Teaching English as a foreign language

MORPHOLOGICAL ERRORS IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Desy Nur Farida 21602073029 1. Introduction Errors frequently made by students in learning the second/ foreign language. These are very important to be discussed not only by teachers but also by students themselves in order to know the students’ weaknesses so that the teachers can make remedial teachings and the students can learn from their own errors. Among those errors is morphological error. The objectives of this short essay are to find out the…

Being a non-English using country, just like other nations in Asia, the demand of English in Japan is extremely high. According to the website Bachelors Degree Online (n.d.), Japan is in the top 10 countries that desperate for English teachers. Even though English is compulsory in the national curriculum from the fifth grade, the lessons focus mostly on grammar. Therefore, Japanese students’ level of English is not really high. According to Hongo (2014), Japan ranked 40th out of 48 countries in…

There is no doubt that error correction is one of the most important part in teaching foreing languages. There are a lot of researches over it. In the article “Some thoughts on Anthony Bruton’s critique of the correction debate (Truscott, 2010)” I found that, there are two main perspective in this matter. Anthony Bruton- one of the researchers who encouraged correction. For him, correction is a good thing to do. Therefore, he dismissed the case against correction. This position based on…

Standard is the last but not the least important of the ACTFL standards, it deals specifically with the use of the object language further than the teaching space walls. Therefore, scholars display signs of becoming lifetime learners by using the target language for individual satisfaction and development. Therefore, this standard centers on the use of the knowledge of a foreign language in widespread linguistic and social communities covering from school to far ahead life. Learners must take…

key components to teaching a foreign language to a high school class is the selection of an appropriate and engaging textbook. Choosing the right textbook involves a variety of considerations such as: is the material clearly presented and easy to decode/understand/read; is it engaging and is there continuity/flow in the way that it is laid out and presented; and is it at the right level (Spanish I, II, and III) where the student is at in their acquisition of the foreign language they are…

years and as teachers we have had to go along with them, but do we really have to ‘get with the times’? There are those that say yes, teaching styles should be adapted to our students’ environment but there are those who believe the opposite, everything is fine just how it is and if it is not broken why fix it? In my opinion, educators should adjust their teaching to their students’ needs and always allow them to have options in their education. Electronic textbooks are one of those trends that…

the self. Throughout the book “Language and Globalization” by Maryam Borjian, many authors struggle with their own cultural identity due to their travels over national boundaries. Sung-Yul Park discusses how names are subject to either power or tension due to socio-cultural and linguistic identity. Brock-Utne explains how her identity is reflected by historical inequalities that are still…

Language can be defined as a system of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way and also a system of communication used by a particular country or community (Dictionary, 2004). Brumfit refuted the earlier notions of language as simply a communication system and identified that language has five functions – personal, interpersonal, directive, referential and imagination. These functions allowed people to express feelings,…

All members of the faculty, our new students, good afternoon! On behalf of the faculty and students from the School of Translation Studies, I’d like to extend a warm welcome to all new faces here. Now please allow me to share with you the expectation from the school faculty for all freshmen. My first point is about the genuine purpose of education in university. What’s the definition of uni? Our schoolmaster Mr. 戚万学 had talked about his own understanding of university in this year’s…

is the language. Most culture often have its own language to communicate in the society. When the culture change, so the language change either. Language know as a concrete fundamental of the culture. Therefore, Language also affect on communication, country and culture, personal identity. Overall, when the language disappear, culture dies. In fact, some migrants often lost their culture during living in another country. Because they must to adapt to the around…