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COGNITIVE VARIATIONS IN LANGUANGE LEARNING

COGNITIVE VARIATIONS IN LANGUANGE LEARNING INTRODUCTION The nature of theories of learning is generalized. That is, they are try to explain globally: 1) How people learn and 2) what common characteristic there are in learning. Such theories of learning do not deal with (1) differences of contexts of learning (2) different across individuals in the way they learn materials, or (3) differences within any individual. Whereas all of us display human aspects of learning, that is every individual (1) approaches a problem, or (2) learns a set of fact or (3) organizes a combination of felling from a unique perspective. This chapter intentionally discusses categories of variation in human learning, consisting of three item: 1. Variation in types of learning intrinsic in cognitive tasks 2. Variation in strategies individual uses 3. Variation in perso...

Teaching Knowledge Test Glossary _ University of Cambridge

University of Cambrid g e ESOL Examinations Teaching Knowledge Test Glossary TKT GLOSSARY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT) TERMINOLOGY The words in this glossary are alphabetically arranged. Entries are potentially relevant to all the TKT modules, both core and specialist. Candidates preparing for specific modules should, therefore, ensure that they are familiar with all the terms in the glossary. Candidates for all modules are also expected to be familiar with the PET Vocabulary List. The entries included in the TKT Glossary are not intended to provide an authoritative or exhaustive list of Englishlanguage teaching terminology. This glossary has been compiled and reviewed by a panel of English language teaching experts and represents the teaching knowledge related to language, language use and the background to and practice of language teaching and learning as assessed in TKT. Terms introduced with ► are for use in TKT: KAL exclusively. A separate glossary is a...

Redesigning the curriculum for English teachers-The Jakarta Post

Redesigning the curriculum for English teachers A. Chaedar Alwasilah, Bandung | Opinion | Sat, May 19 2012, 12:09 PM Around 1 million out of 2.9 million teachers have taken a PLPG program, or mandatory professional improvement program mandated by the law. Selected LPTKs, or teacher-training universities, are tasked with carrying out the program. Annually around 300,000 teachers are certified and it will take another four years to certify all teachers in the country. At present there are around 130,000 English teachers, which is about 4.4 percent of the teacher population. There are only two English teachers on average in every school, suggesting that one English teacher has to handle 150 students (Hamied, 2011). From 2009, through Ministerial Regulation No. 10/2009 on the certification of teachers, the Education and Culture Ministry requires all practicing teachers to hold a teaching certificate from the government. The main reason is because a...

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