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Over centuries language teaching has gone through some changes, these changes that happened throughout history have reflected recognition of changes in the kind of proficiency learners need, such as a move toward oral proficiency rather than reading comprehension, they have also reflected the theories of the nature of language. In the following essay, we will talk about some of the language teaching Methods such as: The Direct Method, Audio-lingual Method, and Suggestopedia. The Direct Method:…

Speaking is one of four skills on learning English, it is being necessary in Indonesia especially, since the newer curriculum 2013 is emphasize on balancing the three principles is that affective, cognitive and psychomotor. Simply word, the curriculum is needed the students to increase their communication skill, thus speaking is being important to be research. Within the several approaches of scientific approach there is Discovery Learning, it is an effective method to enhance students’…

The topic of this article is about change and dominance. The author of this article Tom Law, mentions that the English language is very dominant especially in the state of Wales. People from Wales do not speak their native language anymore, because the English language has been taken over. In 2011 only 20 % of the population of Wales could speak Welsh, which is a low number and much lower, then it used to be. Back in 1840’s 80 % of the population spoke Welsh as their native language and they…

the most important and representative way in communication and we use it mainly in delivering facts and data. Speech was developed between 2 million and 500,000 years ago. After that, non-verbal communications were the main forms of conducting inner life of people including their emotions, moods, feelings and attitudes. Non-verbal communication / body language is the actions or attributes of humans, includes all the messages deliver in other way than words that we use in communication. (Teri and…

Firstly, the situation of English language education in Japan and characteristics of Japanese when they speak English is explained. According to Sankei newspaper article (2014), English language education in high schools is aiming at acquiring practical English skill. Board of education in Osaka is targeting their English language education as practical and put focus on communication for students to keep up with globalization. Also, they have a goal to increase the number of students who can…

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sociolinguistic variations of American Sign Language found across the United States. Variations of ASL based on regional, social economic background, and ethnicity will be discussed. Deaf Americans are as ethnically diverse as the general population in the United States. This is a multicultural group that differs in more than just skin color and ethnic heritage. They differ across a variety of dimensions like age, and extent of hearing loss,…

Cursive writing is a helpful tool to most individuals. When I was younger cursive handwriting was tought in schools. I learned cursive by the 2nd grade and I think it has helped me a lot. There are a lot of different studies and articles suggesting that cursive handwriting is not beneficial and does not need to be tought to kids today. One study has shown that when people write in cursive it uses both sides of the brain. If we aren't using our brain to it's most ability then we are not using…

The classroom had 17 children in total, 1 of which was an English Learner. His name was Carlos and, saying his name to me was the only word he said in class for the duration of the time that I had been in the classroom. Carlos is young boy whose parents are completely Spanish. I was told by Mrs Varvil, that even at parent conferences only the mother has understand of what is being said and is able to partially converse. When I first entered the classroom, the children were all on the floor…

coverage, a diverse cast of characters, and a realistic storyline linking all the dialogues and readings. In the third edition, Level 2 has also been split into two parts to match the format of Level 1. This new arrangement covers the material from the second edition --with 10 lessons in each part -- yet allows for additional exercises in each lesson and accommodates more flexibility in teaching…

answered the two research questions of the study. In response to the first question, the language samples were analyzed in both languages and stuttering and non-stuttering like disfluencies are clearly listed in the results section. To answer the second question, the disfluency characteristics found were further analyzed and the frequencies were presented as percentages in the results…