Conclusions and Recommendations The main problem for Kazakhstan students is that they almost never speak English in their everyday lives. They use it very rarely since there are not a lot of opportunities to do that in Kazakhstan. Students who learn English attending courses and know grammar excellently find it difficult to apply it in practice and cannot even express their thoughts. The main language spoken in the classroom is not English, but Russian. In order to overcome these problems teachers of the English language in Kazakhstan need practical, effective and easy-to-implement methods to increase the use of the English in the classroom, to keep their students actively involved and to help students improve not only reading …show more content…
These methods generate a greater amount of interest and enjoyment than the more traditional printed material, which is usually used in Kazakhstan. They give students easy, creative and effective ways to increase their proficiency in the target language. Kazakh students can see the real connection between their lives and the language they study thus making the language personal. The target language becomes alive for them. This methodology is an effective teaching tool because it helps students to learn how to create dialogues and participate in them, how to cooperate and work in pairs, helps in building up their confidence. Moreover, it makes it possible for Kazakh students to easily use the target language every day. After all, these field–tested methods are simple, effective and based on recent brain research. Despite the fact that now TESOL Methodology is not-so-commonly-used in Kazakhstan teachers should try it out. It offers teachers a wide variety of methods and activities, which they can easily use to improve their teaching skills. By applying this methodology, teachers in Kazakhstan will add that “new twist” to their lessons. Moreover, the teacher who uses these methods helps students to relieve any boredom and awakens their interest in learning the target language. Therefore, teachers should feel confident using TESOL methods to facilitate
English Language Learners (hereafter referred to as ELLs) currently comprise 10% of the total school population in the United States (National Center for Education Statistics, 2005). It is a population that is going to continue to increase in American public education and their specific needs for learning literacy are of great importance to teachers. Since schools and teachers are increasingly judged based upon the academic achievement of students, then the success of the growing population of ELLs is going to be increasingly important. In the present paper the role of the teacher and specific research-based literacy strategies for ELLs is investigated.
In this research, I’m going to focusing on the English as a language is being taught in many countries oversea today including Thailand. In fact, you’ll be surprising to know that English is required for many of the students in many countries. Unfortunately, it is not necessarily taught as well as it could be because of heavy teaching load, class sizes and adequate technology. Learning an English today still's has been challenging for many countries and specifically in Thailand. In Thailand, the student often gets too overwhelmed with English and mentally tune out in the classroom because English was their least favorite subjects. On the other hand, the students don’t have a resource at school or they don’t have it enough. Furthermore, many students just go to English class and switch back to Thai as soon as they out of school. English isn't used locally in Thailand. Although, there still a lot students continue care about English language because English has been the most ordinarily utilized language internationally and the language of traffic control and the majority of academic journals. It’s the most common language on the internet and the language that travelers use to communicate with different native speakers.
The «Trinity of Languages» program has been approved by the Decree of the President of Kazakhstan of November 20, 2007. This program is entered already at many schools of Kazakhstan and develops pupils till today. According to international statistics students which learning with trilingual system are more motivated, attentive and see benefits of trilingual type of learning .The purpose of this report is to compare the advantages and disadvantages of trilingual system. By examining a big part of recently published journal articles, magazine articles on the topic of this report describes the main advantages and disadvantages of trilingual systems using today and examines their performance in relation to four criteria: need for life, novelty, understanding and experience. The report then considers the effect of
As a Student and Future English graduate my purpose of this research is to uncover the top reasons and effects of the lack of Basic literacy skills in some of the English department Teachers and future graduates as well as some of the obstacles and hardships their students Might face as a result. Also, I will be offering solutions and ways to overcome and avoid them, My research will be demonstrated in AL-Asmari kindergarten and the 5th Al-khafji primary & intermediate school and the 2nd Al-Khafji High school and at last at the University of Hafer Al-Batin.
English learners (ELs) struggle with content literacy task because the “academic language of texts is not the language of conversational speech” Vacca et al. (2014, P.77). Every content area has a specific language. ELs find it difficult because they are not familiar with the academic language in that content area. For example, an English learner in first grade might have difficulties understanding his peers in a reading group excises because of the content language but, when they go outside to play, they communicate fluently because this English learner has mastered the playground language. Teachers can make content more accessible to students by using a variety of instructional strategies or aids to assist students with English language problems in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Interactive, cooperative activities, pictures, relevant media etc. are some of the shelter instructional strategies which teachers can use to make content accessible to students (p.82).
The student’s main strength is that she is not afraid of speaking and making mistakes. Being an elementary level student, she makes regular mistakes corresponding both to the level and to being a Russian language speaker (Learner English, Swan, M and Smith, M CUP).
These students may find it very difficult to participate in English tasks and will quickly tire when constantly having to converse in English.
