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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 ... (2) exploring the problems that students encounter in
studying and applying critical reading; (3) offering suitable teaching strategies in
developing critical reading skills forfirstyear students.
3. ... the study
Being an action research on firstyear students’ and teachers’ critical reading skills, the
study is confined to critical thinking skill in reading of firstyear students inEnglish
Department,...
... lessons and lessons everyday. With a song used
at the beginning or the end of the lesson, an exciting learning environment is recreated,
students, therefore, regain their interest in learning ... students’ interest in learning English.
In short, speaking like Finocchiaro (1973:174) by using songs “language learning can be
combined with recreation or aesthetic appreciation for a change ... disadvantages of using songs in teaching listening skill.
Question 5 in the survey is very important as it helps to find out the disadvantages of using
songs in teaching listening skill. Answering this...
... following chart:
3%
16%
81%
introduce
series
expain or
amplify
indicate time
Misusing colon in introduce a series.
Misusing colon with “such as”, “including”, “contain” or “containing”. ... skills, including: speaking, listening,
writing and reading. (incorrect)
We have to learn many English skills, including speaking, listening, writing
and reading. (correct)
2. I always have ... opening salutation in a
business letter. In contrast, an exclamation mark is not.
Misusing comma in a series.
Another punctuation error of firstyearEnglish majors is marking comma
before...
... been
involved in assisting graduate students develop their business writing
skills.
He won the Best Emirati Book Award 2011 for his book A Practical Guide
to Business Writing, a helpful Business English guide for non-native
speakers of Englishin the region. He has also been nominated Author
of the Year 2011 by the Webpreneur Academy based in Dubai in rec-
ognition of his dedication and innovations in the elds of education
and entrepreneurship.
He gained a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Souther ...
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Khaled Mohamed Al Maskari is an Emirati author based in Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates. With over 16 years of experience in the oil and
gas industry, Al Maskari has held a number of leadership positions with
governmental organizations in the United Arab Emirates in the eld of
Human Resources development and training. He has always been
involved in assisting graduate students develop their business writing
skills.
He won the Best Emirati Book Award 2011 for his book A ... non-native
speakers of Englishin the region. He has also been nominated Author
of the Year 2011 by the Webpreneur Academy based in Dubai in rec-
ognition of his dedication and innovations in the elds of education
and entrepreneurship.
He gained a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Souther n
Illinois University, in the United States.
To learn more about Khaled’s programs, you can go to his website
www.khaledalmaskari.com or email Khaled on kalmaskari@yahoo.com.
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... she
was struggling to cope with this information. Individuals often find it difficult to process
disclosed information when they are highly affected by the emotionality of the
information (Pennebaker, ... was given joint ownership of this information, but, at first, she chose
to control this information by “shutting off” and trying to avoid hearing the details.
When Ms. A returned to school after ... friends,
trying to get used to school and get school going” was challenging. She admitted that
during this time period she was in with the wrong crowd” and involved in the “party
seen.” In the...
... males to ha
ving had w
heezing in the pr
e-
vious 12 months,
noctur
nal coughing without r
es-
pir
a
tory infection, symptoms of rhinitis in the pre-
vious 12 months,
and symptoms of
rhinoconjuncti
vitis ... of wheezing. Children
with four or more wheezing attacks in a year have
a greater probability of being asthmatic.
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In our
study, the 12-month prevalence of wheezing (cur-
rent asthma) for these ... rhinitis, and atopic
eczema in girls. Recent studies indicate that the pre-
dominance observed for male preadolescents gen-
erally decreases at the end of adolescence,
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result-
ing in an inversion...
... of the monuments is in favor of the higher figures.
MENES, THE FIRST OF THE PHARAOHS Menes is the first kingly personage,
shadowy and indistinct in form, that we discover in the early dawn of ... erecting great monuments so faultless in construction as
to render it certain that those who planned them had had a very long
previous training in the art of building.
The Semitic family includes ...
ordinary railroad. It was begun in 214(?) and finished in 204(?) B.C. It
is twenty-five feet wide at base, and from fifteen to thirty feet high.
Towers forty feet high rise at irregular intervals....
... three
main stages: setting up (organizing the pairs and group/ giving instructions), monitoring
(listening to the pairs/ groups during the activity and guiding / giving support/ making notes) ... four skills
including listening, speaking, reading and writing and other subjects related to English
theoretical linguistics. The total time allocation and the training curriculum for these two ... teaching material for speaking skill in 6 classes of the first- yearEnglish major
students is “Speaking I” collected by the two teachers who deliver speaking lessons and it is
covered within...
... motivation inEnglish listening
It is undeniable that motivation inEnglish listening are classified into 2 main
types: intrinsic motivation and instrumental motivation.
a. Intrinsic motivation ... taking in meaningful sounds and noises and in some way,
retaining and using them. Just as we speak for different purposes, we also listen
for different purposes. We listen for enjoyment, information, ...
listening skill?
2. What are the main factors influencing the competence of the HPU‟s
first - yearEnglish majors?
3. What are difficulties in listening courses of the HPU‟s 1st – year
English...
... using computers in reading ESP teaching and learning.
I.2.3.1.1.Model of teaching ESP reading with computers
Some models of using computers in teaching FL can be applied for the past few
years. ... following main methods to do the research:
Consulting books, journals and newspapers on applying IT in teaching and learning
foreign languages or ESP;
Searching information on the Internet ... search information on the Internet, be assigned with tasks of collecting information about
a topic before the ESP reading lesson and be told how the ESP reading lesson with IT will
proceed beforehand...