... noted that the review draws extensively on the findings ofthe National Reading Panel in describing whatis known about effective literacy instruction for English- speaking students.10 In the sections ... developing English literacy for English- speakers, the issues that arise for ELLs as they read and write inEnglish because of their developingoral English proficiency, and effective instructional ... L2features, for instance, simple versus complex forms.DEVELOPING ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS TO READLearning to read is a complex task for beginners. They...
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... although much of the content ofthe book can be applied to that slightly different teachingsituation. The book is directed at the teaching of 'general' English: the teaching ofEnglish for ... TEACHINGMuch ofwhat we say, then, is conditioned by the purposes we have, e.g.apologising, greeting, denying, warning, offering etc.Using language appropriately is one ofthe factors that ... waswritten.Despite all these additions and changes, however, the structure of The Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching remains essentially the same. In Part A: Background Issues, we look at some ofthe theoretical...
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... sentences, resulting in a total training set of 4,040k sentences. We believe that our result is quite promising for the future of unsupervised parsing. In putting our best f-score in table 4 into perspective, ... domain or the LA Times domain. Although the effect of adding LA Times data is weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA Times domain ... 3 indicates that there is a monotonous increase in f-score on the WSJ test set if NANC text is added to our training data in both cases, independent of whether the sentences come from the...
... know the price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the ... undertaking a Return on Investment (ROI) without taking into consideration the time value of money, or where applicable, foreign currency exposure. The title of this ebook hints at the error in this ... against their cloud services costs. This is best seen as a ‘generation one’ performance measure. This measure is no longer suitable for the assessment of value from cloud services. It is akin...
... smoking, drinking, ex-ercising and the body mass index - contribute to explaining the gradient. The size of this contribution is larger when we consider the entire history of behaviors ratherthan ... behaviors inthe immediate past. Inthe former case, we find that the effects of education on smoking, drinking, exercising and eating a proper diet account for atmost 23% to 45% ofthe entire effect of ... The European Survey of Health, Ageing andRetirement in Europe (SHARE), theEnglish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)and their retrospective interviews, satisfy these requirements. SHARE is...
... on what entails success inthe microfinance industry also makes a systematic review of the evidence ofthe impact of microfinance timely.And inthe latter half of 2010 the microfinance industry ... Details of 35 studies included inthe map 83Appendix 4.1: Further details of 15 studies included inthe in- depth synthesis 85Appendix 4.2: Narrative synthesis of findings relating to the impact of ... Robinson 1995). One aspect ofthe commercialisation ofthe microfinance industry is its formalisation, i.e. microfinance institutions (MFIs) transforming themselves into banks and turning...
... It is therefore, in my view, preferable to examine measures of that kind inthe light ofthe Treaty rules rather than to remove them from the scope ofthe Treaty.79 In the light of these ... but this is nothing more than whatthe Treaty on the Functioning ofthe European Union (and previously the EC Treaty) actually envisages, and isthe logical consequence of a finding that the ... access plays the central role inthe argumentation, the intention ofthe ECJ is not to revise its view ofthe certain selling arrangements as expressed in Keck, nor to revise the conditions...
... series of case studies of nine ofthe SSI projects. In a report of a secondary analysis of all nine case studies, Clune (1998) identified the goals ofthe study astesting the central thesis of systemic ... perspective ofthe landscape, I believe this is afair representation ofthe state of knowledge inthe field. Adding further pieces of high-quality work wouldcertainly influence the details ofthe story ... is at these other levels one must look to deter-mine the impact ofthe NSES on the science curriculum inthe nation’s schools. 82 WHATISTHE INFLUENCE OFTHE NSES?Student AccountabilityThe...
... printout are the scheme's main features. One ofthe most discussed problems inthe automatic translation of Russian documents into Englishisthe insertion ofEnglish articles inthe ... statistical criteria in the determination ofEnglish articles to the exclusion of all other considerations, or use a combined syntactico- statistical method; the aim of all such routines isthe ... domain of MT. A re- lated consideration isthe apparent success of attempts to classify nouns intuitively; this not only raises certain mildly interesting questions about the grammar of English, ...
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... Staff training is an integral part ofthe overall development strategy ofthe business. Staff are not trained or not trained fit isthe main cause leading to the current state enterprises are ... how to maintain working atmosphere. Because the performance of an individual in a large organization where the air is due to work or the work culture ofthe organization that brings3. Increase ... sequences of routines in every single area of everyday living or working. ãOrganisational skills are sequences of routines in every single area of everyday living or working. ãOrganizational skills...
... which the target audience is likely to read, inthe belief that this willlead to changes in practice. The recognition ofthe failure of this model has led to greater awareness ofthe role of other ... number of strategies to facilitate the implementation of research findings by using these socialinfluences. One strategy generating considerable interest is the use of opinion leaders.Opinion ... was14.8%.Discussion In this study, we have used two different 'off -the- shelf'methods of identifying opinion leaders across a range of different professional groups inthe UK. The study utilisedexisting...