention; however, through social interactions with more knowledgeable others, such as more advanced peers and adults, children eventually develop higher mental functions such as language, counting, ... problem solving skills, voluntary attention, and memory schemas. One example of strategy that I have experienced useful to improve students' en...

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... this is a tasked-based lesson, we didn't want it to involve only drill exercises which would send the message that learning English is all about completing a series of short, controlled exercises which don't require any personal creativity, expression and interpretation. When preparing ... under normal circumstances, we would have conducted a needs analysis to determine the learners' interests in order to involve the learners in their own learning processes and by doing this, we avoid the traditional role of teacher as the only source of information in the classroom. Our tasks are ... ...

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... ordinary life, masters of manipulative language. George Orwell shares this opinion, especially with reference to totalitarian dictators. Orwell identifies many flaws in the English language as it is spoken and written today, and believes politics to cause its dilapidation. Through rhetorical devices such as diction and tone, ... the present state of the written word, yet he writes to repair the habitual flaws. This is exemplified when Orwell states, "Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to t...

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... times if I attend class lectures attentively. In the case of subjects like biology or chemistry performing processes myself helps me learn better and for subjects like English literature or college algebra practicing it on paper definitely helps me more than just reading the formulas. When I face a very difficult question I read the ... /he explain all of the main parts of the topic one by one on the whiteboard or using her/his own handwriting then it will encourage learning, At least for few students including me. Another method usually teachers use is giving lectures on tapes to watch i...

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Topic 1: Write a paragraph about the importance of music in our life. Music has become part of people's every day routine and is significant to people for a number of reasons. First and foremost, music is an effective stress management tool. As long as people like the music they are listening to, they are likely to be absorbed in it; therefore, music grabs their attention away from stressful scenarios, helps them forget the burden of their work and promote their optimism. Secondly, thanks to music, ones' social relations can be developed. Tunes connect people of the same taste together, give p...

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... out rates and lack of Mexican-Americans in the professional class may be a result of poor English skills rather than a deficiency in care or effort. A series of articles in the Boston Globe followed the struggles with learning English of two Mexican-American grade schoolers in an English-speaking public school. In Monica Rohr's article, Alonso and Jovanny Martinez transferred from a bi- ... about the Mexican-American heritage and background as well as Mexican-American contributions. Such educational programs encourage Mexican-American students to embrace their roots while undertaking the ...

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... who has no children or background in education and has never set foot in a bilingual education class. "The Unz initiative calls for one year of courses taught in English, with an emphasis on learning the language; a system that many fear is a return to a past when children were sometimes punished for speaking Spanish, but that others say is a return to sanity" stated Don ... further presents the following approaches to the new law. "Opponents of 227 claim it requires students to be mainstreamed after a year of special immersion classes, with no additional help in learning English or oth...

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... Angeles, only 30 minutes a day, according to the school district's longstanding bilingual master plan. This is based on the ridiculous notion that too much English too early will damage a child's self-esteem and learning ability. Hundreds of thousands of these American schoolchildren spend years being taught grammar, reading, writing and all other academic subjects in their own "native" language ... and actually have much more difficulty learning second languages than teenagers or adults; these are academic dogmas with absolutely no basis in reality. On the other hand, the dreadful flaw...

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... and axiety, and , of course with metacognitive awareness often have low affective filter and thus makes language learning more efficient. In EFL context, learners particularly needs to lower affective filter, because if learners do not directly use English in their real life and future working post, the motivation may be lowed. Metacognition plays a very important ... only push learners to explore more strateges used in the efficient language learning, bult also adds to one's whole set of learning strateges by it's metacognitive strateges as planning, mornitoring and evalating. In EFL co...

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... with ESL readers has suggested that knowledge of these 3000 items represents a threshold figure for reading comprehension. In other words, without knowledge of this core vocabulary, reading a normal unsimplified English text is a laborious and painstaking exercise since the learner does not know enough words in surrounding contexts to work out the meanings of problem items. It follows that the best ... Unfortunately, analyses that test this assumption have delivered rather disappointing results. Kyongho and Nation (1989) compared the extent to which words beyond the first 2000 most frequ...

