This is also evident in the field of learning and teaching foreign language, which was mostly reliant on the Soviet-rooted traditions and principles and Grammar-Translation method. ... Based on the analysis of the system of organization of learning foreign languages, ​​which showed that educational standards, curricula and textbooks did not fully meet modern requirements, especially in the use of advanced information and media technologies, and in order to reject the above mentioned approaches and methods of teaching foreign language there was issued the Decree No. 1875 on December 12, 201...

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COMPARING TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING: GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD AND DIRECT METHOD I think nowadays different teaching methods are being used in combined ways depending on the teacher, the target language, the educational traditions etc. ... Since the whole world is getting more and more utilitarian there is also a stress on teaching useful things. ... I am going to examine two approaches to language teaching and find the most principal differences between them. ... However, using only the Grammar-Translation Method for teaching a spoken language is not effective any mo...

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It is an inductive teaching and learning method. ... The Audio-lingual Method benefits from an analytic, structure-based and linguistic syllabus to language teaching. ... Audiolingualism method has strength and weaknesses. It is the only method so far based on the dominant linguistic and learning theory of its age. ... However, it has been modified, undergone profound changes and is still practiced eclectively throughout the world and some of the so-called new methods such as versions of communicative language teaching use its rich and ripe techniques. ...

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Teacher should relate the teaching plan with updated issues discussed in the society to attract the students' attention and the students can remember what the teacher taught easily. ... A classroom setting, students' experience with the language, expectation of students toward the teaching instructors will affect the anxiety and spirit of the students toward the learning of second language. If the teaching plan is different from what the expected, anxiety in learning the second language will occur this is because they will lack of self-confidence and their level of anxiety will incre...

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Dorfman, in his essay "If Only We All Spoke Two Languages", states, "The bilingual method, in spite of what its detractors claim, does not imprison a child in his or her original language. ... Both methods can work. ... Recognizing the importance of remaining connected with one's culture, the immersion method seems rather futile as a method of education for foreign language speaking children, as it results in the removal of their original culture. ... I am in favor of the two-way immersion method as a bilingual education application in the classroom. ... By allowing student...

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Receiving advice at the beginning of this course, the author was advised that teaching mathematics would be the most rewarding (and thus easiest course) because there is only one correct answer, and it's easier for kids to teach because they know when they get it right. ... In recognition perhaps of an inflexibility within teaching mathematics, writers such as Parker (93, in Orey, 1998), Richards (1991, in Gibbs & Orton (1994), Durkin and Shire (1991) and Roberts (nd) support the NCTM (1989, in Orey, 1998) call for more powerful connections between mathematics and "real-life" by identifyi...

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HOME SCHOOL CONNECTIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY For several decades now educators have recognised with great significance the integral role that parents play in their child's foundational language learning (Cairney & Munsie, 1992, p.1). It has also been suggested that the relationship between s...

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Uniform education is dying out and alternative methods are being implemented to help those with developmental delay acquire knowledge and skills based on their personal handicaps. ... Teachers utilized both instructional strategies as well as incidental teaching strategies. Parents were encouraged to use incidental teaching strategies with the children. ...

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Children and Bilingualism According to the 1990 United States Census, one in seven or 31.8 million people speak a language other than English in their home. In the past, second generation children were encouraged to adopt the customs, culture, and language of what was identified as the majority culture. Today, with greater recognition and celebration of cultural differences, people are more likely to maintain and share their primary language with their children and to promote bilingualism as a reflection of ethnic pride and identity. What is Bilingualism? Different people use the term in ...

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Under the influence of this orientation, acquisition planning activities would involve teaching and developing materials in the national language only. ... Acquisition planning process would produce teaching materials to facilitate learning of these various languages. ...

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For humans, the main method of communication is often thought of as a spoken language but animals are physiologically incapable of speaking to each other. ... Moreover, teaching preschoolers how to learn the word and in same time the shape of the item itself through activities and games emphasizes the idea of arbitrariness. ...

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