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  2. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    2. Have immediate financial and economic incentives to learn English. 3. Have more opportunities to practice English. 4. Need it in daily life; often require it for work. 5. Often attend English classes with students who speak a wide range of mother tongues. They are learning, and their instructors are teaching, English as a second language ...

  3. English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    The learners of the English language are of two main groups. The first group includes the learners learning English as their second language i.e. the second language of their country and the second group includes those who learn English as a totally foreign language i.e. a language that is not spoken in any part of their country.

  4. Microlecture - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, even scholars at schools like Princeton University (Humanities Resource Center), [23] UNC's School of Government, [24] Humboldt State University, [25] University of West Florida, [26] and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [27] support the importance of an innovative teaching-learning approach for learners in the 21st century.

  5. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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    The direct method in teaching a language is directly establishing an immediate and audiovisual association between experience and expression; words and phrases; idioms and meanings; and rules and performances through the teachers' body and mental skills, avoiding involvement of the learners' mother tongue.

  6. Specially designed academic instruction in English - Wikipedia

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    Preparing good lessons in SDAIE require awareness that the student is not a native English speaker and avoidance of those aspects of English that might make it difficult for a person learning English as a second language. This includes avoiding idiomatic English, which may seem natural to a native speaker but would confuse non-native speakers.

  7. Vocabulary learning - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary learning is the process acquiring building blocks in second language acquisition Restrepo Ramos (2015). The impact of vocabulary on proficiency in second language performance "has become […] an object of considerable interest among researchers, teachers, and materials developers" (Huckin & Coady, 1999, p. 182).

  8. Problem-based learning - Wikipedia

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    This process is based on constructivism. PBL represents a paradigm shift from traditional teaching and learning philosophy, [3] which is more often lecture-based. The constructs for teaching PBL are very different from traditional classroom or lecture teaching and often require more preparation time and resources to support small group learning.

  9. Learning by teaching - Wikipedia

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    In the field of pedagogy, learning by teaching is a method of teaching in which students are made to learn material and prepare lessons to teach it to the other students. There is a strong emphasis on acquisition of life skills along with the subject matter.