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IELTS Listening Practice Self-actualization

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English presentation on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

IELTS Listening Practice Self-actualization IELTS Listening Practice Self-actualization About this activity This activity is labeled round table by Dr. Hariri, the creator and administrator of LELB Society. This activity is on the premise of Flipped Learning, according to which the students watch a video before the class, carry out research into the selected theme, and prepare themselves for an informed discussion in the class. This activity is on the basis …

Inter-Group Theory in Language Learning | TESL Issues

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Classroom interaction in second language learning written by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Inter-group Theory Inter-group Theory Giles and Byrne identified a number of factors that contribute to a group’s ‘ethnolinguistic vitality’—the key construct in the theory. They then discussed the conditions under which subordinate group members (e.g. immigrants or members of an ethnic minority) are most likely to acquire native-like proficiency in the dominant group’s language. These …

Sociocultural Theory in Language Learning | TESL Issues

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Social presence in online learning to guarantee learner satisfaction and increase interactivity

Sociocultural Theory in Language Learning Sociocultural theory is based on work by the Russian psychologist, Vygotsky, and represents a fundamentally different way of looking at language and learning. Sociocultural theory is grounded in the ontology of the social individual. A sociocultural approach considers language and, by extension, second language acquisition as contextually situated and is …

Emergentism in Language Learning | TESL Issues

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Using body language in teaching English as a second language for more productivity

Emergentism Emergentism is the name that has recently been given to a general approach to cognition that stresses the interaction between organism and environment and that denies the existence of pre-determined, domain specific faculties or capacities. Emergentism thus offers itself as an alternative to modular, ‘special nativist’ theories of the mind, such as theories of …

Functionalist Theories of SLA | TESL Issues

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Functionalist Theories of SLA Functionalist theories of L2 acquisition share a number of concerns with variability theories. For example, both are concerned not just with how linguistic knowledge is represented in the mind of the learner, but also with how this knowledge is used in discourse. Also, both types assume that syntax cannot be considered …

Speech Acts in Pragmatics | TESL Issues

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Politeness in sociolinguistics and pragmatics with examples and explanations

Speech Acts Speech acts are carried out over various turns and their exact shape takes into account interlocutor reactions. In other words, conversation is co-constructed by both interlocutors, which is something that can never be simulated with DCTs. Speech acts are certainly the most researched area of pragmatics, and they are arguably the most social, …

Evidence-Centered Design in Testing | TESL Issues

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Evidence-Centered Design Evidence-centered Design was developed by Mislevy. It is important that we see the tasks or items that we design for tests as part of a larger picture, and one approach to doing this in a systematic way is ECD, a methodology for test design and construction developed at Educational Testing Service (ETS). ECD is …

Input Processing Theory | TESL Issues

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Raise a bilingual child who knows Persian and English equally well about animals

Input Processing Theory Input Processing Theory VanPatten’s Input Processing Theory is based on the standard information processing viewpoint. Namely, working memory is limited in capacity (at least in terms of each modality), making it difficult for learners to attend concurrently to different stimuli in the input. He identified ‘detection’ as the key attentional process, noting …

Postmethod Pedagogy | TESL Issues

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IELTS essay on role of education at school with complete essay and analysis

Postmethod Pedagogy Postmethod pedagogy allows us to go beyond and overcome the limitations of method-based pedagogy. Within such a broad-based definition, Kumaravadivelu (2003) visualizes postmethod pedagogy as a 3-dimentional system consisting of pedagogic parameters of: Particularity: The parameter of particularity requires that any language pedagogy must be sensitive to a particular group of teachers teaching …

Constructivism and Cognitive Development | TESL Issues

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Psycholinguistic models in second language learning with recorded lecture by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Constructivism Constructivism The main underlying assumption of constructivism is that individuals are actively involved right from birth in constructing personal meaning, that is, their own personal understanding from their experience (Williams & Burden, 1997). In other words, everyone makes their own sense of the world and the experiences that surround them. In this way, the …

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