Essays on ELT

I am currently studying at the University of Greenwich, and I am in the accelerated 2-year Bachelor’s Degree programme at this particular University. From the start, I have felt nothing but excitement and passion for what I am learning at university. I have always been good at working with children, but lately I have been trying to attend all the lectures and hands-on practicums that are available so that I can refine my skill set. I know that two years is not a long time, so I have to make sure that I am completely prepared when I go ...

Heath offers insights for use in the dissertation study for investigating any difficulties in the area of Americans learning Arabic. This study specifically addresses the learner and his/her creativity in Arabic communicative competence as it applies toward competently completing both the DLI course and the OPI (Heath, 1987).

Alptekin (2002) discusses the notion of communicative competence that suggests that native-speaker competence is the metric by which communicative competence is decided. Alptekin argues that this particular norm creates an unrealistic and utopian model for language learning that makes it impossible for SLA to be considered complete or sufficient. Native speakership ...

The ever-mounting necessity for good communication skills in English has fashioned an enormous request for English teaching from all over the world. There are millions of individuals nowadays that are interested in improving their command of English in order to even make sure that even children attain a good command of English. And chances to learn English are delivered in numerous diverse ways for instance through study abroad, travel, formal instruction, in addition to through the Internet and also the media. With that said this essay will explore what is communicative language teaching, and what factors led to its emergence ...

KURDISH SECONDARY STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN

LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Degree Acronyms CF Corrective Feedback EFL English as a Foreign Language ESL English as a Second Language FLC Foreign Language Correction ICEEP International Conference on Education and Educational Psychology LPLA Logical Problem of Language Acquisition SLA Second Language Acquisition TEFL Teaching English as a Second Language TESOL Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages The Role of Oral Self Correction to Enhance Kurdish Secondary Students Performance in Learning English as a Foreign Language 1. Introduction The motivation for choosing oral self-correction as ...

Individual learning methods have increased in the last few decades, and the learning style differs in each individual. Learning style can be termed as a person’s typical habit to gain and develop information. There have been many learning theories, models, and methodologies. The learning styles are different in young people compared to the learning styles of old people and the learning strategies for the young must be carefully applied. David Kolb focused more on adult learning. Kolb’s twelve-item Learning Style Inventory yields four types of learners: divergers, assimilators, convergers, and accommodators (Reid 2005). Kolb’s models are centered ...

English has quickly become the global language for higher education and business, but for non-native speakers, learning English can be a daunting task. The English language is full of strange conventions that must be memorized and learned for use in conversation, unusual spellings and pronunciation, and idiomatic language whose meaning is not immediately self-evident. There are, however, effective and efficient ways to teach the nuances of English-language grammatical structures. The way we have chosen to structure this lesson plan for teaching tag questions analyzes the options for effective grammar teaching from standard reference works, provides a rationale for our options selected ...

Learning - Methodology and Patterns

- INTRODUCTION The process of acquiring a second/foreign language has evolved and it is permanently changing, developing in order to facilitate as much as possible learners in their aim of learning a new language, but also teachers, in their task to teach a second/foreign language in an efficient manner. It is becoming increasingly significant for teachers to be up to date with any developments in the process of efficiently preparing the methodology of a second/foreign language course and they need to permanently maintain an open mind and a pro – active approach to the new teaching methods, testing them in the classroom setting. ...

Book and Article Critique

Sharmat M. and Barton, B. (1990). Gila monsters meet you at the airport. USA: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Sharmat M. and Barton in their book, “Gila Monsters Meet You at The Airport” discusses that the significant way to dismiss unknown fears is to find out the reality about somebody or something. This article analyses a boy in New York City who has various preconceived thoughts about living in the West, This ideas makes him extremely apprehensive as regards the family’s move there. He discovered presently of a Gila monster and other things as regards to West when he brings ...