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Paradigm Shifts in 21st Century Teaching and Learning
System for the expression of thoughts, feelings, etc., by the use of spoken sounds or convention symbols.
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Using Lean Method in English Language Classes
Araigul Kozhakhmetova (L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan) and Lyazzat Beisenbayeva (L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3146-4.ch009
Abstract
New approaches, methods, and tools are necessary for the implementation of the modern management system in educational organizations. The main purpose of this chapter is to determine using the lean method in foreign language teaching. The lean method is new in educational systems, but it is used in different spheres of industries all over the world. This chapter shows the history, its implementation, experiments, and how it can be used and developed further. Lean in education will create a clear understanding of its importance on lean process and increase the motivations of administrations, teachers, and students.
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Promoting US-Based Pre-Service ESOL Teachers' Understanding of Language Variation in Multidialectical Settings
A shared system of symbols used within a given community to convey and interpret meaning
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System of communication in which individuals use words in a structured way to convey meaning.
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A means of verbal and non-verbal communication of thoughts and ways of speaking.
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The spoken, written, implied communication.
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Improving Communication in Children With ASD: The Family's Role
A communication system based on vocabulary and rules about how to combine and use sounds, words, sentences, or elements such as punctuation.
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Discourse Elicitation in Aphasia: An Indian Framework
It is an arbitrary system of communication consisting of symbols like words, gestures, signs, and written text. It follows a set of rules to convey information and ideas in a group or within a community.
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The Discourse of Turkish Press on 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Inauguration of Donald Trump
A consensus among people by using words or signs to in for mothers what they think and hear; any means of expression to Express thoughts and feelings.
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A Framework for Engaging Language Learners in the Online Constructivist Classrooms
The ability to communicate effectively by using receptive and productive skills in a culturally appropriate manner.
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Developing an Inventory to Evaluate Communication Skills of Children With Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss
Language is a system of various codes and symbols used as a tool in interpersonal communication for different and various purposes such as exchanging information and interacting.
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Mode of oral and written communication used by the child’s family and community (L1) and by the school (L2). Linguistic capital that enables minoritized students to use agency in schools (e.g., African American Vernacular English, “Chicano” English, Gujarathi, Vietnamese).
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Set of sounds and signs that human beings have used since its creation until today to communicate with other individuals of the same species.
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Form or phenomenon by which the expression of world views about themes, issues or actions related to the communication between beings in search of sharing experiences is realized.
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Any formal system of gestures, signs, sounds, and symbols used or conceived as a means of communicating thought, either through written, enacted, or spoken means.
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A system of spoken, manual (signed) or written communication used to express thoughts, views, information, feelings, experiences, or ideas. Languages have rules for encoding concepts/vocabulary, connecting and ordering words, and a grammatical system for combining and sequencing them.
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