A critical look at the Communicative Approach (1) Michael Swan This (the first of two articles) examines some of the more theoretical ideas underlying the ‘Communicative Approach‘. These include the belief that we should teach ‘use’ as well as ‘meaning; and some attitudes regarding the teaching of ‘skills’ and ‘strategies’. A second article will deal with more pedagogical aspects of the approach‚ especially the idea of a ‘semantic syllabus’ and the question of ‘authenticity’ in materials and methodology
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Discuss the causes of lung cancer Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases which make most of the people suffer. Lung cancer has been noted by the Canadian cancer Society (2010) as the most leading one which affected both male and female in 2010 and out of 24‚200 Canadians‚ 20‚600 of them died of lung cancer. Like any other types of cancer‚ lung cancer is basically caused due to the abnormal growth of cells in one of the body parts‚ lungs. Although the role of genetics is not very popular
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accept · Consistency: standards applied similarly to similar cases · Reversibility: standards that apply no matter who "makes" the rules These are‚ in a sense‚ the rules of the "ethics game"‚ no matter which school or approach to ethics one feels the closest identity. The Utilitarian approach is perhaps the most familiar and easiest to understand of all the four approaches to ethics. Whether we think about it or not‚ most of us are doing utilitarian ethics a much of the time‚ especially those of us in
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Lung Cancer Survival Guide Lung cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer in the world. The Cancer Research Center in England‚ a for-profit organization (whose goal is to improve the lives of cancer patients)‚ released a study done on lung cancer patients that have survived 1‚ 5‚ and 10 years after diagnosis. They found out that 33% of women and 29% of men survive lung cancer after one year of diagnosis. After five years 9.3% of women and 7.8% of men survive‚ after 10 years 5.9% of women and
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The Gestalt approach was about how people represent a problem in their own minds‚ and how solving a problem involves a reorganization or restructuring of this representation. The first central idea of Gestalt problem solving is how a problem is represented in a person’s mind. This means what do they think about the problem? They would give people a problem and then see how they could figure out how to solve it by restructuring the problem. Then the second idea of Gestalt is insight. Insight is
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world could ever amount to her in this world. My Grandma was one in a million to me and too this day‚ she still is. We went through a tough journey together. Our journey started when she was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer. Being fairly young‚ I didn’t quite understand what having Cancer meant. I thought my Grandma was just sick and she would get better with time. Who truly understands what surgery means at a young age if you’ve never experienced it before? My Grandma had a lot of surgeries throughout
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“Alternative cancer treatments” Is radiation therapy and chemotherapy the best resources out for the fight against cancer?” Cancer has been around for most of human history. Evidence of cancer has been discovered in fossilized bone tumors‚ as well as in human mummies from ancient Egypt. Western medicine has made great discoveries toward cancer treatment‚ but I often wonder are there more efficient and more effective treatment options out there. In America most cancer patients undergo chemotherapy
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of kidney cancer will occur with approximately 62% occurring in men. About 22% of those diagnosed with kidney cancer will die from the disease. Kidney cancer is one of the top ten cancers found in men and women (“American Cancer Society‚” 2015). Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer and it can affect anyone. This paper will discuss the etiology‚ signs and symptoms‚ treatments and prognosis for those that are diagnosed with RCC I chose to research this cancer because a
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there is so much cancer now yet when you look at who’s getting cancer and where it is predominately a problem it is not difficult to find the reasons why. Today the food we eat has changed and so has the rate of cancer in western developed countries where it is highest. Today we suffer from a different set of health problems than 50 to 60 years ago and cancer is one of the main ones. What we eat determines our state of health. Most patients who are successful in healing cancer make significant changes
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Stomach Cancer in China Stomach Cancer can also be known as gastric cancer‚ but this is a type of cancer that starts in the stomach. There are about four different types of stomach cancer‚ Adenocarcinoma‚ Lymphoma‚ Gastrointestinal stromal tumor‚ and Carcinoid tumor. The most common kind of stomach cancer is Adenocarcinoma. Stomach cancer mostly affects older males. According to Luan in his article “China’s gastric cancer cases on rise”‚ about two-thirds of people diagnosed with stomach cancer
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