Social context, an often-neglected dimension in L2 learning/use, can play a vital role in sustaining learners' initial motivation. Using data on Welsh learners' experiences outside the classroom, the author argues that, to learn a foreign language, learners require regular interaction in the target language in a setting where they are comfortable.
A magazine for English learners at intermediate level (B1). Helps students to emerge as independent readers of English and inspires them to read and discuss in English for pleasure as well as purpose. TEAM expands students’ vocabulary and grammar and presents the English-speaking life and culture as it is in 2013-14 as well as debating topical teen issues. Regular Features: The Twitter Page; The Journey; Five Teens – Five Lives; What Britain thinks about.
Ancient people observed the night sky. They needed to know when the seasons would change so they would know when to plant their crops. They noticed that the Sun, the Moon, and the stars moved in regular patterns. The patterns were visible at the same time each year. Calendars were made based on these patterns.
The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, “God willing, strike sparks off each other.”
