Teaching English as a Foreign Language

by myside

meysamzafari — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:50:18 GMT

ByMySide چهارمين ورژن از برنامه E504 است كه برنامه اي براي استفاده ساده تر و مؤثرتر از كتاب 504 كلمه است كه قابليت هاي بسياري به آن افزوده شده تا فرآيند يادگيري را لذت بخش و كامل تر كند .در ورژن جدید سعي شده تا حد ممكن محيط برنامه ساده باشد تا موجب نهايت تمركز روي درس و 12 كلمه آن شود . در اين راستا تنظيمات بي مورد حذف شده و شما در مسيري تعيين شده توسط برنامه حركت مي كنيد . به عبارتی شما باید مانند یک بازی کامپیوتری این برنامه را مرحله به مرحله یاد بگیرید . درس ها هر كدام به عنوان يك مرحله در نظر گرفته مي شود (۴۲ مرحله ) كه تنها در صورتي مي توانيد به مرحله بعد برويد كه به سوالات مطرح شده در قسمت املا ومعني پاسخ بگوييد . هدف از اين كار جلوگيري از پراكنده خواني و گشت زدن بي مورد در ميان درس ها بوده است كه عامل اصلي ناتمام ماندن كتاب هاي كاغذي است . در ضمن باعث ايجاد اشتياق براي ياد گرفتن درس و رفتن به مرحله بعد خواهد شد .

در كتاب 504 تصويري براي داستان كوتاه نمي بينيد در حالي كه در اين ورژن ما براي هر كدام از ريدينگ ها تصويري تا حد امكان نزديك به موضوع قرارداده ايم تا تصوري از موضوع اصلي متن در خواننده به وجود آيد .

از نكات ديگرگرافيك زيباي برنامه است كه وقت زيادي روي آن صرف شد ، محيط فعلي نرم افزار بارها و بارها تغيير كرده و از ميان دهها طرح مختلف انتخاب شده است .

اولین نرم افزار آموزشی زبان ایرانی که در طول تقریبا یکسال توزیع آزمایشی در کشورهای آسیای جنوب شرقی طرفداران بسیار ی پیدا کرده است .

برای خرید این برنامه مراحل زیر را انجام دهید :

1. به آدرس s8py@yahoo.com ایمیل بفرستید .

2 . گروه در سریعترین زمان ممکن برنامه و نحوه ی ارسال پول را به شما ارسال خواهد کرد .

3. با نصب برنامه شما Productkey خود را برای گروه می فرستید یا sms کنید.

4. reg key برای شما ارسال خواهد شد .

مبلغ دریافتی برای این سری ( تا نیمه مرداد) فقط 1000 تومان (یعنی حدود یک سوم قیمت کتاب کاغذی 504 است!) شما می توانید اگر کارت اینترنتی دارید از طریق اینترنت یا در یک دستگاه خود پرداز این مبلغ را به آسانی بپردازید .

برای آشنایی با قدرت و کارایی برنامه ما می توانید نسخه آزمایشی که در گروه sysengsoftموجود است نصب کنید . این برنامه با محیطی جذاب ، فرآیند یادگیری طوفانی و کتاب جادویی 504 می تواند سطح زبان شما را بسیار بالا ببرد .

پاسخ به سوالات شما:

برای نصب فریم ورک ۲ راههای زیادی وجود دارد :

۱. اگر با ویندوز ویستا کار می کنید احتیاجی به دات نت فریم ورک نیست چون روی آن نصب است.

۲. در سی دی های Assistant موجود است

۲. در سی دی ها ویندوز xp جديد مثل ۲۰۰۶ يا سرويس پك ۳ دات نت فريم ورك را از اتوران آن سي دي مي توانيد نصب كنيد .

۳. سي دي ۱ ويژوال استديو دات نت۲۰۰۵ از مسیر wcu\dotNetFramework فايل dotnetfx.exe را اجرا كنيد.

توليد چند كليد محصول مختلف! :
كساني كه كد رجيستر دريافت كرده اند . برنامه را فقط بر روي يك كامپيوتر نصب كنند. در اين صورت اگر دوباره هم برنامه را نصب كنند(در صورت عوض کردن ویندوز) كد محصول و رجيستر تغييري نخواهد كرد .

