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" is our ability to respond
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CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 2: FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Learning background Student M of French nationality who speaks French‚ became interested in English at an early age and has a high aspiration for learning English. She enjoys traveling and considers English crucial and useful in everyday life. She has been studying English irregularly in school and after that by herself and at various English language schools. She told me at school a lot of the focus was the grammar as opposed 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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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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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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Focus on Application-ANOVA Testing The concept I will be discussing is ANOVA Testing. I will perform an ANOVA test to determine if there is a difference in nicotine levels of king size filtered‚ non-filtered‚ and menthol cigarettes. I will identify the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis‚ F-value‚ F-critical‚ P-value‚ and state the final conclusion. A simple random test of 25 filtered‚ non-filtered and menthol test was collected and the nicotine amount measured. All of the cigarettes are
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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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8/19/10 The one thing that is most important to me is family because family gives you a sense of belonging‚ where we learn all of life’s challenges‚ and where we learn how to except all the experiences what we have encountered and what we will encounter in life. Family is important to me because it makes me feel excepted in life. Having a sense of belonging in a family is vital because they will always care for you and support you in good times and in bad times. Also having a sense
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Schneider ONLINE FOCUS GROUPS Research paper Supervisor: Iivi Riivits-Arkonsuo Tallinn‚ 29.05.2013 Herewith we declare that this essay is based on our own work. All views‚ opinions and data from different sources by other authors are used only with a reference to the source. This document has not been submitted for any degree or examination in any other university. Table of Content Introduction 4 1. Definition 5 2. Types of online focus groups 6 3. How to conduct online focus groups 8
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Everyone decides to have the best party ever at one of their unbelievably rich friend’s house. Everything goes right until they hear the gun shot. Everyone rushed upstairs to find Alice‚ one of the sisters that owned the house‚ lying on the ground with a gun in her hand. A few weeks later‚ everyone forgets this tragic accident‚ except for Michael‚ a good friend of Alice’s. After this incident‚ another incident occurs‚ but this one causing a high school elected prom queen to become paralyzed from
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