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... language by primary auditory means is impossible, even with the strongest amplification equipment, such as powerful individual hearing aids. Deaf children can experience enormous problems in the process of learning to read because they lack the ability to hear spoken language. As a result, deaf children start the reading process with less world knowledge, less cognitive and linguistic knowledge, ... reading written English independently for meaning" (Rottenberg, 2001). Clearly, the reading process for a deaf child requires certain steps and stages. It also appears that deaf children req...

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... (Brisk, 1981, 1998). While wavering political support characterizes the history of bilingual education, the common thread in educating U.S. bilinguals has been that learning English has been deemed important. Thus, the definition of a bilingual program in the U.S. generally includes teaching English as one of the two languages of the curriculum. The modern history of bilingual education begins in earnest in the 1960s. In the ... only language of instruction in public schools - in order to preserve national unity ("English First"; "U.S. English," 2005). In 1997, Spanish immigrant parents...

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... often the components leading to biased expectations, putting these students at a great disadvantage in learning and progressing through the educational system. Difference in linguistics can also affect teacher's expectations and lead to inaccurate labeling. Students who enter school speaking standard English as a second language may be hesitant in answering questions due to embarrassment, and are ... linguistic differences can be affected, including Chicanos, African Americans, and American Indians. When a child speaks little, or no, English in the home or outside of the classroom envi...

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... the choice can be made about what particular skills are taught and what order they are presented in. One of the most significant approaches to impact on today's teaching of English a second or foreign language is that of the oral approach and Situational language teaching. During the 1920s and 1930s linguists looked for a principled approach to methodology in language teaching, ... Palmer and Hornby attempted a "more scientific foundation for an oral approach to teaching English than was evidenced in the Direct Method. The result was a systematic study of the principles and procedures t...

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... statements could be made about most or all of the other consonant and vowel sounds in English. What is distinctive in one language may not be distinctive in another or may be used in a different way; this is an additional difficulty to be overcome in learning to speak and understand a foreign language. In Chinese and in several other languages loosely called ... tone languages, the pitch, or tone, on which a syllable is said, helps to distinguish one word from another: ma in northern Chinese on a level tone means "mother,"" on a rising tone means "hemp,"" and on a falling tone means "to...

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... indeed speak approximately like native speakers whereas this is impossible for adult learners. Many researchers have justified this phenomenon through the critical period hypothesis. Children are superior to adults in learning language because their brains are more flexible and their cortex is more plastic. One interesting analogy compares our brain to a computer. Similarly to the computer that we get ... with preinstalled software, our brains have a special area for learning language, which is pre-wired for assimilating vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. In addition during the first year ...

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... needed to learn in a classroom. Ruth also argues that with this lack of attention, along with the use of "Tweetspeak," students aren't learning to use words and sentences correctly. I agree with Ruth's fear of "Tweetspeak." Young people today are beginning to talk as they tweet ... everything to be handed to them and in a world where information is attainable with the push of a button why wouldn't they? Students may be learning English in school, yet their habitual connection to 'the goings on' outside the classroom creates a constant lack of focus. Teenagers are so busy on ... word...

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... in which students are taught is one of the most significant issues for schools. Many Americans have become concerned about how best to educate students who are new to the English language and to American culture. As children of all ages and from dozens of language backgrounds seek an education, most schools have adopted some variety of bilingual instruction. Students are ... these criticisms, voters in California, the state that has seen the largest influx of recent immigrants, passed a law in 1998 requiring that all children attending public schools be taught in English and prohibiting...

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... to objectives deemed important for the course. Russon (61) found a similarity between predictive formulas for general college achievement and those for college achievement in business education. Using English and mathematics marks and high-school scholastic average, she produced a multiple R of .746. Although there is insufficient space in this review for discussion, it should be ... and slower teacher presentation. Nicks (53) surveyed nonbookkeepers in offices to determine their bookkeep8ing duties. Among other important findings he concluded that bookkeeping duties of nonbookkeepers w...

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