صدای با کیفیت بهتر سوال همیشگی: برنامه از موتورها صحبت نصب شده روی ویندوز استفاده می کند . در ویندوز xp به طور پیش فرض یک گوینده به نام sam استفاده می کند. که صدای بسیار بدی دارد (مانند ربات !). به روشی که گفته شد (درپست قبل) از صداهای آفیس استفاده کنید. همچنین صداهای مختلفی را می توانید از اینترنت دانلود کنید .

meysamzafari — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:20:33 GMT

Using drama texts in the classroom

Introduction

In this article, I try to define what I mean by language learning through drama/theatre texts, outline some of the benefits it can bring to the language learning classroom and some of the differing methods and approaches
that can be utilized to fully exploit the potential of drama and theatre texts.

Why use drama / theatre texts in the language classroom?

The "a" type analytical approach to drama / theatre texts

The "b" type experiential approach to drama / theatre texts

Learning activities using drama / theatre texts

Classroom method

Conclusion

References

Why use drama / theatre texts in the language classroom?

The benefits of using games in language classrooms

meysamzafari — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:39:18 GMT

'In an effort to supplement lesson plans in the ESL classroom, teachers often turn to games. The justification for using games in the classroom has been well demonstrated as benefiting students in a variety of ways. These benefits range from cognitive aspects of language learning to more co-operative group dynamics.'

General Benefits of Games

Affective:
- lowers affective filter
- encourages creative and spontaneous use of language
- promotes communicative competence
- motivates
- fun

Cognitive:
- reinforces
- reviews and extends
- focuses on grammar communicatively

Class Dynamics:
- student centered
- teacher acts only as facilitator
- builds class cohesion
- fosters whole class participation
- promotes healthy competition

Adaptability:
- easily adjusted for age, level, and interests
- utilizes all four skills
- requires minimum preparation after development

Tears, idle tears

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:32:18 GMT

Tears, idle tears

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The following poetry has been written by Alfred lord Tennyson. I translated it into Persian, although I believe translating a poem is the most difficult job, and it's not possible to convey the emotional effect of the poem and translate the feeling that a native speaker enjoy the poem to the target language , therefore I hope you tell me the deficiency of my translation by commenting and criticizing it. It should be noted that this poem is converted into a short story in which has published in the literature 1 sound and sense (it is a book which is taught in the universities of Iran as the course of literature ). I hope this poem would be useful for the students of English language in general and English literature in particular. The title of this poem has a verbal irony

Finally, I should thank to my dear professor Mrs. RASHIDIPOUR , our literature professor ,because she led me to change my ideas and attitudes toward life and the world.

Tears, idle tears

meysamzafari — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:53:18 GMT

Tears, idle tears

اشکها, اشکهای بیهوده

Tears idle tears, I know not what they mean

Tears from the depth of some divine despair

Rise in the heart and gather to the eves,

In happy autumn fields,

And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail

That brings our friends up from the underworld.

Sad as the last which reddens over one

That sinks with all we love below the verge

So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more

types of listening activities

meysamzafari — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:08:18 GMT

Our group work at the university about 3L METHOD will be continued hopefully even after graduating of the university. we, as the members of one the groups, are ambitiously confident with this method and with the success of the research .To them and the whole of the class I am grateful. Furthermore, special thanks go my great professor Mr. BAGHAEI whose great help and creative ideas helped and motivated us to do such a research .meanwhile I would like to appreciate my dear friend and classmate Mr JAVANBAKHT because of his perseverance and meticulous studies that really helped all of the groups .

The main emphasis of 3L PRECEDURE is on listening skill

Here is some types of listening skill activities that relating to the suitable activities, age level of the class, background knowledge and many conditions and situations in the class can be used.

The main emphasis of 3L PRECEDURE is on listening skill

Listening for the main idea - students listen to identify the overall ideas

expressed in the whole recording.

Listening for details – students listen for groups of words and phrases at

sentence level.

Listening for specific information – students listen for particular information at

word level

NLP

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:10:18 GMT

What is NLP?

(With a special thanks to my dear professor, Mr.J.M.SHARIATI )

Neuro- Linguistic Programming is an attitude to life. It is also a collection of techniques, patterns and strategies for assisting effective communication, personal growth and change, and learning. It is based on series of underlying assumptions about how mind works and how people act and interact. It is a means of achieving intra-personal excellence.

The neuro part of NLP is concerned with how we experience the world through our five senses and represent it in our mind through our neurological processes.

The linguistic part of NLP is concerned with the way the language we use shapes, as well as reflects, our experience of the world.

