thousand five hundred million people worldwide speak English, of whom three hundred seventy five million are native speakers (McKay 2016). Therefore, English language is now considered as an international language, and it is often taught as a foreign language accompanied by teaching both American and British Cultural studies. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), in simple words, means the teaching of English language in a non-English-speaking region. Education in American and British cultures
English has obtained a rank of an associate language, however in reality it is the most important language of India. It is the most ordinarily spoken language in India and presumably the most read and written language in India after Hindi. English in India is utilized not for speaking with the outside world; but rather additionally for between state and intrastate correspondence. On account of the considerable ethnic and phonetic differences found inside our country, English goes about as an essential
which is a language. Human uses language to express their thought and culture. Human language systems formed by rules and structures. Among those rules and structures, morphology is the study of word structure and word-formation. Without of system of morphology
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
in team teaching. The objectives of the research were; (1) to explore the NESTs and non-NESTs’ beliefs about lesson plan in team teaching at two different Junior High School in Ponorogo, (2) to explore the implementation of NESTs and non-NESTs’ beliefs about lesson plan in team teaching (3) to explore discrepancies between teachers’ beliefs and practice, (4) factors are responsible for shaping those beliefs and its implementation. The informants of the research were two pairs of English team teachers
they are not good at English especially in developing countries. Though they have English medium education from school level onwards, most of them are unable to speak general English and not competent in technical writing. They know the importance of English but they fail to realize the gateway to express their core knowledge is communication skills only. Corporate world need people not just with the knowledge but with the expression of knowledge and it is just with language that one can be able
Faculty of Literature and Humanities Department of English Language and Literature Master’s Thesis Developing a Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis (CCDA) Framework for Interaction Analysis in an Iranian EFL Context By: Amin Davoodi Supervisor: Mostafa Hasrati, PhD Advisor: Nouroddin Yousofi, PhD February, 2015 Acknowledgment I would like to express my special appreciation and thanks to all those who contributed to this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my immense gratitude
there has emerged a need for an international language to be spoken and used as a means for international communication. People of the world nowadays consider English language learning as an important asset to raise their knowledge in different branches of science and technology. Hence, a desire to learn English and communicate through this language is a pervasive phenomenon. Moreover, since English is the most dominant second/foreign language in non-English speaking countries, developing modern supporting
English has become the basic need of this era. For good reputation and status in educational society and economical market it is essential to have command on English. But it looks dream when we drop in on our educational institute and its learners especially learners of secondary level. At this level they are unable to comprehend English as they should according to their educational standard. There may be many reasons for their intelligibility. Therefore, the researcher has attempted to make an intensive
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background Teaching English as a foreign Language to Arab students, specifically, to the Sudanese ones requires from EFL teachers to devote a considerable amount of time and effort in different areas of the learning process. Improving students' performance and competence in the four basic skills of English (receptive and productive) has for a long time, been the main concern of the teachers in classrooms. In addition to the grammatical rules which represent the main focus