1. Introduction English language is a global language, it develops very fast and it is both studied and used everywhere in the world as an official language, a second or a foreign language. Recently, English as a foreign language has become more a commodity than an advantage. Teachers in English language classes may face different challenges in their teaching process that is based on the teacher, the students, and the classroom where the teaching process takes place. The classroom is the product
English Language Teaching (ELT) in non-English speaking countries aims to improve students’ communicative competence. It is believed that students’ communicative competence is strongly influenced by teachers’ competence. However, the issue about teachers’ competence in English teaching is often mistaken by comparing native and non-native teachers called as ‘native speaker fallacy’; an assumption that native speakers are more competent in demonstrating fluent and appropriate language (Phillipson in
The history of the English Language Teaching (ELF) has its roots in the 18th century. English as a foreign language has become interesting because educated readers were able to read formative works like politics, science, philosophy, theology and art. For being an educated reader one was supposed to read original written English texts. English has developed to a school subject in the 19th century. Furthermore, English and teaching English has expended in the 20th century. Nevertheless, this expansion
I. Introduction Learning English as a foreign language is an essential need because of endless reasons and one of which is that it has become the language of science and technology. There are millions of English learners all over the world and Arab learners are amongst the most prominent in learning English due to educational and technological requirements. Teaching the morphology a foreign language is unquestionably a complicated task; as it necessitates a great ability of explanation in addition
governing the life of a society for which a particular language is the vehicle of expression. Therefore, everyone’s views are dependent on the culture which has influenced them, as well as being described using the language which has been shaped by that culture”. When talking about the connection between culture and English Language Teaching, there are mainly two opposing views that are predominant. On the one hand, it is widely believed that language and culture are inseparable, and for this reason culture
Each country has a national language where people associate each other in each territory areas. People should master a common language and master other language that can be understood by people they meet. However, each country in the world needed International language for global communication, and English language is one choice as the International language. It is used widely in the world. Almost all countries use it either as the first, second or foreign language. As English is the first foundation
introductory chapter is comprised of five main sections. The rationale of the study presents the importance of college EFL teachers’ professional development and of the effectiveness of classroom observation for professional development at tertiary education, followed by the reason for conducting the current study. The subsequent part is related to the major objectives, the research questions and the significance of the study. Lastly, the structure of the paper is described. 1.1. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
is the most widespread languages in the world. As one out of every four people in the world can communicate in English. English language is the language major in international relations. It is the official language of about 85% of the world population. But should we teach the English language as a foreign language to our children before the age of six? And if we do, what would be the effect ? What is the harms ? Does that have an effect on their acquire of the mother language? This is the topic of
the study took place and the data obtained through the conducted questionnaires and interviews with them. The research is set out to investigate their perceptions toward the use of Persian in English classrooms to find out whether the use of students’ L1, Persian in this case, plays a facilitating role in learning English. As has been mentioned earlier, the aim of this study is to explore the perceptions of English teachers toward using learners’ L1, Persian in this case, in English language classrooms
there are some reasons for the poor performance in writing skill. : Poor base in English language foundation ,students come from the high school with very poor standard specially in writing. Some factors contributed in this situation ,such as : -Late beginning of English language in the basic school level . -Lack of teacher training in high schools. -Lack of exposure to the language .Students use the language only in the classroom . They do not write wall magazines in English ,pen friends..etc