Introduction Argumentative essay is one of the key text-types included in the English curriculum in Hong Kong. Students in Hong Kong first learn to write arguments in their first language in junior secondary and then move onto English argumentative essays in senior secondary. Many of them find it difficult to write an argumentative essay in English. Even in L1 context, writing an argument is a challenging task for a majority of students as they have difficulty in recognizing and applying argumentative
How important are teachers in education? In the modern education system, students are seemingly fed prescribed knowledge, rather than core knowledge. Prescribed knowledge supplied to us students deprives us of the ability to think critically, and perhaps challenge the status quo. It ingrains a sense of conformity within us, where opposing another person's views seems a crime. The primary purpose of education, in my opinion, is to help us find out true selves, help us trigger our passion, and teach
predictors of academic achievement. Initially, this essay will identify a modern definition of engagement. This essay will then explore the psychological theories of student motivation, cognitive development processes and multiple intelligences and the ways in which these aspects influence student engagement in the learning process and evaluate the significance of these theories in relation to the contemporary Irish whole- school environment. The essay will also explore the relevance of emotional intelligence
Description The purpose of this essay is to explain why Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is one of the most useful tools and movements regarding L2 written discourse learning. Writing Across the Curriculum is conceived as a movement where writing receives pedagogical or curricular attention from outside literature or another English composition program. Specifically, WAC refers to a university-related initiative where the teacher use a writing made by a student as a tool of guidance in their
WILLIAM BRYANT On Fear William Bryant. born in 1980, graduated from the University of Harvard and later received his masters from Yale University. He studied Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics, and has been in a professor at Stanford University since 2008. However, Bryant also has multiple publications including books, articles, and essays. Some of his most famous works include The Mind in its Natural Environment (1996), Fear’s Control on the Mind (2000), and Manipulating the World for
In his quest he was not alone as he was joined by a group of people of different nationalities. “These students” as they like to call themselves form the social group and together faced the wrath of a cruel teacher who did not believe in apologising even after poking the students with a freshly sharpened pencil in the eye. All members of this social group were almost on the same level and their interactions were hilarious and sometimes pathetic. Some examples
The unifying idea behind the personal essays of Tannen, Munoz, and Tan is that in each story the writer expresses their own unique take on communication through personal experiences, and the tone that they establish . However, the common unifying theme is that each of the characters have their own subset of English that is their own which they use to communicate to others with Tannen's "Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other" begins with an example
students enjoy discussion, conversation practice, yet, others only like writing essay or reading story books. Therefore, some of the students may not be interested in the lesson, unless they can get the opportunity to speak out their own ideas. In some other cases, the so called good students tend to take many turns to talk to their teachers and leave few chances for others or without too much talking from the teachers during the lesson. In a university setting, students who can not overcome this
She encourages the relationship between the teacher and student to be an amicable nature rather than an oppressive battlefield. For hooks, when teachers use power over their students it isolates and dehumanizes us as it hampers our ability to exercise the imagination as a vehicle of compassion and emancipation . In Teaching Community, hooks spesks about how imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy oppresses Americas culture. She inspires teachers should use the classroom to make the students
international Chinese language teacher, studying abroad and travelling all around the world. Majoring in English supports me with a stubborn base to successfully achieve them all. English majors tend to be top-priority among competitors who want to be international Chinese language teachers. An international Chinese language teacher could go abroad spreading Chinese culture to the world. According to Confucius Institute Headquarters, international Chinese language teachers need to know Chinese well;