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An Investigation Into The English Language Needs Of Electrical Engineering Students : A Case Study, Magandran Malayappan Jan 2000

An Investigation Into The English Language Needs Of Electrical Engineering Students : A Case Study, Magandran Malayappan

Student Works (2000-2009)

The study is an attempt to identify the needs of Diploma of Electrical Engineering students in Ungku Omar Polytechnic. It aims to contribute to the English Language Department of the Polytechnic and the parties concerned, essential findings that forms a basis for course revision and development in its present English Language programme. This study researches in some depth into the area of needs for English, concentrating on the students' needs in respect of reading, speaking, writing and listening. The aims of the study are to find out: What are the present needs of the UOP Diploma of Electrical Engineering students? …

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A Study Of Text Topics Motivate Classroom Reading, Lily Fu Jan 2000

A Study Of Text Topics Motivate Classroom Reading, Lily Fu

Student Works (2000-2009)

In this age of information technology, it is not enough that students know how to read, but more importantly, they must want to read. For without an enthusiasm for reading, students will not read on their own initiative, or read beyond their school assigned texts. This study is an attempt to find out why students do not like reading from their textbook and what they are interested in reading about so that an inventory of reading interests can be drawn up. The purpose of such an inventory is to provide some guidelines to teachers and textbook writers in the selection …

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A Study Of Students' Reports Based On 'Acceptability' Standards For Business Reports In The Workplace, Shahizan Shaharuddin Jan 2000

A Study Of Students' Reports Based On 'Acceptability' Standards For Business Reports In The Workplace, Shahizan Shaharuddin

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study is a qualitative exploration of target situation requirements for written business reports. lts main objective is to determine whether a selected group of business students are able to write an analytical report that meets with the 'acceptability' standards for business reports in the workplace. Two Senior Managers from a local organisation in Kuala Lumpur provided the necessary information on the criteria and features they believed to be important in a report as well as the extent to which the students' work met with these criteria. The study made use of the case study method, utilising questionnaires. interviews and …

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A Study Of Problems In Reading English Texts Among The Esl Trainee Teachers, Jayanthi Mala V. Marimuthu Jan 2000

A Study Of Problems In Reading English Texts Among The Esl Trainee Teachers, Jayanthi Mala V. Marimuthu

Student Works (2000-2009)

The trainee teachers in the English option of Maktab Perguruan Batu Pahat (MPBP) face problems in the reading comprehension of texts written in English. These trainees, when they graduate, will be English teachers posted to primary schools all over the country. In order to be good English teachers, it is one of the essential requirements for them to be able to comprehend English texts. ln addition, with the advent or the computer and other technological advancements in this era, there is a greater need for these readers to he able to comprehend the information they obtain from this media. The …

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A Study Of Learners' Perception Of An Effective Business Negotiation, Zarina Othman Jan 2000

A Study Of Learners' Perception Of An Effective Business Negotiation, Zarina Othman

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study examines learners' perception of an effective business negotiation. It focuses on Business English learners at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia . The study was conducted due to the general concern amongst ESP instructors at the Language Faculty regarding the effectiveness of learners' performance in the negotiation task. Many instructors have raised the question of whether learners have actually understood and learnt about business negotiations through the simulated task in the classroom and whether they could actually perform effectively in the real world business negotiations. In search of the answers, the study adopted the effective strategies in negotiations by Cotton & …

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A Discourse Analysis Of Three Malaysian Short Stories, Lalitha Velautham Jan 2000

A Discourse Analysis Of Three Malaysian Short Stories, Lalitha Velautham

Student Works (2000-2009)

This is a study that investigates the nativization of rhetorical strategies in three Malaysian short stories. Based on a framework for the analysis of nativization of rhetorical strategies by Kachru (1986), this study investigates rhetorical strategies such as native similes and metaphors, transfer of rhetorical devices for "personalizing" speech interactions, translation of proverbs and idioms, culturally dependent speech styles and syntactic devices. These strategies are investigated to detennine the types of cultural presuppositions drawn upon by the writer to create innovative linguistic realizations that exist in a non-native English context . The data for this study consists of three short …

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A Discourse Analysis Of Electronic Mail Message In A Local Business Community, Yong Kiang Ng Jan 2000

A Discourse Analysis Of Electronic Mail Message In A Local Business Community, Yong Kiang Ng

Student Works (2000-2009)

Communication by electronic mail has become a dominant mode of communication both within and between organisations in the last few years, many of which have developed their own in-house electronic systems. More and more of our students will enter the workforce to find that their job involves using the electronic mail system for communication; therefore we need insights into the nature of this mode of communication, and ascertain ways in which we can assist our students in acquiring "its particular characteristics, in the same way we teach spoken English, writing and the use of telephones" (Murray, 1988: 4). ln light …

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A Comparative Study Of Reading Habits And Interest Of Teenagers In An Urban And Rural School, Subashini K. Rajanthran Jan 2000

A Comparative Study Of Reading Habits And Interest Of Teenagers In An Urban And Rural School, Subashini K. Rajanthran

