What have been the most important findings in SLA research on instructed/classroom second language learning in recent years? What have been their main influences on ELT? With the growth of our global village and with our seemingly permanent state of interconnectedness the need for a worldwide common tongue is paramount for many people; more often than not that common tongue is English. People have sought to learn such lingua franca for millennia‚ yet the study of how people acquire this ’second
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LESSON 8 - American Reforms Objectives: Identify and explain the most important highlights and concepts of the Jacksonian Era Identify various minority groups who gained additional rights during this era The Impact of Various Religious Movements Jacksonian democracy encouraged individualism and personal responsibility. Those ideas were grounded in a religious movement called the Second Great Awakening. Preachers told their congregations that each person was responsible for their own
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Question 3 what reading have you enjoyed most in the past year and why? The reading I have enjoyed the most in the past year is ‘To kill a mocking bird’ by Harper Lee. The story’s main theme is about racial discrimination and gender inequality. It used a child’s point of view to tell the story so I can throw myself into the main character Scout. Thanks to her naivety‚ the injustice and the hypocrisy of Maycomb folks are enhanced. The most exciting part of the story is the fight in the court. Scout’s
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What I Have Learned In this class I have learned so many different things about Microsoft Excel‚ Word‚ and PowerPoint. Each program that we covered has its uses in a professional setting. They also have many personal uses as well. Microsoft Excel we were taught how to use excel to create budgets‚ and also how to take that budget and make it into a graph. This is really beneficial for me in my personal life‚ because I have never used a budget. Now I can’t monitor what I am spending and
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What Matters Most To You? Why? What matters most to me is making meaningful improvements in my native Iran. Although my short-term dream is to form a successful Internet business‚ my long-term aspiration is to graduate from business to politics. I take my cue from America‚ where industry leaders like Michael Bloomberg have revitalized communities and made great people leaders. Iran has been ravaged by several decades of “ivory tower” politics‚ corruption‚ unemployment and caste divide. For
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I’ve learned - That you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can beloved. The rest is up to them. I’ve learned - that no matter how much I care‚ some people just don’t care back. I’ve learned - that it takes years to build up trust‚ and only seconds to destroy it. I’ve learned - that it’s not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts. I’ve learned - that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that‚ you’d better know something
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The Most Important Meal INTRODUCTION I. Attention Grabber How many of you do not take breakfast every day? So‚ what is the reason you are skipping your breakfast again? Is that you are lack of time to eat‚ or you are weight watching or you think it is not necessary to have breakfast? Anyhow‚ do you know that breakfast is the most important meal in our daily life? II. Reveal Topic Today I would like share some of the advantages of having breakfast and how we can benefit from it. I would also
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What Have Others Learned from You? Our Scripture Reading from Deuteronomy makes a connection between obeying God Word‚ and obtaining material blessings; but‚ more importantly‚ it reminds us that God’s Word is close to us (Deuteronomy 30:9-14). God’s Word is not something so far removed that we never get a glimpse of it. It is not beyond our reasoning and capabilities. By the way‚ I am not suggesting that we grasp God’s Word in its totality‚ but enough of God’s Word to lead us to do good. Being
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4 Important Design Concepts If you pay attention to these four concepts as you put the visuals together‚ the end products will be effective. 1) Make it BIG! Naturally‚ you’d like everyone in the audience to be able to actually see the visual you plan to use. This is complicated by not always knowing the size of the audience you’ll speak to‚ or the size of the room you’ll use. As a rule of thumb‚ if it looks right on the computer screen‚ it’s probably too small. If it looks big‚ it’s still too
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benefits of all citizens and define rights that would be protected by the government. Greek and Roman ideas on government‚ along with ideas coming out of the Magna Carta helped the writers of the Constitution establish its foundation along with lessons learned from working together as colonies and states. These were some of the founding fathers: Ben Franklin‚ James Madison‚ John Adams‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and Alexander Hamilton. The U.S. Constitution was signed in the same place where the Declaration Of Independence
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