City Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature --- 000 --- A final paper Presented to Nguyễn Quang Tiến, PhD In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement for the Completion of The TESOL graduate course in SYLLABUS DESIGN AND MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT By Nguyễn Văn Kiệp Email: ngkiep@gmail.com Cell: 0938456213 04/28/17 Vietnam National University University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh City Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature --- 000 --- MATERIALS EVALUATION AN
Vocabulary may refer to a range of different words including academic vocabulary (content-specific words), general vocabulary, passive vocabulary (words that are not frequently used), etc. Knowledge of vocabulary plays important role in students’ academic success. It is believed that knowing large number of vocabulary can help students understand new material and concepts to which they are being exposed and consequently learn more quickly. Schmitt (2000) claims that “Lexical knowledge is central
Literature Review. Implementing Flashcards and Songs in English Language Classrooms to Teach Vocabulary "It’s not how smart you are, It’s is how you are smart!” –Howard Gardner-. One of the challenges of a person as an English language student is to learn vocabulary, which is an essential part in order to express ideas. Vocabulary is crucial to reach a profitable level on a second language and carry out an intelligible communication (Rivers, 1983, as cited in Shakouri & Mehrgan, 2012, p. 48). Therefore
teaching fluency to students. One of the instructional strategies is previewing books and read alouds. “There is a growing emphasis on the importance of reading aloud to children and previewing a book as ways not only to develop an enjoyment of literature and books but also to model and build fluent reading”, (Sharon Vaughn, 2015,
Facing Translation Minor Students at the University of Bahrain and Suggested Solutions Background Introductory Note The chapter discusses the theoretical framework and the literature review of the research. The theoretical framework focuses on the importance of both culture and language. On the other hand, literature review compare between several studies and focuses on the result. Theoretical background Language and culture are important factors in our life.Language cannot be separated from culture
Vocabulary plays a vital role in learning a language and it is one of the important language components in developing oral and written communication skills. English vocabulary is vast; learning all words in English is next to impossible. Nevertheless, vocabulary instruction is facilitated at the primary and secondary levels. At tertiary level, students who learn English for a specific purpose are given vocabulary instruction specific to their area. For instance, students in an engineering college
CHAPTER - II CRITICAL REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Introduction A review of literature is a description of the existing research that is significant and relevant to a particular topic. The term “review” means “revision” or “glance over” or “refer back on”. Every piece of ongoing research needs to be connected with the work already done, to attain an overall relevance and purpose. A literature review gives an overview of the field of inquiry: what has already been said on the topic, who the key
In this chapter, I will review the previous research findings in the two areas, laying the theoretical foundation for this study. The first portion of this review will focus on brainstorming and the second portion will focus on writhing skills. Rodriques (1983) asserts that prewriting activities, including group brainstorming, are the
2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 2.1 Passage sight vocabulary Understanding the reading passage begins by the ability to recognize the meaning of words, which is related with the vocabulary knowledge. Aside from the topic familiarity and background knowledge, vocabulary is a main concern that affects the reading comprehension success. Vocabulary itself means the compilation of words which carry the meaning we want to express. Tavakoli and Hayati (2011) also added that, vocabulary is
take place in language learning. According to GTM students learn grammatical rules and apply all those rules by translating method in target language and native language. It enables to students to learn and written in target language (translate literature) this method teqniques providing for learning reading and writing.