Project Based Learning (PBL) is an organized teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills through an extended inquiry process structured around difficult, realistic questions and carefully designed tasks. ... Suzie Boss, in her article "Project-Based Learning: A Short History" states "Maria Montessori, the Italian physician and child-development expert pioneered learning environments that foster capable, adaptive citizens and problem solvers.... Because of this study they found that PjBL has a longer and permanent effect due to learning by experiences. ...

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The problem of this fact is that the students would have brief knowledge in the English language in higher classes and lack if interest in learning languages. The solution to this problem as I see it is to make English learning obligatory already in primary school. ... Those are three of many advantages when it comes to learning English at a young age. Learning English in primary school should be obligatory instead of waiting until the fourth grade as many schools do today. ... The consequences of not learning English in primary school is that it will be more difficult for the students to u...

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The teacher will make the explanation in English. They also try to get English into the students through music and art. Students may start to attend classes that are taught in English. ... Students who don't learn English are not able to excel in school. ... If they"re only source of learning English failing is them, who will they turn to? ...

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Introduction The class I was assigned to for English at Primary Five was an EM1 class. ... I then used concrete materials to further enhance their learning. ... I did, however, inject miniscule teaching and learning strategies wherever possible and appropriate. ... This was more apparent in my lessons as I was consciously trying to construct my lessons and my materials to cater to learners of high ability and promote student-centered learning whenever possible for a more constructivist approach to learning. ... In addition, with my new knowledge of learning styles, different needs from ...

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Speaking English has become a problem faced by many public schools in America. ... The teachers in American public schools are being made to slow down the learning process for students to be able to keep up with the instructions. ... So, the new language-minority students seem to pay the price they are forced into basic skills classes and learning programs that would not be needed if we met the needs of the many that are falling behind. ... Many students have gone through these type of programs in school and been taught English very well, but many have also learned to fear English and resort b...

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Teachers also play a positive role in learning how to write. ... She was taught how to write the letters of the English alphabet by a neighbor. She was a foreigner to the English language but was very proud to find that she learned faster than some people in his class. ... JS also recalls learning how to write from her three sisters. ... Learning to write is something very personal. ...

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The Integration of English Language Development and Science Instruction in Elementary Classroom written by Susan Gomez Zweip, William Straits, Kristen Stone, Delores Beltran, and Leena Furtado is an article that examined the significance of blending Science with ELD classes. ... This meant that ELL students would not only have to test in a language they were not fluent in, but also be proficient in the subjects of math and English. Schools put the focus on teaching math and English to the ELL students in hope that their test scores would go up. ... With that being said an under-performing ...

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The Integration of English Language Development and Science Instruction in Elementary Classroom written by Susan Gomez Zweip, William Straits, Kristen Stone, Delores Beltran, and Leena Furtado is an article that examined the significance of blending Science with ELD classes. ... This meant that ELL students would not only have to test in a language they were not fluent in, but also be proficient in the subjects of math and English. Schools put the focus on teaching math and English to the ELL students in hope that their test scores would go up. ... With that being said an under-performing ...

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The anxiety in learning second language can be reduced by the teachers and the students by themselves. ... Teachers need to pay attention to the students' learning rate and their different cultural background. ... The teachers were complained by the students saying that their teacher spoke too fast and refuse to use English to make further explanation. This reduce the learning spirits of the students. ... Besides, students are playing a very important role to increase their spirit in learning second language too. ...

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"Manners to be Observed by Teachers and Students," is a volume of the book "The Revival of Religious Learning" written by Abū Ḥāmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazālī, better known as al-Ghazālī. ... In this case, when al-Ghazālī says: "The seventh duty of a student is that he should not take up a new branch of learning till he has learnt fully the previous branch of learning, because it is requisite for the acquisition of knowledge" (al-Ghazālī 27) There is not a more suitable way to assimilate this fragment such as offering a comparison to Mrs. ... To be sincere...

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Black English and some other dialects of English differ from standard English, the "accepted" dialect. ... But proponents say recognizing black English will only help African-American kids learn linguistic skills-- including standard English--better. ... Behind all the furor is a long history of serious research by linguists and educators on the existence of black English, or ebonics as it's called, and its impact on learning problems. ... Underlying their decision is a belief, based on many studies, that black English is a distinct dialect, if not a language, that has systematic...

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At first, Baker was bored by anything that had to do with his English classes. ... When Baker was assigned to his third-year English class, he expected "another grim year in that dreariest of subjects " (4). ... Fleagle "had opened a door for him ", and ranked his eleventh grade English teacher, "among the finest teachers at the school " (4). ... One thing I found quite funny was after learning about the gas chambers, I was afraid for to bathe with the shower head because I thought that gas might come out and kill me. ... Despite that, learning about this helped me mature earlier and opened my...

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There are two choices, self-directed learning or traditional school, Mary Ward or Francis Libermann. ... In a traditional school you may just have a chemistry test, an English Writers Craft essay due and a chapter of Law all due the next day. ... At a self directed learning school you would plan according to your time the amount of work you could accomplish. ... In a self-directed learning school you only see each one of you teachers every two weeks during scheduled days. ... The two systems of learning are almost complete opposites in many senses. ...

