The Internet and the Language Classroom
by Gavin Dudeney
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‘The Internet and the Language Classroom’ certainly lives up to the promise on the sub-title: “a practical guide for teachers”. Many of the activities can be adapted for the Business English classroom.’ – BESIG Business Issues Newsletter (more…)
The English Language of Novices Interface the Native English Speakers in a Teaching Centre
by Aadhi Ramesh Babu & A. Komuraiah
This paper focuses on the problems faced by non native English speaking students studying abroad at English speaking universities. It points out the difficulties that Indian students are facing many problems when they participate in group work activities with the native English speakers and offers some recommendations on how these can be overcome. The English language speakers, though they are native or non-native English speaking students, must have good command of English and also they should know how to use the teaching techniques. In some instances, due to cultural differences and differences in expectations, these teachers are not as effective as they could be. For this purpose, the group work and interaction in English will improve their skills in a proper way that enables the learners in listening and speaking. (more…)
Correlating the Performance of ESL Students in Reading Comprehension Passages with Their Reading Habits
by Dr.N.Pratheeba, Lecturer in English, Kamaraj College of Engineering and technology, Virudhunagar,Tamilnadu,India.
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Tackling reading comprehension passages is an onerous task for any student. But reading comprehension passages are an essential part of any competitive examination, be it, IELTS, TOEFL, CAT, MAT, SAT etc. The ability of the student to solve any reading comprehension passages renders a great difference in the life of the student. For it is the deciding factor to get a seat in a coveted company or an esteemed institution. Reading helps to widen the horizon of the knowledge of any student. Reading habits of students play a major role in enhancing the proficiency of the students in the target language. Time and again, it has been reported that the communicative competence of any student is directly proportional to the comprehensible output received by the student by means of his reading habit. Students who have a greater exposure to comprehensible input usually perform well in reading comprehension passages .To be more precise, strategies can be taught to the average student in the form of explicit instruction. This paper attempts to lay bare the fact that tackling reading comprehension passages has a direct relationship with the reading habit of the students.
KEYWORDS: reading comprehension, free voluntary reading, sustained silent reading, autonomous acquirers, free voluntary surfing, comprehensible input (more…)