Vol. 4 Issue 47 – Article: 'Shopping Mysterious Items in an Unfamiliar Language' by Rolf Palmberg

Prior to inviting foreign-language learners to engage in traditional communicative activities, i.e. tasks that require them to move around in the classroom and ask their classmates specific questions, teachers usually pre-teach the new vocabulary. Common teaching techniques used include mime, pictures, and translation of foreign-language words into the learners’ mother tongue. The meaning of new words are sometimes prompted by using carefully designed sentences that help learners make correct inferences and by encouraging them to look for cognate words that may exist in the foreign language and their mother tongue. Furthermore, learners may be asked to use dictionaries (whether physical or online versions) to find out what the new words mean. (For more examples of ways to pre-teach vocabulary, see Nation 2008.)

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Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Research Paper: 'The effects of computer on language learning and teaching' by Dr. Fatemeh Alipanahi

The purpose of this study was to discuss the effectiveness of using computer on language teaching and language learning. This research was conducted using freshmen university students. The results of the study indicated that computer assisted instruction is an effective method of delivering information literacy skills Instruction. Students were able to select an appropriate database for their topic and navigate through, select, and print information that supported their focus questions with minimal involvement on the part of the teacher. These findings may also be useful for considering the likely effects of current teaching practices, subject-by-subject, level-by-level, and pedagogy-by pedagogy. A fuller treatment of the research literature on differential computer use practices will be provided in a later draft.

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ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 45

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#45 | November 5, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Video: Teaching Action Words with Charades – ESL, EFL, TEFL Conference: International Conference on Empowering the English Language Classroom, January…

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