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Download full textZhang, Yun; Gao, Cun – English Teaching Forum, 2014
Integration of the four language skills can be enhanced by focusing on back translating--translating an English text into the students' first language and then back into English. This article describes a three-step process for using back translation in reading classes as a way to help students identify gaps in their English competence.
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Language Skills, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Zhang, Yun – English Teaching Forum, 2009
According to Ur (1996, 120), "of all the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), speaking seems intuitively the most important." Indeed, whether for business or pleasure, a primary motivation to learn a second language is to be able to converse with speakers of that language. However, in addition to being an important skill,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Phonemes
