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Language Education: Maio 2009
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Reflections on language teaching and learning by a Brazilian teacher. Quarta-feira, 27 de maio de 2009. Burning down the house: Canagarajah’s views on Lingua Franca English. Canagarajah, A. Suresh. Lingua Franca English, Multilingual Communities, and Language Acquisition. Modern Language Journal. As form becomes less important than pragmatic strategies, error also receives a different significance in the context of LFE – error is a failure in communicating meaning, something that, according to the ...
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Language Education: Are Americans afraid of living in a multilingual country?
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Reflections on language teaching and learning by a Brazilian teacher. Quarta-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2012. Are Americans afraid of living in a multilingual country? Many students of English may be surprised to learn that the U.S. has no offcial language. The use of language is of course part of the "common law" but has never received a federal regulation. The movement in favor of English as the official U.S. language is not new but has aparently gained a new strengh. In the border city of San Luis.
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Language Education: Global English and the CLT
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Reflections on language teaching and learning by a Brazilian teacher. Domingo, 19 de julho de 2009. Global English and the CLT. I am posting the first of a series of reflections that try to assess the Communicative Language Teaching approach in face of English as the new lingua franca. In the field” of language teaching (Brown, 2001:42, emphasis added). Richards and Rodgers, 2001:172). As Rajagopalan reminds us,. See the second part of this discussion here. Brown, H. D. 2001. Teaching by Prin...Canagaraj...
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Language Education: Native-speakerism
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Reflections on language teaching and learning by a Brazilian teacher. Segunda-feira, 19 de julho de 2010. The position of the native speaker as a role model for the learner has as an obvious outcome the privileged position of the native-speaker teacher above the non-native one, an ideological construct that has been called native-speakerism. A dominant practice in the English teaching world market, native-speakerism is essentially discriminatory against non-English speaking individuals and cultures:.
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Language Education: Agosto 2009
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Reflections on language teaching and learning by a Brazilian teacher. Sábado, 1 de agosto de 2009. Preventing real communication in class. Patiently correction leaves us all alone. By The Killers and Lou Reed). The following excerpt is from an English class observed in a private language institute in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with eight 13-year old students. After complaining about the use of Portuguese by the students, the teacher addresses Paulo, who was the most talkative at that moment. 11 T: Ah. No.
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Language Education: Global English and the CLT - part 2
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Reflections on language teaching and learning by a Brazilian teacher. Sábado, 25 de julho de 2009. Global English and the CLT - part 2. This post is the second and final part of a reflection about the limitations of the Communicative Language Teaching concerning the present reality where English has become the new lingua franca. The fist part is here. What are the benefits of following such syllabus? Should we just follow what is assumed as necessary by an author, publisher or language institution? I liv...
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Language Education: Julho 2009
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Reflections on language teaching and learning by a Brazilian teacher. Sábado, 25 de julho de 2009. Global English and the CLT - part 2. This post is the second and final part of a reflection about the limitations of the Communicative Language Teaching concerning the present reality where English has become the new lingua franca. The fist part is here. What are the benefits of following such syllabus? Should we just follow what is assumed as necessary by an author, publisher or language institution? Simil...
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About me
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Tarak BRAHMI is a teacher of English. Who has been teaching since 1999. Experience in teaching in IT-ready. Schools: using electronic classrooms,. Interactive boards, etc. Presented workshops for teachers in. Bahrain about using interactive boards. Holder of an International Computer. Other blogs: The Tunisian ELT Forum. Where else can you find me? Http:/ www.cucumis.org/members 1 u/profile p 191066.html. Http:/ www.italki.com/T002386815.htm. Http:/ educationat.gather.com/. Sharing files and documents:.
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ENGL 114 - English Language Skills I - Writing: Advertising @ YUC
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ENGL 114 - English Language Skills I - Writing. This blog is for freshmen level 1 English writing at Yanbu University College in Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah, Saudi Arabia. Saturday, October 8, 2011. Our first unit this semester was on advertising. We looked at how firms. Their products when dealing with different cultures. We also learned about problems advertisers face due to translation. Have a look at a few below. Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun! More to come, be sure to come back soon!
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