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
soft skills and communication competence. Most of the Engineering students have good knowledge of the subject but 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
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
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
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
MATERIALS IN READING CLASS FOR SECOND-YEAR 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
Nowadays in Spain a model of "bilingual school" is being implanted, which every day acquires more popularity among the population. There is a growing tendency for schools to see the need to incorporate this new model into their educational projects. This is of great importance, however, to appreciate the fact that bilingual education requires a series of requirements and implications for all actors involved in the educational area. In Europe, and particularly in Spain, great efforts are being made
the past decade, the number of English as a Second Language (ESL) students have skyrocketed. Bilingual children now number almost twelve million. 1.2 million of these students have been introduced to the school system within the last decade (Schachter 57). ESL students could be those who have lived in the United States all their lives but live in a non-English speaking home or recently moved from a non-English speaking country. Because of this major growth in non-English speaking students, educators
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
1. Introduction The role of the English language in the Greek state schools in general is considered to be secondary although it is generally agreed that the English language is important being an international language. The current attitude towards learning English in State schools is depressing as most of the learners learn the language in private language institutes in a more organised and exam- oriented way (Manolopoulou-Sergi, 2001). However, the subject imposed by the Ministry of education