... skills
5. Self-esteem.
6. Enjoyment
Cooperative LearningandThinkingand Creativity
Cooperative learning is believed to promote thinkingand creativity in many ways
(Hythecker, Dansereau, & ... Jacobs, 1998) and with IT (Jacobs, Ward, & Gallo, 1997). Below, we briefly review
key elements of cooperative learningand then describe some of its links with thinkingand
creativity and information ...
Singapore in which cooperative learning is integrated with thinkingand creativity, and with
information technology. Explanations are provided of how key cooperative learning
concepts are embodied...
... a foreign
language (EFL) teaching andlearningand computers in ESP teaching and learning.
I.1. Theoretical backgrounds of computers and EFL teaching and learning
I.1.1. Introduction
This section ... teaching andlearningand computer uses in EFL teaching learning are
investigated.
I.1.2. Educational Technology and EFL teaching andlearning
Thanks to the achievements of international science and ... teaching andlearning (generally)
and reading English for Biology teaching andlearning (particularly) and the extent to
which IT can assist reading English for Biology teaching and learning;
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...
... OF TABLES AND CHARTS
Tables:
Table 1: Teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards speaking skill and the role of teaching
and learning speaking skills 20
Table 2: Students’ purposes of learning ... learning English and their participation in learning to speak
English 21
Table 3: Teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards speaking materials and appropriate time for
teaching andlearning English ... Teachers’ and Students’ Survey Questionnaires 20
2.3. Findings and Discussions 33
2.3.1. Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes towards Speaking and Speaking Materials 33
2.3.2. Teachers’ and Students’...
... has 21 learning rooms, a
library, three laboratory rooms for three subjects (physics, chemistry, and biology), three
computer rooms (40 computers and one host computer) for teaching andlearning ... others. But it is very hard for
people to begin learning English. Therefore, it is necessary to have teaching andlearning
English methods and techniques. To make students interested is very ... warm-up activities, learners practice and internalize vocabulary, grammar and
structures. Motivation is enhanced, to, by the warm-up activity and the competition. And
added benefit is that the learners’...
... lowers self-esteem and reduces motivation among
poor students, 2) restricts friendship choices, and 3) widens the gap between good
students and the poor ones (Vaughn, Hughes, Moody, and Elbaum, 2001). ... the writers provide the strategies and
techniques of writing, theoretically and practically that can help the students to learn
and practice writing.
B. Learning from Past Experience in Facing ... class involved in the teaching and
learning process. Based on my observation in my classrooms, some students do not give
adequate contribution to the teaching andlearning process when they work...
... explain and discuss these
two kinds of text explicitly. There are no words and no explanation about narration
and exposition in the content of this chapter, although the title is about narration and ... promoting writing as a means of appreciating culture and
civilization.
4. The efficiency approach, demanding the relevancy and advantages of pragmatic
text “is matched” to the students’ level ... conjunction; the use of
transitional expression to relate sentences, and lexical cohesion; in which the use of
synonym and antonym and other vocabularies to catch the intended meaning
In my opinion...
... norms and low, sustained by the quality of belief and the
mastery of science and technology. We hope we can meet such a civil society in the
future by preserving our identity and culture and ... of thinking.
E. Mass Media and Culture
Mass media and culture in a society have a strong relationship between one to
another. Mass media can influent the changing of culture in a society, and ... community and instructional language. What Alwasilah said, that the
students at primary school are easy to understand the lessons by using mother
tongue could be right. The students may understand...
... improve your
odds and that is by improving your critical thinking
and reasoning skills.
What Are Critical Thinking and
Reasoning Skills?
To improve your critical thinkingand reasoning skills,
you ... critically”? And just what are “reasoning skills”? This lesson will
answer these questions and show you why critical thinkingand rea-
soning skills are so important.
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CRITICAL THINKINGAND REASONING ... “solution.” Reasoning skills, which go
hand-in-hand with critical thinking, ask you to base
your decisions on facts, evidence, or logical conclu-
sions. Critical thinkingand reasoning skills are imple-
mented...
... interrogative and exclamatory. Linguists use the terms declarative,
imperative, interrogative and exclamatory for the syntactic forms, and they use
statement, command, question, and exclamation ... collectively and well planed. We can
not make such a planning without any understanding and the awareness. In case of
Sundanese, the most difficult effort to do is to unite the understanding the ... situation or time, and improving the
quality of life and adaptation in facing the modernization and globalization era.
G. Conclusion
From the discussion above, I have drawn the conclusion and suggestion...
... broadcasts and 25 kHz used by
TV sound.
Civil and military HF (high frequency) voice services use shortwave
radio to contact ships at sea, aircraft and isolated settlements. Most use single
sideband ... unused carrier
and sideband.
TETRA, Terrestrial Trunked Radio is a digital cell phone system for
military, police and ambulances. Commercial services such as XM
, WorldSpace
and Sirius offer ... add and subtract
with the main radio frequency. SSB cuts the bandwidth in half by suppressing
the carrier and (usually) lower sideband. This also makes the transmitter about
three times more...
... exchange experiences and ideas and to
participate in group problem solving. The two-way flow of information between
farmer and extension worker improved retention and overall learning of participants ... different time zones. Programs are themed in strands and range from
news and current affairs to science, technology and the environment to the arts,
religion and music of all kinds.
International news ... FM, single-sideband AM, digital packet radio and satellite repeaters.
Personal radio services such as Citizens' Band Radio
, Family Radio Service,
Multi-Use Radio Service
and others exist...
... the pragmatic
failure can be in the form of misunderstanding, impoliteness, or even rudeness.
These problems require socialization through teaching andlearning process to
develop learners’ pragmatic ... are used, and to assist the teaching learning process, it
used a set of programmed instructional materials explaining the realization and
interpretation patterns, rules, strategies, and tokens ... discussion, role plays, pragmatically
focused tasks, and introspective feedback. The pragmatic instruction took about 30
minutes, which had been organized, planned, and scheduled.
The result...
... Language learning strategies in foreign language learning
and teaching on Internet.
Kesten, Cyril. 1987. Independent Learning. Saskatchewan Education.
Lessard, Michael. 1997. Language Learning ... application of
pragmatic to EFL teaching. It is hoped, the problems of pragmatic failures can be
overcome and the learners can figure out the norms of appropriateness for various
speech acts and different ... consider is that teaching pragmatics in an EFL setting is necessary and
teachable. Comparing the relative effect of explicit and implicit instruction, the
students' pragmatic abilities improved...