What is it useful for? Which skill? Which language aspect (fluency, language, strategies)
Who is it useful for? (age, type)
What steps need to be followed?
(step 1: preview the topic)
Monday, October 11, 2010
Monday, October 13, 2008
Organization of thesis (& most article we read in class)
INTRODUCTION (3rd year -spring)
LITERATURE REVIEW (3rd year - fall)
This is where you summarize articles you read.
This is also where you can find out about other interesting articles while reading.
METHODS (3rd year - fall)
RESULTS (4th year - fall)
CONCLUSION (4th year - fall)
REFERENCES
LITERATURE REVIEW (3rd year - fall)
This is where you summarize articles you read.
This is also where you can find out about other interesting articles while reading.
METHODS (3rd year - fall)
RESULTS (4th year - fall)
CONCLUSION (4th year - fall)
REFERENCES
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Finding Articles for your Research Study
A. To find (the title of) a good article:
1st Search the Literature Review &/or Reference sections of articles that you already have
2nd Search online (Google Scholar) and Google
3rd Search Linguistic articles/books (学内)
4th Search Japanese Journals
5th Search other online journals (links below*)
-If you can't find good articles, change or add more search terms. Try using words like proficiency, competence, EFL or ESL, L2, second language learning (or aquisition), evaluation, comparison, analysis, influence, efficacy, factors, causes, effects, results
B. When you find an good article/book title that you want:
1st View it online, if possible: check Google Scholar
2nd Get it from the Ferris library, if possible: search OPAC
-Check below for a list of TESOL Journals at Ferris**
3rd Get it from another Japanese university library: search Web Cat
-Then have your friends get it or order it from Ferris Library.
*Online Journals
JALT (Japan Association of Language Teachers) Journal
(password required – ask Caleb for current one)
Language Teacher (shorter, less academic - from JALT)
(password required – ask Caleb for current one)
Journal of Asia TEFL
(password "required" – but just click enter)
Asian EFL Journal
1st Search the Literature Review &/or Reference sections of articles that you already have
2nd Search online (Google Scholar) and Google
3rd Search Linguistic articles/books (学内)
4th Search Japanese Journals
5th Search other online journals (links below*)
-If you can't find good articles, change or add more search terms. Try using words like proficiency, competence, EFL or ESL, L2, second language learning (or aquisition), evaluation, comparison, analysis, influence, efficacy, factors, causes, effects, results
B. When you find an good article/book title that you want:
1st View it online, if possible: check Google Scholar
2nd Get it from the Ferris library, if possible: search OPAC
-Check below for a list of TESOL Journals at Ferris**
3rd Get it from another Japanese university library: search Web Cat
-Then have your friends get it or order it from Ferris Library.
*Online Journals
JALT (Japan Association of Language Teachers) Journal
(password required – ask Caleb for current one)
Language Teacher (shorter, less academic - from JALT)
(password required – ask Caleb for current one)
Journal of Asia TEFL
(password "required" – but just click enter)
Asian EFL Journal
Reading in a Foreign Language
Reading Matrix
**TESOL Journals in the Library (More academic, but longer and more difficult)
TESOL Quarterly
Language Learning
Reading Matrix
**TESOL Journals in the Library (More academic, but longer and more difficult)
TESOL Quarterly
Language Learning
Modern Language Journal
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Possible test questions
I will ask 3 or 4 and you need to exaplain in a paragraph
What is comprehensible input?
What is the difference between active& passive vocabulary?
What are 4 vocabulary strategies?
Why is listening important (3 reason)?
What is the definition of communicative competence?
Communicative competence has 3 branches. What are they? Describe?
What is the process for teaching grammar?
How many words do we need to know? Why?
Why are structure practice/drills important?
For listening activities in class, when should we listen to perfect, clear English
and when should we listen to natural impect English?
Should we learn American English?
What are key speaking skills that affect our ability to communicate?
What does it mean to know a word?
When should we teach 1+0. i+1, i+5?
What is a communicative activity?
What are listening skills we need to learn?
What are the 3 main speaking skills?
What is the silent period,critical period, and the fossilization>
What are ways to organize a conversation class?
What is comprehensible input?
What is the difference between active& passive vocabulary?
What are 4 vocabulary strategies?
Why is listening important (3 reason)?
What is the definition of communicative competence?
Communicative competence has 3 branches. What are they? Describe?
What is the process for teaching grammar?
How many words do we need to know? Why?
Why are structure practice/drills important?
For listening activities in class, when should we listen to perfect, clear English
and when should we listen to natural impect English?
Should we learn American English?
What are key speaking skills that affect our ability to communicate?
What does it mean to know a word?
When should we teach 1+0. i+1, i+5?
What is a communicative activity?
What are listening skills we need to learn?
What are the 3 main speaking skills?
What is the silent period,critical period, and the fossilization>
What are ways to organize a conversation class?
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Active v. Passive
Active words are words that you use. There are less active words compared to passive words.
Passive words are words that you understand, but doesn't use. There are many passive words. Passive words are words you learn by listening/reading, and Active words are words that you learn by writing/speaking.
Mari
Passive words are words that you understand, but doesn't use. There are many passive words. Passive words are words you learn by listening/reading, and Active words are words that you learn by writing/speaking.
Mari
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Vocabulary Strategies★
There are totally four major vocabulary strategies for students to get worked on as they can be able to have confidence and ease. To be a successful reader, students need to guess the meaning of words that are unknown from context cludes.However guessing might be slow and difficult at first, the goal of doing this is to reach a level of skill where guessing corresponds to what actually meant in the text. What you want to do next is making your original word cards about 1.5 inches by 1.2 inches, because learning from word cards strategy is the first meeting with the words and you will bw able to read and write naturally and successfully as you work on it. As English words are mixed with parts that are very useful to use as a kind of mnemonic and keyword technique when have unknown words, using word parts is effective way of learning neew vocabulary. While the guessing the meaning from a given context is one that provide access to the meaning, using a dictionary helps students to aquire new vocabulary.
Maiko Osawa
Maiko Osawa
Thursday, June 14, 2007
How many words and which ones we need to learn
There are milions of words in English.
So, effective strategy is require.
We need to learn the 3,000 most flequent words first.
the most common words cover wide range of sentences.
2,000words=80~87%
3,000words=90~95%
Low frequency=2%
If we know these 3,000words completely, rest of words in the article can be guess by meaning.
Then, students should learn the word they're interested in.
For example, university students must know academic words, Caleb needs to get many words of baby and so on.
05AA020 Narumi Ota
So, effective strategy is require.
We need to learn the 3,000 most flequent words first.
the most common words cover wide range of sentences.
2,000words=80~87%
3,000words=90~95%
Low frequency=2%
If we know these 3,000words completely, rest of words in the article can be guess by meaning.
Then, students should learn the word they're interested in.
For example, university students must know academic words, Caleb needs to get many words of baby and so on.
05AA020 Narumi Ota
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