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Category Archives: Education
Google Apps For Education Wins Two More States, Rolls Out Training Tools For Teachers
By: Leena Rao Google has made it fairly clear that adoption of Google Apps at schools and colleges is vital to the growth of the productivity suite as a whole. The strategy makes sense; not only do educational institutions represent … Continue reading
Former Microsoft chief Tang Jun fights back
Former president of Microsoft China Tang Jun on Tuesday sought to dispel a rumor that he faked his academic credentials in the United States after remaining silent over the matter for the past five days. “I’ve never said I graduated … Continue reading
New rules bring online piracy fight to US campuses
Starting this month, colleges and universities that don’t do enough to combat the illegal swapping of “Avatar” or Lady Gaga over their computer networks put themselves at risk of losing federal funding. A provision of the Higher Education Opportunity Act … Continue reading
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Tagged campus, Education, Law, piracy, Technology
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Failing U.S. Education Will Dumb Down Economic Growth
Government and business leaders have worried about the economic impact of declining U.S. education. The day of reckoning may be here, says Chris Farrell. Continue reading
Top 100 Universities in the World
The ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities) is published by the Institute of Higher Education at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). It evaluates universities based on several indicators of research performance. Continue reading
Australia University Ranking- Comparing Top 10 Australian Universities
What are the top ten Australian Universities? There is no official government ranking of universities in Australia. However there is a number of university league tables produced every year by relevant bodies such as the Melbourne Institute, The Australian Newspaper, The Good Universities Guide, THES and Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s academic ranking of world universities. Continue reading
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Tagged Australian universities, Education, The Melbourne University, top universities
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Learning and communicative strategies
Communicative strategies are systematic techniques employed by a speaker to express his meaning when faced with some difficulty and the difficulty here refers to the speaker’s inadequate command of the language used in the interaction (Faerch & Kasper, 1983:16). On the other hand, the term learning strategies has been defined as “the higher-order skills which control and regulate the more task-specific or more practical skills” (Nisbet & Shucksmith,1986:26). Based on the previously mentioned definitions, it could be said that learning and communicative strategies refer to language learning behaviors that contribute directly or indirectly to learning. I am not very concerned here with the definition of the two terms as much as I am concerned with the fact that most if not all non-native speakers and second-language learners use these strategies throughout their second/foreign language learning journey. They tend to use them to compensate for their lack of sufficient language knowledge and to get themselves out of troubles when interacting in the target second/foreign language. These are only some of the short term benefits of using learning and communicative strategies. In fact, the successful use of these strategies can promote longer term language development. Continue reading
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Tagged Communicative strategies, EFL, English, ESL, learning strategies
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