... of the past tenses This can be one of the problems in students the process of learning English verb tenses and aspects 22 - Students responses to the test with the aspects Chart 2: Students ... progressive plays has/have been playing Past perfect Past progressive Past perfect progressive played Future am/is/are playing Simple past Past has/have played had played was/were playing Future ... however, this time point has to be explicitly marked by means of either a prepositional phrase of time “at last night” or a clause of time “when it started to rain” in the past Past simple indicates...
... on each 3.2 Perceptions of teachers and studentsof the degree to which the actual assignment quality has met the assignments' requirements Efficacy, or the ability of assignments to be carried ... from students was that reflection assignments are tedious and useless, because, as they reported, a lot ofstudents simply copied works from each other and there was no effective monitor measure ... (ALL) XcD/P Amount of presentation score increased (or decreased) per point of X increased (or decreased) *Conforming to the anonymity principle, real class IDs were replaced by ordinal ID Appendices...
... Seidlhofer, B (2001) Closing a conceptual gap: The case for a description of English as a lingua franca International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 11, 133-158 Seidlhofer, B (2003) A concept of ... attitudes of university students towards nonnative speakers English teachers in Hong Kong RELC Journal 38(3), 257-277 Chomsky, N (1965) Aspectsof the Theory of Syntax Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press Cook, ... English speaking teachers from the perspectives of English as a Second Language students Master‟s thesis, California State University, Los Angeles Kirkpatrick, A (2002) Englishes in Asia: Communication,...
... properties of chitinase A from Vibrio carchariae lytic activity of chitinase A resulting in the production of a broad range of chitooligosaccharide products was measured simultaneously by means of quantitative ... concentrations were calculated directly by means of a pNP calibration curve in the case of the colorimetric assay, or by using a (GlcNAc)2 calibration curve in the case of quantitative HPLC-MS If pNP ... chitinase A as a (His)6-tagged fusion protein [25] As judged by a colorimetric assay using pNP-(GlcNAc)2 as the substrate, the recombinant enzyme exhibited 117% of the specific activity of the...
... whereas the frequency of EBSs in a set of 200 random sequences was only 23% (p < 0.005) Thus, the promoters reported as bound by Egr1 indeed contain a significant increase in the frequency of EBSs ... identified 40 J/m2 as the optimal dose for Egr1 over-expression of mRNA and protein Gene expression was increased approximately 3-fold at 30 minutes after treatment as measured by quantitative real ... effector of the Map kinase/ERK pathway, mediator of a variety of growth factor receptors such as the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) [17] Activation of the EGFR leads to rapid expression of...
... of Plagiomnium as a function of their distribution and abundance as affected by habitat quality The use of isozymes for studies of the population variability of mosses however, has its limitations ... are hoped to form one of the first of a series of studies on bryophyte genetic diversity in Southeast Asia xiv LIST OF TABLES Table Title Page 1.1 Summary characteristics of molecular techniques ... using ISSRs on mosses was conducted by Hassel et al (2005) In this study, the effects on the population genetics of range expansion of the species, Pogonatum dentatum was studied by comparing populations...
... framework of leader behaviors, and assessment of behaviors are cited as 17 strengths of the style approach Criticisms of the style approach theories include the lack of consideration of performance ... characteristics of beginning agricultural education teachers Describe the importance of leadership topics asperceivedby beginning agricultural education teachers Describe the perceived capability of beginning ... 68% of the respondents offered some type of leadership and human resource management/development coursework Those courses had been offered for an average of 17 years with the upper limit of the...
... University of Tehran, Shahid Beheshti University, Tarbiyat Modares University, University of Shiraz, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, University of Semnan, University of Kashan, University of Sistan ... an English teacher who was very knowledgeable as well as kind and caring about her students She was loved by her students and everybody was learning her lessons well She had such a good personality ... source of distinction between English language teachers and teachers of other fields was that the former’s language proficiency and command of the language was usually compared to that of native...
