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1. The teacher's role has shifted from strict controller to facilitator over time as approaches have changed. 2. While learner-centered approaches emphasize the learner, the teacher still maintains control over the classroom. Applying learner-centeredness in a country like Algeria requires fully discussing the concept. 3. Successful classroom management involves preventing problems, not just reacting to them.

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Questions PHD

1. The teacher's role has shifted from strict controller to facilitator over time as approaches have changed. 2. While learner-centered approaches emphasize the learner, the teacher still maintains control over the classroom. Applying learner-centeredness in a country like Algeria requires fully discussing the concept. 3. Successful classroom management involves preventing problems, not just reacting to them.

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1 2013

The teachers’ role in classroom has been shifting overtime from strict

controller to facilitator.

Discuss and illustrate the teacher’s role through the most appropriate

approaches/ methods

2 2011

The phrase “ learner centered” makes it sound as if the teacher in not

in control of the classroom. In the light of your reading discuss fully

the notion of learner-centeredness and its application in a country like

Algeria.

2014

Successful classroom management involves not only responding

effectively when problems occur, but rather preventing them. Discuss.


4 2015

Harmer (2001:94) believes that failure in EFL teaching is largely due

to the fact” that many approaches and teaching methods …are based

on a vert western idea of what constitutes “ good” learning”

Comment on this statement with reference to ELT in Algeria

2014

In the field of foreign language teaching / learning , there has been a

prominent shift from the focus on teachers and teaching to the focus

on learners and learning.

What implications might this shift have on such pedagogical practices

as choosing materials, activities, topics and forms of teaching.

6 2015

According to academic research, linguists have demonstrated that

there is not one single best teaching method for everyone in all

contexts. Comment
7 How did psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics influence language

learning ?

8 2015

Data collection and analysis procedures are critical to effective

research. Define each of these two process providing examples and

clarify the difference between them.

9 2015

One of applied linguistics main objective is to solve language teaching

problems. Explain .
10 2015

From the 1950s to the 1970s emerged different approaches to language

teaching mostly concerned with communication, yet almost no room

was felt for literature. The recent developments in language teaching

show a significant return of literature in a communicative approach

perspective. Do you think that these claims for using literature I EFL

teaching could be credited ?

11 2016

Researches recently pointed the importance of cognitive and affective

factors in the acquisition of a foreign language. Discuss, with

particular reference to the acquisition of English as a foreign language.

12 2014

The grammar translation method, the educationalist monolith” for

more than 2000 years successfully resisted attempts to innovate in

education until the end of the nineteenth century that brought a

genuine revolution in the teaching of languages. Contrast method with

more modern alternatives.


13 2016

Do you believe that language learning/ teaching is possible with the

focus on function ( communication ) rather than on the form (

Grammar) ?

14 2016

It is argued that the communicative language teaching creates a

learning environment which closely replicates how students will use

language in real-life situation

-Discuss

15

2017

Why has the teaching concern shifted from teacher-centeredness to

learner-centeredness ?
16 2017

“ At first sight, it may seem rather odd to focus on what learners get

wrong rather than what they get right. However, there are good

reasons for focusing on errors. First, they are conspicuous feature of

learner language , raising the important question of “ why do learners

make errors ?” Second, it is useful for teachers to know what errors

learners make. Third, paradoxically, it is possible that making errors

may actually help learners to learn when they self-correct the errors

they make”

Rod Ellis 2007:15

Comment the quotation giving ample examples and justification.

17 2016

Problems of communication and poor dialogue arise when persons

from different social and cultural context fail to understand each other

properly
18

2013

Account for the contribution of discourse analysis to language

teaching

19

2016

All languages are dialect , but not all dialects are languages . Discuss

20

2019

How can the use of modern technology help in promoting foreign

language learners’ autonomy.


21

2019

What principles would you opt for in designing a syllabus for tourism

students ?

22

2019

How do cultural and global issues affect communication? knowing

that global communication helps to increase business opportunities,

remove cultural barriers , and develop global village.

23 2019

Critics say that the teachers role should no more conform to the dictum

“ the sage on the stage” because the task of education is not to pout

information into learners’ head but rather to engage learners’ minds

with powerful and useful concepts.

Argue
24 2019

Creswell (2002) notes that quantitative research is the process of

collecting , analyzing , interpreting, and writing the results of a study;

while qualitative research is the approach to data collection, analysis,

and report writing. This leads to the conclusion that triangulation

could be one of the important process to ensued validity and

reliability.

Discuss.

25

2019

In what aspects is first language acquisition different from second

language acquisition ?

Illustrate to support your answer.


26

2019

As a means of global communication, English no longer exclusively

expressed the culture (s) of English speaking nations. Discuss.

27 2019

Nowadays, technology is used as a means to conduct academic

researches, be linguistics, literature, didactics or civilization . discuss

the statement in an essay providing ample examples.

28 2019

Cognitive linguistics has plays a determining rule in establishing

learner-centeredness as a key principle in modern language pedagogy.

Discuss

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