Teaching English as a foreign language

Abstract Teaching English, especially for children, should be enjoyable, interesting, repetitive, and understandable. In doing so, there should be appropriate methods for teaching English to them. One of the alternative methods that can be applied in the classroom is the so-called Total Physical Response. This method tries to introduce some language skills or components in an action in which a teacher serves three roles: an order taker, a model provider, and an action monitor in which learners serve

Assistant Professor English Language & Literature Alliance University Shraddha.dave8@gmail.com 7204092104 Abstract Literature as a Tool for Language Teaching The use of literature in teaching English as a second language has begun to receive consideration specially in EFL for last many years. It has been considered as the highly beneficial by many EFL teachers. The need and aspirations of this research paper is to give the importance of literature and teacher in teaching English language skills. The main

Taylor Tayfel Mr. Ramlow English 12CP Period 6 20 March 2015 Learning a Second Language: How Late is Too Late? I have taken four whole years of Spanish and the only thing I know how to say is, “¿Hola, cómo estás?” Research shows that the best time for a person to learn a second language is during the early years of childhood, before the child hits puberty. If this is the case then why do most schools start teaching a foreign language in middle school, after most kids have hit puberty. Some believe

Is native English speaker better teacher than the one that has English as the second language? When a person chose to study English at university, doing that deliberately to become an English teacher in a foreign, preferably Asian, countries. To explore new cultures and to meet new people through English. They might begin to look around for suitable job offers in advance to get information and prepare themselves for any certificates and qualifications needed. But after a while, they may find out

the English language lessons for more effective teaching and learning. One of the priorities of Kazakhstan is the trilingual language policy of the State. The president of our country, Nursulatan Nazarbaev, has called citizens of Kazakhstan to learn three languages: Kazakh, Russian and English. He said: “Knowledge of three languages should become a standard practice for us. We are teaching these languages to our children starting from their first year at school. We need the English language to enter

the part of the citizens. Without this, Nigeria will be linguistically, politically, educationally and socially isolated from her francophone neighbors. This realization informed certain provisions guiding language study in Nigeria education system. The learning and use of the foreign language is not only peculiar to Nigeria. It is a worldwide phenomenon. Early bilingual education was advocated by the Renaissance humanists but in more recent times, international organizations are reiterating that

Teaching English as a Second Language to an Elementary School Student’s Name: Institution: Instructors name: Date: Introduction According to Celce-Mursia (2001), teaching English to people who speak other languages (TESOL) refers to a learning process by which people whose native language is not English are taught how to read, write, understand and successfully communicate in English. He notes that different shortened forms are used to refer to the same concept in different parts of the

Introduction The material I chose to evaluate is the official English textbook ‘Go for it!’ (Grade 9) published by People 's Education Press. It is widely used in Mainland China as a standard teaching material of national compulsory education. This book is prepared for Chinese teenage aged 13-15 who are the beginners of English study. In this report, I intend to evaluate Unit 1‘How do you study for a test?’ and Unit 12 ‘ You’re supposed to shake hands.’, using what I have learned as well as my own

As the world’s economy globalizes, English becomes the first priority language among the foreign languages in most non-English speaking countries, including China. In China, there is a boost of English learning and teaching (Sun, 2013). More and more Chinese people learn English as a second or foreign language. However, according to a survey of China’s language situation that was conducted in 2006, only 1.8% of English learners in China claimed to be able to act as interpreters on formal occasions

Reiwind H Tutuiha NIM : 2013-36-015 “COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING” Nowadays, English is an International Language and become a global language of the world. We can find English in all over the world. In fact, more than 100 countries in the world use English. Neither people use English as a national language, official language, second language nor as a foreign language. In Indonesia, English position as a foreign language. We can find English as one of major subject in the school. Meanwhile, beside