... Level ofProficiency in Speaking Skills to Perform the Job Effectively asPerceivedby Pharmacists………………….… 82 Table 4.18 Distribution of Frequencies and Percentages of the Required Level ofProficiency ... ofProficiency in Listening Skills to Perform the Job Effectively asPerceivedby Physicians……………………… 75 ix Table 4.11 Distribution of Frequencies and Percentages of the Required Level ofProficiency ... Level ofProficiency in Reading Skills to Perform the Job Effectively asPerceivedby Physicians……………………… 85 Table 4.21 Distribution of Frequencies and Percentages of the Required Level of Proficiency...
... the pretest was to measure the English speakingproficiencyof the students in the class The studentshad five minute to prepare for the test After that they had to present their speaking performance ... to assess students'speakingproficiency However, to choose a suitable technique to assess speakingproficiency is part of the problem For the evaluation criteria, it should be evaluated by the ... in examining the students'speakingproficiency One tested the students'speakingproficiency before the action, and the other one tested the students'speakingproficiency after implementing...
... Participation of High School Students in Speaking Lessons 1.1 Nature ofSpeaking and Speaking Sub-skills 1.1.1 Nature ofSpeaking 1.1.2 Speaking Sub-skills 1.2 Teaching Speaking ... Investigation into the Participation of High School Students in Speaking Lessons Real of function: the students must not think ofthemselvesas students, but as real participants in the real situation ... Investigate the reasons why students are passive and lack of confidence in speaking English in classroom Study different kinds of work arrangements that can be used in a speaking class Make some...
... abilities of the students The passing score for the reading section was 80 out of 120 Because the goal of this research was to investigate the effects of pictures on the reading comprehension of EFL ... Science Class Business 189 Administration Class, Information Management Class, and Accountancy Class) of first-year college students instructed by the researcher in southern Taiwan These students ... when low -proficiency EFL college students are provided with texts that exceed their proficiency level, the accompanying pictures should be as elaborative as possible Two sequential stages of pictures...
... nucleoside diphosphates, as is the case of a liver microsomal nucleoside diphosphatase [34] ThDPase activity is often used as a specific marker of the Golgi apparatus Indeed, a membraneassociated nucleoside ... (grazing ruminants or horses in pastures) as well as human poisoning (reliance on shellfish or fish as main food) By contrast, thiaminase II (TenA; EC 3.5.99.2) is a hydrolase that cleaves thiamin in ... Hydrolysis of ThDP to ThMP may occur in most organisms and tissues, but to date no specific thiamin diphosphatase (ThDPase) has been characterized Many phosphatases are able to hydrolyze ThDP as well as...
... partly comprised of positive and negative affect as an emotional appraisal of health and life circumstances, as well as an emotional state that is determined by inter-personal aspects, temperament, ... region of the county had to be excluded because it was not included in the health care catchment area covered by the participating outpatient clinics Thus, a final school sample of 1729 students was ... amount of QoL domains perceivedby the child as problematic Finally, the ILC has shown a moderate convergent validity with the KINDL (Questionnaire for Measuring health-related Quality of Life...
... afraid ofspeaking in front of the rest of the class Also, doing as many speaking activities as possible in pairs and groups so that students can comfortably speak English without the rest of the ... types of class arrangement Figure 4.1.2.1k was about the students opinion about types of class arrangement It showed the teachers’ arrangement in speaking lessons; that was whether they hadstudents ... the students evaluation of using of Vietnamese in speaking lessons It evidenced clearly the frequency of using Vietnamese by the teachers and students in English speaking lessons Almost all students...
... AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers (especially teachers of English as a Second Language) as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used bystudents ... observations on speaking class hours to crosscheck the results of questionnaire 1.4 Scope of the study The scope of study is about enhancing the effects of exploiting the academic vocabulary on speaking ... the last sublist are the least frequent 16 CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY 2.1 Research questions 2.1.1 How are the academic vocabulary exploited on speaking skill by third year students of...
... learning ofspeaking skills However, a little number ofstudents (12.5%) suggests that speaking competence does not relate to cultural element, so they blame their lack ofproficiencyofspeaking ... teaching ofspeaking skill 26 LIST OF FIGURE Figure 1: The students` perception of the role of culture in English learning 20 Figure 2: The attitudes of the students toward the rank of ... Bygate (1987:7) claims that: " It is the vehicle of social solidarity, of social ranking, of professional advancement and of business." The mastery ofspeaking skills in English is a priority for...