the arts of speaking and rhetoric

... Examinations and Assessment (CCEA), is currently reviewing the GCSEs and GCEs offered there The rest of this document relates to England only, though we will keep the regulators in other parts of the ... concerns about the reliability of the marks for speaking and listening because of the pressure on these qualifications Making assessment of speaking and listening a hurdle would put the assessment ... downgrading of speaking and listening skills They remain part of the current Key Stage National Curriculum The proposed changes reflect the difficulty of assessing these skills securely under the current...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:20

... speaking and writing answers of high band scores (from band and higher) as mentioned in chapter that one of the criteria of IELTS writing and 28 speaking marking and assessment is coherence and ... fulfill the Speaking test requirements The key indicators will be the amount of strain caused to the listener, the amount of the speech which is unintelligible and the notice ability of L1 influence ... candidate can use and the precision with which meanings and attitudes can be expressed The key indicators are the variety of words used, the adequacy and appropriacy of the words used and the ability...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:26

... between ideas and thus the whole message of their text is vague, unlogical and incoherent As a result, this obstacle affect their IELTS band score and limit their opportunities of further study ... and grammar to build up the theoretical background for the research The study takes the theory of discourse analysis as a base on which the most noticeable cohesive devices of IELTS writing and ... entering universities mainly in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand and many other countries around the world Academic essay-writing and speaking are two of the four skills which international...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:50

... improve the situation of teaching and learning speaking English to the year non-major English students would be made The thesis consists of three main parts: the introduction, the development, and the ... level of Proficiency at Hanoi University of Industry” is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts is the result of my own work, except where otherwise ... the conclusion The introduction - gives rationale for the study and sets up the aims, scopes and methods of the study The develoment - which is considered as the main part of the study, includes...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50

... is the same as s, and the hard sound the same as k The soft sound of g is the same as j, and the hard sound is the true sound of g as heard in gone, bug, struggle Important Rule C and G are soft ... the help of the voice, and incapable of being prolonged The first class of sounds is called vowel sounds, the second, consonant sounds Of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, a, e, i, o, and ... sometimes of i long, as in either and neither, pronounced with either the sound of e long or i long, the latter being the English usage; ie has the sound of i long, as in lie, and of e long,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:59

... to the study of the what and the how of integration of teaching language and its cultural factors Due to the limit of time and scope of the study and other factors, this thesis cannot go further ... with the findings of the attitudes of the teachers and the students towards the importance of culture and speaking skill in ELT; together with cultural difficulties in the teaching and learning of ... out the attitudes of the teachers and the students towards the importance of speaking skill in ELT in general, the attitudes of the informants towards speaking skill, cultural knowledge in the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:55

... the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Univerisiti Malaya Aim This study aimed to develop an understanding of the influence of gender and ethnicity on the use of ICT among the students in the ... territories of the British East India Company in the Southeast Asian region including Penang, Melaka, modern day Singapore, and the islands of Dinding and Province Wellesley) and the increased demands ... understand the complex ethnic composition of the country, it was important to take a brief look at the history of these three ethnic groups in the region The Malays While examining the dynamics of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 12:09

... review of previous studies related to the research area The following chapter will display the detailed description of the methodology, the procedures and the results of the study in the light of the ... Sample of the speaking activity: Song Appendix 5: Sample of the communicative game: Spot the difference Appendix 6: Sample of the communicative game: What is the word? Appendix 7: Sample of the speaking ... for their needs Question and were to find out the allocation of the amount of talking time between students and teachers in the class and students’ opinion of their teachers’ talking time The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/07/2015, 13:00

... calculated and transferred into numerical forms The data were then clearly presented in the forms of tables and charts to facilitate the synthesis, comparison and generalization of the data The participants’ ... both the teachers and the students to get further opinions of the types of communicative speaking tasks, together with their advantages, disadvantages and suggestions However, the interview for the ... communicative speaking tasks and check their improvement of vocabulary and speaking skill These issues also got the agreement from half of teachers In the bottom place with only 25% of teachers and 42% of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/07/2015, 13:03

... towards the speaking skills lessons, the researcher asked the students about their opinions about contents of the topics, the activities and the time of the lessons in the class 18% of the respondents ... unless they regard the materials they are taught as worth learning Therefore, the task of the teachers is to find out their students‟ goal and the topics 48 they want to learn and build these in the ... topics, the activities and the time of the lessons in the class The ratings collected in the table point out that none of the teachers thinks the topics are interesting and suitable More than half of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/12/2015, 12:50

... access to the array and, if other clients had already referenced the data of the array, the physical memory cache of the array would be directly accessible to the client with no further message ... 5.5 Fault Handling The Mach page fault handler is the hub of the Mach virtual memory system The kernel fault handler is called when the hardware tries to reference a page for which there no valid ... vm_allocate_with_pager) or receipt of data in an IPC message In the first case, the source of the data is considered trusted (either the default pager, or a data manager known to the requestor) Use of the data received...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... worked in the communications sector Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail ... 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men declined from 225 000 to 200 000, while the number of women rose ... answer: The two decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02

... evidence is the lack of rigour and generalisability Furthermore, the magnitude of the effect of the MET may be influenced by institution-specific administrative features and policies Buist and coworkers ... of centres Before -and- after studies lack rigour and generalisability they are In the words of the slogan of the American Society of Critical Care Medicine, we need to deliver the ‘right care, ... lack of statistical power due to the large variance in outcome incidence and wide standard deviation and the lower-than-expected incidence of the outcome measures under investigation Given the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... from 20% of the teachers and 14% of the students Types of text are chosen to be the focus of 20% of the teachers and 5% of the students The same amount of the students (5%) concentrate on the relating ... ideas…related to the topic of the text drew the attention of 40% of the teachers and 12.5% of the students This shows that words and structures are of importance in avoiding the students’ misunderstanding ... writer and even a friend, an ESP must take other parts And these other parts will vary according to the type of course and syllabus, and the teaching/learning environment (Jordan, 1997) Therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50

... must arrive at a profound and detailed understanding of logical arguments, the rhetorical arrangement, the pattern of the 14 text, the attitude and purposes of the writer and his linguistic means ... type of program, level, and other variables (Day and Bamford ,2002) 16 The level of global understanding required varies with the student's language proficiency, the nature of the texts, and other ... mentioned above is the summary of the general characteristics of extensive reading it provides including the issues related to the amount of and primary purpose of reading and the role of learners in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2013, 08:49