Edith Cowan University Research Online EDU-COM International Conference Conferences‚ Symposia and Campus Events 2008 Identification of Learning Barriers Affecting English Reading Comprehension Instruction‚ as Perceived by ESL Undergraduates in Thailand Chayapon Chomchaiya Curtin University of Technology Katie Dunworth Curtin University of Technology Originally published in the Proceedings of the EDU-COM 2008 International Conference. Sustainability in Higher Education: Directions for Change
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English as an Additional Language (EAL) refers to pupils who speak another language at home and that this other language is their most prominent language‚ in other words their mother tongue is not English. Children with EAL should not be confused with children who are bi-lingual or children who grew up or spent time in another country but still had English as a first language. The educational system in the United Kingdom has always had to cope with the difficulties and challenges that arise in the
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Critical Analysis of Strategy For Learning From Failure by Ajta Introduction In Strategy For Learning From Failure‚ Amy C. Edmondson explain his strategy of how to get benefit from failure and be better. He presents this strategy in the form of a publication in which he shows his opinions about firms’ mistaken approach toward failure and how to fix that wrong. This paper will review Edmondson’s strategy as well as his main arguments‚ and will evaluate the quality of his writing and focus on weakness
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is mostly because they are not learning things in a good way. In the article‚ "Learning" from Your First Job by Robert Leamnson‚ PhD.‚ the author explains the essential strategies for learning in order to be successful in the college career. Our brain is made of billions of tiny cells called neurons. When we are trying to absorb an information or remember particular things‚ part of our brains are transmitting signals from one neuron to another. That is why learning is part of a biological process
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ORGANIZATION SCIENCE Vol. 2. No. 1‚ February 1991 Primed in U.S.A. LEARNING FROM SAMPLES OF ONE OR FEWER* JAMES G. MARCH‚ LEE S. SPROULL AND M I C H A L TAMUZ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California 94305 Boston University‚ Boston‚ Massachusetts 02215 Rutgers University‚ New Brunswicic‚ New Jersey 08903 Organizations learn from experience. Sometimes‚ however‚ history is not generous with experience. We explore how organizations convert infrequent events into interpretations of history‚ and how
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revolutionized the teaching and learning foreign languages‚ specifically‚ English. They now provide a wealth of materials and resources‚ innovate the method of teaching and learning English and lead to the appearance of e-learning. First‚ today’s technology has provided teachers as well as students of English more choices of materials than in the past‚ when "technology" was still an unfamiliar term to the majority of Vietnamese society. As materials for teaching and learning English then were very limited
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Language learning should be more fun and enjoyable for pupils to learn. Teachers need to have effective teaching strategies in order for pupils to grasp better in learning English. It is important for a teacher to facilitate pupils’ interest towards learning the English Language. This study will benefit the pupils mainly and the English Language Teachers. If this study can show that the impact of study hours spent online can help to boost the pupils` English Language Proficiency in school‚ English Language
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CORRELATION BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ LEARNING HOURS AND THEIR ENGLISH SCORES By: Yelly A. Barlian Abstract The research investigated the relationship between the student’s learning hours and their English scores and how strong the relationship was. The participants consisted of 22 students of Product Design Dept. from a private Art and Design tertiary school in Bandung‚ West Java‚ Indonesia. The instruments used in this study were the variables of English mid-term test score and a questionnaire
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ESP World‚ Issue 1 (22)‚ Volume 8‚ 2009‚ http://www.esp-world.info ROLE OF MOTHER TONGUE IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES Galina Kavaliauskienė Mykolas Romeris University‚ Vilnius‚ Lithuania Abstract A revival of interest to using a mother tongue in the English classroom is stipulated by necessity to improve language accuracy‚ fluency and clarity. This paper aims at examining students’ perceptions of the use of mother tongue and translation in various linguistic situations. The activities
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Age problems and difficulties in leaning English as a foreign language Since 19th century foreign language learning has been a practice for many people. That was mostly due do colonization and industrialization or economic purposes. People from different cultures came into contact to one another. They needed to talk and exchange ideas. For the colonizers‚ they needed to learn the language of those countries which they were invading‚ to understand the mentality and the culture of its inhabitants
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