Language proficiency

According to Richards (2008), the mastery of speaking skills in English is a priority for many second-language or foreign-language learners since it can demonstrate how much learners have improved in their spoken language proficiency. Through speaking, students are able to show a variety of English vocabulary, the use of grammatical features and different components that are part of a discourse in order to communicate. It is necessary to create spaces and opportunities within a classroom for…

Language with all its paraphernalia, opens its wings of expression and communication in to new horizons of aesthetic experience. In addition, there is the inherent nature of language itself, which ultimately represents, symbolises, expresses, and can even shape our experience, but it is not the experience itself .With in communication, there is a lot of translation that must take place to go from the essence of our personal experience to the communication of words. In order to…

must be exposed and prepared to communicate and collaborate with individuals across a variety of languages and cultures. Although English is the current language standard for global communication, more than half of people in the world speak two or more languages and the number continues to rise with an “estimated 85 percent of the world’s population [being] multilingual by 2050” (Center for Language and Brain). Put another way, the steadily increasing interconnectedness of the world and all that…

The Barbour Language Academy is not just a general education school, but a dual language program where their academic requirements and expectations stay consistent for all students in providing high quality education. Accepting Spanish speaking and English speaking students, the classrooms are constructed by children of both languages. Teachers are expected to be fluent in Spanish and English as the instruction is dependent on English speakers learning Spanish and Spanish speakers learning…

Ovando & Combs (2012) indicate that the development of the first language is not formally taught because children acquire it subconsciously by using the language. Linguist Stephen Krashen formulated the theory called the ‘Monitor Model’. This theory has greatly influenced research theory in second language acquisition and it comprises five hypotheses that will be explained in the following paragraphs: the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the natural order hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the…

Strategy Presentation and Gallery Walk The strategy chosen was the Morning Meeting/Community Circle/Academic Language. The five principles are apply to this scheme, and it can be utilized to all grade levels to assist students in developing the language .For instance, it focus on academic language, literacy and vocabulary, for example, in lower levels this principal promotes oral skills. It can be modified to the upper levels by creating comprehensive vocabulary skills by assigning students to…

to understand the language being spoken. Researchers have found that students experiencing discriminatory practices such as the inability to be taught in their native language soon retreat into a posture of resistance in which they stop working with the school and its agents" (Tozer, 2009, p. 424). This is when bilingual education can allow students to feel like they are accepted and feel like people want to help them.”Students…

January). Storybook Reading for Young Dual Language Learners. Young Children, 66(1), 91-95. Retrieved September 25, 2016, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/201101/GillandersOnline0111.pdf Summary Researchers recommend storybook learning for pre-kindergarten children based on the presumption that during a reading session, these children, as they interact during read aloud sessions, are able to grasp different vocabulary and syntax of a new language. The main benefit of this method is…

review 1. Definition of Testing Throughout history, testing, assessment and evaluation play a vital role in the process of language teaching and learning. Testing is one of the fundamental tools to measure students English language acquisition. McNamara (2003) has given a detailed definition of a language test, which is “a procedure for gathering evidence of general or specific language abilities from performance on tasks designed to provide a basis for predictions about an individual’s use of…

speaks two languages, but he possesses… communicative skills in two languages at different levels” (in Wei, 2007). In this paradigm of bilingualism (or multilingualism), being able to use English for communicative and academic purposes, being able to read academic texts in Italian and understanding general conversations in such language, being able to understand general ideas from conversations in French; makes me multilingual. It is clear I am not able to use any of those languages with the…