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Don't Just Ask Your Students To Read But Act!, Supanee Chinnawongs
Don't Just Ask Your Students To Read But Act!, Supanee Chinnawongs
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How to make a reading class more entertaining.
Magic Up Your Lesson!!, Navamol Sthapitanonda
Magic Up Your Lesson!!, Navamol Sthapitanonda
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Nowadays, if you ask people to give the name of a fictional character that comes first to their mind, "Harry Potter" will be the name you hear most.
Interlanguage Analysis As An Input To Grammar-Teaching, Tony T.N. Hung
Interlanguage Analysis As An Input To Grammar-Teaching, Tony T.N. Hung
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The last decade has seen a revival of interest in the teaching of grammar, though in a different form from 50 years ago. Regardless of the approach one adopts, it is important for teachers to try to gain a deeper insight into the 'interlanguage' grammars of their learners - i.e., the internalized linguistic systems, approximating the target language system but differing from it in various ways, which enable learners to generate the same kinds of sentences repeatedly, and which can account for the persistent errors that they make. The present paper argues for the importance of an analysis of the …
Peer Assessment Of Oral Presentations: What These Two Cases Tell Us, Anil Pathak, Chan Soon Keng
Peer Assessment Of Oral Presentations: What These Two Cases Tell Us, Anil Pathak, Chan Soon Keng
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This paper explores the use of peer assessments of oral presentations in teaching and evaluation. The experiment was conducted on undergraduate and graduate university students of communication courses. While the undergraduates were asked to evaluate their peers' oral presentations using a rather structured assessment sheet, the graduate students used a relatively open feedback sheet. A comparison was made between the peer ratings and teacher ratings. It was found that the graduate students differed significantly from the teachers' ratings and other peer ratings. The undergraduates, however, displayed a tendency towards uniformity and towards a broad agreement with the teacher ratings. The …
University Elt Faculty's Use Of It, Their Opinions On The Roles Of It And The Promising Tasks, Phan Banpho
University Elt Faculty's Use Of It, Their Opinions On The Roles Of It And The Promising Tasks, Phan Banpho
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The rise and spread of information technology (IT) is widely recognized. However, whether ELT faculty members at leading state universities in Bangkok and their campuses in the vicinity of Bangkok have adopted IT in their teaching has never been addressed. The purposes of this study were to investigate these ELT lecturers' use of IT and to explore their opinions on the role of IT and the computer-related tasks they considered necessary in the new millennium. A sample of 150 lecturers from six leading universities in Bangkok participated in the study. The research instrument was a questionnaire for eliciting the faculty …
Learning English Though Songs, Subhasinee Rajhandaraks
Learning English Though Songs, Subhasinee Rajhandaraks
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Out of the four skills of English, it would seem rather convincing to state that listening is the one that foreign students practise least. The why and wherefore is that most EFL instructors tend to pay more attention to linguistic competence, an approach which is reflected in the use of grammar-based materials. In addition, being trapped in the traditional approach of teaching English, instructors are more likely to concentrate on reading and writing rather than speaking and listening. Lastly, when students leave the classroom, there are few opportunities to listen to English. However, there is a cunningly lighthearted solution. Here, …
In Search Of An Optimal Writing Feedback Strategy, Supanee Chinnawongs
In Search Of An Optimal Writing Feedback Strategy, Supanee Chinnawongs
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Writing is a language skill most EFL students have problems with. This is due to several factors such as the inherent complexity of the skill itself, a lack of constant practice and inadequate or inappropriate corrective feedback. This paper reports on an exploratory study on writing feedback strategies in which a three-step procedure, that is peer comment, self-evaluation and teacher reformulation, is proposed. Results revealed a positive attitude in the students towards this collaborative feedback strategy. Students demonstrated their skills as critical readers and evaluators. Suggestions and implications are also discussed.
