Although all languages differ of each other with their own rules, grammar, syntax and pronunciation in the process of a second language acquisition, the knowledge of L1 (native language) facilitates the learner to transfer the concepts to the L2 (second language).
The second language acquisition theory suggests that one's learning of a second language is affected by his exposures to language models. So, to encourage the learners in the learning process their social and cultural values should be brought as topic of interests to contribute and help them to be motivated and not so anxious facing emotional state in learning a second language.
Monday, 22 September 2008
Thursday, 18 September 2008
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
I have been working with speakers of other languages in Scotland since October 2007. The children average ages are from 6 to 12 in primary and secondary schools, and adult migrant workers are from 26 to 50 years old.
Different approaches and provisions have been delivered showing deliberately the result of the Stage of English Language Acquisition after one year participating in the learning process. Most of them belong to the Stage 1 in the beginning of the process, with very few vocabulary in L2 and low ability to communicate. They use L1 (native language) to express themselves and they tend to live in small communities originally from the same country.
Nationalities involved in the process of L2 learning acquisition: Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Mexican.
Different approaches and provisions have been delivered showing deliberately the result of the Stage of English Language Acquisition after one year participating in the learning process. Most of them belong to the Stage 1 in the beginning of the process, with very few vocabulary in L2 and low ability to communicate. They use L1 (native language) to express themselves and they tend to live in small communities originally from the same country.
Nationalities involved in the process of L2 learning acquisition: Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Mexican.
Friday, 8 August 2008
MANY CHILDREN CAN'T SPELL SHAKESPEARE
Dr ken Smith suggests:
"University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words our students most commonly misspell."
He added. "All I am suggesting is that we might well put 20 or so of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language on the same footing as those other words that have a widely accepted variant spelling."
He said the word "judgement" was already accepted as a variant of "judgment", adding: " So why can't "truly" be accepted as a variant spelling of "truly"?
He blamed failings in the school system declaring:
"There was little evidence of students having been taught the relevant rules at school, or of the students having been corrected for obvious and frequent errors."
Jack Bovill, chairman of the Spelling Society, said its national survey had shown up to 54 % of people couldn't spell words such as "embarrassed", "separate", "accommodation", "millennium" and "friend".
He said the society did not advocate changing the spellings.
By Laura Clark
Education Correspondent
Daily Mail, Thursday, August 7, 2008
"University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words our students most commonly misspell."
He added. "All I am suggesting is that we might well put 20 or so of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language on the same footing as those other words that have a widely accepted variant spelling."
He said the word "judgement" was already accepted as a variant of "judgment", adding: " So why can't "truly" be accepted as a variant spelling of "truly"?
He blamed failings in the school system declaring:
"There was little evidence of students having been taught the relevant rules at school, or of the students having been corrected for obvious and frequent errors."
Jack Bovill, chairman of the Spelling Society, said its national survey had shown up to 54 % of people couldn't spell words such as "embarrassed", "separate", "accommodation", "millennium" and "friend".
He said the society did not advocate changing the spellings.
By Laura Clark
Education Correspondent
Daily Mail, Thursday, August 7, 2008
THE WORDS THEY COULDN'T GET RIGHT
20 COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS THAT SHOULD BE ACCEPTED BY UNIVERSITIES
Arguement for argument
February for February
Wensday for Wednesday
Ignor for Ignore
Occured for occurred
Opertunity for opportunity
Que for queue
Cue for queue
Kew for queue
Speach for speech
Thier for their
There for their
Truely for truly
Twelth for twelfth
Wierd for weird
Sieze for seize
Liesure for leisure
Nieghbour for neighbour
Foriegn for foreign
Mispelt for misspelled
Daily Mail, Thursday, August 7, 2008
Arguement for argument
February for February
Wensday for Wednesday
Ignor for Ignore
Occured for occurred
Opertunity for opportunity
Que for queue
Cue for queue
Kew for queue
Speach for speech
Thier for their
There for their
Truely for truly
Twelth for twelfth
Wierd for weird
Sieze for seize
Liesure for leisure
Nieghbour for neighbour
Foriegn for foreign
Mispelt for misspelled
Daily Mail, Thursday, August 7, 2008
BAD SPELLING
Daily Mail, Thursday, August 7,2008
"BAD SPELLING? IGNOR IT"
"Faced with a flood of basic spelling mistakes, you might expect a university lecturer to demand his students pay more attention to the dictionary.
But one don is so fed up with having to correct his undergraduates' errors that he is calling for something rather more unorthodox - a spelling amnesty.
Dr Ken Smith is urging colleagues to turn a blind eye to the 20 most common slips - such as "Febuary", "ignor" and "speach" - and view them instead as variants of standard spellings.
Writing in the Times Higher education magazine, the senior lecturer in criminology at Buckinghamshire New University said? "Teaching a large first-year course at a British university, I am fed up with correcting my students' atrocious spelling. Aren't we all?"
"BAD SPELLING? IGNOR IT"
"Faced with a flood of basic spelling mistakes, you might expect a university lecturer to demand his students pay more attention to the dictionary.
But one don is so fed up with having to correct his undergraduates' errors that he is calling for something rather more unorthodox - a spelling amnesty.
Dr Ken Smith is urging colleagues to turn a blind eye to the 20 most common slips - such as "Febuary", "ignor" and "speach" - and view them instead as variants of standard spellings.
Writing in the Times Higher education magazine, the senior lecturer in criminology at Buckinghamshire New University said? "Teaching a large first-year course at a British university, I am fed up with correcting my students' atrocious spelling. Aren't we all?"
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
SNAP GAME
Prepare some pair cards with irregular verbs (present and past) and play memory game until the participants are familiar with the verbs in the two tenses.
The funniest part of the game is to distribute the same number of the cards among the group and play snap.
Snap is a popular CARD GAME in which the object is to lose all the cards.
In the game the entire pack of cards is dealt out among the players in face-down stacks as equally as possible. Play proceeds with the players taking it in turns to remove a card from the top of their stack and place it face-up on a central pile. Everybody has to say the verb on it and the one that makes the pair.
Eg: FIND - FOUND or FOUND - FIND.
The person who makes a mistake or does not know the verb takes all the pile. The player with the most card loses.
The funniest part of the game is to distribute the same number of the cards among the group and play snap.
Snap is a popular CARD GAME in which the object is to lose all the cards.
In the game the entire pack of cards is dealt out among the players in face-down stacks as equally as possible. Play proceeds with the players taking it in turns to remove a card from the top of their stack and place it face-up on a central pile. Everybody has to say the verb on it and the one that makes the pair.
Eg: FIND - FOUND or FOUND - FIND.
The person who makes a mistake or does not know the verb takes all the pile. The player with the most card loses.
Thursday, 10 July 2008
GLAMIS CASTLE
It was a beautiful day, sunshine and warm. A tour in Glamis Castle is a must! Enjoy the culture, the history and the nature.
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