Article Review 3: Second Thoughts On Teaching Listening

This is a review of " Second Thoughts On teaching Listening by Dr. Jack Richards.

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Article Review 2: Developing Classroom Speaking Activities; from theory to practice

This is a review of " developing classroom speaking activities; from theory to practice" by Jack Richards

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Article Review 1: The Role of Textbooks In a Language Program

This is a review of " the role of textbooks in a language program" by Jack Richards.
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Diary: Session 7

Nowadays, insights from theory and research have led to some fundamental changes in our beliefs about the nature of language and learning, and this has led to a change in the ways in which we go about the business of language teaching. The greatest challenge is to incorporate new ways of doing things into existing practices. In this sense, change will be evolutionary rather that revolutionary.

Diary: Session 6

I want to start this diary with my personal experiences of my school teachers. When I was small, about 6 years old, my parents sent me to a kindergarten. I remember how hard it was for me to bear those boring days. I hated kindergarten. And I think it was because of the context of that place. My teacher was a thin woman, always angry and impatient, and my classmates were always nagging. We had some few storybooks there and each session our teacher chose one of them for reading. And this method went on and on. In my view it was a silly job. All children were supposed to learn some songs and sing them for our friends. Playing games and etc. I know that these games and activities were very interesting and needed for most of the children in that level. But I myself hated such things. I passed that year very hard and it was one of the worst experiences that I've ever had. I entered school. The teachers followed some routines. They taught new lessons to us and we were supposed to memorize the lessons. Years passed and I entered high school. There, for each lesson we had different teachers (what all schools do). After four or five months (I can hardly remember the time) I found out that I love one of my teachers:

Diary: Session 4

Hello, and thanks God that I am alive!!!!!! It was a terrible week , too many books, too many chapters and lack of enough time. But the professor tried to somehow help us and guide us. But I am sure that I can not use her guidelines , because I know myself and of course my teacher!!!!! She is a BIG SHE…

Diary:Session 3

last week, when I started studying widdowson , I found it a very challenging book. I couldn't figure it out well, perhaps because of its different way of writing. As a matter of fact everything was such a mess for me. but slowly during the class time I understood the main idea of the book. Last session we covered 3 sections of widdowson about aspects of language: approaches to description, grammar and negotiation of meaning