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study was carried out between two schools and the data collected was used to identify the problem areas in reading habits and interest among school going teenagers. This study was done on a comparative basis between an urban school, located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur and a rural school , located in Johor. This study was planned with the objectives of gathering data from both schools in order to identify problem areas and promote reading among Malaysian teenagers. The data indicated that the majority of urban students have acquired a habit and interest in reading. On the other …

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A Cross-Case Study Of Teacher Perceptions Of Program Design And Teaching Efficacy: The Seaview Reading Support Program, Susan L. Bowers Smith Edd Jan 2000

A Cross-Case Study Of Teacher Perceptions Of Program Design And Teaching Efficacy: The Seaview Reading Support Program, Susan L. Bowers Smith Edd

Dissertations

Teachers at Seaview Elementary School developed an innovative reading support program delivered by classroom teachers to increase the achievement of children who struggled to read literature in the district's core curriculum. Although studies of the program's impact on student achievement indicated that many of the children who received services in the classroom were able to fluently read grade level materials and improve their scores on standardized tests, issues created by the additional burden of this instruction on some teachers prevented the integration of the program into other grade levels and schools in the Seaview School District and Seaview Elementary School. …

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Teacher Training Through Literature: Building Teacher Awareness On The Process Of Shift In Identity On Esl Learners., Luis Ruiz J. Vazquez Jan 2000

Teacher Training Through Literature: Building Teacher Awareness On The Process Of Shift In Identity On Esl Learners., Luis Ruiz J. Vazquez

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In this work I defend the notion of the necessity for ESL learners to undergo some sort of identity shift process. This process would be a smooth and gradual evolution by reason of which ESL learners (and, by extension, learners of any foreign language) would develop a second identity that would encompass all the aspects associated to the L2 of their choice, apart from its exclusively linguistic and structural components. I introduce mainly the necessity of building awareness among teachers, especially—but not exclusively—among monolingual foreign language instructors. The strategy that I propose to promote this awareness is the guided reading …

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Reconciling Memories: Narrative As An Approach To Aboriginal Reconciliation In Australia, Gerard Mark Goldman Jan 2000

Reconciling Memories: Narrative As An Approach To Aboriginal Reconciliation In Australia, Gerard Mark Goldman

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Law In A Shrinking World: The Interaction Of Science And Technology With International Law, Joseph W. Dellapenna Jan 2000

Law In A Shrinking World: The Interaction Of Science And Technology With International Law, Joseph W. Dellapenna

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Cyber-Nations, Ruth Wedgwood Jan 2000

Cyber-Nations, Ruth Wedgwood

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Pragmatic Conceptualism, Benjamin C. Zipursky Jan 2000

Pragmatic Conceptualism, Benjamin C. Zipursky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Lars Saabye Christensen's "Beatles": A Study In Literary Translation And Cross-Cultural Influence, Kerstin Elizabeth Ketteman Jan 2000

Lars Saabye Christensen's "Beatles": A Study In Literary Translation And Cross-Cultural Influence, Kerstin Elizabeth Ketteman

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Report On The Situation Of Roma And Sinti In The Osce Area, Diane Orentlicher Jan 2000

Report On The Situation Of Roma And Sinti In The Osce Area, Diane Orentlicher

Research Reports & White Papers

A report on the situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE area with regard to discrimination and racial violence, education, living conditions and political participation. The Report on the Situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE Area contains detailed information on discrimination and racial violence, education, living conditions and political participation. It also includes recommendations on these issues. Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe available at https://www.osce.org/hcnm/32350

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Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet Jan 2000

Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article articulates a theory of Puerto Rican cultural nationhood that is largely based on ethnicity. In linking ethnicity and citizenship, it is imperative, however, to avoid the evils of ethnic strife and balkanization, while celebrating rather than imposing difference; community consciousness cannot degenerate into fascism.

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Cultural Adjustment Factors Of Senior Missionaries On Assignment In The South Pacific For The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Jonathan W. Shute Jan 2000

Cultural Adjustment Factors Of Senior Missionaries On Assignment In The South Pacific For The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Jonathan W. Shute

Theses and Dissertations

The number of senior missionaries serving missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has increased in recent years. Many of these volunteers travel overseas and are therefore immersed in a different culture. Some of them adjust successfully and others do not. The purpose of this research was to assess senior missionaries' perceptions of the type of preparation they made and training they received before departure, the expectations they had of their assignment, the people and way of life in the islands, and the accuracy of those expectations, the challenges they faced, the factors that they felt helped …

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The Effects Of Use Of A Metacognitive Strategy On The Language Anxiety Of Missionaries At The Missionary Training Center, Laura Millet Bichon Jan 2000

The Effects Of Use Of A Metacognitive Strategy On The Language Anxiety Of Missionaries At The Missionary Training Center, Laura Millet Bichon

