L2 Learning

Many researchers and authors describe some of the activities or strategies that help the teacher keep the students motivated. Herrel and Jordan (2012, p. 17) say that students are more successful when they: learn language in context, relate the language with their own experience, get involved in real communication situations, do not get embarrassed if mistaken, and when their language level is taken into account when the activities are

Cursive Writing is academically beneficial. Many scientific studies have shown that cursive writing improved academic performance. Some areas that are improved with cursive writing are muscle development, coordination, and synchronization of the hand and eyes, In all subjects, there is a firm relationship of handwriting and increased academic achievement (“Tom”). Superb handwriting stimulates more regions in the brain affiliated with cognitive, language, and executive function.

(Halladay, 2012, cited in Cologon, 2013). Another advantages of silent reading is mentioned as it is helpful for reading and speech development. The second myth refers to phonological awareness and phonic decoding skills. This is outlook assumes children with Down syndrome without ability to develop their phonological awareness and phonic decoding skills. The rejection of this myths is explained as sight-word learning is a good method as Down syndrome children have strength in visual.

Basically, with an ample amount of attention and good memory, students can come up with ways to ease themselves for exams. There are some ways to enhance our memory and it is pointed out in the later part of this paper and also the posters. The main reason for choosing the topic of attention

Aural means related to sense of hearing and oral related to verbal communication. Surely when the student is getting better in both listening and speaking they will reach communicative competence. Communicative competence refers to the level of language learning that enables language users to convey their message to others and to understand others’ messages within specific context (Hymes, 1972). Of course to reach this competence, both listening and speaking improvement is really needed. The Aural-Oral approach is very effective to be implemented in English Language Teaching in case to build communicative competence of student.

First, it provides a clearer perspective of the initial needs of the program’s beneficiaries, the literacy learners. Second, the beneficiaries and tutors can share what is working and what is not so it results in a more effective program as issues can be addressed quickly. This approach also provides a voice for low-level literacy individuals who are seldom heard. It may also enhance self-confidence and self-esteem as they take greater control of their personal and professional lives. According to Fitzpatrick et al., collaboration of stakeholders may foster a better understanding and ownership of the evaluation leading to greater use of the results and empower stakeholders (2011, p. 189)

This in itself is a benefit, but it has more advantages. • Improved cross-cultural communication and relationship: As a result of increasing your cultural intelligence you will experience improved cross-cultural communication, relationship building and better conflict resolution. As well as, enhanced teamwork, leadership, negotiation and decision making skills. • Increase in responsiveness to cultural differences: Increasing your CQ enhances your sensitivity to cultural differences, which consequently reduces your use of overly simplistic stereotypes. This is through a better appreciation and understanding of cultural differences.

The fourth benefit is that it boosts the brain and enriches or enhances cognitive processes. It helps with higher abstract and creative thinking, better problem solving, greater cognitive flexibility, better listening skills, and greater academic achievement. It also promotes cultural awareness and literacy. The last and most important benefit is that one will gain insight into learning about the deaf culture in

First, one is required to pay attention to the information that the person wants to recall; this process is also well-known as perception. Second, the person must be in a conscious state to receive an information. Furthermore, the first process occurs in a person’s brain by giving the meaning towards the information received by the sensory memory. The perception accepted is based on the prior knowledge regarding a particular information (Woolfolk, 2007:251). During learning, Gagne (as cited in Smith, 2009: 125 ) argues that giving attention is to be conducted firstly.

Increasing development of bilingual education and the evolution of language may be due to the population size, social, political, economical and personal requirements. Numerous researches show that learning a language can improve mental agility, it can strengthen brain, develop communicative abilities of invidividuals and strengthen and improve overall humans´ abilities and skills. The concept of bilingualism should be tackled because of the various definitions that are given to this term. Those definitions seem to share one basic element, which is the use of two given languages by a given speaker. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages or the frequent use (as by a community) of two languages.

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight the imagination, and life to everything.” -Plato. This quote shows the importance of books. If there were to be a world without books, the most important book I would keep would be Fahrenheit 451. This book would be important to keep because it would show us what would happen if books were outlawed.