Assesment of Level of English Proficiency

More young americans nowadays are being raised in homes speaking non-English, but these students are falling behind in schools where there is not a bilingual program available. According to the U.S. Department of Education, in schools without a bilingual education program, 71% of English speakers are at or above the basic requirements for fourth grade reading while merely 30% of non-English speakers reach this level. 35% of English and 8% of non-English speakers reach proficient reading levels while only 9% of English and 1% of non-English speakers perform at advanced levels. It’s evident that the availability of a bilingual program is crucial to the success of an individual who needs the resources that can be given to them through the use of bilingual education. The percentages of the non-English speaking students previously mentioned could undoubtedly be comparable to those percentages of the English speaking students if the education they were being provided with was cohesive to their comfortability, and the material being taught was in a language they could better understand.

One of the great characteristics of Filipinos is being bilingual. Compared to other countries, we can speak both Filipino and English which are our mother tongue and the universal language, respectively. Though not all of us are fluent in the English language, we can say that when a foreigner asks a certain Filipino simple question such as directions, he or she can understand and can answer well. Instances like this show that knowing the English language is important because it is in here that we destroy barriers of communication enabling us to avoid misunderstandings and thus proves that having English as the language of instruction used

Another area that I am very self-conscious of is my own oral and written language. I am not an English native speaker and I constantly think that I may use inaccurate language when I am speaking in the class. As Guy has drawn my attention to this point in my stage one progress record on September 22, I need to provide accurate and appropriate models of both oral and written language in the classroom. (270)

Most establishments, street signs, and just about what I see around the city use English as the official language and this makes it easier for me to learn and remember English. Also, in order for us to be promoted to the next grade level, we need to pass English class and use English as the primary language in all classes. We only use Filipino as a secondary language in school.

There are nearly 7000 languages spoken in the world. Among them is the English language. Richard Lederer, a retired high school teacher chose this language to be the subject of his essay “English is a Crazy Language.” In the essay, Lederer describes English with respects to who uses it, when it is used and how it is used. They justify his claim that English is the most widely spoken language in the world.

The English language is already the most popular language in the world, accompanied by each person’s native language. Also, Compared to other languages it English is relatively easy to learn. According to Neeley, “English is the fastest -spreading language in human history and is used by an estimate 1.27 billion people globally.” It may come as a surprise that English would be the one to dominate, given that Mandarin Chinese is spoken by the largest population in the world. It is very

73.2% of the students admitted that they lost their motivation to learn English because their English proficiency is poor (item 4). This could be because the students’ English language skills were not being well developed during their secondary or high school education experience. Four interviewees (66.7%) conceded that their English skills were poor, especially listening and speaking skills although two of them stated that their knowledge of grammar is so-so. In other words, a person with low English proficiency had a lot of difficulty in learning English and often left behind classmates, which leads to their demotivation in the English

For English learners, there are four skills that we must master. According to the research done by native and foreign educators, (Levelt, 1989; Debot, 1992) speaking is more difficult for students. In order to find factors influencing middle school students’ oral English, and know more about oral English. This paper will introduce some research about oral English and stresses the importance of oral English. Since our country has joined WTO, oral English became more and more important. With the trade developing, communication is the first step to know other countries’ cultures, customs, languages and habits. In English learning, there are four important skills; they are listening speaking reading and writing. Because students and teachers ignore

In the Philippines, English is a major part of the curriculum with it being the primary mode of instruction in most subjects. As a result, learning the language is imperative for academic success and like all learning areas, learning the language also incurs anxiety to its learners.

A huge majority of students wish to be able to speak English fluently, but there are some major problems in the conventional teaching strategies which lead to poor listening skills. Most of the teachers focus on more explanation and during which they often drop the use of English language. Even though it’s a sound way to deliver students with understanding and knowledge but this mode of teaching hinders cultivation of linguistic

To know whether TPR method can improve the student’s English language skills in primary school

This makes the country as the fifth English largest speaking country in the world. However, although Philippines is considered as an English speaking country, its English hold is now declining compared to its proficiency before. Philstar.com (2002) reported an article, “Study Shows Filipino College Studes not Proficient in English,” stating that college graduating students’ English proficiency is only at the basic level of working proficiency which means that they could hardly understand native English speakers. Also, Macasinag’s (2011) article “On the Decline of English Proficiency” stated that Filipinos are losing their competitive edge with regard to English abilities and that our claim as one of the top speaking countries may no longer be

The South Korean Ministry of Education suggests a communicative approach to teaching English (2008) in schools. In addition to this government directive I have decided to implement a workshop stressing and demonstrating its value. The workshop will also seek to compare and contrast the use of this approach with Grammar translation based approaches. Finally the workshop will seek to recognise problems with the implementation of the communicative approach and suggest recommendations. The workshop will be conducted in two forty minute sessions with a short break in the middle. The impact of the workshop will be evaluated using quantitative and some limited qualitative data.

English is spoken in most parts of the world, for instance in Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in many more countries. Moreover in African states English serves as main form of communication.

The Philippine educational setting is bilingual in nature, thus the level of performance of public high school students towards English proficiency in learning creates its possibility to be monolingual by using the considered foreign language as the standard language in teaching is impossible yet can be proven by theoretical studies to be conducted. Many accounts of constitutional laws, studies and facts regarding this issue of using the English language in teaching academic subjects such as science and technology can well explain its effective usage in the world of language education namely: the English language proficiency public students show, the legal basis it holds, the level of performance the public high school