APPLYING ESA (ENGAGE, STUDY, ACTIVATE) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

Using Games to Improve Students' Communicative Ability

It is believed that the communicative language teaching approach (abbreviated as CLTA) is one of the most effective methods to keep away from the weaknesses of the traditional English teaching method in developing students’ communicative ability. Using games, which is communicative in essence, are often considered effective in developing students’ communicative ability. In order to help English...

Using Technology to Engage and Improve Millennial Students' Presentation Performance

This paper discusses a popular teaching technique applied in Sales Courses that marketing educators can utilize to engage today’s millennial students through the use of streaming video technology. The exercise, a role-play simulation, can help today’s marketing students gain valuable skills needed to improve their communication ability by completing a two-stage role-play. Utilizing quasi-experi...

Exploring ESA to Improve Word Relatedness

Explicit Semantic Analysis (ESA) is an approach to calculate the semantic relatedness between two words or natural language texts with the help of concepts grounded in human cognition. ESA usage has received much attention in the field of natural language processing, information retrieval and text analysis, however, performance of the approach depends on several parameters that are included in ...

applying transitivity theory to gender analysis of efl textbook: : a comparative study.

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...

Rapping to review: a novel strategy to engage students and summarize course material.