Theses and Dissertations

Language anxiety is a form of anxiety that can negatively affect language learners by disrupting their cognitive processing, by rendering their learning experience unpleasant, and by reducing the quantity and quality of their language production. The language anxiety research contains many suggestions for anxiety reduction, one of these being the use of metacognitive language learning strategies. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a self-monitoring, metacognitive strategy called ASWE on the language anxiety levels of young male and female missionaries in the intensive language learning program at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. The ASWE …

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Nt 645 General Epistles, David R. Bauer Jan 2000

Nt 645 General Epistles, David R. Bauer

Syllabi

Required Texts: 1. Revised Standard Version of the Bible, or New Revised Standard Version of the Bible 2. The Greek New Testament (or Interlinear Greek-English New Testament) 3. Biblical Resources for Ministry, by David R. Bauer

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Pr 610 The Servant As Proclaimer, Donald C. Boyd Jan 2000

Pr 610 The Servant As Proclaimer, Donald C. Boyd

Syllabi

Haddon W. Robinson. BIBLICAL PREACHING A. Duane Litfin. PUBLIC SPEAKING, 2nd ed. Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart. HOW TO READ THE BIBLE FOR ALL ITS WORTH

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Nt 501 Comprehensive Greek I, J. Christian Stratton Jan 2000

Nt 501 Comprehensive Greek I, J. Christian Stratton

Syllabi

Black, David Alan. It's Still Greek to Me. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998). Black, David Alan. Learning to Read %ew Testament Greek, rev. ed. (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1994). %ovum Testamentum Graece (27th edition).

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Jules Verne And The French Literary Canon, Arthur B. Evans Jan 2000

Jules Verne And The French Literary Canon, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

No abstract provided.

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Twenty Years Of Writing Center Journal Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography Jan 2000

Twenty Years Of Writing Center Journal Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Original Understanding Of The Privileges And Immunities Clause: Michael Perry's Justification For Judicial Activism Or Robert Bork's Constitutional Inkblot?, Kenyon D. Bunch Jan 2000

The Original Understanding Of The Privileges And Immunities Clause: Michael Perry's Justification For Judicial Activism Or Robert Bork's Constitutional Inkblot?, Kenyon D. Bunch

Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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A Dialogue Of The Deaf: Hebrew Pedagogy And Anti-Jewish Polemic In Sebastian Münster's Messiahs Of The Christians And The Jews (1529/39), Stephen G. Burnett Jan 2000

A Dialogue Of The Deaf: Hebrew Pedagogy And Anti-Jewish Polemic In Sebastian Münster's Messiahs Of The Christians And The Jews (1529/39), Stephen G. Burnett

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The majority of Christian Hebraists during the early years of the Reformation devoted their attention to studying the Hebrew text of the Old Testament and the Hebrew language itself. Heeding the humanist admonition to "return to the sources," Martin Bucer, Konrad Pellikan, and a number of other scholars used their new skills to create a plethora of new Bible translations, biblical commentaries, and linguistic helps. Greater knowledge of Hebrew and Jewish literature also made these scholars aware of Jewish anti-Christian polemics. Jewish biblical commentators such as David Kimhi and the authors of books such as Sefer Nizzahon and Toledot Yesu …

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Book Reviews, Michael D. Matlock, Joel B. Green, J. Christian Stratton, Michael J. Harstad, Brent A. Strawn, Ellen T. Charry, David P. Gushee Jan 2000

Book Reviews, Michael D. Matlock, Joel B. Green, J. Christian Stratton, Michael J. Harstad, Brent A. Strawn, Ellen T. Charry, David P. Gushee

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

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"This Is Not A Christ": Nietzsche, Foucault, And The Genealogy Of Vision, Gary Shapiro Jan 2000

"This Is Not A Christ": Nietzsche, Foucault, And The Genealogy Of Vision, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

There is nothing surprising about linking the names of Nietzsche and Foucault, something that Foucault himself frequently did. We know that the practices of archaeology and genealogy owe much to On the Genealogy of Morals; and in The Order of Things Foucault celebrates Nietzsche for being able to look beyond the epoch of "man and his doubles,'' thinking of the Obermensch as designating that which is beyond man, and for serving, along with Mallarme, as one of the prophets of the hegemony of language in the emerging episteme of the postmodern world. Here I want to focus on other affinities, …

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The Politics Of Meaning: Law Dictionaries And The Liberal Tradition Of Interpretation, Gary L. Mcdowell Jan 2000

The Politics Of Meaning: Law Dictionaries And The Liberal Tradition Of Interpretation, Gary L. Mcdowell

Law Faculty Publications

At least since John Cowell's Interpreter was adjudged by the Committee on Grievances of the House of Commons in 1610 to be "very unadvised, and undiscreet, tending to the disreputation of the honour and power of the common laws" have law dictionaries been objects of occasional controversy. Yet legal dictionaries, as well as dictionaries more generally, have remained a constant resource in American law for those seeking to give meaning to the words of both statutes and constitutional provisions. They have appeared in the pages of the reports since the beginning of the republic; a majority of the justices of …

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Panhandling For Change In Canadian Law, Dina Graser Jan 2000

Panhandling For Change In Canadian Law, Dina Graser

Journal of Law and Social Policy

No abstract provided.

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