Assignment Focus on the Learner 1. I chose to assess Marine who is a mature student and of French nationality‚ she is married and has two teenage children. (Her level of English is intermediate but still requires good flow and a greater repertoire of vocabulary). Marine used to work as a legal assistant and has finished her training to be a patent assistant. This involves working with lawyers where English is becoming an important requirement‚ not just reading but writing and conversing with
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Existentialism in The Dark Knight By: Cassidy Bannan Teacher: Mrs.Conlon Course Code: ENG4U Due Date: March 8‚ 2012 “When you take charge of your life‚ there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission‚ you give someone veto power over your life”. The 2008 film‚ The Dark Knight‚ directed by Christopher Nolan‚ demonstrates the actions and choices being made while still being true to one self. The film represents one’s interior motives and
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1 INTRODUCTION Focus group is a qualitative technique used mostly in marketing research and also other areas of research. This technique is used to collect primary data. This document consists of information about focus group. The main objective of this assignment was to investigate how focus groups techniques are used to collect primary data about the phenomenon at hand in the real world. The research method used was Google scholar for academic journals. The campus library database was also
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Assessed Assignment 2: Focus on the learner Muftah‚ married with four children‚ is a pleasant student who is struggling in class. Muftah did not receive any English in secondary school or university. He worked as a Physical Education teacher for two years‚ and then was employed with the Ministry of Youth and Sports for twenty years. In his years of employment‚ Muftah never needed to speak or write in English until about two years ago‚ when he started attending International House. He says that
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draw an analogy between Soyinka and the corresponding character from literature. In "Ulysses‚" Soyinka employs a first-person monologue that serves as the personal voice of the poet. In this fashion‚ Soyinka steps away from the Modernist (and sometimes Victorian) use of dramatic monologue in poetry‚ a technique which often produces a narrator who cannot be trusted to deliver the poet’s meaning in his own words. By means of these allusions to the archetype of Ulysses‚ Soyinka presents isolation
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Focus on the Learners A. The Intermediate level students have different backgrounds‚ learning experiences‚ and learning styles‚ but they find some common ground in the learning styles preferred‚ the parts of speech to be corrected‚ and the skills to be developed. The class is composed of 11 students who fall within the age range of 17 to 43 years. The group diversity also extends to their nationalities: five Thais‚ two Sri Lankans‚ two Pakistanis‚ one Japanese‚ and one Korean. The students with
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7A EXISTENTIALISM Unit structure 7A.0 Objectives 7A.1 Introduction 7A.2 Distinct Features of Existentialism 7A.3 Exponents of Existentialism 7A.4 Themes in Existentialism 7A.5 Educational Philosophy of Existentialism 7A.6 Critical Evaluation 7A.7 Summary 7A.0 OBJECTIVES After reading this unit you will be able to : Understand the concept of existentialism. Explain features of existentialism. Identify the exponents of existentialism & their views. Deliberate on some themes
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Sometimes Depression is Cruel From our first breath of life‚ we are continually thrust into situations and drugged from our stark reality. We are forced to make our way through an impossible puzzle on this war-torn land‚ the shadows of the past clinging with dread as we tear down our monuments. Drudging through the sludge known as our society‚ we are told what to do‚ how to look‚ what to wear‚ and even what to say. Sometimes the sun shines for hours on end‚ bright and impossible. Sometimes there
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Focus on the Learner Learner Characteristics Learner characteristics are difference between learners which influence their attitude to learning a language and how they learn it. These differences influence how they respond to different teaching styles and approaches in the classroom and how successful they are at learning a language. The differences include the learner’s motivation‚ personality‚ language level‚ learning style‚ learning strategies‚ age and past language learning experience. Learning
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Focus on the Learner Each teacher must deal with a class - a group of individuals with different needs often growing out of their different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. ESL students have widely different needs‚ because of differences in cultural background‚ age‚ and previous education. Even if the students in one class are all from the same language group‚ they inevitably have different learning styles and needs. It means‚ that the teacher needs to be aware of the difficulties involved in
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