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Brain-based Teaching Strategies Used to Teach English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Taiwan High Schools, Colleges, and Universities

Performance on elective course KJ4143 air conditioning and refrigeration course taught in english language for final year students at UKM

Papers Presented at the Seminar on Current Trends in Language Teaching Held on 3rd-4th December 1984 at Maktab Kerjasama Malaysia, Petaling Jaya

Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers

This book proposes that action research should be a collaborative process emerging from the practical concerns of groups of teachers working in a common or similar context. Teachers' first-person accounts provide the basis for exploring the challenges and constraints of action research. The book will be of interest to teachers seeking new directions for their own professional development as well as others interested in integrating collaborative action research into current practice and curriculum renewal.

This book proposes that action research should be a collaborative process emerging from the practical concerns of groups of teachers working in a common or similar context.

Action Research for Language Teachers

Beginning with the reasons for carrying out action research, this guide for language teachers can be used by them to analyse and investigate their own expertise and develop it in a systematic way.

Beginning with the reasons for carrying out action research, this guide for language teachers can be used by them to analyse and investigate their own expertise and develop it in a systematic way.

Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, Grades 3-5

Nearly every state has independently adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), making this practical guide an indispensable resource for grades 3-5 teachers and teachers-in-training. Leading authorities explain each of the English language arts (ELA) standards and vividly show how to implement them. The book is filled with grade-specific classroom vignettes, instructional strategies and activities, sample lesson plans, and discussion questions. Chapters cover the major ELA strands: reading (literature, informational texts, and foundational skills); writing; speaking and listening; and language. Issues of assessment and technology integration are also explored. An appendix includes thematic units for each grade level demonstrating ways to embed CCSS/ELA standards into content-area instruction. See also Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, PreK-2.

As noted earlier, the standards for opinion, informative, and narrative writing
focus on the basic genre elements and structure for ... A tested evidence-based
writing practice that is effective in helping students in grades 3–5 write the type of
text ...

Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching

A compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.

Among the reported advantages of this type of examination, perhaps the most
outstanding is the lowering of anxiety as opposed to traditional exams and the '
cleanliness' of the method, environmentally speaking, since no paper whatsoever
was used in the whole process. On the negative side, a few students found that
their limited computer-skills negatively affected their performance. Regarding
activities 2 and 3, i.e. those involving direct access to the database by students, a
good ...

Sociocultural Theory and the Teaching of Second Languages

L.S. Vygotsky, the renowned Russian psychologist, argued that the true test of any scientific theory is not the contribution that it makes to our understanding of the of the object of study but the extent to which it improves the practical activities of people, including activities that take place in educational settings. The fourteen original chapters included in this volume document innovations in second and foreign language teaching rooted in Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development. Researchers and language teaching practitioners will find implementations at the classroom and programmatic levels of Vygotskyan principles and concepts, including cognitive mediation, the zone of proximal development, activity theory, internatlization, verbalization, and materialization.

The second and related, pedagogical goal consisted of improving students'
writing in specific textual genres. ... concept based approach) attempts to directly
address the matter of cognitive development during genre-based writing
instruction.