Feedback On L2 Adult Learners' Writing, Watana Padgate
Feedback On L2 Adult Learners' Writing, Watana Padgate
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This study examined the use of peer feedback and teacher-student conferencing activities in an English writing class with adult learners. It surveyed the learners' attitudes toward and their expectations from these feedback types and documented potential problems of applying these feedback activities in an adult learning situation. The participants were 108 graduate students. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The results revealed the following: 1) the conferencing and peer feedback activities were highly valued by the majority of the learners, 2) the learners had the same expectations from both feedback activities, and 3) some problems occurring from the …
Globalization Through Distance Education Via Inter- And Intranet Pedagogy, Kanchana Prapphal
Globalization Through Distance Education Via Inter- And Intranet Pedagogy, Kanchana Prapphal
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This paper advocates the important role of English language teaching in preparing students to succeed in the era of globalization which can be accomplished through distance education via Inter- and Intranet Pedagogy. The following key elements in this approach of language teaching and learning are discussed: syliabus, materials, tasks and activities, testing and evaluation, and the roles of teachers and students. As regards the design of the syllabus, the readiness of infrastructure, the training of net teachers and the readiness of the students have to be taken into account. Materials for the "global classroom" should include both teaching and learning …
How To Make An English For Business And Technology International Programme Accessible To Learners, Kulaporn Hiranburana
How To Make An English For Business And Technology International Programme Accessible To Learners, Kulaporn Hiranburana
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This paper will suggest the incorporation of ongoing process-oriented practices, for example, student journals and interviews, into the design of English for Business and Technology (EBT) international programs. This will complement the product model of the EBT program which includes analysis of target situations, needs analysis, specifications of goals and objectives, sequencing learning content, syllabus checklisting, and assessment and evaluation. This approach to EBT course design will make the program more accessible to learners and enable teachers and program practitioners to enhance learner awareness of language variation and critical thinking. This paper will focus on these common features shared by …
Collaborative Learning: Principles, Practice And Potential In The English Language Classroom, William Littlewood
Collaborative Learning: Principles, Practice And Potential In The English Language Classroom, William Littlewood
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Students across a wide range of countries (including Thailand) express their liking for classroom learning activities in which they work purposefully in groups in order to achieve common goals. This mode of learning also lies at the heart of the philosophy and techniques of "collaborative learning." This paper presents briefly the principles which underlie collaborative learning. It describes a range of strategies and techniques which teachers can use in order to organize collaborative learning. Finally, it discusses how collaborative learning tasks fit into an overall framework for language learning and how they relate to the development of learner autonomy.
I'M Sorry, I Can't Remember, John F. Fanselow
I'M Sorry, I Can't Remember, John F. Fanselow
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Each time a person in a language class responds to a question with "I'm sorry, I forgot," the person is implying that language learning consists mainly of memorizing. The long lists of vocabulary items learners try to commit to memory also imply that memorizing is the key mental activity required in language learning. Questions in textbooks and on tests that ask for facts also send the message that learning and memorizing are equivalent. In fact, though we need to memorize some things, much of all of learning, including language learning, requires thinking: processing sounds we hear and symbols we see. …
Evaluation Of English Listening Proficiency Of Salc Users At Kmutt, Thailand, Charatdao Intratat
Evaluation Of English Listening Proficiency Of Salc Users At Kmutt, Thailand, Charatdao Intratat
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It is widely accepted that a self-access center provides opportunities for the students to develop their English proficiency skills out of class. Even though a self-access center requires a large sum of budget and resources, its practical usefulness for language learners and its effect on the users' proficiency development have not been fully investigated. This preliminary study which was funded by KMUTT was a tentative attempt (1) to evaluate English listening proficiency of the KMUTT's Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) users, and (2) to investigate on the significance of the SALC's role in autonomous learning, particularly in developing English listening proficiency. …
Can The Communicative Approach Be Appropriate To Language Teaching?, Annabel Bhamani Kajornboon
Can The Communicative Approach Be Appropriate To Language Teaching?, Annabel Bhamani Kajornboon
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This paper is a reflective piece. Most ELT teachers are very devoted to their students, but most of the time they find themselves weary from teaching. Most teachers want to help and to improve their students' English; however, they are not sure how to do it. Hence, this paper explores some of the possibilities through the communicative approach. It makes an attempt to explain what this approach is and how it can be applied to the classroom; it looks both at its advantages and disadvantages.
