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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Language Pedagogy"”.
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Alternative Forms of Assessment in Language Pedagogy
… function as motivational means in present day language learning and teaching. I am going to present a review of teacher and student competences. I am going to attempt to present the nature of assessment along with two alternative forms of assessment: self and peer assessment. In my thesis I am …
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Investigating oral performance on controlled versus spontaneous speaking tasks: Implications for second language pedagogy and assessment
Assessment tasks of second language (L2) proficiency can be loosely classified into controlled and spontaneous tasks. While spontaneous tasks are widely accepted as authentic proficiency instruments, they can be time-consuming and labor-intensive to develop, administer, and score. In contrast, …
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Spatial Distribution of Chinese Language Education and Historical Development of Chinese Language Pedagogy in Higher Education in the United States
… the geographical distribution of Chinese language programs in colleges and universities in the United States, their program starting years, the types of such universities and colleges, and their names and states; and a multimedia essay on the evolution of Chinese language pedagogy in …
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Curriculum innovation through teacher certification: Evaluation of a government intervention and its effects on teacher development and English language pedagogy in South Korea
… teacher assessors, teacher trainers, and English language teachers; and observation of the procedures, including the assessed lessons and teacher training. This study draws on research about language teaching expertise, teacher cognition and development, English language teaching (ELT) innovation, …
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Perspectives on language teaching from a democratic school in Brazil
This study investigates the perspectives of language teachers on language and language teaching at a democratic school in São Paulo, Brazil. The commentary of the one former English teacher is central to the analysis, complemented by interviews with the Portuguese/Spanish teacher and four other …
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Creation of a Training and Development Program for Teachers of Less Commonly Taught Languages at Brigham Young University: A Development Project
… program for teachers of less commonly taught languages in the Center for Language Studies (CLS) at Brigham Young University. Teachers hired to teach beginning language classes in the CLS are typically very proficient in the target languages, but are not trained in language teaching. Because …
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The semantics of the preposition na in Slavic spatial constructions
… usage in spatial constructions in the Slavic languages is frequently unpredictable and perplexing to the non-native speaker. This is especially true in the case of the preposition na. By examining categories of spatial phenomena with which the preposition na is used, it is possible to better …
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Islands of culture : the experiences of post-secondary Cree language teachers
This study recognizes that post-secondary Cree language teachers carry expertise in providing relevant teaching strategies for adult learners. Pursuant to this perspective, this study describes current Cree language teaching approaches for adult learners as practiced by selected post-secondary Cree …
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An aesthetic analysis of the most popular post-secondary Spanish language introductory pedagogical videos.
… videos currently utilized in the largest language programs in American universities. Elements of philosophy, film theory, and foreign language pedagogy are combined to analyze the existing video series and to develop a theoretical template for further examination and production. This study …
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Online language teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic: French teachers' experiences and perspectives
… to the body of knowledge in the field of foreign language teaching and learning in the technological era. A questionnaire was developed to interrogate the teachers' practices, objectives, and approaches regarding the use of technology for pedagogical purposes as well as the advantages and …
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Teaching literacy and language in a functioning Western Cape quintile one school : a grade one case study
… dissertation examines the literacy and language pedagogy of a South African Grade one teacher, in a Quintile one school with a history of relatively good performance on the Grade three provincial systemic assessments. The study asks the question: How does a Grade one teacher of learners …
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Comparing the interpretation of text message punctuation by native and non-native English speakers
… raises questions about the ways different language groups perceive and produce various features of text messages. This project employs a mixed-methods design to investigate the ways native English speakers and L2 English learners perceive punctuation in text messages. The data set includes …
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IMMORTALIZING THE SPIRIT OF THE COLONIZER
… institutionalization, a production of knowledge, language, pedagogy, and an economy oriented toward the accumulation of global capital. To understand these processes we cannot separate them from each other. In fact, even the word ""capitalism"" is misleading because it leads us to think of an …
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Iñupiatun Iñuguġlavut Miqłiqtuvut: Let Us Raise Our Children in Iñupiaq
Iñupiatun Iñuguġlavut Miqłiqtuvut is a language learning guide dedicated to reclaiming the Iñupiaq language in the home. Linguists usually create records primarily for scientific purposes and secondarily for language learning needs. Exceedingly often, linguists write descriptions that are typically …
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Marking time : the acquisition of tense and grammatical aspect by French-speaking learners of English
… influences of lexical asp aspect and first language (L1) knowledge on the second language (L2) acquisition of verb morphology. The participants were adult French-speaking learners of English who represented a wide range of proficiency in their knowledge of simple past. The analyses examined …
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Teachers' perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism: the effect on language arts pedagogy
Few studies on English language learners (ELLs) focus on teachers’ perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism and describe the impact of those perceptions on language arts pedagogy. While numerous studies have explored the teaching of diverse students and the negative effects of standardized …
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Investigating Interlingual Errors to Enhance Intelligent Writing Assistants for Second Language Learners
Language-learning apps offer convenient, low-pressure learning environments, often providing real-time feedback to users. One popular type of software is automated writing assistants (AWAs), which afford language-learning opportunities through explanatory messages in response to grammatical errors …
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Understanding Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of International Teaching Assistants
… both established in previous research (e.g., language), and original ideas (e.g., learning to understand ITAs language). Qualitative analysis of the survey data revealed that undergraduate students' perceptions of ITAs were varied and complex. For example, one perception identified was the …
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The motivation of junior high school pupils to learn English in provincial Indonesia
… struggled to produce competent users of the language, yet the country's need for such graduates is never greater than at the beginning of the 21" century as it responds to the social, economic and political challenges of globalization. Meanwhile motivation has always been recognised as an …
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Diaphonic vocoid variants in inter-linguistic contact between English and Afrikaans, Afrikaans being the constant
… speech of South African Bilinguals whose home language is Afrikaans. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS: In Section A the phenomenon of bilingualism is discussed with reference to the findings of leading investigators into the field of contrastive linguistics. Section B contains a brief contrastive analysis …
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