[EDLING:2254] Humanizing the teaching of the English language

[Francis M. Hult]

Spero News

Humanizing the teaching of the English language 

by Ezana Habte-Gabr 

The Importance of Socio-affective Strategies in Using EFL for Teaching 
Mainstream Subjects: a plan for success in teaching students that considers 
their relationship with society as a whole.

While many university instructors are well versed in foreign languages and are 
able to use them within the context of what Cummins calls the Cognitive 
Academic Language Proficiency Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills 
(Cummins, 1989) there is a tendency, for several misnomers to arise in 
instruction when EFL is used as the medium. 

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