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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"speaking skills"”.
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Applying New Technologies to Upgrade Non-English Speakers’ English Speaking Skills
… authentic learning environment and improve their speaking skills.</p>
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Strategies for ESL Students in Community Colleges to Develop Their Public Speaking Skills
… in community colleges to develop their public speaking skills. Effective oral communication skills are commonly needed by employees in the workplace at all different levels. The project focused on three key areas: 1) ways to reduce the fear and anxiety associated with public speaking; 2) the …
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Flipgrid and Second Language Acquisition Using Flipgrid to Promote Speaking Skills for English Language Learners
<p>Integrating twenty-first century skills within the classroom has become a global driving force within the educational field. While schools have adopted models of one-to-one technology or digital formats for native English speakers, addressing the twenty-first century skills for English language …
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Teaching English First Additional Language Listening and Speaking Skills, in the Intermediate Phase, at Vhembe West Districtm Limpopo Province
… Language (EFAL) develop learners’ listening and speaking skills at Intermediate Phase (IP). Through listening and speaking, learners collect information, construct knowledge, solve problems, and express ideas and opinions. The research objectives included - identification of challenges which …
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Overcoming the challenges: How native English-speaking teachers develop the English speaking skills of university students in South Korea
… method which did not develop the spoken English skills they needed for this way of teaching. More recently, the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach has been implemented in an attempt to improve Korean students’ use of English for spoken communication. The CLT approach promotes a focus …
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Exploring student-approved instructional strategies to strengthen speaking skills : a descriptive multiple-case study of three Emergent Bilingual students.
… most effective in promoting opportunities for speaking, thus strengthening these students' speaking abilities. In today's public high school classrooms, the main problem facing Emergent Bilingual students is the lack of speaking opportunities. Speaking is a critical, foundational skill for …
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The effect of task-based language teaching on developing speaking skills among Saudi Arabian female EFL learners at university level
… this study were threefold: a) to investigate the speaking challenges faced by female EFL learners at the university level, b) to explore the attitudes of one teacher and 16 Saudi EFL learners toward TBLT, and c) to examine the effect of TBLT on developing learners' oral language proficiency based …
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A study into the teaching and learning of English speaking skills at Al Jabal Al Gharbi University from the teachers’ and students’ perspectives
… into the teaching and learning of English speaking skills at the Libyan Al Jabal Al Gharbi University as a research context, investigating the teachers’ and students’ perceptions in terms of the level of adoption of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach in the speaking classes …
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Nežymiai sutrikusio intelekto mokinių kalbėjimo gebėjimų ugdymas taikant mokymąsi bendradarbiaujant /
The thesis analyses the problem of development of speaking skills of school-aged children with slight mental decline. The subject of the research: Development of speaking skills of pupils with slight mental decline on the basis of the non-fiction reading text. Hypothesis: Pupils with slight mental …
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Genre - based approach to IsiZulu home language education as a means to successful English first additional language education
… of genre-based approach to teaching writing and speaking skills in the senior phase of language learning, as a reflection of language teaching competence of the student -teachers studying in the Faculty of Education at the University of Zululand. The main aim is to investigate how genre-based …
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Teaching Speaking focused on Pronunciation to Adult ESL Learners in the US
… of itself. This is particularly pronounced in speaking skills. On top of that, if adult ESL learners try to learn the pronunciation of certain consonant sounds in English, where the consonant does not exist in their mother language, pronunciation can be an impeding factor to the improvement of …
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Fluency and the Role of Training in Second Language German
… such as reading, writing, listening and speaking grammatically correctly in a language classroom. Although fluency falls under speaking skills, it is often not taught in L2 classrooms. Studies suggest a variety of exercises focused on fluency improvement but only a few of them have …
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PressToPronounce : an output-oriented approach to mobile language learning
… fail to support users in developing their output skills, such as writing and speaking. In this thesis, I describe the design and implementation for PressToPronounce, a mobile application that helps native Mandarin Chinese speakers practice English speaking skills. Ideas from second language …
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The IPAD and the Development of Speaking and Writing in the Secondary EFL Classroom
… impact of the iPad in developing writing and speaking skills in an English as a foreign language classroom in a secondary school in Italy. The data was collected through classroom observations, interviews, recorded teacher meetings, students’ written assignments, and lesson plans. The data …
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An investigation into the communication skills of unemployed young men
The aim of this study is to explore language skills in a population of unemployed young men aged 18-24 years registered on the Employment Zone (EZ) programme in Wales. Three phases of data collection were conducted between 2007 and 2010. In Phase 1 quantitative data were gathered on language and …
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The problems of Integrating English Language Teaching Strategies and the Learning Processes in Tanzanian Secondary School Classroom
… teaching strategies when teaching reading and speaking skills. The major factors determining the choice of language teaching strategies included availability of teaching/learning facilities, students' linguistic background and teachers' training in English language methodology. There was little …
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A comparison of student performance in partial immersion and FLES programs
… those subjects. French listening comprehension skills, and in some cases speaking skills, were assessed through the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) FLES Test. Mental ability was measured using the CTB-McGraw Hill Test of Cognitive Skills. Separate analysis of covariance …
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Exploring Assessment in Jordanian EFL Classrooms: Teachers’ Practices and Beliefs, and Students’ Perceptions
… learning, particularly in reading and writing skills, which constitute the large portion of the English subject grade, while placing less emphasis on listening and speaking. Moreover, teachers’ practices appeared to be dominated by the use of traditional assessment approaches, particularly …
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The role of drama in teaching English: Towards the enhancement of students' communicative skills at the University of Namibia
… English to enhance students’ communicative skills at the University of Namibia. The discussions of the research focused on assessing the benefits of using drama in the teaching of English to increase students’ motivation and self-confidence, as well as meeting the aims of integrating drama …
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Learning in the videoconferencing context: examining L2 learner engagement in speaking tasks during private English-law lessons
… and TBLT (Task-based language teaching) speaking component of private Skype-based law lessons (in English) delivered to three pairs of English language learners. The first pair were two Korean middle school students located in South Korea, the second pair were two Korean lawyers in South …
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