Teaching English as a foreign language

English as a second language (ESL) is learned through-out our entire universe. Each student(s) may be effected in a different way in their course of learning. I interviewed an educator by the name of Salvatore Di Giallonardo, who is the creator, director, and a teacher for Languages for Communications school in Pescara, Italy. I was able to skype him several times during this process to gain as much knowledge on the effects teaching English to students who spoke a different language. During…

was in Spain, I only knew 4 or 5 words throughout a whole 10-20 minute conversation. It was hard to understand what the students were learning in the Spain schools because I only knew a few words. The problem is that we should do something about teaching Spanish while the kids are in…

important as the oxygen we breathe every day. Everyone learns differently. Some people struggle to learn, and some do not have the opportunity because their native language is not English. Bilingual education allows students who are learning English as a second language to take classes in their native language while simultaneously learning English. This gives the student better opportunities to learn and excel in school. There are many complaints about how unfair the education system is to…

that there are two forms of language learning. The first type is second language learning and next is foreign language learning (FLL). Learners from English language speaking environment are categorized as English language learners (ELL) and theylearn English as a second language. In contrast, foreign language learning is when the language studied by the learners is not spoken in the native country of the learners. There are key differences which are relevant to teaching and technology…

investigate the errors that EFL(English as a foreign language) learners make in English. The focus will be on the mistakes that the participants make in grammar, and the researcher will attempt to understand whether such errors are due to transfer from the participants’ L1 and/or if they are related to aspects such as gender, age, and profession. Gaining a greater level of understanding about this topic is valuable in the linguistics field because it could help instructors in language schools…

Should Student’s Use their Language in School? The article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” provides an argument regarding a resolution arrived at by the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee (CCCC) concerning students’ dialects. From the article, this became an issue due to an influx of students with foreign dialects in American schools. Thus, the significant argument in the article regarded whether students should uphold language variety, modify or eradicate it…

Despite the importance of the grammar instruction in any language, I believe that grammar should not be included in second language classes for beginners who just start to learn a language. The beginners should learn how to understand the language first. The grammar instruction will be not useful for the students unless they understand the meaning. After they become in the intermediate level, they are eligible to study grammar. Then, when the students become in advance level, they should no…

For many us who took a foreign language course for a couple of years in middle school and high school, and perhaps even college, might be able to retain a few words or phrases here and there. Most likely the language you were offered was hard to comprehend and difficult to speak, therefore making the language almost impossible to obtain. For those children who grow up learning a foreign language from a young age and did not start learning a second language in secondary school benefit…

educational styles which include different teaching and studying styles. There are many top universities in countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and France that provide national and international students with a variety of good studying methods also while living in a foreign environment, the students get familiar with new diverse studying environments. On the other hand, many believe there are too many problems if a student study in a foreign university. Those homeland…

English writing in a Vietnamese setting In the world of a globally oriented economy, more emphasis has been put on the crucial role of English as the most popular lingua franca by Vietnamese educators and learners. For me, as an EFL student at Hanoi University, I find that my biggest challenges do not lie in the vocabulary or grammar but in established learning styles acquired from earlier English education and cultural background knowledge. With respect to English teaching and learning…