TOEIC Essays

John Dewey is known as the father of active learning (J. A. Iantosca, personal communication, Jan. 29, 2018). He was an educator, a theorist, and a philosopher. He developed progressivism in education based on pragmatism which focuses on experience (J. A. Iantosca, 2018, Philosophy). Dewey believed that children learned through experiences and can have a better understanding from them. According to his philosophy, curriculum should be child-centred and experiences should be based on children’s interests

Tablets or Textbooks? It was not so long ago when students around our age used heavy textbooks. Those days were quite memorable; back in middle school, students made bets and those who lose had to carry all those heavy textbooks to the classroom. These days young students may not know the heaviness. Since they have this privilege to not carry around heavy books, but use tablets. Our modern world is changing; the development of technologies are making our lives better and smarter. However, many

Research Questions From the literature review, it was established that there were several factors affecting language learning and acquisition. More specifically, it was revealed that factors such as exposure at an early age, motivation, attitudes, incentives and educational system can influence language acquisition. However, most of the research were conducted in the west and were focused on students as subjects to the study and foreigners working in the country where they need to learn the language

Introduction I have chosen the communicative context English for Specific Purposes(ESP) for my Communicative Contexts Paper. ESP is geared toward students interested in specific instruction such as needed job skills or an academic goal such as attending a 4-year university in the United States or English-speaking country. The materials used are generally authentic in that they are replicating real life situations that ELLs can learn from. A distinct component of ESP is a needs assessment done before

its four aspects among six ones including verb conjugation, irregular verbs, noun and adjectival forms and written versus spoken forms that belong to grammar are easier than other languages like French, Spanish, German, Greek, etc. (see Lia Nigro, TOEIC USA Team) (1), even that according to Robert McCrum et al. (1992), English "… has a grammar of great simplicity" (2). Nevertheless, English has no standard form, therefore, non- native English learners have plenty of difficulties in encountering different

All Abroad: Why Studying Abroad is Still Vital In America, people can easily find many South Korean students who are studying abroad. The high number of South Koreans studying abroad in America shows, in a roundabout way, how studying abroad has become effective for them such as “the unique experience of living in a foreign country" (Ryu, Kim, and Lee 752). I also decided studying abroad since I visited my uncle who lives in America because I realized that if I study abroad in America, I can acquire