... implementing the England and Wales National Service Frameworks for children, young people and maternity services (the Children’s NSFs for England and Wales), and ‘Every child matters’ and similar initiatives ... (including assessment and agreement of goals and actions) should be made in partnership with the child and family, and be tailored to the needs and preferences of the child and the family. 1.2.1.8 ... safety, crime and inclusion, by: − providing facilities and schemes such as cycling and walking routes, cycle parking, area maps and safe play areas − making streets cleaner and safer, through...
... to a virtue. Qian, Roland, and Xu (2005) and Roland (2000:56-65) capture the stylized difference of Russian and Chinese coordination in their modeling of U-form and M-form organizations. ... state-owned enterprises (Qian and Roland, 1998). Jin, Qian, and Weingast (2005) observe that provincial revenues and expenditures were more closely correlated in the 1980s and 1990s than in the 1970s. ... organization became insolvent and ran up arrears to their suppliers, workers, and to the Treasury. The largest arrears were owned to the electricity and energy sectors, and they, in turn amassed...
... differences in language learning, languagelearning strategies, as well as gender differences in languagelearning strategies and give rationale for the study. Chapter two describes and justifies ... significance of language learning strategies in language teaching. Firstly, by examining the strategies used by second language learners during the languagelearning process, educators and researchers ... foreign and second language. Good choice and use of learning strategies would help learners become more independent and autonomous as well as improve learners’ language competence and communicative...
... termsusing the source language text and each pair of trans-lation alternatives using the target language text.Re-scoring through an Interactive ModeAn interactive mode (Ogden and Davis, 2000)could ... vectorsof source and target languages.First experiments were conducted on the severalcombinations of weighting parameters and schemesof SMARTretrieval system for documents terms and query terms. ... with 10.35%,8.27% and 3.08% for the WWW-based, the NTCIR-based and comparable corpora-based techniques, re-spectively compared to the hybrid two-stages com-parable corpora and linguistics-based...
... choice and autonomy'—a sentiment shared by Ushioda (1997: 41), who remarks that ‘[s]elf-motivation is a question of thinking effectively and meaningfully about learning experience andlearning ... riddled with power and status. For many, power plays a large part in the relationship (see Languageand Power in Education” for further details). The rights and duties of teachers and learners are ... (goals accepted by the group members, that is, students). Learning a foreign language is different to learning other subjects. Therefore, language teaching should take account of a variety of factors...
... for you).–SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPAREAND CONTRAST –72■As you go through your day, compareandcontrast things around you. Compareand contrast, for exam-ple, your current job ... (a compareandcontrast essay might tell youwhich car is better) or which savings bond to invest in(a compareandcontrast essay will show you whichbond is best for you).–SIMILARITIES AND ... essential for the compare and contrast technique. Look what happens, for example,when the writer does not discuss corresponding parts:–SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPAREAND CONTRAST –70...
... languages,Asian and Pacific Island languages, and All other languages between1990 and 2000. The largest per-centage increase of Spanish speak-ers was in the Midwest. Asian and Pacific Island -language ... languages, such asHindi, Gujarathi, Punjabi, and Urdu; Celtic languages; Greek; Balticlanguages; and Iranian languages. Asian and Pacific Island languages include Chinese; Korean;Japanese; ... Dravidian languages of India, such as Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam; and other languages of Asia and the Pacific, including the Philippine, Polynesian, and Micronesian languages.All other languages...
... migration, the language communities appear to be stable.4 Table 34 summarizes immigration activity andlanguage maintenance and shift of communities and immigrants. Table 34: Immigration andLanguage ... questionnaires in our research: community questionnaires, language use andlanguage attitude questionnaires, language access questionnaires, andlanguage proficiency questionnaires. We will discuss ... nine individuals were obtained, mainly on language use and attitudes but also on language proficiency and marriage patterns. Data and observations on language proficiency led us to further research...
... French language sinventiveness and means ofproduction, while also bringingout the aspects that unite it withthe world’s other languages and cultures.The French Language, Cultural and Linguistic ... the legal and political sciences;◗ building up a French -language research area, bothregionally and internationally, taking into account thewide variety of legal systems and standards that ... Law and DemocracyThe French-speaking worldaims to make a significantcontribution to promotingpeace and democracy and supporting the rule of law and human rights.Aspects of Rule of Law and...
... plans.precision, recall, and F1 (harmonic mean of preci-sion and recall) of these plans are shown in Table 2.Compared to Chen and Mooney, the plans producedby SGOLL has higher precision and lower recall.This ... (MacMahon et al., 2006; Shimizu and Haas, 2009; Matuszek et al., 2010; Kollar etal., 2010; Vogel and Jurafsky, 2010; Chen and Mooney, 2011). Chen and Mooney (2011) de-fined a learning task in which the ... Compu-tational Natural LanguageLearning (CoNLL-2008),pages 33–40, Manchester, UK, August.Joohyun Kim and Raymond J. Mooney. 2010. Genera-tive alignment and semantic parsing for learning fromambiguous...