Language education

Vilkinas and Deborah West，2011, p350). With the rapid increase in today 's economy and the international status of China, Chinese education is beginning to show a wide range of trends. In order to adapt to the different educational needs of a wide range of Chinese language training institutions have emerged, such as private training, public schools offer foreign language classes or electives, etc. Confucius Institute. There are many potential threats to the traditional model of Chinese…

APA citation for article #1: Swain, M., & Lapkin, S. (2005). The evolving sociopolitical context of immersion education in Canada: Some implications for program development1. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 15(2), 169-186. Summary of article #1: The authors addressed eight major features of immersion by Swain and Johnson. They checked how the eight core features of immersion changed because of the realities. The authors pointed out that 3 core features…

The American education system robs its students of learning a foreign language until high school. This disadvantages our youth and provides them obstacles that makes them ignorant to other languages and cultures. Waiting until high school to teach foreign language places American students behind the students of other countries. The average European country begins teaching one or more languages early in a student’s educational career. Unlike the United States, European countries are actively…

“ Despite some positive developments, overall foreign language instruction has decreased over the last decade and the achievement gap has widened” (Pufah and Rhodes, 2011, p 258). The efforts shown to improve language instruction in schools districts in the United States couldn’t beat the lack of funding to world language programs. The funding decrease can be observed on the type of learning tools world language teachers use daily to instruct students. According to Wallis and Steptoe (2006),…

1.Introduction Language proficiency is the linchpin of nonnative EFL teacher competencies ( ACTFL, 2002; Andrew, 2003; Ben-Peretz, 2010; Butler, 2004; Elder & Ok Ki, 2014;Farrell & Richards, 2007; Murdoch, 1994; Richard, 2012; Richards, Conway, Roskvist & Harvey, 2013; Seidlhofer, 1999). For example, Murdoch called language proficiency as “the bedrock of non native EFL teachers’ professional confidence” (p. 254). In the same vein, research by Seidlhofer (1999) shows that language teacher’s…

These days English is the lingua franca of the whole world. In our modern world English is the language of commerce, education and diplomacy, so, reading in this language considered as an important skill for those who learn it as their second or foreign language. Reading can be viewed as an interactive process between a reader and a text, in this process the reader dynamically interacts with the text and tries to encode the meaning and gets the writer intended meaning. Reading comprehension by…

According to Haruki Murakami (2016) learning another language is like becoming another person. A starting point in learning a new language is being able to start constructing our own identity. Through finding new meanings, metaphors and manners of speech. One may start to see a new identity within themselves. This online course will hopefully allow students to grow as individuals. In order to have an effective course, data must be evaluated from student feedback. Points to be discussed are the…

Semi-structured interview The interview allows implicit and unobservable beliefs of teachers to be made explicit. Interview seems to be an appropriate tool for eliciting verbal commentaries, which many teacher cognition researchers have employed in a semi-structured format because open-ended questions allow interviewees to respond to questions by expressing in their own words (Borg, 2006). According to Borg (2006), semi-structured interview is common to employ when a researcher aims to capture…

A STUDY OF VOCABULARY LEARNING USING FLIM AS A MEDIA – A CASE STUDY OF THE UNDER GRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS B.S.GOMATHI1, Dr. M. RICHARD ROBERT RAA2, Dr T.S.GEETHA3 1 Assistant Professor (Selection Grade), Department of English, Velalar College of Engineering and Technology, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India, Email: gomathirkv@gmail.com 2Assistant Professor (SG), Department of English, Rathinam College of Arts and Science (Autonomous) Eachanari Coimbatore – 641 024. 3Associate Professor,…

that it will help your career, you can enjoy many books and movies that are in that language, it gives you many travel destinations--like Mexico and Spain, and it is an easy language to learn. It can also help if children start to learn Spanish and other languages at age 3 when they start preschool, but it can be very beneficial for them psychologically. A lot of people agree with this solution and want many languages to be taught at young ages. It would help especially at a young age because…