This approach was very advanced for the time. It revolutionised the strategies of language learning and also changed the role of the language teachers as well as the language learners. In contrast with some of the methodologies previously adopted, its main goal is to teach the scholars the ability to communicate. Thereby, Communicative Language Teaching bases itself upon the concept of language competence, which is considered the actual basis of proficiency in a language. Hence, teaching activities involve students in real-life communicative situations in which the communicative task is of more importance than the grammatical accuracy. Other exercises such as games, songs, problem solving and role-plays also are used in classrooms. It must be said that each of these activities are sowed on the learners needs, therefore, if the class
Many countries in Asia like China, Japan, UAE, Sri Lanka, Singapore etc., adopted English as a foreign language not as a second language. Because considering English as a second language and as a Foreign Language is different in their view point. They view that outside of the classroom, English is not that much useful. They teach all the subjects in their mother tongue but in India if one is unable to speak in English he becomes a tabooed person. Many Asian countries treat the pupil’s age, sex, race, attitude, intelligence and grasping power in teaching English. Indian teachers neglect this aspect. For ex: a speaker from Hyderabad emphasizes more vowels before many words because of the influence of Urdu. Straight – Istraight. And a Bihari pronounces ‘sh’ as ‘s’ because of the influence of Kharboli. Teachers don’t take into consideration of this aspect and mistreat students. So teachers have to choose the methodology as suit their classroom and environment. If teacher takes all the factors into consideration classroom becomes more meaningful. All the methods are not meaningful when teacher choose them as per the needs of the classroom.
Education is important in many cultures because it gives an opportunity to gain the skill which is needed to navigate in the world. It plays a crucial factor in all countries. Also, it is important in the country like Kazakhstan which is developing. The education system of Kazakhstan has changed a lot from the USSR’s collapsing. It was improved and modified. However, the result of PISA ranked the knowledge of the 15 years old students to 49th in 2012 (PISA 2012 Results in Focus, 2014). The ranking shows the education system of school needs an amelioration. Therefore, the Kazakhstani government requested technical assistance to improve the nation’s educational system in 2011(PISA 2012 Results in Focus, 2014). In response, the World Bank Group launched the Joint Economic Research Program, or JERP, in order to enhance the quality of education. After researches there were provided additional technical equipment to schools but the method or approach of teaching was not changed. There is mistake that the way of teaching and requirements to teachers weren’t considered that could have improved the system. The method of teaching of successful countries should have considered and applied for Kazakhstani schools’ education. Therefore, this research was conducted in order to regard the gap. As an example country for application its experience Finland was chosen because Finland’s way has significant implication for reformer, especially those who is facing the same problems. Finland
It has not been easy but challenging and interesting. Unfortunately in this present job I have no colleagues, institution authorities or supervisors, which means anything I do in the classroom hardly ever provides me any feedback of what I am doing. Except of course for the eventual commentaries I receive from my students and the annual performance evaluation. Therefore I had this urgent necessity of obtaining some refreshment and reviewing of what I am doing in my classroom. I need to make a stop to reflect about how effective my teaching is. If the things I am doing are adequate and suitable to take my pupils to achieve their goal to communicate in the target language. Teaching in this context was at the beginning of the journey a frightening and stressing episode, first of all because I did not know anything about mining, geology, finance and accounting, just to mention some and not to make myself look like a complete ignorant. Secondly the atmosphere in a corporate has nothing to do with the informal ambience in an elementary school and thirdly but not least important, the students expectations and perceptions are not the same. Thus, I had to remake myself.
Methods and Materials in TESOL Education is the eighth course I have taken as American Military University graduate student. One of my primary motivations for the four years I serviced in the military was to earn a GI Bill scholarship to be able to afford to take graduate courses in order to earn a master’s degree in education with a concentration in English Language Learners. As an ESL instructor, prior to joining the military, I had arrived at a career plateau. My hopes before taking this course were high. My expectations were met, for the most part
In my research I am going to give another view of teaching English in pre-intermediate classes, because according to the curriculum of the education system of Uzbekistan, teaching a foreign language mostly consists of grammar ad structured dialogues that can be learnt by special English course books. And my goal is to prove that it is not only way to teach a target language in pre-intermediate classes and using video materials increases learners’ not only linguistic competences, but
In my research I am going to give another view of teaching English in pre-intermediate classes, because according to the curriculum of the education system of Uzbekistan, teaching a foreign language mostly consists of grammar ad structured dialogues that can be learnt by special English course books. And my goal is to prove that it is not only way to teach a target language in pre-intermediate classes and using video materials increases learners’ not only linguistic competences, but also awareness of cultural and pragmatic features of the English language.
NLP, with its roots in psychology and neurology, is about the way the brain works and how the brain can be trained for the purpose of betterment. It encompasses or is related to 'left / right brain' functions, 'visual / auditory / kinesthetic' learning styles, multiple intelligence and other areas of research which are attempting to identify modes of learning whilst recognizing the importance of the individual learner.