The programming part of NLP is concerning with training ourselves to think, speak, and act in new and positive ways, in order to release our potential and teach those heights of achievement which we previously only dreamt of.

what is A GAME , really

meysamzafari — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:13:18 GMT

If English teachers could return the joy of learning through the learners, I believe, most of the psychological and emotional problems and barriers of learning (e.g. Demotivating, afraid of appearing foolish or stupid by other classmates s, hyness etc) would be removed .to do so we, as responsible teacher should pave the way in order to have joyful atmosphere in the class. one of the major task of the teacher to have this kind of class is learning through games, dramas and role plays .but first of all we ought to know what a game is really ,then we at the other ups I am going to write some other articles about ESL games in very detailed and classified parts (e.g. in areas of language and skill )we want to decrease the barriers that lead in frustrating in learning as much as possible.

1. what is a game, really?

In the German language a game is any activity which is executed only for pleasure and without conscious purpose. In this definition every activity that brings pleasure is a game. For example, people dance, play musical instruments, act in plays, and play with dolls and model trains.

This definition people use today comes from the works of Johan Huizinga (Homo Ludens, 1938) and Friedrich Georg Jünger (Die Spiele, 1959). But there are more ways to define games. Manfred Eigen's and Ruthild Winkler's definition for game goes beyond the definition used by Huizinga. They see a game as a natural phenomenon: half necessity and half coincidence (Das Spiel, 1975). Their definition of games comes closer to Adornos' definition, who set himself apart from Huizinga by identifying games as an art form.

But in our sense these definitions are too wide, we define game more succinctly. Thus, I am writing about games which belong to the class that includes Chess, 9 Man's Morris, Checkers, Halma, Go, Parchisi, Monopoly, Scrabble, Skat, Rummy, Bridge, Memory, Jack Straws, Dominoes, and so on. Unfortunately, our language does not have a good term to call these games. Terms like table games, society games, tournament games are too narrow. In my opinion, the best term would be "rulegames" = "games with rules"

METACOGNITION

meysamzafari — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:35:18 GMT

[methodology]

بحث Metacognition( که فراشناخت ترجمه شده است) یکی از مباحث روز روش های نوین تدریس است وعموما

در آزمون های کارشناسی ارشد در رشته آموزش زبان انگلیسی به این بخش بهای زیادی داده می شود. امیدوارم مود توجه داوطلبان ورود به دانشگاه در رشته آموزش در مقطع فوق لیسانس قرار بگیرد.

Learning Strategies

Metacognitive is a term use in information processing theory to indicate an executive function , strategies that involve planning for learning , thinking about learning process as it is taking place , monitoring of one's production or comprehension and evaluating learning after one's activity is completed.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Metacognitive strategies and the deccriptions

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Advance organizers:

Making a general but comprehensive view of the organizing concept or principle in an anticipated learning activity

Directed attention:

Deciding in advance to attend in general to learning task and to ignore irrelevant distractors

Selective attention:

Deciding in advance to attend to specific aspects of language input or situational detail that will cue the retention of language input.

Self management:

Understanding the conditions that help one learn and arranging for the presence of those conditions

Functional planning

Planning for and rehearsing linguistic components necessary to carry out an upcoming language task

Self monitoring

Correcting on's speech for accuracy in pronunciation , grammar , vocabulary or for appropriateness related to the setting or to the people who are present

Delayed production

Consciously deciding to postpone speaking in order to learn initially through listening comprehension

Self evaluation

Checking the outcomes of one's own language learning against in an internal measure of completeness and accuracy

WHAT IS LANGUAGE

meysamzafari — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:33:51 GMT

Suppose you were stopped by a reporter on the street ,and , in the course of an interview

About your field of study , you were asked "well since you are interested in second language acquisition ,please define LANGUAGE in a sentence or two".

What do you say?

Here are some definition of language that you might respond to your questioner :

Encyclopedia(over simplified definition): systematic communication by vocal symbol

Prinker: language is acomplex, specialized skill which develops in the child spontanously, without conscious effort or formal instruction ,.

A consolidation of a number of possible definitions of language yields the following composite definition.

1-language is systematic

2-language is a set of arbitrary symbols

3-those symbols are primarily vocal, but mayalso be visual.

4-the symbols have conventionalized meanings to which they refer

5-language is for communication

6-language operates in a speech community or culture

7-language is essentially human, although possibly not limited to humans.

8-language is acquired by all people in much the same way: language and language learning both have universal characteristics.