...While talking to parents how will you convince them that play is also learning? (200 words) I believe that children, through play, act out and explore new things that mould them for the future. I see these as "trial experiences" that represent a much bigger and more deep-rooted exploration of their society, rules and surroundings. Exploratory play offers them the chance to discover and learn all about their surroundings first hand while games with role playing allow them to act out what they perceive a character to be like through past experiences, perceptions or even their imagination. Physical play is incredibly important as these games offer them a chance to not only improve on their physical and motor skills but these games also have rules which are to be followed in order to maintain harmony within the given play group thus creating more social awareness within the child. I believe that a child's imagination is an important tool that needs to be nurtured and encouraged and games and play are the best way to do that. Through play, building a vocabulary becomes fun and less effort. Without putting pressure on the student, we can play syllable games, word games, etc. to test the child's present level of understanding, use new words in relation to words they are already comfortable with so that they can grasp the meaning and make it part of their speech. Certain "fill in the blank" games will let them use their imagination by inserting words they feel are appropriate to include...
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...Cristian N. Mormoloc WORKSHEET – UNIT 1 Task 1 – List 5 qualities that a ‘good’ teacher should have and give reasons for your choices. Which of these qualities do you consider to be more important, and why? 1. Ability to easily pass the knowledge onto the students; 2. Capacity of turning the more complicated topics into easy-to-understand topics and delivering them that way; 3. Good knowledge of the subject; 4. Adaptability to each student’s level; 5. Knowing when to “push” on some task or when to help the students throughout the task they might have. I consider that the most important quality is the knowledge that the teacher has, followed closely by the capacity of delivering that knowledge in an easy-to-comprehend manner, adapted to the level of the student or group. I consider these to be the basic requirements that should be a must for the teacher – the rest of the requirements (/qualities) are a consequence of the way of being as person, or the schooling environment, as well as the culture of the students, willingness to study, capacity of staying focused, life experience, age, aso. Task 2 – State what you consider to be the five most important roles of a teacher. Describe each role and say why you think it is important. 1. Tutor; 2. Resource or facilitator; 3. Prompter; 4. Assessor; 5. Manager (and also controller on the same rank of importance). 1. Tutor: in my opinion, the tutor characteristic of a teacher is outstanding in front of the...
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...Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture (JCLC) Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012, ISSN 2325-2200 Copyright © World Science Publisher, United States www.worldsciencepublisher.org Making interrogative sentences in English and Persian languages: A contrastive analysis (CA) approach 1 2 3 Bahman Gorjian*, Mohammad Naghizadeh, Parisa Shahramiri 1Department of TEFL, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran 2Department of TEFL, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khouzestan, Iran 3Department of TEFL, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran *bahgorji@yahoo.com Abstract-The aim of this paper is to investigate the forms of questions in Persian and English in order to identify the similarities and differences between them. CA may look at linguistic structures in a twofold way: predictability power and wash back effect (Cheng, Watanabe & Curtis, 2004). The former deals with foreseeing the areas of problems the Iranian learners may commit and the latter refers to the effect of diagnostic value of CA on improvement of teaching processes. CA in the present study focuses on interrogative sentences which are in the form of questions (e.g., Did you clean the table?) which play a very important role in learning English among Iranian high school students. Many Iranian learners, especially at the elementary and intermediate levels, have a lot of problems with the production of English questions accurately. Thus this study is mainly a descriptive...
