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Internet and the Impacts on Post-Secondary Education

in higher education (Lee 137). In Britain, the Internet age appears to be prevalent in urban settings, but there is also a clea...

Literacy Learning Profile and Assessment

experiences were utilized and she showed a considerable interest both in the activities of the class and the use of the Internet f...

Water Quality Lesson

river and classroom activities. The first activity has the teacher explaining to students what macro-invertebrates are. They can s...

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REVIEW: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

instruction tended to help ELL students, and Brooks and Thurstons results werent much different. Basically, throwing ELL students ...

Obstacles to Correct Pronunciation for Japanese Learners of English

with a fixed pronunciation. For instance, the letter "a" in English can be pronounced many different ways, such as in the words "a...

P.E. Curriculum

learned the body of skills needed to perform a variety of physical activities? 3. Does the student demonstrate a willingness to m...

Managing Change: Transition to the Use of Portfolios as an Assessment

The objectives include the following: 1. To ensure that each educator has an understanding of the value of the change initiative ...

The Bilingual Education Debate

There is also evidence that bilingualism actually provides benefit to culturally diverse students. Sheng, McGregor and Marian cond...

A Literature Review on Developing Respect for Diversity

Brown and Forde (2006), who maintained that there is a growing need for culturally responsive pedagogy in the educational setting....

Speech and Language: Working with At-Risk Patients

experiences (Chapter 2). Behaviorists like B.F. Skinner further developed the concept of conditioning in what Skinner deemed oper...

Implementing and Managing Innovation

paper is to examine some of the relevant theories concerning these issues, consider the way they may apply in real life situations...

What Is The "Self"?

dictate perception and self, which represents "a choice, where we may intend our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, ...

Preferences of Adult Learners

school (Belzer, 2004). This conflict is clearly shown in Belzers article and her case studies of five students. All the subjects...

Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...

Adult Learners, Motivation, and Curriculum Development

David Kolb (1984) developed what has been deemed a linear processing approach to learning. Kolb (1984) asserted that experiential...

The Identity of Adult Learners

In this paper that consists of five pages the identity acquired by adults through the learning process is examined within the cont...

Student Writing on Being a Learner

a very poor way of teaching and learning. As a child I remember how flashcards were quite prominent in the classroom. From math...

Elluminate's Adult Learner Characteristics and Qualities Summaries

material for themselves. To be effective in any group setting, both styles need to be included, of course. The criteria evaluati...

Cross-Cultural Awareness through Films and Interviews

still evident and part of the legal system in which case provided some legal standing for peoples separatist attitudes. Since the ...

Teaching English Language Learners

true believer (Rodgers, 2001). The roles of the teacher and learner change with each method. Methods always expect the actors to ...

Teaching LD Learners

receive from being constant advocates for the needs of their children. As a result, No Child Left Behind has created a call for c...

Teaching Vocabulary To English Language Learners

snack bar, salad bar, and diner (Pettigrew, 2008). * Labeling pictures can also help students learn names of different things (Har...

Exceptional Learners Class (First Person Experience)

for a few minutes as if I were a freak. I asked the woman if she could help me reach a box of cereal on the top shelf. She smiled...

Analysis of Raqing Bull

earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...

Diabetes Education w/Adult Hispanic Learners

well as aid those Latinos/Hispanics who have been diagnosed with diabetes, nurses have to confront the problems involved with poor...

Disadvantaged or Low Income Learners and Computer Literacy

A proposal outline consisting of eleven pages describes computer literacy program funding designed to assist students who are eith...

Accuracy in the Film "Frida"

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...

English Language Learners (ELL): Families And School

country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...

Issues with English Language Learners

which refers to the fact that immigrants typically do quite well in American society, despite having to learn the intricacies of a...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...