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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"communicative approach"”.
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A communicative approach to understanding intergenerational conflict over child rearing
… conflict over child rearing from a communicative perspective. The theoretical lens of relational dialectics was used to study opposing forces that exist between grandparents and parents. Through 12 semi-structured interviews with parents of children under the age of 12, parents …
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The Materiality of the Self: A Multimodal, Communicative Approach to Identity
… of this dissertation is to propose a multimodal approach as an alternative way of theorizing and researching identity. The multimodal approach utilizes four modes of interaction--multidirectional interpellation, spatiality, temporality, and corporealit--to explore the processes of interaction and …
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Beyond the Brandopolis: A Communicative Approach to City Promotion and Marketing
… a city's image. The consideration of a communicative approach to the promotion of city images, from a humanities perspective grounds stakeholders' experiences of the city in their communicative practices. This grounded communicative approach to city marketing offers marketers better …
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Living Latin: Exploring a Communicative Approach to Latin Teaching Through a Sociocultural Perspective on Language Learning
… theory to learning events taking place under a communicative teaching approach. <br></br><br></br> Research methods were selected pragmatically, with quantitative methods deployed to obtain a comprehensive snapshot of current practice in UK universities, while the more complex areas of learning …
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Final year student teachers’ preparedness to use the communicative approach to teach english as a second language at Nkrumah university, Zambia
… year student teachers’ preparedness to use the communicative approach to teach English as a second language at Kwame Nkrumah University. Three objectives guided this study, i.e. to establish final year student teachers’ use of the characteristics of CLT to teach English as a second language? To …
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Final year student teachers’ preparedness to use the communicative approach to teach english as a second language at Nkrumah university, Zambia
… year student teachers’ preparedness to use the communicative approach to teach English as a second language at Kwame Nkrumah University. Three objectives guided this study, i.e. to establish final year student teachers’ use of the characteristics of CLT to teach English as a second language? To …
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Communicative Language Teaching: Observation of the English as a Foreign Language Classrooms in Thailand
… study was to investigate the extent to which the communicative approach had been applied in English classes in Thai secondary schools. Three secondary English classes were selected for the investigation. Each was identified by the supervisor of the Supervisory Unit as the class in which the …
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Math as Text, Rhetoric as Reason: Can the Humanities Save Math Education?
… my difficulties with math. Using a creative and communicative approach, I was able to analyze my experience from a rhetorical perspective, which allowed me to see more clearly, not just the problem I was having with math, but the overall problems many seem to have with math education. My findings …
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Learning Irish in English-medium primary schools in Ireland: understanding children’s views and experiences through a child-centred methodology
… class (11-year-olds). The implementation of the communicative approach, where language use is both the aim and the means of language learning, was also explored. The conceptual framework, informed by Biesta’s domains of education, was used to provide coherence to second language learning …
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The Relationship Between Teacher Training and Teaching Innovative Syllabuses in Real-Time Classrooms: A Context Specific Approach (CSA) For TEFL in Bangladesh
… mode of delivery to a learner-centered communicative approach. This study explores how far the classroom teachers actualized their training skills and knowledge they acquired in implementing a curricular innovation at the end-users’ level, as well as how far contextual factors work as a …
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Tangoma nemisebenti yato ekutfutkukiseni lulwimi lwesiSwati
… i1andzela indlela yemisebenti (Functional approach) nendlela yeluchumano (Communicative approach). Kulapho kuchazwe khona lokushiwo ngemagama lasisekelo salolucwaningo latana nalawa: sangoma, inyanga, lldloti, lugedla, kutfwasa/litfwasa nendumba. 5ehluko sesibili siniketa inchazelo …
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Die rol van moedertaalversteuring in die Afrikaans van Zoeloesprekende leerlinge
… that there was a need for the use of the communicative approach in the teaching of Afrikaans which can result in the pupils being able to communicate in the language . Successful communication would determine whether the language is correct or not. The amount of exposure to Afrikaans as …
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Le français en Sierra Leone : apprentissage et développement du capital humain
… of human capital in Sierra Leone? Using the approaches developed within human capital development theory, this qualitative method study prioritizes semi-structured interviews. An overview of French language teachers' views, beliefs, and experiences with teaching and learning French is given …
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The Relationship between Teachers and Students in the Classroom: Communicative Language Teaching Approach and Cooperative Learning Strategy to Improve Learning
… learners. I wish to investigate how using communicative approach and cooperative learning strategies while teaching do affect and improve students’ learning performance. To achieve these goals qualitative data collection was used as the primary method. The results show that teachers and …
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Characterising the dialogicity of classroom talk: theoretical and empirical perspectives
… and Dialogic types of talk as defined by the communicative approach of Mortimer and Scott (2003). Data was generated by videotaping grade nine Omani science classes and probing the conceptual understanding of samples of pupils from these classes using bubble dialogue sheets and focus group …
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The discourse of New Zealand and French television advertising: a comparative approach
… to a need for more qualitative inductive approaches to cultural/national advertising whereby each culture is seen as unique and is not compared to another through the use of standardised American tools and values, this study blended specific quantitatively oriented strategies with …
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Curriculum Design and Language Learning: An Analysis of English Textbooks in Brazil
… language learning processes used based on the communicative approach, the current favorable approach to English teaching in Brazil. Textbooks writers typically indicate their alignment to the communicative framework. So the problem that exists is the lack of studies on the approaches and …
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Foreign Language Student Anxiety and Expected Testing Method: Face-to-Face Versus Computer Mediated Testing
… main goal for both students and instructors. The communicative approach is the main teaching focus. Therefore, testing for proficiency should be part of the curriculum. However, many professors do not test in this way, one of the reasons stated is that it can provoke anxiety in students.Numerous …
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Landeskunde: Its Role and Functions in the Irish German Language Classroom An Empirical Study
… composition, role and functions in both teaching approaches in general and in the Irish secondary school system in particular were the issues which prompted the research that comprises the basis of this study. Chapter one offers an analysis of the concept of Landeskunde - what it actually is. …
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Pre-service Chinese English as A Foreign Language (EFL) Teachers Perceptions about Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching
The government of China requires that the Communicative Language Teaching Approach (CLT) should be applied in primary and secondary school English education by issuing the New Curriculum early in 2001 to develop learners competence of using the language; however, implementation of CLT is still a …
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