... Informativity A communication situation is a context where information transfer occurs A text has to contain some new information A text is informative if it transfers new information, or information ... paid attention to the information, and what was their reaction to the messages (did they laugh or reduce their speed, or perhaps did they accelerate to indicate that it did not concern them) ... nonetheless a marginal 13 text because it is so uninformative Not until the readers look at the continuation does the text‘s status seem more sound: (d) The sea is water only in the sense that...
Ngày tải lên: 25/06/2016, 20:56
... shows the responses reported by the patients who selected their storage location as 'other' If a patient responded that they stored their methadone in a cupboard or cabinet, they were then asked the ... methadone is stored at one patients house at one time, however the figure demonstrates that only a small number of patients store large volumes (> 100 mls) at home The mean volume stored at home was ... Methadone storage container All of the 174 patients (100%) who completed the questionnaire reported that they stored their methadone in the original container that the pharmacist provided the methadone...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
On the conformation of DNA confined in a nanochannel or absorbed at an interface
... 3, the adsorption of λ-phage DNA onto mica was investigated with atomic force microscopy We found that the morphologies depend on the solvent conditions in the sample preparation procedure Flat-lying ... of the nanoparticle concentration In nanochannels DNA molecules exhibit a more extended conformation with the addition of nanoparticles at relatively low concentration, irrespective of the ionic ... factors such as the fraction of dissociated ionic groups, the charge valency of these groups, the dielectric constant of the solution, and the concentration of counterions 20 and salt ions in the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:01
Staying productive on the road, at home, and everywhere else
... At the coffee shop Save attachments from your iPhone • Tap the file attachment from your email, then tap the action icon to save it to the cloud: • Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, ... again! Use Autocorrect for Text Expansion • Add custom Autocorrect words to replace long, commonly used text • Preferences > AutoCorrect > New Save a Word document as a PDF • Use the Save As menu ... everyone simultaneously • Free! www.glympse.com At the office Create reusable text with MS Word • Get your text or table formatted, and select it • Insert > Autotext > New • Use this for any...
Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2015, 00:54
An error analysis on the use ofcohesive devices in writing by freshmen majoring in English at thang long university
... indicate results The second type of errors is the incomplete application of the conjunctions as a result (of that) and in consequence (of that), the students paid attention only to the words that ... Additive conjunctions signal the presentation of addition information such as and, moreover, in addition to, etc Temporal conjunctions such as first, then, after that, etc express the relationships ... adversity Adversative conjunctions such as however, on the other hand, etc are adversative because the information in the following sentence of a text moderates or qualifies the information in the preceding...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:12
A study on the opportunities for and constraints on developing students’ oral skills at an upper-secondary school
... improve their oral skill 40 PART THREE: CONCLUSION This part will deal with limitation of the study, the recommendations for further study, as well as a conclusion of the study Limitation of the ... all the important information for the study Moreover, the answers of the teachers and students to the questionnaires may not reflect what they thought and did in class or at home Thirdly, the ... contact with others, to establish sympathetic relationships or to spend time chatting harmlessly with someone On the other hand, the purpose may be to find out or to express their opinions or...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44
An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 1
... week c More than 45 minutes per week d There was no pronunciation lesson but the teacher taught the pronunciation of new words and corrected students’ pronunciation mistakes during the lesson (If ... looked at its pronunciation and meaning, then pronounced it aloud Part 3: Attitude and problems with English pronunciation How important is pronunciation you think? a Not important b Important ... yes, how long approximately? .) When you look up new words in the dictionary, what did you often do? a looked at its meaning only b looked at its pronunciation and meaning, then pronounced it...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58
An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 2
... similar concern for their own pronunciation Once learners become more aware of their pronunciation, they will pay more attention to it in their speech This certainly leads to pronunciation improvement ... that they have to concentrate on the pronunciation of the words and try to pronounce correctly They not have to worry about other aspects of connected speech Therefore, they tend to read more ... pronunciation) The pronunciation lesson is incorporated into speaking lesson and lasts one period, accounting for 45 minutes In each pronunciation lesson, students are given drilling practice on...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58
A STUDY ON THE RELIABILITY OF THE FINAL ACHIEVEMENT COMPUTER-BASED MCQS TEST 1 FOR THE 4TH SEMESTER NON - ENGLISH MAJORS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
... inter-rater reliability n: the number of rater who combines estimates from the final mark for the examiner rA,B: the correlation between the raters, or the average correlation among all rater if there ... which authentic materials may be altered, the response format and how responses are scored They are usually written before the tests and then the test is written on the basis of the specifications ... research, in accordance with the normal conditions established by the librarian for the care, loan or reproduction of the thesis Signature Date i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In the completion of this thesis, I...
Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46
a study on the problems in teaching english speaking skills to the minority students at sonla ethnic boarding high school and so
... expository and evaluation The former includes description, narration, comparison and instruction The latter consists of explanation, prediction, justification, preference and decision Interaction ... situations and the order in which the components are likely to occur So, telephone conversation, interview conversations casual encounters, conversations at parties, lessons, radio or television ... self- control but immediately stop them for correction, only 1,4% of the students state that their teachers often get angry and interrupt them for correction The number of students who say that their...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06
A study on the reality of teaching speaking skill to non english majors at thai nguyen university college of technologyrelevan
... scheme and coding categories in this research emerged from an examination of the data and information than pre-determined and imposed on the data and information The information from the interviews ... not only for the organization of the classroom but also for the processes of acquisition It is important for the organization and management of the classroom because it is through language that ... quotation reflects the conception of speaking at that time The emphasis on the formal part, i.e the correct sounds, the correct choice of words and inflections etc., led to the accuracy oriented...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06
The noneffects of class on the gendered division of labor in the home
... case, there are no consistent, signi®cant class effects on housework in the United States data On balance, therefore, there is no support in the data at all for the hypotheses 1, and ± the working-class ... the focus from the problem of variations across households to the more institutional issue of the relationship between the political mobilization of classes on the one hand and gender relations ... sense they have some genuine autonomy An implication of relatively strong versions of the gender-autonomy thesis is that the amount of housework men will be primarily determined by the nature...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
AN EXPLORATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PEER-EDITING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING ESSAY WRITING AT FOREIGN LANGUAGES FACULTY, LHU
... and the data-collecting was set up, about which more specific information can be seen in table 3.1 Table 3.1: The detailed information of the research procedure Duration What to be done What for ... the teacher, there was a discussion with the participation of the whole class in order to generate the main ideas for the essay Then, basing on the generated ideas, each group- in all, made their ... of information were recorded in the form of teaching diary (see appendix 14) that the researcher wrote after every class meeting At the end of the course, information from the diary was synthesized...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 18:19