English Language Teaching Methods

In this article, the authors examine the challenges of working with English Language learners with learning disabilities. The article begins with a dilemma that many educators face daily, being able to meet the needs of all students in a classroom. The article identifies the characteristics of LD students, issues ELL students face learning a second language and the cultural context for teaching and learning. The next part of the article offers a framework that addresses the educational needs of students based on their language, disability and culture. It focuses on how general and special educators along with the ELL teacher can effectively collaborate together to meet the needs of all learners.

Each year, schools across the nation are seeing an increase in the amount of English language learners they are receiving. Teachers of all grade levels are finding it harder and harder to teach these ELLs because of lack of or little to no proper training. So the article, Setting the Foundation for Working with English Language Learners in the Secondary Classroom aims to show you the ideas and strategies that current and future teachers can incorporate into their daily class lessons to make them more effective in meeting the academic needs of ELLs and in helping them learn the target language.

The viewpoint of teacher C supports the ideas suggested by Atkinson (1987). He suggests that a satisfactory compromise when giving instructions is to give the instructions in the target language and ask for students’ repetition in their native language. This may ensure that everyone understands what he or she is required to do in the

After reading chapters 6 & 13 in James Crawford’s book Educating English Learners, two political events that affected the education of English language learners stood out: Proposition 227 also known as the English for the Children Initiative and The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also known as The Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In 1997, Ron Unz organized the creation of Proposition 227 with the help of prominent Latinos. The main objective of the Proposition was to meet conflicting political and policy goals. Unz sought to outlaw a program that many parents wanted without appearing to restrict parental choice; to tie the hands of the school boards that favored bilingual education without seeming to usurp their authority; and to eliminate

Sometimes more than one method is used to bring out the anticipated outcomes in the language classroom where communication develops the key factor of teaching-learning process. Unless students learn to utilise the classroom method to express thoughts and feelings outside into the real world situations, the learning cannot be effective no matter whatever teaching method is applied in English as a Second Language classroom. Teacher- student role becomes the centre in bringing out the maximum within the limited time in a

Language is the link between people. English is the international language of business which opens up many opportunities to non native speakers. This English Language Teaching skills provides valuable service to immigrants in English speaking countries and many more. This paper helps the learner to enhance the intercultural communication in the classroom or any place. It is an opportunity to enable the learners to relish the English language. It mainly concentrates on the beginners to Intermediate who wants to create an interest in learning this language.

For this reason, it is necessary to look for good resources and materials to support the language teaching-learning process. It necessary to notice the role that each skill plays in the language acquisition. For instance, Listening is considered as the basis of developing the other skills, it is because, through listening, learners learn vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Then, reading, permit learners to expand their vocabulary and learn grammatical structure. After that, writing, which allows students to produce the language. Finally, speaking recognizes as one of the main skill that allows students to produce the language and use the knowledge that acquired with the other skills.

The topic I chose to focus my synthesis paper on was differentiating instruction in the English Language Arts classroom. I selected this particular area as my focus because I am a sixth grade English Language Arts teacher and am always looking for ways to better diversify what I do in my classroom to help all of my students. I found three wonderful articles that gave me fresh perspective on ways to help my classroom be more successful. The articles I chose to focus on involved using journal letters to help with individualized responses, incorporating librarians into the classroom, and how fluency and vocabulary comprehension affects English Language Arts data. After reading the articles and textbooks, I feel that I have a better

I believe that a learner must be a high-flier and ambitious to learn the language. I don’t believe in spoon-feeding. Learners should not be only receptive but also producers. Classroom activities are important and can make the whole class contribute and get into interaction. This will help learners to overcome their embarrassment and break the ice.

Therefore, my supervisor also recommended me to try to use the language that is simple, easy, and fit to the students’ level and he even suggested me to carefully anticipate the unexpected problems that may occur during the teaching. All of the comments and advice provided by my supervisor and associate teacher were precious to me because without all of those things I wouldn’t have done my teaching practicum successfully.

The Lexical Approach is based on the idea that language is made up of other structural elements besides what we traditionally think of as grammar. Instruction focuses on relatively fixed expressions that occur frequently in spoken language rather than on originally created sentences (Lewis, 1997a). This digest provides an overview of the methodological foundations underlying the lexical approach and the pedagogical implications. The lexical approach to foreign language teaching has received interest in recent years as an alternative to grammar-based approaches. The lexical approach concentrates on developing learners' proficiency with lexis, or words and word combinations. It is based on the idea that an important part of language acquisition is the ability to comprehend and

I will give a lesson to a number of Intermediate School students from the age of 11 to the age of 15 about one or tow simple rules of grammar using Communicative language teaching methods, and make an interview with each of them (before and after) in order to measure the absorbing of the rules that has been given, and the development of their conversation skills.

According to Edward Anthony (1963), approach is the level at which assumptions and beliefs about language and language learning are specified; syllabus is the design for carrying out a particular language program; technique is any of a wide variety of exercises, activities or devices used in the language classroom for realizing lesson objectives; exercise is a teaching procedure that involves controlled, guided or open ended practice of some aspect of language. Theories at the level of approach relate directly to the level of design since they provide the basis

Teaching involves the principles and methods used for instruction to be implemented by teachers to achieve the desired learning objectives. Teaching methodology is generally divided into two broad categories,

The purpose of this report is to recommend to the Winn Parish School Board the teaching method that would be the most effective for teaching English Language Learners (ELLs). I analyzed two available solutions: the scaffolding teaching method and the differentiated instruction teaching method. I evaluated both teaching methods based on the flexibility in regards to allowing students’ needs to be met, ease of implementation of each teaching strategy into the classroom, and effectiveness of how of each method helps the students learn and complete what is required of them.