UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF LANGUAGE What makes listening difficult? Factors affecting second language listening comprehension Amber Bloomfield‚ PhD Sarah C. Wayland‚ PhD Purpose—To establish what is currently known about factors that affect foreign language listening comprehension‚ with a focus on characteristics of the listener‚ passage‚ and testing conditions. Elizabeth Rhoades‚ MA Allison Blodgett‚ PhD Conclusions—Research on second language (L2) listening
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Internal Customers: This means if one department‚ individual or process within an organization supplies another such within the same organization with goods‚ information or services then the latter is described as the internal customer of the former. For example‚ a dispatch department may be the internal customer of a packing department‚ which in turn may be the internal customer of the manufacturing process. External Customers: External customers are those persons who come from the outside to
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relationship between external equity in discussing pay versus benefits‚ and also to investigate the best compensation package (with special focus on external market competitiveness and internal equity) that will be of benefit to recruit and retain productive and motivated staff members. Key words: external equity‚ compensation‚ internal equity‚ motivation CHAPTER ONE 1.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Equity Theory Basically‚ employees make
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THE INTERNAL REVENUE ALLOTMENT OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CAINTA‚ RIZAL SUBMITTED BY: DELA PEÑA‚ DOROTHY ANN DESTRIZA‚ LYRA JANE MAGUNDAYAO‚ TRICIA JANE PS1122 OCTOBER 21‚ 2014 The Municipality of Cainta which was founded in 1571 is located in the Province of Rizal in Region 4-A or so called CALABARZON (which stands as Cavite‚ Laguna‚ Batangas‚ Rizal and Quezon). The municipality is considered as a first-class urban municipality in the Province of Rizal with a land area of 26.81 km2 which was
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EFFECT OF INTEREST RATE ON FOREIGHN EXCHANGE RATE (EVIDENCE FROM ASIAN REGION) ABSTRACT: In this article we investigate the impact of a change in U.S. short term interest rates relative to those in some Asian countries like Bangladesh‚ Thailand‚ Japan‚ Pakistan‚ and China on the bilateral foreign exchange rates between the U.S dollar and each country’s currency. Several factors determine the exchange rate of a country. A higher currency makes a country’s exports more expensive and imports cheaper
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Accident rates- country and Bangalore/karntaka- comparison Motivational video -1 min Death by accidents Role model- construct/find data No. of cases booked in a year Policy – divide into3 month periods – top 3 scorers in max periods will be promoted during promotion. And the tope three scorers each month get a bonus and flag – pride‚ growth Topper’s club – national level meetings Annual conference on showcasing the best achievement Who are we? The Bangalore Traffic Police What do we do
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper will evaluates the role of information technology and how it affects internal audit process in banking industry. The study will also stresses on how IT affects internal control (control environment‚ risk assessment‚ control activities‚ information and communication and monitoring) and provides guidelines and best practices in evaluating techniques available to effectively perform auditing tasks internally. It will addresses how technology‚ Information system (IS) and
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Internal and External Equity HRM/324 09/09/2013 Internal and External Equity Equity as it applies to compensation plans used by employers refers to the exchange of service for compensation that employees make with their employers. Total compensation systems take into consideration all things of value given by an employer to an employee in exchange for his or her service in a specified role (Romanoff‚ Boehm & Benson). Total compensation systems include not only salary or wages‚ but also insurance
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Student absenteeism is a major concern for lecturers at institutions of higher learning. Absences create a dead‚ tiresome‚ unpleasant classroom environment that makes students who come to class uncomfortable and the lecturer irritable (Marburger 2001). Absenteeism disturbs the dynamic teaching-learning environment and adversely affects the overall well-being of classes (Segal 2008). In quality terms‚ absenteeism is a waste of educational resources‚ time and human potential. Student absenteeism
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ACC621 Midterm review Internal auditing is an independent objective assurance and consulting acitivity designed to add value and improve an organizations operations. Adding value is provided by improving opportunities to achieve organizational objectives identifying operational improvement reducing risk through exposure through both assurance and consulting. Auditing has its key components - accomplish objectives -evaluate and improve effectiveness of risk management -assurance and consulting
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