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Author : Boris Shekhtman Publisher : Villa Magna, LLC Page : 0 pages File Size : 48,5 Mb Release : 2013-05 Category : Language and languages ISBN : 0989387003
How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately by Boris Shekhtman Pdf
This is the third edition of a popular book that provides a unique set of tools designed to enhance an individual's success in communicati0n in a foreign language environment. The devices presented allow the speaker of a foreign language to demonstrate the level of his/her language more impressively. These techniques were developed and tested by the author with adult professionals in such varied fields as journalism, diplomacy, government, and international business.
Communication and Language Skills by Iyabode Omolara Akewo Daniel Pdf
This book will serve to provide the reader with the communicative and language skills necessary to function in modern society, discussing the language and communication enterprise within the current usages of the modern English language. It identifies the descriptive functioning of language, as well as the communicative processes involved in its usage. The book takes a new look at traditional language skills from a modern perspective, focusing on their importance as communication tools for the twenty-first century learner of the English language. The reality of technology as part of the modern life is also brought to bear on the discussions in the book, showing that its application to reading can serve to fast-track the mastery of reading efficiency. As the book will serve to make the user of the English language in the twenty-first century effective in all their endeavours that require its usage, it will be particularly useful for learners of English as a second language.
Developing Language Skills Book Four : An English Course for Caribbean Secondary Schools by Clifford Narinesingh Pdf
“Developing Language Skills Book 4 (Examination Book) is specially designed to meet the needs of students preparing for the CSEC English A examination. The work forms an organic whole (the processes of listening, speaking, reading and writing) in its focus on developing competence in both oral and written transactions. It encompasses in its objectives: a) developing students’ powers of judgement and perception b) stimulating interest in reading for both pleasure and considered response c) developing skills and techniques required for the examination”
Language Skills by Halina Chodkiewicz,Magdalena Trepczyńska Pdf
This volume brings an international perspective to language skills – an area of importance to both theorists and practitioners in all contexts of language teaching and learning. The twenty-seven chapters included here are arranged into six sections devoted to fundamental background issues, spoken interaction, perception of speech sounds and production skills, reading contexts and purposes, writing challenges for advanced learners, and technology and language skills. Explored themes range from the conceptualization of language as skill and the development of L2 skills in communicative and intercultural approaches, through challenges in teaching specific skills and their components, to the consideration of the possibilities and limitations of the use of modern technology in assisting students in skill acquisition. The volume’s contributors point to the multiaspectuality of the process of developing language skills with reference to different age groups, diverse educational and social contexts, as well as instructional activities focusing on isolated and integrated skills. The book also includes original empirical studies concerning learning, teaching, and testing numerous aspects of language skills in L2 attainment. The book will be of interest to researchers, classroom teachers, and specialists in language education, philology and applied linguistics, as well as to graduate students involved in the study of language skills acquisition and instruction.
From Language Skills to Literacy by Csilla Weninger Pdf
The narrowing of English language education curriculum in many contexts has negatively impacted classroom teaching and learning. High-stakes standardized testing, scripted curricula, and the commodification of English have converged to challenge socially meaningful classroom literacy instruction that promotes holistic development. Although in different ways, these factors have shaped the teaching of English as both first and second language. How can English educators respond? This book argues that the first step is to take account of the broader policy, political and cultural landscape and to identify the key constraints affecting teachers, students and parents. These will set the broad parameters for developing local pedagogic approaches, while still recognizing the constraints that actively push against them. Using Singapore English language teaching as a case study, this book illustrates how this process can unfold, and how media literacy principles were vernacularized to design English classroom pedagogies that stretched the bounds of what is acceptable and possible in the local context.
English Foundations: Mastering of Fluent English Language Skills by Ranjot Singh Chahal Pdf
"English Foundations: Mastering Fluent Language Skills" is a comprehensive guide designed to equip learners with the essential tools needed to excel in English language proficiency. This book offers a structured approach that covers every aspect of language acquisition, from grammar fundamentals to advanced communication strategies. Through clear explanations and practical examples, readers will explore the intricacies of English grammar, expand their vocabulary, and develop effective reading comprehension techniques. Additionally, the book provides guidance on enhancing writing skills, refining speaking abilities, and honing listening comprehension. What sets "English Foundations" apart is its emphasis on practical application. Each chapter includes exercises and activities that encourage active learning and reinforce key concepts. Furthermore, the book offers insights into real-world language usage, ensuring learners can confidently navigate various communication scenarios. Whether you're a beginner embarking on your language learning journey or an advanced learner striving for fluency, "English Foundations" is your go-to resource. With its comprehensive coverage, engaging exercises, and focus on practical skills, this book is your roadmap to mastering the English language.
A Modular Approach to Testing English Language Skills by Roger Hawkey Pdf
Documents the development of the Cambridge ESOL Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS), a suite of modular examinations first offered in 2002. As a context for how CELS was conceived, developed, constructed, validated and managed, the book traces the history of exams which have influenced CELS. The Royal Society of Arts (RSA), later UCLES (University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate) Communicative Use of English as a Foreign Language examinations (CUEFL) was one such influence, as were the Certificates in Communication Skills in English (CCSE), these exams being a development of the CUEFL. The University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations (UODLE) examinations, taken over by UCLES in 1995, were a further influence on CELS. UODLE itself had worked in partnership with the Association of Recognised Language Schools (ARELS) Examinations Trust, the Oxford EFL reading and writing exams for many years offered in tandem with the ARELS Oral English exams.
Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate by Tony Brown,Jennifer Bown Pdf
Using debate to develop advanced competency in a second language is a method that is finding increased interest among instructors and students alike, whether in synchronous online teaching or the individual classroom. Through debate, students learn how to make hypotheses, support their conclusions with evidence, and deploy the rhetoric of persuasion in the target language. Though this method provides an exciting pedagogy for moving students from the advanced to the superior level, there is a paucity of materials available for instructors who wish to plan a curriculum focused on debate. Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate: Theory and Practice provides teachers with both the theoretical underpinnings for using debate in the foreign language classroom as well as practical advice for developing reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills through debate. It discusses task-based language learning and helps instructors design debate-related tasks for the classroom. Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate will be useful for any instructor working at the advanced level, and particularly for those training future language instructors. One of the new digital short publications available through Georgetown University Press, it is an ideal complement to the press’s new titles on mastering languages through global debate. Georgetown Digital Shorts—longer than an article, shorter than a book—deliver timely works of peer-reviewed scholarship in a fast-paced, agile environment. They present new ideas and original texts that are easily and widely available to students, scholars, libraries, and general readers.
Initiative tools citizenship intervention certification of language skills by Rita Caporale Pdf
Il termine CLIL, è l’acronimo di Content and Language Integrated Learning, apprendimento integrato di contenuti disciplinari in lingua straniera veicolare. La sfida nella programmazione di attività CLIL si concretizza nell'elaborazione di metodologie didattiche adattabili alla varietà dei saperi. Il lavoro di ricerca analizza casi specifici di utilizzo della metodologia CLIL in diversi contesti internazionali per lo scambio di Buone Pratiche.
Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills by W.A. Hillix,Duane Rumbaugh Pdf
Several books chronicle attempts, most of them during the last 40 years, to teach animals to communicate with people in a human-designed language. These books have typically treated only one or two species, or even one or a few research projects. We have provided a more encompassing view of this field. We also want to reinforce what other authors, for example Jane Goodall, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Penny Patterson, Birute Galdikas, and Roger and Deborah Fouts, so passionately convey about our responsibility for our closest animal kin. This book surveys what was known, or believed about animal language throughout history and prehistory, and summarizes current knowledge and the controversy around it. The authors identify and attempt to settle most of the problems in interpreting the animal behaviours that have been observed in studies of animal language ability.
Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the four Language Skills by Esther Usó-Juan,Alicia Martínez-Flor Pdf
Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the four Language Skills builds connections from theory in the four language skills to instructional practices. It comprises twenty-one chapters that are grouped in five sections. The first section includes an introductory chapter which presents a communicative competence framework developed by the editors in order to highlight the key role the four skills play in language learning and teaching. The next four sections each represent a language skill: Section II is devoted to listening, Section III to speaking, Section IV to reading and Section V to writing. In order to provide an extensive treatment of each of the four skills, each section starts with a theoretical chapter which briefly illustrates advances in the understanding of how each skill is likely to be learned and taught, followed by four didactically oriented chapters authored by leading international specialists. These pedagogical chapters deal specifically with four key topics: 1) areas of research that influence the teaching of a particular skill; 2) an overview of strategies or techniques necessary for developing a particular skill; 3) an approach to the academic orientation of a particular skill, and 4) unique aspects of teaching each skill. Moreover, all chapters incorporate two common sections: pre-reading questions at the beginning of the chapter in order to stimulate readers' interest in its content, and a section entitled suggested activities at the end of the chapter in order to allow readers put the ideas and concepts presented into practice. The accessible style and practical focus of the volume make it an ideal tool for teachers, teacher trainers, and teacher trainees who are involved in teaching the four language skills in a second or foreign language context.
Language Skills Issues And Teaching Challenges by Editor Seniha KRASNIQI,Eda CAN,Gülmira KURUOĞLU,Esra MENGİ,Rriollza AGOLLI,Laura AGOLL,Olger BRAME,Arjan KAMBURI Pdf
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. Leonardo da Vinci I would like to open this preface by uttering my belief that there is no wiser human than one who admits his oblivion and fights against it a perpetual battle. Learning is a process which infuses one’s development in any field. To learn and teach successfully is to master cognitive components which correspond to your learning methodology. Conquering fitting strategy is work half completed, the other half remains to its delivery and grasping through attention, memory, and thinking. Language learning as one field of learning is subject to receptive and productive skills which enables one’s competence to comprehend written and verbal material through reading and iv listening, in addition to producing written and verbal information through writing and speaking skills. Furthermore, foreign language learning is learning a new world alongside its affecting a new approach to your own world. Nevertheless, learning a language is not equally practical for everyone and can be contesting experience due to age, learning/teaching strategies, the similarity with the mother tongue and target language, motivation, level of interest, and need, consequently, learner personality. This book comprises five chapters which scrutinize learning, respectfully language learning under various circumstances and complexities, offering a solution to issues of dyslexic students, dementia patients, language acquisition and communication difficulties in the classroom, children’s learning process in general, and the dichotomy on literary work incorporation in foreign language teaching in particular. Encompassing all these topics the book strived to embrace teaching and learning matters on a more profound level hence find its broad reader. Seniha Krasniqi February 2021