ethnicity etc. We find our classrooms are populated with gifted students, students with culturally diverse, and students with learning disabilities. The diversity variables focus on my analysis are the age group, culture, gender and language. Identifying how different students learn and their learning patterns is a way in which teachers can meet the learning needs of diverse students (Bank et al.,2009). I am currently working with ESL learners of age 10-12. I teach them English and French language. I
“Communicating in English: Flexibility Within a Norm,” written by Mark D. Offner in March 1995 for the Bulletin of Aichi Institute of Technology. Offner suggests defining a standard English is useless, and idiom and transmissibility-factor which are beyond control determines form of English. The author argues that English has many shapes that have many special accents, pronunciations, grammar, and expressions, and forms of English adapted to the regional environment as necessary, so English has many directs
2.1 Style The concepts of ‘style’ and ‘stylistic variation’ in language refers to the fact that even in the same system, the same language item can be formulated and combined in a variety of different ways. This concept is applied at all levels of language may it be literature, linguistics, syntax and so on and stylisticians are responsible for analyzing this unique style of writing across that text. Generally speaking, researchers may regard style as a choice from the general pool of language available
Teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) requires instructors to apply different kinds of methodologies or approaches in order to let students learn the target language. Unfortunately, the majority of EFL teachers do not take into account their pupils’ needs in order to communicate appropriately in class by using English as a foreign language. To illustrate, some educators base their classes on memorization that does not provide any meaningful learning for their students since the only objective
available, many teacher evaluations are based on information about teacher competence or teacher performance” (p. 616). Clark (1995) presents many qualities of effective teachers he got from his research using student evaluations, trained observers in classrooms, verbal reports by teachers and students,
needed. Every person who enters a classroom impacts the learning that takes place. I play a large part in what happens in my classroom, and my background certainly impacts this. I was raised in a culture that celebrates diversity. I was raised to appreciate what each individual and culture brings to our world as opposed to seeing them as a threat to my own individuality and culture. Therefore, I try to bring this curiosity and appreciation for others into my classroom. I truly believe that my students
of Gattullo (2000) Ruiz‐Primo & Furtak (2007), Pham (2012), Buyukkarci (2014) and Wubshet & Menuta (2015). Gattullo (2000) conducted a case study on formative assessment in English language teaching elementary classrooms in Italy. He observed four primary teachers’ performance in applying formative assessment in their classroom. Gattullo focused on children classes and reported the methods used. He adapted a formative assessment framework which consists of nine categories: Questioning/ eliciting,
According to Dhillon (2011), it was mentioned that Perceptual Learning Style Preference Questionnaire (PLSPQ) by Reid (1987) was specifically designed for adult non-native speakers of English language. As my research is focused on primary school students, it is not guaranteed that the PLSPQ is suitable to be administered in this research. A pilot test will be done on primary school students to ensure the suitability and reliability of this questionnaire in this current research. Despite this limitation
developed for the present study. It has also shown that the significant of spending the amount of time online can actually help to improve pupils` English Language proficiency. 2.2 The help of Internet The most used language on the internet is English, which is set on more than half of all the pages on the web. Those pages cover every style of English such as business, conversational, scientific reports, new, sports etc. and this makes the internet an ideal resource for interactive learning. What
(4) Facilitate Focused Development of English Language Skills A well-designed language learning class should help second language learners effectively develop their English language skills (i.e., listening, speaking, reading and writing), and provide students with multiple opportunities to practice of these skills (Butler-Pascoe, 2003). Appropriate 4 and