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
(2009) stated that, at the beginning of twenty-first century English language learning and English language teaching have become the center of attention in comparison to the twentieth century. As Crystal (1997) indicated "English language today has a special status in at least 70 or so countries and is most widely taught foreign language in over 100 other countries" (p.109). According to Selcuk (2009) these days, owing to the fact that English language includes various disciplines ranging from technology
language learners should have an element of the roles and responsibilities of teachers in the learning process. Quite a few literatures specifically focus on the roles and responsibilities of teachers in ESP compared to their roles in General English learning. Fiorito (2005) is of the opinion that teachers already experienced in offering General English courses are advantaged in teaching ESP because they possess the requisite background and skills in language
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 Introduction This chapter will be covered and discussed more detail about the definition of literature, the history of literature, the use of literature in language and learning, theoretical framework, conceptual framework and summary. 2.1 The Definition of Literature The literature can be divided into two main parts such as big “L” and small “l” as O’Sullivan (1991) suggested. Ganakumaran Subramaniam, Shahizah Ismail Hamdan and Koo stated that
2. The active involvement principle: Here, the students are taught to use English appropriately in accordance with the objective of learning. 3. The immersion principle: The students will learn better in an environment exposed to various language. It involves teacher talk, other classroom talk. It needs audio and videotapes completed with written information. 4. The focusing principle: to produce the ability of effective communication in limited time span, the students need to focus on
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
lies in the very essence of improving college students attitude toward learning English in Riyadh. The aim of this research is to show the efficiency of the social media on improving college students attitudes towards learning English in Riyadh colleges. The questionnaire has presented to have a positive and advisable effect on improving college students attitudes towards learning English and on the enhancement of teaching productivity. Introduction Social media can be one of the most useful
acceptable unit of meaning within a language.’’(Penny, 2000) According to GTM….We have been using English language since a long time English language has known as global or universal language, English is being seen everywhere. English was introduced in India. It was taught through g.t.m method which was established by Britishers. And G.T.M was being used in English language learning or teaching. G.T.M based on reading and writing skills. And because of those two skills communication does not take
Literature Review 2.1. Overview This study focuses on the teachers perceptions regarding the use of L1 in English classrooms. More specifically, what are the English teachers’ perceptions toward using Persian in classroom in different institutes in Kermanshah? And also in what circumstances and for what purposes do they prefer to switch to the mother tongue. This chapter will focus on the literature that I found helpful to understand these questions 1) what are the supports for the monolingual approach;
Ali further argues that at the head of the charge of men from the North on the field of Nigerian literature is the figure of Abubakar Imam Kagara who is a paterfamilias (The male head of a family). His works primarily Ruwan Bagaja and Magana Jari Ce, published in 1934 and 1939 respectively, were a link that binded the old tradition of Northern Nigerian literature and the modern tradition. Seeing that the time was changing swiftly, he had the vision not to write in Arabic or the popular ‘ajami’ (Hausa