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...1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 1 - 250 - Vocabulary for ESL EFL TEFL TOEFL TESL English Learners Rank Word 1 the 2 of 3 to 4 and 5a 6 in 7 is 8 it 9 you 10 that 11 he 12 was 13 for 14 on 15 are 16 with 17 as 18 I 19 his 20 they 21 be 22 at 23 one 24 have 25 this 26 from 27 or 28 had 29 by 30 hot 31 word 32 but 33 what 34 some 35 we 36 can 37 out 38 other 39 were 40 all 41 there 42 when 43 up 44 use 45 your 46 how 47 said 48 an 49 each 50 she 51 which 52 do 53 their 54 time 55 if 56 will 57 way 58 about 59 many 60 then 61 them 62 write 63 would 64 like 65 so 66 these 67 her 68 long 69 make 70 thing 71 see 72 him 73 two 74 has 75 look 76 more 77 day 78 could 79 go 80 come 81 did 82 number 83 sound 84 no 85 most 86 people 87 my 88 over 89 know 90 water 91 than 92 call 93 first 94 who 95 may 96 down 97 side 98 been 99 now 100 find 101 any 102 new 103 work 104 part 105 take 106 get 107 place 108 made 109 live 110 where 111 after 112 back 113 little 114 only 115 round 116 man 117 year 118 came 119 show 120 every 121 good 122 me 123 give 124 our 125 under 126 name 127 very 128 through 129 just 130 form 131 sentence 132 great 133 think 134 say 135 help 136 low 137 line 138 differ 139 turn 140 cause 141 much 142 mean 143 before Rank Word 144 move 145 right 146 boy 147 old 148 too 149 same 150 tell 151 does 152 set 153 three 154 want 155 air 156 well 157 also 158 play 159 small 160 end 161 put 162 home 163 read 164 hand 165 port 166 large 167 spell 168 add 169...
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...1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 1 - 250 - Vocabulary for ESL EFL TEFL TOEFL TESL English Learners Rank Word 1 the 2 of 3 to 4 and 5a 6 in 7 is 8 it 9 you 10 that 11 he 12 was 13 for 14 on 15 are 16 with 17 as 18 I 19 his 20 they 21 be 22 at 23 one 24 have 25 this 26 from 27 or 28 had 29 by 30 hot 31 word 32 but 33 what 34 some 35 we 36 can 37 out 38 other 39 were 40 all 41 there 42 when 43 up 44 use 45 your 46 how 47 said 48 an 49 each 50 she 51 which 52 do 53 their 54 time 55 if 56 will 57 way 58 about 59 many 60 then 61 them 62 write 63 would 64 like 65 so 66 these 67 her 68 long 69 make 70 thing 71 see 72 him 73 two 74 has 75 look 76 more 77 day 78 could 79 go 80 come 81 did 82 number 83 sound 84 no 85 most 86 people 87 my 88 over 89 know 90 water 91 than 92 call 93 first 94 who 95 may 96 down 97 side 98 been 99 now 100 find 101 any 102 new 103 work 104 part 105 take 106 get 107 place 108 made 109 live 110 where 111 after 112 back 113 little 114 only 115 round 116 man 117 year 118 came 119 show 120 every 121 good 122 me 123 give 124 our 125 under 126 name 127 very 128 through 129 just 130 form 131 sentence 132 great 133 think 134 say 135 help 136 low 137 line 138 differ 139 turn 140 cause 141 much 142 mean 143 before Rank Word 144 move 145 right 146 boy 147 old 148 too 149 same 150 tell 151 does 152 set 153 three 154 want 155 air 156 well 157 also 158 play 159 small 160 end 161 put 162 home 163 read 164 hand 165 port 166 large 167 spell 168 add 169...
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...opportunity to take a break from the grind of studying, experience different cultures and most importantly transition from being high school students into young adults before heading off to college. In 1978 Charles, The Prince of Wales launched Operation Drake a gap year expedition circumnavigating the globe by ship. This is one of the riskier gap year choices, most choices are much tamer and include lodging in a youth hostel or a tent and not on the high seas. The top 10 destinations for gap year according to leading adventure website itoi.com are; 1. South Africa 2. Costa Rica 3. Kenya 4. Sri Lanka 5. Tanzania 6.Honduras, 7. India, 8. Australia, 9.Argentina and 10.China "Gap Year - Top Ten Destinations." Gap Year Travel, Volunteer Abroad, TEFL Courses and More from I-to-i. Web. 21 Feb. 2011. . "Gap Year." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 21 Feb. 2011. . "'Gap Year' before College Gives Grads Valuable Life Experience - USATODAY.com." News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. Web. 21 Feb. 2011....
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...Students: Information Storage and Retrieval Date: August 1999 to August 2000 Name: Nice Language Academy Type of Business: Education (South Korea) Position Held: English Teacher Main Activities: Elementary/Middle School Level Speaking, Writing, Grammar, and phonics Date: August 1998 to August 1999 Name: Berzsenyi Daniel College Type of Business: Education (Hungary) Position Held: Assistant Lecturer Main Activities: Adult Level: Teacher Training, Classroom Pedagogy, and American Studies EDUCATION & TRAINING Date: April 2005 to May 2005 Name and Type of Organization: Text and Talk, Teacher Certification Program Principle Subjects: English teaching methods, grammar, phonics, language development Title of Qualification: TEFL Certificate Date:...
