examines the improvement of learners of English during the performance of a speaking activity which involves repeating the same unrehearsed talk. Improvements in fluency‚ grammatical accuracy‚ and control of the content showed that during the short time spent doing the activity‚ learners performed at a level above their normal level of performance. It is argued that working at this higher than usual performance is a way of bringing about long-term improvement in fluency. Speaking activities in
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I am writing because I am concerned about gender stereotypes hindering the learning of our middle school students. We should make the local middle schools same-sex‚ in order to raise test scores and allow our students to feel free to learn any subject they want. There is a lot of evidence in which children benefit from same-sex schools in the ‘Raising Boys’ Achievement Project’ (RBA) which was a four-year project (2000-2004) which focused on issues associated with the apparent differential
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The colonial identity in the Remains Of The Day and In the Castle of My Skin. While Remains of the Day and In the Castle of My Skin are presented in diametrically-opposed perspectives of colonizer and colonized respectively‚ an assessment of the novels would evince that the application of black-and-white dichotomies in understanding the colonial enterprise may not be effective. Despite the fact that he is English‚ both Stevens and the indigenous Barbadian community are subordinated within the
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Evaluate and Improve own Performance in a Business Environment Unit 302 1.1 The purpose of continuously improving your own performance is business is to help improve the overall performance of the business. This will also improve your own job satisfaction and overall employability. There are three main ways you can improve your own performance. The first is to set aside time with a good manager‚ who can assess your work and give you advice on how to complete that piece of work. This can
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Same sex marriage is already taboo‚ but same sex couples raising children is mostly not considered acceptable by the public because of the misconception that they are not qualified to bring up children in accordance with proper social values. The public is not certain if children will receive proper education about society and behavior to fit in as responsible members. However‚ several recent movements‚ such as Feminism and Post-modernism‚ argue about equal rights for everybody. Feminism is mainly
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Pay For Performance Jentry Pippin HCS/531 December 24‚ 2012 Jody Sklar Pay For Performance Prior to the 2000s‚ fee-for-service systems dominated how health
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governance on corporate performance: Evidence from Japan ☆ Rob Bauer a ‚ Bart Frijns b‚c‚⁎‚ Rogér Otten a‚d ‚ Alireza Tourani-Rad c a b Limburg Institute of Financial Economics‚ Maastricht University‚ The Netherlands Nijmegen School of Management‚ Radboud University Nijmegen‚ The Netherlands c Department of Finance‚ Auckland University of Technology‚ New Zealand d AZL Fiducional‚ The Netherlands Received 27 September 2005; accepted 22 May 2007 Available online 16 August 2007 Abstract Employing
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INDIA – MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 1 Macroeconomics Project INDIA - Macroeconomic Indicators (2006-07 to present) Course Instructor Prof. Leena Mary Eapen Project Team PGP/15/13 Devanand Prasad PGP/15/36 Priyanka ruttala PGP/15/49 Shashikant Bapatla PGP/15/55 Sri K Srinivas PGP/15/61 Vijeta Shrivastava FPM/05/05 Janardan K Yadav FPM/05/04 Chacko Jacob INDIA – MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------An
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readers a central idea or theme. Writers compose their works so that the theme they are writing about is brought out in a story in such a manner that the various elements of the story work together in communicating the theme. The better a writer is at their work‚ the more literary elements there will be in their stories that complement each other and seem to work together. In the story ’Same Time‚ Same Place’ by Mervyn Peake‚ the main theme that is evident is that things are not always as they seem
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Multidisciplinary Research Vol.2 Issue 6‚ June 2012‚ ISSN 2231 5780 PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AS EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION MECHANISM IN SELECTED FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN KUMASI‚ ASHANTI REGION OF GHANA DR. KOFI OSEI AKUOKO* *Vincent de Paul Kanwetuu‚ Department of Sociology and Social Work‚ Faculty of Social Sciences‚ College of Art and Social Work‚ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology‚ Kumasi‚ Ghana. ABSTRACT Performance appraisal system (PAS) has been viewed by academics and human resource
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