Using reading to teach English as a foreign language

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

how to teach the suprasegmentals of english to farsi-speakers learning english as a foreign language

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

An AI Framework to Teach English as a Foreign Language: CSIEC

in the development and cultivation of cross-cultural communication among students. English learning is gaining more and more attention in developing countries like China and has long been listed as obligatory in school and higher education. However, some problems exist in the English language education in these countries. First, as noted by situated learning (Brown, Collins, and Duguid 1989) an...

A Reading Evaluation Method for English as a Foreign Language Learners Based on Reading Performances

In this chapter, the authors examined reading evaluation methods for foreign language learners based on learners' reading processes. The goal of this chapter is twofold. The first is to evaluate text reading, and the other is to evaluate sentence reading. First, the authors assessed a text reading test to evaluate reading proficiency based on reading process, that is, effective reading speed, w...