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  2. Approaching the Use of Facebook to Improve Academic ... - ed

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    This article offers a proposal for integrating the social network Facebook into an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in tertiary education. The main objectives of this article are the following: 1. To offer a pedagogical proposal so that students can develop written skills and grammar at the same time

  3. History of English - Wikipedia

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    e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...

  4. Results. 900 students participated in this study. Based on the interviews, questionnaires and pre- and post-tests, the majority of the students in the experimental group were of the view that Facebook helped improve their English language profi- ciency as well as critical thinking, comprehension skills, and motivation.

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    The chestnut-headed bee-eater ( Merops leschenaulti) is a bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae, which is distributed in an area ranging from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka across Southeast Asia to Indonesia. It is 18–20 cm (7.1–7.9 in) in overall length and weighs 26–33 g (0.92–1.16 oz), with the sexes being similar in appearance.

  6. English language - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.

  7. SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ON LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR SPECIFIC ...

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    Effects of Facebook use on students’ English language skills With the interaction opportunities Facebook offers its users, it is the embodiment of the social-interactionist approach to language acquisition advocated by Lantolf (2000), in keeping with Vygotsky (1978). Facebook can provide language learners with new prospects of real

  8. The findings indicated that Facebook indeed helped students to improve their English proficiency, besides learning new words and terminologies. This research offers guidelines to future researchers on the methodology of learning English language and helps them design an effective interactive multimedia learning environment in their classroom.

  9. Signing Exact English - Wikipedia

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    Signing Exact English ( SEE-II, sometimes Signed Exact English) is a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English language vocabulary and grammar. It is one of a number of such systems in use in English-speaking countries. It is related to Seeing Essential English (SEE-I), a manual sign system created in ...