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    different languages, with students coming from differing social and cultural backgrounds for the common goal of education. Yet, more often than not in a traditional passive learning environment, these unique voices may not all be heard, with curriculum not always catering to the communicative abilities of everyone in the classroom. This paper will argue that in order to most effectively teach a classroom of students, a teacher must grasp a firm understanding of the socio-cultural nature of language, and

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    Writing records the lives of a people and so is the first necessary step in the written history of a culture or civilization. One example of this problem is the difficulty scholars of the late 19th/early 20th centuries had in understanding the Mayan Civilization, in that they could not read the glyphs of the Maya and so wrongly interpreted

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    Research Concept Paper Research title: Using Oral Corrective Feedback Collaborate with Written Corrective Feedback to Encourage long-term improvement and understanding of English Writing Skill Introduction Nowadays, English is one of important languages in the world because it is used as an international language in all fields around the world. From this reason, it is necessary to know all aspects of this language. Academic English writing is also an important skill since it is used extensively

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    through the 1980s-1990s. Emergent literacy is based upon the notion that children learn literacy skills through print. Teale and Sulzby (1991) proposed that emergent literacy be recognized as a new model for conceptualizing young children 's written language development. Teale and Sulzby defined emergent literacy as "the reading and writing concepts, behaviors, and dispositions that precede and develop into conventional literacy" (Teale, 1995, p.107). By the mid-1980s emergent reading/literacy became

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    The above statement explains that to understand language, one must learn to view language objectively, without any meaning or context added to the language. This would present the reader or audience with nothing but pure language and with no other meaning or slang that would cause some language to mean something else in a different context. For example, if you were to view language as an object without any social context, then the word ‘book’ is simply a book, a collection of pages that tell a story

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    preschool teachers did not feel like he was ready for it. Luke was well motivated during the test and kept telling the examiner that he was doing a great job. The test seemed to accurately measure the students abilities. Luke scored a 91 in the Oral Language cluster. This cluster included the Story Recall and the Understanding Directions tests. Luke received a 74 on the Story Recall test and a 103 on the Understanding Directions test. Luke was below average in the Story Recall section, but high average

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    meaning, and for reaching understanding through written expression. In reflecting on my experiences as an educator and studies in literacy pedagogies, learning to write is a tool for thinking. Writing and literacy development are authentic and purposeful processes. Writing requires an intrinsic motivation and instruction should be organized in such a way that students not only learn to write but understand the importance of being able to communicate in written form both in and out of the academic setting

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    Research title Using Oral Corrective Feedback with Written Corrective Feedback to Encourage students’ improvement of English Writing Skill Introduction Nowadays, English is one of the important languages in the world because it is used as an international language in all fields. For this reason, it is necessary to know all aspects of this language. Academic English writing is also an important skill since it is used extensively in higher education and in the workplace. However, many Thai students

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    Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Phonics and phonemic awareness may seem like similar concepts, but this is not the case. Phonemic awareness involves sounds in oral language and phonics involves the association between printed symbols and sounds. Therefore, phonics instruction emphasizes teaching sound-spelling associations and is connected with print. Generally, phonemic awareness tasks are oral (Blevins, 2016). Even though these two components focal points differ, both phonemic instruction and phonics

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    with that people were able to farm instead of hunting and gathering which lead to population expansion thus this is when a Civilization begin. With a Civilization, the people within the society sets forth a form of government standard and a writing language. First of all, one characteristic of a civilization is its writing system. Stated from document 3 “Civilizations develop writing systems” “Writing

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