Teaching writing to English second language learners [PDF]
, 2015 Learning to write is a complex process that students struggle with, particularly those studying through the medium of English as a second language. This research, report is an exploration of how the sub-skills of writing are dealt with from differing
Dison, Laura
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Preservice Teacher Preparation in International Contexts: A Case-Study Examination of the International Student Teacher Programs [PDF]
, 2010 This article examines the teacher preparation experiences of preservice teachers in six international contexts: China, Fiji, Kiribati, Mexico, Samoa, and Tonga.
Erickson, Lynnette B +4 more
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Language Teaching, 2020 This review involved 60 articles chosen from 336 empirical studies identified in five leading journals on the learning and teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language in mainland China during the period 2014–2018.
Y. Gong, X. Gao, Boning Lyu
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Metaphoric competence and communicative language ability [PDF]
, 2006 Recent developments in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance as well as the ubiquity of metaphor in language. Despite this, the ability of second language learners to use metaphors is often still not seen as a core ability. In this paper,
Littlemore, Jeannette, Low, Graham
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Vocabulary Acquisition via Drama: Welsh as a second language in the primary school setting [PDF]
, 2017 This paper tests a new method of teaching vocabulary to young second language learners through the medium of drama, specifically the effect of drama teaching techniques on vocabulary acquisition among primary school learners of Welsh.
Beauchamp, Gary +2 more
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Assisting 10-week CLIL enrichment program for Islamic-affiliated primary school students
Journal of Community Service and EmpowermentTeaching English to Young Learners starts to reach growth as parents want their children to be competent in one of the 21st-century skills, which is being communicative. Having the ability to communicate in one foreign language, particularly English, is
K. Khoiriyah +2 more
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Chinese Language Teaching As A Second Language: Immersion Teaching
, 2016 This paper discusses the Chinese Language Teaching as a Second Language by focusing on Immersion Teaching. Researchers used narrative literature review to describe the current states of both art and science in focused areas of inquiry. Immersion teaching comes with a standard that teachers must reliably meet.
Ni, Lee Bih, Kiu Su Na
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Using massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) to support second language learning: Action research in the real and virtual world [PDF]
, 2011 Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online gaming shows potential not just for entertaining, but also for education.
Kongmee, Isara +3 more
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Characteristics of quality teaching for students in New Zealand schools whose first language is not English [PDF]
, 2005 The current paper draws on the findings of two recent research reports commissioned by the New Zealand Ministry of Education (Alton-Lee, 2003; Franken & McComish, 2003) in order to generate a synthesised statement of characteristics of quality ...
Franken, Margaret, McComish, Johanne
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Review of Early instructed second language acquisition: Pathways to competence; Editors: Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow, Melanie Ellis; Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2019; ISBN: 9781788922494; Pages: 257 [PDF]
, 2019 In a large scale survey of teachers’ perceptions of the challenges they face in teaching English to young primary school learners (Copland, Garton, & Burns, 2014), some of the key issues that are identified are as follows: teaching speaking, using ...
Scheffler, Paweł
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