... H: College binge drinking in the 1990s: a
continuing problem. Journal of American College Health 2000, 48:199-210.
32. Westoff CF, Bankole A: Mass media and reproductive behavior in Pakistan,
India, ... uncommon among collegestudents [10-13].
Similarly, a study found that young adults represent
one of the groups at highest risk for HIV infection [14].
A study conducted in colleges in Nepal showed ... cross-
sectional study of condom use at first sexual
intercourse among collegestudents in
Kathmandu
Ramesh Adhikari
1,2
Abstract
Background: Condoms offer the best protection against unintende d pregnancies...
... non-native speakers,
remind them that in today's global society, the chances are that they will find
themselves conversing, doing business, or otherwise interacting in English with
other non-native ... One of the best aspects of multi-lingual classrooms is that the widely varying
cultural, linguistic and personal backgrounds of the students provide a constant
source of interesting conversational ... listening, not just to
the video or to native speakers, but to each other as well. For those students who
think it is pointless or even detrimental to listen to other non-native speakers,
remind...
... is to find one or two classmates
with whom you can divide up some of the study tasks. Look for
people who seem to share a keen interest in performing well. In
addition to looking for individuals ... in which students will complain of
faulty and/or insufficient memory: when reading texts, while
listening in class, and when revising for exams. Let's look at each
in turn.
Remembering ... really a method of studying in short bursts
of fifteen minutes each. With short study bursts and frequent
short breaks, your mind can maintain high concentration and
continuing vigour. Here's...
...
hereafter:
Remembering: Recalling information
Understanding: Explaining ideas or
concepts
Applying: Using information in another
familiar situation
Analyzing: Breaking information into
parts to ... the main ideas and organization
of the information
- Infer and/or predict
- Paraphrasing/Translating
- Exemplifying, comparing
and contrasting, and
classifying
- Intermediate Skimming, ...
(information elements)
- Recall sequence of facts and ideas
(information order)
- Recall reference and simple
inference (information linkage)
- Scanning, Basic Skimming
- Basic Surveying...
... searching
out leads, refining our marketing constantly trying to improve our offering. It’s about speaking to
people, finding out what product or service they want, trying to provide the very best ... any business working in 2013 can get away with ignoring the
Internet. I mean, when was the last time you looked up the Yellow Pages to find a business
service rather than searching online? I’m ... something for your business can harm your brand and end up costing you
more than you would have paid in the first place.
Think about you financial books for a second. How long do you spend doing...
... an A. Go find a quiet, boring place to study
where there will be nothing around you more interesting than your economics book. Can’t think of
such a place? Try the library. By studying at the ... the students who make A’s in economics do so primarily because they know how to study
efficiently, not because they are smarter than students making lower grades. The following ten studytips ... become more effective in your study technique and make higher grades
in all your courses, not just managerial economics!
Ten Basic StudyTips
1. Studyin the library. Don’t study at home unless...
... want to find some way to express what they’re
feeling by creating artwork, writing, playing music, acting in a
theater, singing in a choir or just talking to a friend or trusted adult.
Students ... those
things.
When students feel anxious, it may help to find a calming activity.
Doing math, working out, listening to music, making lists, doing
crossword puzzles, or memorizing something sometimes ... fold
laundry. It can make a real difference forstudents to help their
parents and others.
4
Tips for Students
Here are some things to think about forstudents who are at a new
school because their...
... impending examinations galvanize them into trying to really get to grips
with their subject, and only at this point do they begin to appreciate quite how
interesting it is.
Tips: Putting things in ... 21
2.2 Structuring information 28
2.3 Formal teaching 41
2.4 Learning in groups 49
2.5 Learning through experience 54
2.6 Personal development profiling 57
3 Using IT 63
3.1 Using learning resource ... a
topic, in this case the factors affecting the development of language.
ORGANIZING INPUTS 25
2
Organizing inputs
2.1 What kind of student are you?
2.2 Structuring information
2.3 Formal teaching
2.4...
... exploring the problems that students encounter in
studying and applying critical reading; (3) offering suitable teaching strategies in
developing critical reading skills for first year students.
3. ... a
text
Interpreting text by going outside it
Recognizing indicators in discourse
Transcoding information into other types of
display
Table 5 - Types of reading tasks in general reading skills ... following reading skills for the students including
getting the gist of a topic, drawing key concepts out of a reading, practicing reading
strategies, learning how to use some clues for understanding....
... effective in
developing cross-cultural awareness for the students, stimulating them in English learning
and making English lesson more interesting. The application of these activities entails
students ... use with collegestudents
because it combines their interests with the classroom. For example, after the first class, we
ask students to search the Internet or library and find information ...
present our students with different kinds of information. The list below shows some
possible sources of information which can be used as materials for teaching culture. By
using a combination of...
... included in each
interview: one mainly responsible for interviewing, and
the other primarily responsible for noting and audio-
recording. The interviews were conducted in mandarin
Chinese.
Fielding ... qualitative study exploring the experi-
ences of collegestudents with PTB in the mainland of
China. The target population included inpatients and
outpatients. The use of in- depth interviews elicited ... selected patients in
different treatment phase, including intensive phase (the
first 2 months) and continuation phase (the remaining 4
months), in order to get saturated information of their
experience....
... “Understanding
bilingual teaching in China’s higher education: An evaluative study of a model bilingual course“.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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Chinese Communist ... Party Central Committee. 1993. Outline for reform and development of education in China. Beijing:
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