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Showing 1 to 20 of 499 for “"English as a second language"”.
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An Interactive Environmental Approach to Teaching English as a Second Language
… understanding for intermediate to advanced English Language Learners. It contains an ESL Ecoliteracy Student Handbook and an ESL Ecoliteracy Teacher Guide. There are two comprehensive units focused on understanding and acknowledging ecosystems in urban areas and foraging. The lessons formed …
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Establishing Bidirectional Symmetry in Children Learning English as a Second Language
… developing children (ages 3-4 yrs) whose first language was Spanish. Two experiments were conducted in which a multiple probe design was implemented to introduce exemplar training across 3 four-item stimulus sets. Participants were first trained in listener (name-object or A-B) relations via …
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Conversational Repair Strategies of Teachers of English as a Second Language
The results established a typology of second language teachers' conversational repair strategies. It included strategies involving nonverbal aspects such as gesture, prosody, turn-taking, and display of sympathy. The findings indicated that both student proficiency levels and instructional foci …
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Teaching Culture through Social Situations in English as a Second Language Classes
<p>To develop communicative competence, second language learners in addition to mastering linguistic, strategic, structural and discoursal aspects of the language, have to acquire sociolinguistc rules and conventions. The project sought to design a handbook to teach communicative competence along …
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Formulaic language in speech fluency development in English as a second language
… is an investigation of the role of formulaic language in second language (L2) speech fluency development, within a cognitive and information processing framework. Fluency has been studied and defined in terms of temporal variables of speech such as rate of speech, pause frequency and …
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Transmedia storytelling in the portuguese context of english as a second language learning
… língua (IL2) é orientado pelo cumprimento de metas e temáticas propostas no currículo nacional. Esta estrutura dogmática não permite explorar a utilização que os alunos fazem da língua nos seus contextos informais e exclui oportunidades de aprendizagem que os mesmos providenciam. Ao invés do …
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Practical Implementation of Transformative Learning in the Adult English as a Second Language Classroom
… Transformative Learning Theory for teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL), It provides a practical resource for ESL instructors to use in their adult ESL classrooms. There is an abundance of resources for ESL instructors that focuses on language, but limited resources for teachers …
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An in-Country Internship Program in the Teaching of English as a Second Language
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Teaching Language Functions: An analytic approach to the teaching English as a second language
Made available in DSpace on 2021-04-22T18:45:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Anthony_Silva.pdf: 5823070 bytes, checksum: 25baaf781a710e7640735d34e4533dba (MD5) license.txt: 4802 bytes, checksum: 58353f9dd6876860dd5221f3d7872a95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1981
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Factors affecting the learning of English as a second language macroskills among Tongan secondary students
… which might have impact on the learning of English as a second language macroskills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) by Tongan secondary learners. The study was correlational in design and it worked from a synthetic perspective in that it looked at the way in which many aspects of …
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Teaching English as a Second Language through Rap Music: A Curriculum for Secondary School Students
… provides a sample of the curriculum, Rapping English, which uses rap/hip-hop style music to teach ELLs vocabulary, grammar, discourse and prosody. The rationale for using musical instruction is based on Gardner’s (2006) multiple intelligence theory and Bloom’s (1978) learning domains. This …
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Anxiety as an affective factor for adult Korean students learning English as a second language
The focus of this study was anxiety related to second language learning, and more specifically, to that of adult Korean students studying ESL; Three research questions were addressed: (a) Do adult Koreans learning ESL have a high degree of classroom anxiety? (b) If so, can this be attributed to …
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The procedures British Columbia school psychologists use to assess English as a second language students.
The purpose of this study was to answer the question, "Do British Columbia school psychologists use a multifaceted approach to assess English As A Second Language students?" Another purpose of the study was to measure the prevailing procedures used to psychologically assess ESL students in British …
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