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Two Lesson Plans for Adult ESL Learners

to memorize these words or phrases. * Working in dyads, students will practice one of two dialogues, either speaking with the nurs...

Literacy Instruction: Short and Long-Term Goals and Programming Perspective

around reading and writing, allowing for authentic achievement of literacy. Reading research has made considerable advances durin...

Assessments and Research for ESL Learners

This 5 page paper provides an overview of testing methods and research for ESL learners. Bibliography lists 5 sources....

The Production of Speech Acts by EFL Learners

plan their utterances, and what is the nature of this assessment and planning; 2. What is the language of thought used in assess...

English Language Teaching And Metacognition

to clarify: if a student asks what a word means, he is using cognition; if the student asks what the best way is to learn and reme...

Applying to Medical School

had an aptitude for math and science courses that would support my pursuit of a Bachelors of Science degree. As I developed in my...

Language Learning Styles and ESL Teaching Strategies

study will assess existing learning styles and educational strategies used to assess the impacts of ESL/TESOL and Bilingual educat...

ELL Funding

Furthermore, all language designed to promoting bilingual education has been removed from federal legislation pertaining to ELL ed...

Adult Learner Curriculum Design

a theorist who suggests that adult learners call on different experiences they might have had in the learning process (Merriam & C...

Literature Review on Paralinguistic Features of English Language Skills

will come to being able to communicate effectively" (Gassin, 1990, 437). Like Adams, Gassin (1990) also believed that the achieve...

Divergent Learners and Alternative Assessment Methods

and so are difficult to assess. Divergent learners are endowed with a unique variety of personality traits and this is something ...

Content Based English Language Learners

instructional techniques and their behaviors to increase the success level for these students. Pica (2002) reported that in the...

Learning Styles And The Mature Learner

themes relative to the mature students first year in higher education degree courses that lent themselves to success, including: a...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language - TEFL

arouse student interest and also to engage their emotions (Zorro and Castillo, n.d.). Many different stimuli could be used to enga...

Writing Curriculum Adaptation Outline for Second Language Learners

of six steps: preview and identify; transfer of major concepts into graphic organizers; share organizers to generate oral interact...

Analysis of textbook using discourse theory

we acquire knowledge not through a straightforward one-way transmission of information, but through a complicated interplay betwee...

Transtheoretical Behavior Change Model

near future, e.g., six months (Velicer et al., 1998). They moved along the path because they have received information or have bec...

Comprehensible Input

want students to learn accurate language. Communication needs to be grammatically correct with proper syntax and so on (Kagan, 199...

ESL ELL Teaching Methods

lessons, classmates and the concept of learning in general) -- influences teaching, organization and response to students by givin...

Relationship between School Culture and Curriculum

with what they already understand on an academic subject (Brown, 2003). A constructivist approach to pedagogy emphasizes that the ...

MARSHA WARREN AND THE TROUBLED LEARNERS

consistently fight to get things done, and who goes through turmoil every day. She needs to remember that her class is not the adv...

English as a Second Language Preschoolers

learning to read English as well. Between reading books at home and book in the classroom, children picked up a significant amou...

Adult Learners

school. This paper briefly explores a few of them. Discussion We are interested here in adults who are already established in car...

Techniques for ELL Students

(Ghaith, 2003). Cooperative learning encourages meaningful, real-life conversations between students, regardless of age. Researc...

Teaching Using the SEI Approach

ELLs receive a minimum of four hours of daily instruction in English language development, that is, not simply instruction in Engl...

Obstacles to Correct Pronunciation for Japanese Learners of English

with a fixed pronunciation. For instance, the letter "a" in English can be pronounced many different ways, such as in the words "a...

Water Quality Lesson

river and classroom activities. The first activity has the teacher explaining to students what macro-invertebrates are. They can s...

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REVIEW: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

instruction tended to help ELL students, and Brooks and Thurstons results werent much different. Basically, throwing ELL students ...

Managing Change: Transition to the Use of Portfolios as an Assessment

The objectives include the following: 1. To ensure that each educator has an understanding of the value of the change initiative ...

The Bilingual Education Debate

There is also evidence that bilingualism actually provides benefit to culturally diverse students. Sheng, McGregor and Marian cond...