English as a foreign or second language

2.4.1 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN ANGOLA The English massive study, is a recent phenomenon in Angola which is used as a foreign language by the very large number of speakers such as teachers, students, physicians, writers. Its massive spread all over the country is dictated by the globalization. More and more foreign companies started to establish their business in Angola, as a result of peace process achieved in 2002 which lead at the end of war in Angola. Vanity Vaish in Globalization of…

Communicating in foreign languages is important and is taught in many secondary and high schools around the United States. Some examples of foreign languages taught in various schools are French, Spanish, and Chinese. These are three of the most popular languages taught in the country. Teaching students these languages are important because it gives the student an understanding of the cultures, and history of other ethnicities. Also, speaking a foreign language makes you a better candidate for a…

Imagine leaving your home country only to go to a foreign place, now referred to as “home” and being forced to attend school without knowing the language. My family immigrated from Kosovo to the United States in January of 2004. I was only 5 years old at the time, so learning another language was fairly easy. My parents eagerly wanted to enroll me in school, and after only a few weeks of settling in my parents along with my uncle scheduled a meeting with the local elementary school. I was…

CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Second Language Classroom Participation and the Importance of Output through speaking Second language classroom participation or engagement is important in classroom as the conceptualization of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach claims that English language being taught as a system for expressing meaning (Nunan, 1999). As learners involves in the classroom either with the teacher or peers, they are most likely to involved in the ‘negotiation of…

receive a great number of different answers. In the English language, we derive the word educate from the Latin word “ducere”, to lead. This is what I believe to lay at the core to answering these questions. As educators, I believe it our duty to lead students to understanding themselves, their future, and their place in that future, wherever that may be. Where do foreign languages fit into this? It is my profound belief, that through language, we are able to open up so many possibilities for…

The role of grammar in English Language Teaching (ELT) has been a crucial and debatable issue for many years, gaining both supporters and opponents along the way. The treatment of grammar differs with various teaching methodologies and approaches (Burgess & Etherington 2002: 434). It needs to be noted that grammar is an “ambiguous term” in the language teaching field (Larsen-Freeman 2009: 518). It can refer to many things at the same time. Therefore, only one comprehensive definition will be…

policy-making in the United States, “Enrollment of limited English proficient students in US public elementary and secondary schools reached 4.4 million in 2011/2012, or 9% of total enrollment, and is growing much faster than enrollment of other students” (Chin). This is the outcome of a massive influx of immigrants from all parts of the world exacerbated by globalization. Naturally, newly emigrated students who did not grow up in an English speaking country tended to perform worse than their…

Topic 3- Should English Language Learners Be Placed in a General Classroom or a Special Education Classroom? A third question plaguing schools with English language learners is whether to place the English language learners in a general classroom or a special education classroom. Several schools place them in the special education classroom when they do not have special needs, thus taking the teacher’s attention away from students that have special needs and require the extra help. Likewise,…

small town in Mexico. She said that she did not think anyone she knew spoke English in her town. She attended a small school for a few years in Mexico. When she was 8 years old, her father got the opportunity to work with his cousin in the United States. The family moved first to Laredo, Texas. In Laredo, she started school and began to be taught to speak English. In this school, there were many children…

Incident 2 : I thought I speak a very good English until I came to England. I was at the supermarket once and a man approached me , thinking that I work in the supermarket, and asked me about something he was looking for.I asked him to repeat his words and he did , but again,I did not get what he said.I was embarrassed and so I said “ sorry I can not understand what you say , my English is very bad”. He replied “ only if you have an American accent”. My English was not bad because I was…