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...Name : Kadek Ari Yuliani NIM/Class : 1312021048/5B FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ ANXIETY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT Learning English becomes a complicated subject matter for foreign language learners. The process of acquiring a foreign language should be achieved naturally nevertheless, most of foreign language learners feel this process is full of challenges and can be a stressful activity for them (Hewitt & Stefenson, 2011 as cited in Khodady & Khajavy, 2013, p. 269-289). Some researchers claim that language anxiety plays a prominent role in achieving the successfulness of language learning processes. Language anxiety expounded as “distinct complex of self-perceptions, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors related to classroom language learning arising from the uniqueness of the language learning process” (Horwitz et al. 1986, p. 128). Language anxiety of foreign language learners contributes both positive and negative effect to their achievement in language learning processes. The study about the relationship between foreign language learners’ anxiety and their achievement is not a recent topic in education, it has been discussed for many years. Alpert and Haber (1960 cited in Wu. 2010 ) mentioned two types of language anxiety effects, they are, debilitating anxiety and facilitating anxiety. Debilitating anxiety means that language anxiety motivate the students to escape or decamp from language learning processes. The language anxiety makes learners feel underestimated...
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...English per se, and if such high standard and qualification are needed for learners to survive in the job market, then these learners should be taking classes in IT, and not be relying on their English teacher to provide them with such training. . 2. Teachers are not paid enough to spend all their free time learning to use new digital tools and implementing them. It takes hours to moderate a wiki or Moodle account, to respond to comments on a blog, to find appropriate games and video clips, to maintain the students’ interest in class chats on Twitter or Facebook, and to read other teachers’ blogs for more ideas and development. And most schools do not pay teachers to do this. I constantly get told, ‘You must not have a life outside TEFL. I treasure my private life and I am certainly not sacrificing it...
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...(2009). Native and non-Native English Speaking Teachers’ Beleifs and Their Influence on Their Practice: A Case Study of Elementary Team-Teaching in Hsin Chu City. Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 6(2), 93-120. [4] Fauziati, Endang. (2015). Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Principle and Practice. Surakarta: Era PustakaUtama. [5] Harmer, Jeremy. (2005). How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching. Essex: Longman. [6] Brown, H. D. (2000). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. New York: Longman. [7] Luo, W.-H. (2006). Collaboration between Native and Non-native English-Speaking Teachers: How does it work? The Journal of Asia TEFL, 3(3), 41–58. [8] Tsai, Jui-Min. (2007). Team Teaching and Teachers’ Professional Learning: Case Studies of Collaboration between Foreign and Taiwanese English Teachers in Taiwanese Elementary Schools. [9] Islam, Mohammad Nurul. (2011). Collaboration between Native and Non-native English-Speaking Teachers. Studies in Literature and Language, 2(1), 33-41. [10] Chang, Chiung Wen. (2012). Exploring the Beliefs of Native and Non-Native English Speaking Kindergarten Teachers in Taiwan. International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning, 2(5),...
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...Corporate well-being INTERMEDIATE 1 Warm-up How important do you think it is for a company to have a healthy workforce? 2 Vocabulary Match the following words to their correct definition: 1.|absenteeism|a.|a long walk for pleasure or exercise, usually in the countryside or mountains| 2.|well-being|b.|an organisation which provides money or help to people in need (e.g. ill or poor| |||people)| 3.|charity|c.|the state of feeling healthy and happy| 4.|temptation|d.|the substances that influence your health, which you take into your body as food| 5.|hike|e.|the way in which a person stands, sits or walks| 6.|eyestrain|f.|tired or painful eyes as a result of too much reading, looking at a computer| |||screen, etc.| 7.|nutrition|g.|wanting to have something that you know you should not have| 8.|posture|h.|when employees are not at work when they should be| 3 Reading Read the article `Corporate well-being' about the different health initiatives that the UK company i-to-i has experimented with. Answer the following questions: 1. Why is a healthy workforce good for business? 2. What happens on `Fruity Friday'? Is this initiative a complete success? Why/why not? 3. What did i-to-i give its staff as a reward? Why did they stop it? 4. Why did the firm cancel the Tai Chi classes? 5. What was the `Caledonian Challenge'? 6. Why was the 14-mile hike more popular than the Caledonian Challenge? 7. Which key areas does...
