Just like in our daily lives, facing the problems and obstacles head on is the best way to learn. ... We as students we have learned by making mistakes and by, some way or another, correcting ourselves or being corrected by our teachers. This is how really important is to learn from our mistakes, we improve as teachers and as students and even in the daily aspects of our life we learn by making mistakes. ... In the end I give some personal insight about how important Error Analysis is for teachers and students. ... Data Analysis: "a arquitector" : there are two errors in this phrase...

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Firstly, students might misunderstand the meaning or not find the right world. ... Translating into the target language also can help learn to think in that language. ... They learn paradigms such as verb conjugations, and they learn the native language equivalents of vocabulary words. ... Here the teacher and the students are more like partners in the learning process while in the other method the teacher is a kind of authority so the students do as he conducts. However, it is also important that students get the correct answer. ...

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I support bilingual education because it can be an effective pathway for foreign language speakers to learn the English language. ... According to Hadi-Tabassum, "Two-way immersion (TWI) bilingual education is an integrated language immersion program in which students who speak a majority language, such as English, study and learn together in the same classroom with students who speak a minority language.Both the language majority and language minority students learn the two languages simultaneously and acquire academic content knowledge through both L1 (English) and L2 (Spanish, Korean, ...

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In this particular situation, Non- native English speaker teachers are people who decided to learn a second language, and they have studied the language, the culture and the origins of a particular place around the world. ... The cultures, the language, the belief, the origins they have are different from what we have here in our country and this person has the challenge to learn about our country (Mahboob, 2010). ... Furthermore, during my practicum period at school, I have heard that to learn English is not important because they will not use it after finishing the school. ... Often, I thi...

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It is assumed that L2 English learners have 'no prior knowledge' and need to learn standard English, so they should be taught 'real' English as opposed to the 'locally acquired deviation' (Jenkins 67-68). ... This is advantageous to learners because of the shared teacher-student experience where the teacher can provide an 'appropriate and attainable model for their students' as well as 'understand the educational, social and cultural contexts in which they are working' (Jenkins 121). ... Another problem of L1-based English tests is that...

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Does Bilingual Education Improve Academic Success in Students? ... An example of this would be if the students are native Hispanic students learning English and Spanish at the same time. ... The downfall to this method is that take the risk of falling behind in content areas as they struggle to learn English. ... The English-dominant students scored higher on the test in comparison to the Spanish students. ... All students can and will learn in thei...

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Second example is that only 6.5 percent of the students who are re-classified as fluent in English come from a group of students, only a third of whom are in bilingual programs and most of whom are in the kind of English-only programs mandated by Proposition 227. ... Some proponents take a step further and claim that denying bilingual education is discrimination against minority students. ... They site the research that shows that sheltered English immersion is the most effective method of helping non-English speaking children learn English. ... Hence, it is only fair that unified program be o...

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What sort of contexts (students, courses and institutions) are implied by the books/sections? ... All students share the same accent and probably the same mispronunciations. All the time, students struggle to gain a native-like pronunciation. ... Moreover, these students are the ones reaching our classrooms as actual teachers, therefore, the struggle is not vanished. ... Taylor (1993:2) adds to this matter and states that "While one would hesitate to say that any aspect of intonation is not learnable, it certainly seems to be the case that some aspects at least are not teachable, in as m...

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Consequently, it may be impossible for students to use the language appropriately without culture awareness. ... Furthermore, while communicating in foreign language, students are easily influenced by their mother tongue, which is deeply rooted and works subconsciously even when they have learned some history, geography and literature of English- speaking countries. ... Thirdly, social skills, which enable students to communicate with the target language community, are also referred as culture in the pragmatic sense. ... The analysis of the data indicated that the idea of using contexts famil...

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The only difference may be the diversity of words they could learn. ... To support this view, we may have a look at our students who are outstanding in pronunciation. ... (Brown: 116) While the motivation of classroom students, child or adult, most probably be instrumental, i.e. they learn a language as an academic course, there are other possibilities for both children and adults. For example, adults could learn a foreign language because they like the target culture, or they want to migrate to the community that speak the target language. Similarly, children may learn it because their parent...

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Seeing the fact now that more people are more likely to choose to use the English language with a variety of reasons such as want to learn English, do not want to look countrified or lagging, looks cool or prestigious etc. ... However we learn the rules at school, there are many standards for official Indonesian language and extra lessons for learning Indonesian in schools. This helps students to use the Indonesian language properly. In addition, students are also better able to master Indonesian. ...

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There is one faction that claims it makes foreigners feel accommodated and accommodated and also to facilitate the learning of thousands on non-English speaking students who go for studies. ... Considering the number of non-English speaking immigrants and the number of non-citizen students in the United States, bilingualism should not be an option but a civil right so that no group feels sidelined The controversy over bilingual was partly whether bilingual education programs should be introduced into the system. ... Proponents of bilingual education assert that any non-English speaking studen...

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As a bilingual student, I understand the importance of language and how it has a great impact in our education. ... I disagree with his comment simply because this is the United States and one should learn the English language fluently. ... In my opinion, that will slow down their ability to learn English. ... I want to learn the English language as quickly as possible, and it will take a long time for me to do so. ...

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