Vietnamese learners of English produce the /l/ sound very strangely, sometimes unrecognizable for those who don’t have any experience talking to Vietnamese; this is a well known thing among those foreigners who have experience teaching English in Vietnam. It seems that the lateral consonants are difficult sounds to be produced by Vietnamese learners.
Learners of English are very often aware and self critical of the way they speak English. All of them try and wish to speak “like a native speaker”. More than that, they find it difficult to understand English speakers when heard at peace. One of the main reasons is connected speech.
A conjunction is a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause and shows the relation between them. Conjunctions make a sentence flow otherwise it will look like a list.
Conditionals are also known as if clauses and they are used to describe the result of an action that might happen in the present or future, or an action that might have happened but it didn’t in the past. There are four kinds of conditionals in English language: the zero conditional, the first conditional, the second conditional, and the third conditional.
Complex sentences are clauses joined by different words. Complex sentences contain at least two clauses: one main clause (also called independent clause) and at least one dependent clause.
The automate goal of each learner is to be able to read, listen, speak, and write English. What do you need for that? You need: motivation, a good starting point, be familiar with the sound of English, and learn vocabulary as it is described in this article. This guide shows you everything you need to learn vocabulary.
In the first part I have explained what vocabulary you should learn and how you should do it. The next logical step is learning grammar. You know vocabulary and you want to create sentences and communicate with others; that’s why you need grammar.
What do learners of English want when they start learning English language? Of course they want to be able to communicate with others in English. In other words, they want to speak English fluently. Compelling Conversations – Questions & Quotations for Advance Vietnamese English language learners textbook does just that, helps learners of English to speak English fluently.
Comparative adjectives are words used to compare people and things.
Ex: I am taller than my wife.
Accuracy, appropriacy, range, and complexity are the areas that have to be evaluated by the teacher in a communicative test. Below, all these areas are detailed based on the student’s level.