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Promoting EFL Speaking Activities in the Class: Teacher’s Roles

Promoting EFL Speaking Activities in the Class: Teacher’s Roles

What Is "Teaching Speaking"? What is meant by "teaching speaking" is to teach EFL learners to: Produce the English speech sounds and sound patterns Use word and sentence stress, intonation patterns and the rhythm of the foreign language. Select appropriate words and sentences according to the proper social setting, audience, situation [...]

Teaching EFL Pronunciation: Why, What and How?

Teaching EFL Pronunciation: Why, What and How?

Introduction Pronunciation is an integrated and integral part of second/foreign language learning since it directly affects learners’ communicative competence as well as performance to a substantial extent. Notwithstanding, the teaching of EFL pronunciation has received varied treatment from having no room in the synthetic syllabus and the [...]

Teaching Listening as an English Language Skill

Teaching Listening as an English Language Skill

Introduction: English as a foreign language has the greatest motion in Bangladesh. Status of English as the “library language” and the increased “international inter-dependence” are the two reasons of this which led to a greater focus on face-to-face language usage crossing the margin of pen and paper exercise. As the decline of [...]