Changing English, Linguistic Identity And Elt, John E. Joseph
Changing English, Linguistic Identity And Elt, John E. Joseph
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A crucial part of knowing a language is knowing how to interpret variation- what it means if someone uses one form rather than another to say the same thing. This paper examines four ongoing changes in spoken English, and what it means to be a user of the old form or the new one. We interpret the identity of the people with whom we speak based upon these minor differences, and we often assess the truth or validity of what they are saying based on our assessment. In this sense, the linguistic identity of speakers cannot be separated from the …
A Reflection On Team-Teaching In An Efl Classroom, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi
A Reflection On Team-Teaching In An Efl Classroom, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi
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Team-teaching is a versatile instructional approach that has been implemented in a variety of English language teaching and learning settings for different pedagogical and administrative purposes. Existing research claims that by extending the teaching competencies of teachers through group interaction and process sharing, the quality of instruction provided to the students can be improved. It is believed that this would, in turn, lead to promotion of not only the teaching but also the learning process. This paper reports on an experimental study in which the team-teaching technique was employed to teach a graduate English course at Chulalongkorn University. The students' …
I'M Sorry: A Cross-Cultural Exploration Of Apologizing, Michael Ziesing
I'M Sorry: A Cross-Cultural Exploration Of Apologizing, Michael Ziesing
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Probably no language function has been in the news more lately than the function of apologizing. Week after week, the famous as well as the infamous stand before the public and apologize or, in any case, receive demands for apologies. Hardly a week goes by without some apology or other making the news - often times even the front pages.
Using Cooperative Concept Mapping Skill To Teach Esl Reading, Hua Tang
Using Cooperative Concept Mapping Skill To Teach Esl Reading, Hua Tang
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Reading is now recognized as an important source of input for second language acquisition (Dupuy, Tse & Cook 1996; Krashen, 1993). Traditionally, reading has been taught as information retrieval. Primarily, it is the decoding of individual words that requires ESL students to approach a text using a dictionary (Mangelsdorf 1998). Now, in the new century, how should we teach ESL reading? How should we improve ESL students' academic proficiency in English? Students of this generation, different from students of the past, are more drawn with visual images, TV, music videos etc, so we need techniques that encourage reading. Concept mapping, …
Lt Teachnologies And Methodology In The New Millennium, Ted Rodgers
Lt Teachnologies And Methodology In The New Millennium, Ted Rodgers
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Millennial Topics are In! It's always an interesting challenge to discuss the future of anything. And this moment provides a particularly rich occasion for prophets, including those who would forecast the future of language teaching. The conservative temptation is to assume that things will carry on pretty much as they have in the past and that the future will be recognizable from clues in the present. After all, haven't classrooms maintained their familiar organization for 1,000 years? Why should methodology alter radically if the classroom stays the same?
Future Directions For Pronunciation Teaching: Intelligibility, Content, And Oral Communication, John M. Levis
Future Directions For Pronunciation Teaching: Intelligibility, Content, And Oral Communication, John M. Levis
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Although pronunciation has become an important component of a communicative approach to language teaching, the development of pronunciation research and teaching is faced with three important, unresolved issues. First, pronunciation theory and practice suffers from a poorly developed understanding of intelligibility, a weakness which stunts significant progress in research and teaching. Second, the widely accepted belief that suprasegmentals such as stress, rhythm and intonation are more important in intelligibility than vowel and consonant sounds is overly simplistic and should be more carefully examined. Finally, while the integration of pronunciation and oral communication curricula is critically important, attempts to integrate have …
At The Turn Of The Millennium: Communication Technology And Elt, Anil Pathak
At The Turn Of The Millennium: Communication Technology And Elt, Anil Pathak
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This paper argues the need for pedagogic change reflecting the communication technology revolution. It has been argued that the present curricula in Communication Skills should undergo vital changes to cater to the training needs of a developing community. The gap perceived in the potential of the communication technology and its use is significantly wide, and the communication skills training professionals have a critical role to play towards bridging this gap. The desired changes would radically alter not only the teaching methods, teaching materials and assessment patterns but also the fundamental approaches to syllabus development systems.
