The Study Of Second Language Acquisition

reflection on the part of the teacher has often been associated with both improvements in approaches to teaching, and empowerment of the teacher (Freire, 1970; Celani, 2001, 2003; Lopes, 1996). This paper reports on a study conducted with four student-teachers of English at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, in 2006. The objective was to measure the possible impact of an awareness raising program upon the teachers’ use of questions. The study concluded that, as a result…

ELSEVIER Geomorphology21 (1998) 251-264 An automated approach to the classification of the slope units using digital data Philip T. Giles a, *, Steven E. Franklin b a Department of Geography, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada b Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada Received 15 June 1996; revised 12 May 1997; accepted 23 May 1997 Abstract Digital elevation and remote sensing data sets contain different, yet…

ABSTRACT This paper is the result of an investigation of the use of materials, such as visual aids, movies, flashcards, puppets etc in a bilingual (English/Portuguese) pre-school classroom in São Paulo. The main objective of this research was to observe the teacher’s actions and intention when using these materials in the process of second language acquisition in early childhood education, looking for evidence of a practice that enables learning. Key words: Preschool

reading A feasibility study on the use of video games to engage adults with low literacy in reading for pleasure June 2010 Contents: Executive Summary ............................................................................................. 3 Chapter 1: Redefining reading........................................................................... 5 Chapter 2: Existing research............................................................................... 9 Chapter 3: A review of…

This paper introduces the design and development of control system courses in an undergraduate program by using Project-Based Learning (PBL) when the curriculum uses Traditional Education. The paper presents a complete outline of control courses that takes into account the problem definition, project duration, support resources and student evaluation. In this approach, students are organized into teams to develop a project seeking to find the solution to a control problem. The approach is…

In his book, The Practice of Management, Peter Drucker wrote that "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business." [2] If marketing is the distinguishing function of the business, then what is marketing and how is it achieved? 1. "...an organizational…

Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of PsychologyHogrefe & Huber Publishers F. Petermann & T. Macha: Developmental Assessment © 2008 2008; Vol. 216(3):127–134 Developmental Assessment A General Framework Franz Petermann and Thorsten Macha Center for Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation, University of Bremen, Germany Abstract. Developmental diagnostics has a long-standing tradition of more than 100 years and is closely connected with the assessment of children’s abilities,…

Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XXXVI (March 1998), pp. 166–192 Hodgson: Institutional Economics The Approach of Institutional Economics GEOFFREY M. HODGSON The Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge The author is particularly grateful to Peter Corning, Masashi Morioka, Richard Nelson, John Nightingale, Douglass North, Paul Twomey, and three anonymous referees for discussions, critical comments, or other assistance. The Japan Society for the…

Non-manual realization of agreement in American Sign Language. Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA. 1996. BEHARES, L. Lingüística Contrastiva. Palestra proferida no Curso de Preparação de instrutores de Lingua de Sinais. Santa Maria/RS. 23 a 27 de setembro de 1991. BELLUGI, U. & KLIMA, E. The Roots of Language in the Sign Talk of the Deaf. Psychology Today. 1972. _________ The signs of language. Harvard University Press, Cambriedge, MA. 1979. _________ The link between hand…

ABSTRACT Our goal in this research is to present the beliefs and expectations of learners beginners, as and its implications on the use of materials in the teaching-learning Portuguese as a foreign language. In addressing the beliefs, we adopt the view of most contemporary, supported the view of Barcelos, which deals with the contextual approach. Regarding the use of materials in the teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language, our theoretical knowledge is constituted by authors such as