In “Learning to Read” Frederick Douglass recounts his journey of becoming educated as a slave. Douglas describes how his slave owners wife treated him with compassion‚ as one should treat another human‚ and began teaching him how to read. Under her husband’s instruction she stopped‚ and treated him the same as any other would treat a slave. She would not allow to even hold a newspaper let alone read it. She soon adapted the mindset that slavery and education were incompatible. “If I was in a separate
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My experience of learning to Read and Write in Thai as arterial language and English as lingua franca Atthaporn Youngyoo 55074327 Weekend Program Naresuan University MY EXPERIENCE OF LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE IN THAI AS ARTERIAL LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH AS LINGUA FRANCA True confession “15 pages for you to write about your experience of learning second language” I never thought it would end up like this. At first I thought “May be‚ Dr.Pongsakorn just kidding and may be
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Individual Learning Review TRUONG‚ My Linh Student ID: 807269 Making decision is never an easy task. In life‚ the wrong decision at the wrong time could lead to irredeemable mistakes. In my case‚ when I was still a student in Lotus University‚ I had a marketing strategy project for ten weeks in the last semester. In order to make a strong impression with juryman‚ I suggested that our group should choose condom product for our project. At the same time‚ I had to work a lot of different jobs else
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of the words (Keller). Another example of this learning is from Laura Bridgman which was the first to learn through the techniques that were described in Keller’s story. Bridgman had lost all of her sense except touch which was also the result of scarlet fever. She was the first to start learning and communicating through finger spelling and the written word (Trent). These actions lead to a more popular learning style used by her‚ Keller‚ and others for the rest of time. This was called braille‚
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individual learning styles preferences. Learning styles has been globally researched nowadays. According to Claudia Cornett‚ 1983: 9 it means the overall patterns that give general direction to learning behaviour. These pattern can be use to learn a new language –or any other subject. The issues that I am trying to pertaining here is do men and women learn in a different way and/or have different favoured habits of learning? Are there male and female preferences in learning styles embedded in
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In Malcolm X’s “Learning to Read‚” he talks about his time in prison and how he decided to teach himself about things he never learned in school. While Malcolm X was in jail he decided to improve his vocabulary by reading the dictionary and copying all of the definitions. This helped him become more eloquent of a writer and paved the way for him to be able to read more difficult books. When Malcolm X began to read seriously he discovered a violent past that most people tended to avoid mentioning;
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The Kolb Learning Style Inventory—Version 3.1 2005 Technical Specifications Alice Y. Kolb Experience Based Learning Systems‚ Inc. David A. Kolb Case Western Reserve University May 15‚ 2005 Abstract The Kolb Learning Style Inventory Version 3.1 (KLSI 3.1)‚ revised in 2005‚ is the latest revision of the original Learning Style Inventory developed by David A. Kolb. Like its predecessors‚ KLSI 3.1 is based on experiential learning theory (Kolb 1984) and is designed to help individuals identify the way
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Upon completion of the learning style inventory exercises‚ I gained awareness of the learning styles that will continue to be discussed throughout the duration of this course. Being introduced to the different types of learning styles are of vital importance to me as a student‚ as it helps me discover ways in which I learn. The purpose of this exercise is to help us identify ourselves in accordance to when we feel successful at learning‚ and by that‚ what techniques we use and how we apply them to
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different sets of data were gathered during this research. These are the results‚ broken down by source‚ with appendices available for further review. Learning Style Test Results – Team Aggregate The aggregated learning style results for the combined team indicate that the team is highly auditory and kinesthetic. This means that‚ while the group does have minor visual and reading proclivities and can gain some benefit from related teaching techniques‚ the group learns best through hearing information and
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when learning was a chore. I can remember looking at the clock on the wall watching the second hand tick away while feverishly tried to grasp the material before me. On the other hand‚ I can clearly recall times when I was eager to learn. I looked forward to the experience‚ almost counting the hours until my next opportunity to dive into the scheduled material. As the years have passed from my early days of learning until now‚ I have realized there is a key word that defines my learning style: scheduled
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