Harvey McEwan  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  105 views  |  Read Full

 

 Every parent across the United Kingdom strive to help provide their children with the very best in education. Being able to send your children to schools that can help build skills and attributes that can be carried on through to higher education and later in life is every parents wish. But ...

Jonshon R Mc  |  Other  |  0 comments  |  87 views  |  Read Full

 

Students are the building blocks that give shape and strength to the nation's progressive future. We have seen in the past that any great revolution; whether it is the Indian revolution or the Russian revolution, all were convinced by the young, ignited and educated minds. It is unfortunate that many educational institutes do not consider students as humans; they consider them as machines that need to be programmed in a certain manner. Their approach is never Student-centric.

Susan Fitzell  |  Young Learners  |  0 comments  |  48 views  |  Read Full

 

Student learning time increases when children understand the difference between tattling and reporting. Yet, children's observations can help teachers know what is happening when they are not present or when their attention is elsewhere. Allowing students an opportunity to share their serious concerns is a necessary component of a positive school environment.

Ian Nock  |  Career Development  |  0 comments  |  55 views  |  Read Full

 

The IELTS English Examination (International English Language Testing System) is the most widely used English test in the world. There are two streams: Academic and General Training consisting of four papers each: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing.

Joseph D. Mapue  |  English Language Teaching (ELT)  |  0 comments  |  68 views  |  Read Full

 

According to Franz Boas, the socio-cultural context within which a speech community thrives and upon which its collective preferences and linguistic prejudices are established should be considered only as a "secondary rationalization" and should be relegated below the more important aspect of studying the inherent dynamics of the language itself. In the process, Boas developed an alternative linguistic model where race, language, and culture may be separated from-and can function independently of-each other.

Joseph D. Mapue  |  Learning Methodology  |  0 comments  |  79 views  |  Read Full

 

In her article, "Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom" Susan Philips described the disjuncture between verbal encounters in classrooms where young North American Indians get formally educated and in their native communities where they learn the particular skills their people deem necessary in their roles as members of the community. This disjuncture represents one of the major challenges being encountered in the primary and secondary education of North American Indians which have been widely reported in previous research and are well-known phenomena in the national education sector.

Jason Yu  |  English as a Second Language (ESL)  |  0 comments  |  65 views  |  Read Full

 

 I have lived in Korea for a year and a half, arriving in March 2010 from the US. My reasons for moving to Korea are like many other foreigners: to teach English and travel doing so. ESL, or English as a Second Language, has become the rage in Korea these days and teaching in Korea is ...

Dedi Walker  |  Adults  |  0 comments  |  173 views  |  Read Full

 

Some of the best strategies for you as an adult in learning English is to watch movies and television, to pay attention to the culture, and utilize internet access. It doesn't take long to realize that English has become almost a universal language.

Michael G. Hines  |  Classroom Management  |  0 comments  |  218 views  |  Read Full

 

In addition to being highly knowledgeable in the subject matter, teachers also need to know how to manage classroom dynamics effectively. This entails organizational and disciplinary skills that both help make different types of classroom interactions more systematic and aligned with the learning objectives. Otherwise, classes that are conducted by teachers with very minimal classroom management skills tend to produce less favorable outcomes, such as low student achievements.

Charles Scotland  |  TOEFL/TOEIC/IELTS  |  0 comments  |  86 views  |  Read Full

 

 The listening test for IELTS comprises four sections to be completed in 30 minutes with 10 minutes transfer time (40 minutes in total). The recording which the candidates will get their answers from will be played only once. In other words, there is no room for mistakes in this task, for even ...