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Uncorking The Speaking Skill: Wine And Prosody In Conversation, Efren Antonio Serra

Master's Projects and Capstones

Although the skill of speaking is necessary for attaining basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS), most traditional second language acquisition programs base their pedagogy and curriculums on lexis and grammar of the written form and phonology/phonetics. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how to effectively adapt content-specific material for developing the speaking skill at community colleges with adult students who are interested in pursuing a career in the wine industry as a sommelier. Courses for becoming a sommelier or a server in the wine industry are traditionally offered at community colleges under the culinary arts and hospitality management programs, …

Principles And Methods Of Teaching Foreign Languages At Primary Schools, Dildora Safarova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

Lately, there has been a growth of interest in teaching English as a foreign language to young learners around the world, and it has found its reflection in Uzbekistan, too. Although there has been a great interest in learning English all around the world, majority of English as a Foreign Language learners who graduate from public schools are unable to communicate in the foreign language they have been learning. One of the greatest challenges a learner experiences is that English is not used authentically within the real life context. Therefore, learners may not have enough opportunities to be exposed to …

Building An Effective Learning Environment For Chinese Language Learners, Wen-Yu Chang

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This portfolio is a compilation of papers that the author originally wrote during her study in the program of Master of Second Language Teaching at Utah State University. While pursuing the Master’s degree, the author also served as an instructor, teaching assistant, and research assistant in the Chinese program. Thus, this work is framed by the author's personal reflection accumulated from her day-to-day teaching experiences and class observations.

The portfolio consists of three major sections: (1) teaching perspectives, (2) research perspectives, and (3) an annotated bibliography. With the aim to identify the elements of an effective and communicative learning environment …