Communicative Language Teaching The aim of this unit • To make you think about communicative approach to teaching languages • To analyse the concept of communicative competence • To reflect upon the communicative teaching techniques What do you have to do in this unit? • Warming up discussions • Input reading • Self-assessment questions (SAQS) • Exploratory tasks • Integrated task Warming up discussion 0 Warm up the concept of a “communicative situation” (situation‚ in which
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Post completion audit aims to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the capital budgeting decision that the management has implemented. It compares between the planned and the actual outcome‚ costs and the use of resources‚ results and benefits. It contains all assumptions that were made during the decision-making period. It is one of the ongoing continuous processes through which the organisation learns and improves. Recent research suggests that capital budgeting involves far more than
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The United States Postal Service (USPS) has delivered packages and other various mail for more than two centuries. With a significant increase to the USPS‚ however‚ the deficit in income has caused the USPS to shorten delivery days. In light of this‚ the United States Postal Service should not cut back on delivery days‚ but alternatively be reconstructed to meet the needs of Americans. It is important to support the traditions of the USPS by revamping the corporation’s policy‚ image‚ and by implementing
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Should English as a Second Language Students be given special treatment in mainstream classrooms? A Research Paper on English as a Second Language Shaina Fox Lambton Central Vocational Institute Author Note This paper was prepared for peer tutoring‚ online. Should English as a Second Language Students be given special treatment in mainstream classrooms? ❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands‚ that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own
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Post Modernism What Is Post Modernism? Post modernism is a complicated term or set of ideas‚ one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid 1980s. Post modernism is hard to define. This is due to the fact that it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines and areas of study‚ including art‚ architecture‚ music‚ film‚ literature‚ sociology‚ communications‚ fashion‚ and technology. Historically‚ it is hard to locate as it’s not clear exactly when postmodernism
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The novel Disgrace is located in a time and place of great change. What aspects of postcolonial thinking does Coetzee employ in his exploration of/or comment on post-apartheid South Africa? Post colonialism is a political discourse that dominates the reading of ‘Disgrace’ by South African author‚ JM Coetzee. Coetzee comments on the repercussions of the shifting values and ideals following the imperialist attitudes of the European colonizers on the issue of apartheid. Disgrace gives voice to the
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TEACHING CONTINUOUS WRITING IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: STRATEGIES‚ PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT BY OKOTIE‚ V. T. B. DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL STUDIES COLLEGE OF EDUCATION‚ P.M.B. 2090 AGBOR‚ DELTA STATE Abstract Writing is undisputedly an important aspect of any educational system. It is used to gauge what the students know and where they have problems. It is therefore a means through which we assess our students’ academic performance. This paper takes a look at the complex
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Determination of Postmortem Interval Emily Morello University of New Haven FORS-2216-03-F15 Professor Peter Valentin 30 November 2015 Post mortem interval (PMI) is a commonly used term in the Forensic Science field meaning the time since death‚ or the time elapsed between death and the time of postmortem examination. Due to its assistance in suspect investigations‚ post mortem interval is very important in criminal cases. The more time elapsed‚ the larger the limits of probability. Therefore‚ the need
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This article from the Washington Post discusses how the job market for people over fifty-five year olds “has not improved for this set of people.” For older people who have been laid off‚ but are not quite ready to retire are having difficulty finding jobs. The Author of the article Rodney Brooks points out that “even for a much lower-paying job” middle aged people would “be competing with people half [their] age.” People want to work later in life because they probably have not saved as much money
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Case Study: Margaret Whilst the patient is in PACU‚ identify and discuss airway management (and rationales) as related to the case study (400 words) The post-operative patient is at risk for respiratory problems due to ineffective airway clearance related to changes in pulmonary physiology and function caused by anaesthetics‚ narcotics‚ mechanical ventilation‚ hypothermia and surgery. With increased tracheobronchial secretions secondary to the effects of anaesthesia‚ combined with ineffective
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