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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Authentic language use"”.
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An action research study of English teaching in grade seven at Bamrung Wittaya School, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
… project which was conducted to improve students’ language learning performance and also my teaching practice by implementing the student-centred (Communicative Language Teaching: CLT) approach which is well known among foreign language teachers as a practical teaching approach to create the …
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First-person singular pronouns in Japanese: How do they work in conversation?
… a variety of linguistic items in a wide range of languages. First-person singular (1SG) pronouns may be one of the most fundamental linguistic items for expressing subjectivity because they directly reflect the speaker, who is the owner of subjective point of view. This dissertation explores the …
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Digital dialogues : a qualitative single-case study exploring adult patrons’ experiences in online English language classes at a public library.
… Antonio Public Library’s (SAPL) online English language class. Public libraries play a pivotal role in fostering adult literacy and English language learning, yet emergent bilinguals (EBs) often underutilize these free community programs. Guided by Kolb and Kolb’s (2017) experiential learning …
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A study of the use of tasks in tertiary English as an additional language programme in New Zealand and China: Teachers' beliefs and practices and students' attitudes
Tasks are the central elements of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and are used to engage learners in authentic language use in classrooms. TBLT has recently been recommended to be included in the new College English Curriculum Requirement in China (Ministry of Education, 2007; 2017) for …
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Falling Up: Building Language Use and Cultural Awareness Through the Implementation of Humor in the ESL Classroom
… to upper-intermediate and advanced adult English language learners (ELLs), and filled in the gap that exists in studies and literature by examining the use, and implementation of humor in English as a second language/foreign language (ESL/EFL) curricula. Humor is an important human behavior, …