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  Nepal is a multilingual, multi-ethnic and multi-religious country. The people of Nepal speak different languages that belong to various ethnic groups (Tobin, 2011). The latest study has shown that 92 languages are spoken across the country (Nepal at a glance, 2011). Nepali is the national language which is spoken by nearly half of the total population. It is the language of legal affairs, business transactions, mass media and administration. It is also used as a medium of instruction in public schools and universities. The   Ethnologue  (Lewis, 2009) published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Texas, USA, offers a total figure of 120 extant languages in Nepal.   English is considered as a foreign language for the speakers of Nepali. It is taught as a school subject. In earlier decade, the purpose of English in Nepal is to give students a foreign language competence that may use to listening radio, to understand dialogue in the movies, to use language for co...

  In my perceptions, I am a descriptivist. I think meanings are more important it prescribed the unchanging grammar rules. It focuses only those rules prescribe what is right and wrong. It is often adhered to out the sense of obligations and superiority. It would be facilitated between specific age groups or Circles with different ethnic language background from diverse culture. 2.        /desk/and /disk/, /wet/ and/wait/,/bad/ and/bed/ 3.        Yes. I think S can be a morpheme because it is a single segments of language that changes the meaning of the sentences. It meets the basic three criteria : a.        It is a word or a part of a word that has meaning. b.       It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful segments without changing its meaning. c.        It has relatively the same stable meaning in different ...

  Ground Zero” In the essay “Ground Zero”, written by Suzanne Berne, the author makes her claim on how the empty site that was once the New York World Trade Center, is more visible with the adjusted eye without the tangible existence being physically there. The absence of it is said to be much more potent and looking at “nothing” is in fact “something”. However, the eyes of every visiting viewer fixated their undivided attention on the vast space of the site that resembles your typical construction platform. The acts of curiosity, horror, and grief depicted in the minds of people refill the space of that historical disaster. As a result, those horrific events penetrate through their thoughts causing them to relive the moment the disaster occurred and you can actually see the images of buildings collapsing, the falling of towers, the loud wailing of sirens, as well as running office workers. To know that such devastation happened in that very spot is known as unbelievable, but the r...

  “Teachers that work too hard are the ones that burnout”   I disagree with the assumption, “Teachers that work too hard are the ones that burn out”. In my opinion, the problem is not about working too much it is about not knowing how to set work- boundaries. If a teacher works in isolation they will burnout. However, if they choose to work too hard, but smart they will not. Teacher burnout is caused by different factors like low social support, no work-life balance, and the amount of workload, etc. Working too hard is not a bad thing don’t get me wrong. As teachers, we always want to improve, but we should learn to work smarter not harder. Teachers need to understand how to maintain a sense of control to find a balance between social life and work. Regardless of love, we have for teaching the best way to start off to set the boundaries is by focusing on the things that we can do with the resources that we have.   To understand that we are not alone, that out there ...

  “Language learners should only be exposed to the forms they are taught.” Agree or Disagree? I absolutely don’t agree with the statement “Language learners should be exposed only to the forms they are taught” The reasons for my disagreement is first, the amount of time learning a language in a classroom is not sufficient for a student to fully acquire a language. Normally, language classes are scheduled to a maximum 4 to 5 hours a week and are full of theory with tenses, forms, vocabularies and so little time for practice. Without regular practice, students can never make the language theirs and what they have learnt in class will simply slip off their mind once they don’t use or don’t have a chance to use it. I’m teaching a class in which they are all adults and have no contact with English for several years. With only 3 hours of classroom each week, I don’t feel it’s enough for them to be able to speak the language if they don’t try to practise and use what they have l...

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Opening the Classroom Door by Elaine Kendrick  It is very important that students get as much practice as possible communicating in English. Some of this will take place in the classroom, hopefully for about 80% of the time spent in class. Those minutes of class time are precious and few, so helping our students acquire English as a second language requires opening the door of the classroom and helping our learners recognize their opportunities to practice English in the outside world. Many opportunities to practice can be found on the Internet. CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) has been around since the 1960s when the focus of language instruction was on learning, not acquisition. Our technological resources have improved quite a bit since then, and thanks to the Internet and the widespread use of mobile devices, authentic contexts for practicing English that lead to the acquisition are literally at their fingertips. Because English is the dominant language of the Interne...