Lang Policy (2009) 8:117–137 DOI 10.1007/s10993-009-9124-0 ORIGINAL PAPER Assumptions behind Singapore’s language-in-education policy: implications for language planning and second language acquisition L. Quentin Dixon Received: 30 September 2007 / Accepted: 14 January 2009 / Published online: 27 February 2009 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract Singapore’s officially bilingual education policy‚ in which the majority of children are schooled through a non-native medium
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After taking the personality test I have come to the conclusion that while the test does do a decent job of describing the Big Five traits of human personality‚ which are Openness to Experience/Intellect‚ Conscientiousness‚ Extraversion‚ Agreeableness‚ and Neuroticism‚ it does generalize them and classify personality traits rather vaguely. Humans are so complex and can exude many different types of personalities on a daily basis. But none the less‚ in terms of a basic guideline to go off of‚ the
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BUSINESS IMPLICATIONS OF EXCHANGE-RATE CHANGES BUSINESS IMPLICATIONS OF EXCHANGE-RATE CHANGES Market Decisions On the marketing side‚ exchange rates can affect demand for a company’s products at home and abroad. A country such as Mexico may force down the value of its currency if its exports become too expensive owing to relatively high inflation. Even though inflation would cause the peso value of the Mexican products to rise‚ the devaluation means that it takes less foreign currency to
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characters have a mixture of positive and negative traits. In the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare‚ Mach has a mixture of positive character traits as well as character flaws. Macbeth has the positive trait of being a great leader; however he has the negative traits of being selfish and mental instability. There are many characteristics throughout the play that proves Macbeth has both positive and negative traits. Macbeth shows the trait of being a great leader. In scene one of Macbeth the
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FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION I. Understanding Public Administration Meaning of Public Administration From a very broad perspective‚ public administration may be viewed to refer not only to those activities involved in carrying out or in implementing the policies and programs of the government but also the processes and contents of these policies and programs. Meaning of Public Administration From a broader perspective‚ public administration may refer to cooperative human
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INTRODUCTION Cervical cancer is a major public health problem‚ as it is the second most common cancer in women world-wide after breast cancer. Cervical cancer is a common type of malignancy accounting for about 6% of all cancers found in women. It is a disease in which cancerous cells develop in the uterine cervix (this is the connecting passage between the uterus and vagina). The human papillomaviruses are the principal cause of most cervical cancers. The peak incidence of cervical cancer occurs
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particular trait‚ characteristic‚ or behavior. Misses refers to the people a test or any other procedure of measuring identifies their possession or exhibition of a particular quality‚ nature inaccurately. Summarily it is a wrong classification or prediction‚ which can take the form of false positives and false negative. The false positive error is a kind of miss‚ which refers to the inaccurate classification‚ which suggests that‚ a person who undertook the test posses certain traits or attributes
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Effective traits of team leadership I. a) The American businessman and entrepreneur Samuel Moore is best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam’s Club. He once said "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves‚ it’s amazing what they can accomplish." Now the question that arises is ’Don’t you want to know what it to be a great leader’ My guess is that you do. b) In our daily lives we always find ourselves
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The Powerful and Impactful Trait of Huckleberry Finn Is anyone capable of having the important trait of considering the feelings of others before themselves? In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ a character named Huckleberry Finn demonstrates this quality. Huck Finn reveals this character trait throughout various parts of the book such as when he apologizes to Jim‚ when he decides he would get the money back for Peter Wilks’s daughters‚ and when he considered Aunt Sally’s feeling
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Public Administration Research; Vol. 2‚ No. 1; 2013 ISSN 1927-517x E-ISSN 1927-5188 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Preparing Public Administration Scholars for Qualitative Inquiry: A Status Report Margaret Stout1 1 Department of Public Administration‚ West Virginia University‚ Morgantown‚ WV‚ USA Correspondence: Margaret Stout‚ Department of Public Administration‚ West Virginia University‚ Morgantown‚ WV‚ USA. Tel: 304-293-7978. E-mail: margaret.stout@mail.wvu
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