Teaching English as a foreign language

communicate in more than one language has become really important, and not only in the professional world. According to UNESCO, learning another language opens up access to other value systems and other ways of interpreting the world, while encouraging intercultural understanding and even contributing to reducing xenophobia. The globalization of the 21st century’s economy, international business mergers and the growth of technology, have contributed to the need to master a common language to…

district to do so, in fact, there were a few students that I knew personally that had been sent to the high school while they were in middle school. I saw their frustration when they, as sophomores, had already taken the most challenging math and English courses the high school offered and there was nothing at a higher level left for them to take in those subjects. I saw smart, ambitious, hardworking students in a school system that was…

example, as an Arabic native speaker and previous English language learner and a current English as a foreign language instructor, and a future assistant professor at the University of Jeddah who has been involved in multicultural and multilingual contexts for several years, I produced a paper to investigate language use, motivation and attitudes towards foreign language learning. Through this investigation I learned how attitudes about language use influence the way some Arabic students…

about the impact of using multimodal storytelling on ELLs’ English writing experiences as well as their construction of identities. It is expected that educators of English as a second or foreign language could benefit from the study results and implement multimodal literacy strategies in their classrooms to better satisfy the needs of ELLs in the media and technology immersed world of language learning. It is also expected that language and literacy researchers use the current study and other…

in the workings of Richard Ruiz’s “Orientations of language planning, specific focus is placed on the shortcomings and strengths of language as a problem, right and resources in approaches to language planning” (Ruiz, 1984, p.15). Ruiz states that although there may be problems with a resource orientated approach to language, it could help to reshape attitudes about language and various language groups (1984). In essence, the placement of language as a resource can assist in the resolutions of…

are you going to school for at Northern Illinois University (NIU)? Master of Arts in Teaching plus ELL endorsement  What year are you in school? (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior) It’s my 5th semester,  Why did you decide to go to school at NIU? I worked as a teacher in Poland for 12 years. When I immigrated to the U.S., it was obvious to me that I needed to start going to school and obtain a teaching certificate in order to be able to get a “normal” job. The Board of Education gave…

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…

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…

chapter describes the assumptions of current communicative language teaching:communicative competence,communication, classroom communication and genuine communication, teaching communicative English,communicative courses, speech acts,details of strategic competence, development of strategic competence,types of strategic competence,how to teach strategic competence,strategic competence in the foreign language classroom,the importance of teaching strategic competence in the EFL communicative…

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…