(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 deals mainly with the different aspects of both cultures. Teaching English as a Foreign Language besides education in American
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
They say that students need a teacher who has emotions and sees to their emotional needs and a robotic computer cannot carry out this important need. The humanistic approach to teaching a foreign language sees to their basic emotional needs. As students are human and they have basic human needs, they need to feel while learning. What is meant by feel is the encouragement, punishment, rewards, and fines experienced while learning and which
The writers have different ideas on the same topic. They are from different countries and different contexts. I want to write what i learned from all of the writers. The language skills are often divided into two types. They are receptive and productive skills. I want to start with the listening as a receptive skill. Listening is receiving of the sounds and perceiving and comprehending the meaning of the utterances. But it has a dynamic nature has processes such as predicting, checking, anticipating
In teaching a foreign language in general and English in particular, one of challenge that teachers have to face is teaching writing skill because it requires the students’ knowledge about a relationship between meaning and form…Therefore, to teach writing effectively, “giving feedback is an effective way to train students to become better writers because it helps students to correct their own mistakes and be independent ones” (Ken, 2004, p. 98). There are many types of feedback and they can be distributed
the result of a qualitative case study research design on NESTs and non-NESTs’ beliefs about lesson plan 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
second language learning. Technology is paramount in today’s society and is especially prevalent amongst the younger generation, who are quick to embrace the technology. This paper examines how teachers and students can adopt and use technology as a tool to assist with learning and to improve the overall experience. Furthermore, this research explores which technologies teachers and students who are teaching English as a second language can utilize in twenty-first-century classrooms. Teaching Technologies
There are multiple methods of English language teaching. Ever since the invention of what some may argue to be the pioneering method in the field, the Grammar Translation Method (GTM), various other methods have been devised, in order to try and overcome the limitations of their predecessors. It is well known that each method has its strengths and limitations. The degree to which the strengths catalyse, and the limitations impeding the learning process of the student, depends mostly on the student
STUDENTS MAJORING IN ENGLISH AT HUE UNIVERSITY – COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES I. INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale Recently, English has become more and more popular around the world. It is the official language in a great number of countries as it is estimated that the number of people using English to communicate on a regular basis is two billion (The English Language Centre Eastbourne, 2013). English is also considered as the dominant business language and it has become almost a necessity for people to speak
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