Changing The Management Of Change In Language Education: Learning From The Past, Lessons For The Future, Andy Curtis
Changing The Management Of Change In Language Education: Learning From The Past, Lessons For The Future, Andy Curtis
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Change is a constant, and this may be especially true in the field of education, and in language education in particular. The constancy, magnitude and rate of change all mitigate against a careful consideration of one set of major changes before the next is upon us. This lack of reflection may lead to change occurring, but change more of the 'history repeating itself kind', rather than innovative, positive and lasting change. Approaching the end of this period of history would seem to be an ideal time to stop and take stock of what we have learned about managing change in …
Concentrated Language Encounter Teaching Program: Elt In The New Millennium, Saowalak Rattanavich
Concentrated Language Encounter Teaching Program: Elt In The New Millennium, Saowalak Rattanavich
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Whenever we approach the turn of a new century, we eagerly await the innovations that offer new challenges, both positive and negative. Certainly, there will be a higher level of communication as a result of the advances in technology that will emerge in the new century. On the negative side, there will be the worry of higher competition (which will result in a widening gap in living standards between the rich and the poor) increasing violence, population growth, unequal food distribution, globalization v.s. regionalism and fragmentation, environmental deterioration, and loss of cultural values.
British English Vs. American English: Some Implications For The Thai Users, Vinit Phinit-Akson
British English Vs. American English: Some Implications For The Thai Users, Vinit Phinit-Akson
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The English language that is so widely used around the world today is not only an academic language but is also a global or universal language. Not only is English widely used in academic research in many areas but reports on such research are also written and discussed about in English. Moreover, much of the international trade and diplomacy throughout the world is conducted via the English language as media.
Dictation: A Rethink For The Millennium, Reongrudee Soonthornmanee
Dictation: A Rethink For The Millennium, Reongrudee Soonthornmanee
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Approaching the millennium has excited people around the world. In the field of language teaching/learning, there is no exception. Teachers are enthusiastic to explore "cutting-edge" themes or "hot" topics in the field in the hope of enriching their profession. As we are looking forward to the new advent of information technology and new methodology, it is also time to reevaluate the resources we have now. A rethink helps us rediscover and enhance our professional strength and growth.
Cross-Cultural Attitudes In Foreign Language Programmers, D. E. Ingram, Shirley O'Neill
Cross-Cultural Attitudes In Foreign Language Programmers, D. E. Ingram, Shirley O'Neill
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One of the central goals of language education in the global context is the fostering of favourable intercultural attitudes. As the world gets smaller, as communication and interaction between peoples of different races, cultures and language backgrounds increase, so the need for that interaction to be harmonious increases. Most language policies and language syllabuses espouse improved cross-cultural understanding and more favourable cross-cultural attitudes as central goals. Yet there are relatively few empirical studies that demonstrate the effect of language learning on cross-cultural attitudes or identify the variables in the language teaching/learning process that influence cross-cultural attitudes or that can be …
Reflection And Projection On Thailand's Language Education Policy For The New Millennium, Achara Wongsothorn
Reflection And Projection On Thailand's Language Education Policy For The New Millennium, Achara Wongsothorn
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The Eighth National Education Development Plans: 1997-2001 (p. 40) comments on the insufficient time for foreign language curriculum.
The Psychological Atmosphere We Create In Our Classrooms, Adrian Underhill
The Psychological Atmosphere We Create In Our Classrooms, Adrian Underhill
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It has been said that "we teach what we are" or even that "we teach what is going on in us at the moment" (Postman & Weingartner, 1969). These provocative statements seem to suggest that the way we are in our classes, the way we feel, think and behave while teaching, can have an effect on our learners every bit as important as the materials and techniques we use and the syllabus that guides us.
Addressing The Grammar Gap In Content - Based Insruction, Jack C. Richards
Addressing The Grammar Gap In Content - Based Insruction, Jack C. Richards
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Common to various approaches to the implementation of content-based instruction is the assumption that learners will acquire the grammar of the target language as a bi- product of studying content through the medium of a second language.
Self-Directed Learning Through The Internet And Intranet Pedagogy : A Choice For Language Teachers, Kanchana Prapphal
Self-Directed Learning Through The Internet And Intranet Pedagogy : A Choice For Language Teachers, Kanchana Prapphal
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This article proposes "Self-Directed Learning through the Internet and Intranet Pedagogy" as a choice for language teachers to use to enhance students' language skills, cognitive and academic abilities, computer literacy and self-actualization needs. Before introducing the method, information about students' needs and wants as well as computer background needs to be assessed. A questionnaire on "the Use of Computer in Teaching and Learning English" as an informal classroom inventory is provided.