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The problems surrounding the nation’s language policy have lingered for decades. The endless debates continue, over the teaching of English, the positions of vernacular schools and of Bahasa Malaysia; the question of national patriotism and the rising unemployability of university graduates. Learn more about this topic by reading on FreeMalaysiaToday.
PDF #118 – George Braine – A History of Research on non-native speaker English Teachers, HK Uni
This paper reports the outcome of a study carried out in Qassim University with 169 Saudi male novice university students to obtain a deeper insight into their perceptions of their native English speaker teachers (NESTs) and non-native English speaker teachers (NNESTs) in the English language classroom. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected in two stages by means of students’ questionnaires and interviews. The results reveal statistical significant difference in the respondents’ perceptions in favor of NESTs. Students showed more preference for NESTs as they go to higher levels. Students previous learning experiences may affect their general preference for NESTs since they were taught by both types of teachers. Subjects also exhibited an explicit preference for NESTs in relation to the teaching strategies adopted. However, the respondents showed moderately favorable attitudes towards NNESTs who provide a serious learning environment and a favorable response to learners’ needs.
Parents want advice from teachers on how to raise their children, inquiry to hear
Changes in parent expectations, a technological revolution and big jumps in the number of students with complex needs have completely altered the nature of teaching over the past 15 years. Learn more about this topic by reading on The Sydney Morning Herald.
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What’s Trending in TEFL
So much teaching of all descriptions has gone online since the start of the Covid pandemic but in the world of TEFL, the use of digital media and tools has been around for a while now and these are not the only innovations. Here is a digest of some of the things that are new in TEFL in the last few months, a range of tools, tech and other developments for all ages and learning levels. Learn more about this topic by reading on BusinessDeccan.
PDF #117 – Richard Smith – Applied Linguistic Historiography, Uni of Warwick
A PowerPoint presentation
As Robert McDougal has explained to us in the past, there are a variety of methods for educating foreign language speakers on the intricacies of learning how to understand, read, write, and speak the English language. There are even more approaches to ESL education, and as Robert McDougal has previously explained, the viability of the method depends on the type of learner the student happens to be.
Learn more about this topic by reading on FinanceYahoo.
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The meaning of religious freedom came home to me, fittingly enough, by the dawn’s early light, slanting through a dormitory window in China many years ago. I was one of 10 young people spending a summer teaching English as a second language classes at an agricultural college 3,000 miles west of Beijing, in what’s known now as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region—home to many Muslims and other minorities. It’s not an especially healthy place to be these days for those who take their faith (Muslim or Christian) seriously.
Learn more about this topic by reading on TheDailySignal.
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PDF #116 – Roumyana Slabakova, Tania Leal, Amber Dudley & Micah Stack – Generative second language acquisition
The scholarly field of second language acquisition (SLA) aims to explain the process through which people who already speak their mother tongue learn a second, third, and additional languages. SLA focuses mainly on adult learners – people who start learning the additional language after puberty. Related but separate fields of inquiry, such as bilingualism, child SLA, third language acquisition, heritage language acquisition, and instructed second and foreign language learning and teaching ask slightly different research questions. For the past sixty years, SLA has aimed to reveal and describe different facets of the SLA process.
For years, New Orleans area parents and civil rights groups have fought for access to educational materials — report cards, signage and take-home documents — in languages other than English. It’s a right guaranteed by the federal government, but making sure it’s being applied in practice has been an uphill battle.
Our Voice Nuestra Voz (OVNV), a local group that organizes Hispanic and black families, recently had parent volunteers survey school administrators, English language coordinators and teachers from 70 Orleans Parish charter schools about their language services — for both teaching students English and communicating with parents with limited English proficiency.
Learn more about this topic by reading on NOLA.
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Families want Palo Alto schools to offer Hindi as a foreign language. The school district says it’s complicated.
Arabhi Sundararajan’s daughter, a Gunn High School freshman, travels to a Hindi school in Fremont every Sunday for a three-hour course in the language she’s been learning since kindergarten.
It’s an investment in time and money that the family, which speaks Hindi at home, has decided to make. But they shouldn’t have to, Sundararajan believes.
Learn more about this topic by reading on PaloAltoOnline.
After reading “Learning an L2 in a troubled world” you can check important issues for ESL teachers on the section PDFs, and visit my YouTube channel.
