Teaching English as a foreign language

important skill for the person who is learning English because in verbal communication we cannot communicate with each other without listening to the speaker’s utterances and understanding them. However, listening is a very demanding and challenging skill for the learners to master. Many students often encounter trouble in listening to foreign people even though they are doing well in the English classroom. According to Rubin (1995:8), “For second/foreign language learners, listening is the skill that makes

the process-based approach concentrates on the communicativeness of the written texts. Moreover, the process-based approach is a learner-centered, rather than a language-centered mode. The process of second/foreign language writing, as well as writing in the native language, involves three distinct stages followed by foreign language writers: (a) pre-writing, rehearsing, or the write-based phase, in which the ideas are gathered and generated; (b) drafting, or product-based phase in which the writer

of English in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Languages have a prominent status in all societies and in all developed and developing countries. The languages take this status because they are devices for communicating between humans. In many countries, there is more than one language that the people speak. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for example, the Arabic language is the official language in the country, and the English language is the second language that the citizens speak. The English language

English is addressed globally as the language of science, technology, business, and mediation. It is a primary language of mass entertainment and news reporting and the default language of the internet (Crystal 2004). The most popular characterization of the different roles of English around the world is the (ENL) English as a Native Language, the ESL English as a Second Language and (EFL), English as a Foreign Language, as described in 1998, MacArthur. The ENL approach is how most people in the

Reestablishing English as a Global Language Abstract Information Technology has brought forward a new wave of acquiring knowledge worldwide. Since the concept of Globalization came into existence, the world is in immediate want of a standard language to deal with this high speed transmitted knowledge. English is one of the sole language that has travelled worldwide and is known to many. Though it is not the language largely spoken by people, it nevertheless has made technology, its use and communication

Introduction Nowadays English has become one of the most used languages all around the world, with this, the necessity of learning English as a foreign language is one that hundreds of people all around the world have. All these people have different reasons to learn the language and different learning styles. This essay will try to explain through the use of research why and how people learn English as a foreign language. Students Background This essay will try to explain through the use

In the long history of language learning, especially in the case of learning English as L2, educationalists have been tirelessly trying to explore more and more practical approaches that ranged from conventional methods like Grammar translation method, Direct method, Situational Language Teaching etc., to the latest mode of communicative approach. The conventional teaching methods - the unsuccessful result of the earlier language theories, were proved to be ineffective, because it was felt in all

not new in English language teaching, because it has been used by language teacher for many years. At the time, it was called “classical method” since it was first used in the teaching of the classical languages, Latin and Greek. There are many method that usually used by teacher to teach foreign languages. One of them is Grammar Translation Method. The characteristics of this method are used to teach grammar in the class, focused on translation and memorizing that given in native language. It was used

Introduction Learning English via Internet is easier than ever. With the ease of using technology, you can practice speaking, reading, listening and writing skills from your home or your place of work .There are many institutes via Internet offering high quality, innovative, and effective methods of teaching in different languages with the encouragement and mutual understanding and respect between different cultures. Institutes create teaching programs that allow students to acquire basic skills

higher among students who had video-oriented tests. Introduction Review of literature Nowadays English has become a common feature in today’s society. In the language learning process, even in first language acquisition (L1), all aspects of linguistic comprehension precede, or facilitate, linguistic production (Brown, 2000, P. 34). Among 4 language skills, Bulletin (1952) suggested that listening is the most important and essential one. Lynch mentions that “ listening involves