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Language Theories of Cummins, Krashen, and Vygotsky

problems unaided, and their potential for improved problem-solving if guided by another. Within the ZPD was a process known as sca...

Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura

modeling process: 1. Attention: If an individual is going to learn anything, they must pay attention. At the same time, anything t...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

ICT Learning Program Design

Social constructivism is a part of the larger school of cognitive constructivism, developed by the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsk...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

The Coco Store and HCI Theory

includes the perceptions and reactions of the reviewer. Biological and cognitive basis for perception According to Greenberg (19...

The Coco Store Website's Interface Design

taking advantage of users intuition and prior experience. Background information What is a human-computer interface? In regards ...

Nursing Theory and Its Sub Specialties

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

Learning Theories and Teacher Practice Within the UK

as: programmed instruction, mastery learning instructional objectives, applied behavior analysis and contracts (Ormrod, 1999). Tea...

Josiah Strong and Spencer on Social Darwinism

held true: creatures which could adapt most effectively to their environment had a better chance of their genetic material survivi...

Central Bank Policy and Global Trade

Company as a leading example of how large multinationals ought to function in terms of currency risk management. Dow generates mo...

Sociopolitical Classes of Plato and Their Parallels

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

High School Science Teaching

(Berube, 2000). This type of teaching follows what could be called the linear thinking model (Berube, 2000). But....science is not...

Sony's PlayStation 2 Release Problems

the primary reason for the rush was to reach the market with the PS2 before Microsofts scheduled release of its X-box. Sony did n...

A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy History

be able to point out faulty thinking, something that can free a person from the desire to act a particular way. Such acknowledgmen...

New Nursing Theory Formulation

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

Manuel Castells' Economic Theories and Globalization

when the "information age" arrived, along with the knowledge economy, we began seeing a shift in the situation. Because of communi...

Explaining Behavior Through Personality Theory

psychology, in that it "accepts references to mental life and encourages the study of its full spectrum of manifestations as legit...

Overview of Internationalization

a few companies are able to claim a true global presence such as major oil companies and companies such as Coca-Cola. Even compani...

William Glasser and Jean Piaget's Theories of Personal Learning

understanding - including habituation and violation of expectation - with each stage represented by age-related limitations and sp...

The Contribution of Game Theory to Collective Bargaining and Negotiation in Contemporary British Industrial Relations

2000). When we look at the way the decision making process is followed in any firm or individual then it is likely that at some po...

Spain, the Basque Region, and Theories of Nationalism

Michael Hechters theory of what he calls "internal colonialism." He defines it as a sort of colonialism "practised by the center a...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

Management Functions, Theories And Application

This involves recruiting, hiring, training, employee development, i.e., training, and monitoring performance. The company will onl...

“On Variation in Interlanguage: A Response to Gregg”

unknown and that a learners performance is optimal at all times. In reality, Tarone argues, this optimal situation is seldom in p...

Motivating Teachers

their own supplies before and during each school year (Schmidt, 2005). Teaching has always been a low-status, low-pay job requiri...

Automotive Industry And Global Financial Crisis

less cost than other countries (Tabarrok, 2008). This means that every country can have a comparative advantage if they specialize...

Learning Theories-Nursing Education: Annotated Bibliography

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...

Learning Theories and Adult Learning

job" (Flint, 2001, p. 3). Employees who are categorized as being in the "professions" have, for quite some time, acknowledged the ...

Theory Analysis/Peplau

indicate the patients readiness for growth and movement" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Phase 1, orientation, describes the patient and...