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...FunTaskSticks: Aligning the games with course outcomes of Physics and Biology for Pre-science students Irma Ahmad1, Suhaiza Hasan2, Nur Azimah Osman3 1UiTM Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia) 2UiTM Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia) 3UiTM Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia) irma@ns.uitm.edu.my, suhaiza@ns.uitm.edu.my, azimah@ns.uitm.edu.my Abstract The demand for increasing the number of students to pass the pre-diploma programmes has boost up the need for active and motivating learning tools. To rouse the number of passing grades, various programs and series of lectures were conducted for pre-science students at UiTM Negeri Sembilan. However, none of the activities is in form of games. FunTaskSticks is a game that has been modified from the original Pick-Up Sticks and repurposed into instructional lesson as part of learning exercises to support students learning activities in informal educational settings. Therefore, in this study it attempts to investigate how FunTaskSticks could engage the learning process of Physics and Biology and assist them to improve their fundamental grammar of English language by using the terms and terminologies that they have learned in classes and from the game. There were 24 pre-diploma students who participated in this study. The finding revealed that FunTaskSticks is not only educating the students cognitively, but also affectively. Students learn to acknowledge, criticized and praise each other which has increased their motivation level and also their...
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...f60c43b4fa062a6468c9ed3daf06d40fe592caa8f90fd53518041d2b190a5409 more… 8 Spanish Words We Should Be Using in English The following eight Spanish words have been carefully selected from two years on the Iberian peninsula spent studying the language and befriending its people. BY ED M. WOOD When I left university I felt like I was bursting through a set of saloon swing doors, arms loaded with qualifications about to hold up the professional world until they handed over the job of my dreams. I think many graduates feel like this, and this misplaced confidence compounds the disappointment when the professional world shrugs its collective shoulders. My reaction to this disappointment was to turn my back on the opportunity vacuum and stock up on soft skills. I googled for TEFL courses in Spain, found a charming townlet called Zamora in Castilla y Leon and booked myself a one-way ticket. My Spanish education, albeit informal, started almost as soon as we touched down. I was tasked with navigating my way across Madrid weighed down by my backpack and an oppressive, immovable mid-summer mugginess. Your relationship...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING INTRODUCTION Nowadays, the way many people interact with each other changed because of technology. In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships people make? Has this become a positive or negative development? It is true that nowadays technology rules the world. Undoubtedly, human interaction has been influenced through introduction of new technological devices. Obviously, there are positive and negative impacts on people communication that technology is responsible for. First of all, absolute advantage is that technology makes the world move faster. To support, speed of daily business interactions increasing all the time. Internet, mobile phones, online conferences significantly saves time on solving any business issues such as contract agreement, recruitment procedures or client attraction. Introduction of new software or modified machines boosts volumes of production as well as it saves time. Moreover, technology overcomes distance obstacle tremendously. For instance, use of mobile phones, internet provides people with the opportunity to find new friends all over the world, without leaving own apartment and stay connected with relatives while studying or working abroad. On the other hand, introduction and popularity of new technological devices may have harmful impact on human interaction. It is mentioned that people prefer spending their time using personal gadgets over real face to face communication. This problem has...
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...I'm going to write about two aspects of change I can forsee being beneficial to my current career change. My Mum is going to retire from their geophysical instrument business, leaving my Dad doing some part time technical moderation and repair to the equipment. Briefly, the sole trader business serves mainly the UK market, occasionally reaching European destinations. I would like to take over from Mum upgrading my career into a more marketing venture, trying to use my skills in Spanish to conquer Spanish market, with the view to taking over the administration and marketing side from my mother. I have noticed that the European trade is easy to acquire if you can show good communication relations and offer some kind of technical support. Especially, if there is a research element to the equipment order. Some clients are university clients and surveyors wanting to check the ground for which they are building on. I am good on computers and can already do administration. I can foresee myself taking on the marketing side and concerntrating on trying to see where the big projects are happening in Spain which will require the equipment. I will get hold of project managers and site addresses, sending a business card with a sheet of information about the equipment. This table compares foreign workers output compared to Germans. I speak good German from school and I have noticed a trend in more efficient workers means greater demand for equipment, because often finances are more...
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