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The Majority of Americans living in the U.S. know English, so it only makes sense for schools to teach in English, but what about the children who do not know English. ... My girlfriend's first language is Spanish and she learned English through an ESL (English as a Second Language) in elementary. ... Even though she was taught to learn English she still kept her language. ... Gonzalez states that "Reading programs taught in English to children with Spanish as their first language waste their acquired linguistic attributes and also impede learning by forcing them to absorb skills of rea...

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Culture has become a vehemently significant issue in connection with teaching English in a country where English is not the mother tongue. ... I believe in focusing on individual needs, and involving students in the process of their learning. ... The intended learning outcomes of the new teaching: A Study in Practice During Spring Semester 2009, I taught the course "English 303: Short Stories" designed to introduce students to the short fiction of pre-modern and modern periods through short stories of England, Europe and Americas. ... And Bengali being a tonal language possesses...

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Other types of strategies have been developed on the job, for example, when addressing students" individual learning challenges. ... Using interactive discussions and "hands-on" learning helps students learn and shows students how to apply concepts in subjects such as science, mathematics, or English. ... Middle and secondary school teachers also specialize in specific subjects, such as English, Spanish, mathematics, history, or biology. ... Use of computer resources, exposes students to experiences and it also promotes interactive learning. ... Computers are used in other classroom activitie...

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Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ... The proposition introduces a new way of teaching the English language to immigrant children. ... "The Unz initiative calls for one year of courses taught in English, with an emphasis on learning the language; a system that many fear is a return to a past when children were sometimes punish...

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Evidents Upon this, the role of the textbook in the English classroom is very important. ... The teacher seems to be the most important factor who faciliate and direct the teaching-learning process. ... The role of the textbook in teaching and learning: Morever, English textbooks in teaching and learning is critical. ... As students pool their individual strengths they gain confidence in being able to function in an English-speaking society (Kelly, Lawrence, Mark & Bruce, 2002). ... - Integrates different learning styles: aural, oral, visual, kinesthetic...

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Learning how to use a computer is like learning to drive a car. ... By doing this it will create a better learning environment with less confusion on what can be trusted and what cant. ... Friedman recalled a Princeton teacher struggling to teach English to a foreign-born student who spoke a rare Incan dialect. ... "Within two to three weeks, the child was speaking English," she said. ... A computer with the right voice software could use microphones and earphones to talk to and teach the child using both his language and English. ...

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Introduction Australia is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse nations in the world with over 6 million Australian residents born overseas, 25% of the population with a language background other than English and over 75% identifying with an ancestry other than 'Australian'. ... Thus students may develop a broader awareness of community at local, national, regional and global levels, and more successfully interact and engage across these levels; • multicultural education values the experiences and backgrounds of all students, staff and families, and draws upon ...

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English has been viewed through a whole new role due to globalization. According to Jenkins (2000), English has become an international language owned by all who use it. He also considers that "English as Lingua Franca emphasizes the role of English in communication between speakers from different L1s, i.e. it is the primary reason for learning English today () and there is nothing inherently wrong in retaining certain characteristics of the L1" (p.11). ... The context of learning a foreign language in a country like Costa Rica is a monolingual class. ... They have real meaningful experie...

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This paper critically examines the varied approaches to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP). ... There is also support for a hybrid approach to EAP learning, known as critical pragmatism. ... The concept of critical pedagogical learning relies on the principle that 'the classroom needs to be continually interrogated for the ideologies it fosters and reproduces' (McLaren: 2011). ... In these cases, a vulgar pragmatic approach to EAP learning becomes a most valuable tool to students. ... This paper has examined the various approaches toward teaching English for Academic Purpo...

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Has the Oakland School Board gone too far by wanting to integrate Ebonics in the schools" learning system? ... I felt that this would be a more effective way to reach those students who had a hard time grappling the proper way to speak and understand "correct" English. ... This was word was not created to describe the problem that Black children have with learning in White Americas" school's. ... Let me not confuse you into thinking that I disagree from a "one language for all" point-of-view, or a "we need to learn proper English for better jobs" point-of-view, but rather a non-conform...

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Worse still, race and class are often the components leading to biased expectations, putting these students at a great disadvantage in learning and progressing through the educational system. ... Students who enter school speaking standard English as a second language may be hesitant in answering questions due to embarrassment, and are often incorrectly placed in slower classes, or labeled illiterate (Rathus, 1993). ... When a child speaks little, or no, English in the home or outside of the classroom environment, they may need intensive help in learning and mastering the English language. ...

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Most English teachers consider drama to not be within their English Language Arts curriculum, drama is used more often as a teaching method in other disciplines. ... English teachers tend to leave drama to theater courses, isolating drama techniques from most English classrooms. ... Students are learning through drama. ... Bolton (1985) points out that while much school learning is an accruing of facts, Readers" Theatre can help students reframe their knowledge into new perspectives. ... Hoetker describes drama as a method of better accommodating students whose learning styles are visual or ki...

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