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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Issues in the Caribbean Focus Groups A focus group is a special kind of interview situation that is largely non-quantitative. In focus groups‚ a researcher gathers together 6 – 12 people in a room or neutral location with a moderator to discuss one or more issues for a set timeframe. The responses during a focus group interview are usually recorded‚ thus prior consent of all of the participants is required. The group should be homogenous enough to avoid conflicts. Focus groups are useful in explanatory
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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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What is the purpose of the focus group interview? How have focus group studies helped us to understand media audiences? I am writing this essay to explore and discuss in depth the function of a focus group‚ particularly in relation to media audiences. I will discuss the meaning and definition of a focus group and share my research on how they have been used both historically and in modern studies. I will touch on how the focus group became one of the most popular methods of research post 1980s
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Assignment 1: Focus on the learner 1. Profile My student´s name is Francisco Morales‚ he is 30 years old and of Chilean nationality. Francisco is in an Elementary English class and has only been studying English for 2 months. He had English lessons at University but these were mainly focused on reading. Francisco said he did not learn a lot through these and therefore had to take another course now‚ mainly for work purposes. Francisco works in the Pharmaceutical industry‚ specifically in
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Kudler Accounting System Paper Jon Lazar BSA/310 January 23‚ 2012 Jaclyn Krause Kudler Accounting System Paper These days it is especially important to pay attention to details when it comes to deciding if your accounting system is providing the kind of information that may be required of you to produce. I think legal requirements and government regulations are becoming more demanding as to what they expect to see if someone such as the I.R.S. were to show up and ask for an audit. I
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superficially different mathematical descriptions which can all be proved to define curves of exactly the same shape. One description of a parabola involves a point (the focus) and a line (the directrix). The focus does not lie on the directrix. The locus of points in that plane that are equidistant from both the directrix and the focus is the parabola. Another description of a parabola is as a conic section‚ created from the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a planewhich is parallel to
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Focus Groups Focus groups are one of many methods utilized by researchers to gather qualitative data. This method consists in simultaneously interviewing a group of people‚ usually 6-8‚ in the same location with a shared factor (Krueger& Casey‚ 2000). They are also a powerful tool to assess services or examine new ideas (Krueger& Casey‚ 2000; McNamara‚ n.d.). Focus groups are an ideal data gathering method for researchers because they allow them to learn the social norms of the community or subgroup
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Achieving Goals - The Power Of Focus By Trevor Emdon Mar 6‚ 2009 We all love to achieve our goals‚ and I suppose most of us experience some twinge of envy when someone gets something that we want too. What have they done that we didn’t? Why should they have all the luck? It’s lovely to blame luck because then we can absolve ourselves of responsibility for not achieving our goals. Unfortunately‚ "responsibility" has become synonymous with "blame" and they are not the same at all! "Response-ability"
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Wole Soyinka’s A Shuttle in the Crypt contemplates a critical period in Nigerian history between 1966 and early 1971. Soyinka’s efforts to curtail the Nigerian Civil War in 1967 resulted in his arrest and imprisonment without trial by the federal military government. Soyinka’s work remains inseparable from his activities as a political dissident. His commitment to promoting human rights in Nigeria and other nations reflects his new approach to literature as a serious agent of social change. A Shuttle
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