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Percepts of Fluency and the Prospects in Teaching
Full text linkFinding the best strategy or a method for improving or developing fluency seems as conflicting as framing universal grammar of languages. This paper focuses on understanding that in what way and to what extent the achievement of fluency in Language is different from the acquisition of language and proposes that the process of transformation of ideas and mental images into a language play a vital role in achieving fluency. The results of a critical analysis of the theories of generative linguistics and universal grammar, proposed by Chomsky, and of psycholinguistics are brought forth for making definitive conclusions on the achievement of fluency. In addition, it explicates the process of foregrounding the surface structures as a natural phenomenon in the process of achieving fluency and proceeds to demonstrate an improvised strategy for developing fluency in combination with the theories of Skinner and Ogden Lindsley
The Process of Entrepreneurship Learning on Innovative Venture Creation at University of Ciputra, Surabaya
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to know innovation learning result of Entrepreneurship 4: Innovation Venture Creation through Business Model Canvas. Five learning sequences within entrepreneurship 4, searching opportunity, generated solution ideas, market testing, business model analysis; and implementation and evaluation of students' innovative venture in products or services or/and innovative business model. As an action research, this paper has been created based on case study of 407 students in multidisciplinary. This paper will focus on continuous learning process in order to create an innovative venture. The result of this learning process is 97 real business units that divided into five categories: food and beverage, fashion, IT and graphic design, interior and animal. The final result is 9% of the business units managed to reach break-even point within 6 weeks, while 59% of the total business unit had gained financial profit
Toward an Integrated Framework for Language Testing and Intervention
Full text linkAn integrated framework for language testing and intervention with a paradigm T??LI?T? was proposed and illustrated. The proposed framework combines approaches from Error Analysis, Need Analysis and Systems Instruction. The operation of the framework was illustrated based on the data derived from a corpus consisting of the transcripts of hundred (100) students from a college in Yola metropolis. The transcripts were analyzed using the COMPFORM-MARKCHART method of error correction. The test served as a pre-intervention language test and the first component of the framework (T?). The result of the analysis was then used to design the ERROR PROFILE of the students. Based on this profile, a Language Intervention technique (LI) comprising of two sub-components was designed; that is Language Teaching for Common and Specific Errors [LTCSE] and Language Task for Specific Students [LTSS]. The last component of the framework is a post language intervention test [T?] which was designed to test the efficacy of the language method/approach adopted. The paper concludes with a discussion on the prospects of the framework within the context of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL).Keywords: Pretest, language Intervention, Post-test, EDP, LTCSE, LTSS.
Role of Parents in a Child's Reading and Literacy Development
Full text linkUnless the home is made a literacy immersion centre where the child begins its literacy acquisition and unless the home is connected with the society and the school in enhancing the child's literacy acquisition; the home could neutralize the child's efforts and impede the child's literacy acquisition(Onukaogu 2007). It is widely acknowledged that homes could provide powerful influence on a child's early literacy development. Research has shown that parental involvement is crucial to a child's reading success. So every parent has a unique role in early Child's literacy. Since parents teach their children at home to talk, sit, stand, eat and walk without undergoing any form of training, I am of the opinion that they could play a pivotal role in their children's early literacy with little or no training. This study examines roles of parents in their children's early reading and literacy development. This paper further examines the impact of parental training and involvement in home reading on the child's early reading level and recommends ways of providing parents with adequate skills necessary to promote their confidence and know-how in supporting their children’s literacy development. Keywords: Literacy, Early Child Reading, Parental involvemen
Psychology of Strategic Planning In the Staffing and Diversity at an Undergraduate College in the USA: A Model for Future Human Resources Management Planning In Nigerian Universities
Full text linkThis paper is about strategic planning in a four-year college with a focus on strategy in the areas of staffing and diversity. Strategic plan is essentially the direction, scope, and range of an organization (Thompson, 2010) such as a college or university over the long term that attains advantage for the organization through its coordination of resources and activities within a competitive environment to meet the needs of market and to satisfy stakeholder expectations. Keywords: Human Resources, staffing, Diversity, Faculty, Training, University, Nigeria
Fracas over Privatisation, Quality Assurance and Corruption in Indian higher education
Full text linkIt is well recognised that for a bright future country needs to strengthen its higher education roots first. If India wants to be a major player in the emerging knowledge-based economies, then it will have to go in for a major overhaul of its higher education system. Government of India needs to come out with policies and regulations that can bring effective and timely changes in this sector and enhance its reputation on the global platform. There is the need for a clear vision. Policy makers have to introspect the state of affairs of higher education critically. The maladies and deficiencies in India's higher education system need urgently to be addressed by making it more professional and creative and less bureaucratic and political. To realize where we have gone wrong we need honesty of purpose and sincere articulation of the issue. Let the politicians see it as a legitimate aspiration of people that those in policy making will respond to it. It is to be realised that higher education is no longer a luxury and a corruption free education system is essential to national, social and economic development. Keywords: Higher education administration, assessment, quality issues, quality assuranc
Designing Instructional Design: Emerging Issues
Full text linkInstructional designers are expected to be familiar with the epistemological underpinnings of several theories and their consequences on the process of instruction. Constructivism is the dominant theory of the last decade and supports construction of knowledge by the individual. This paper discusses the basic principles, the major goal of any instructional model is to point up how to plan, develop, implement, evaluate, and organize full learning activities effectively so that it will ensure competent performance by students. underlying constructivism. Application of these principles on the process - analysis, development, evaluation - of instructional design poses certain challenges concerning issues such as pre-specification of knowledge, authentic evaluation and learner control. Most of the problems are attributed to the fact that constructivism is a learning theory and not an instructional-design theory. Therefore, instructional designers must attempt to translate constructivism into instructional design through a more pragmatic approach that focuses on the principles of moderate - rather than extreme - constructivism and makes use of emergent technology tools. Keywords : Instructional design, Constructivism, Active learning, input, process, output, feedback, learnin
Ghanaian primary school pupils’ conceptual framework of energy
Full text linkThis study investigated the conceptual framework of pupils on the topic ‘energy’ which is one of the popular topics taught in the Basic Schools in Ghana. A teaching model comprising teaching and learning activities depicting concepts of energy was tested on some primary school pupils. The study was based on a structured questionnaire and a test designed and served on some Ghanaian primary school pupils (N=186) in the age range of 11 and 12 years. The results of the tests were correlated for pupils’ performances on conceptual –type and algorithmic-type questions by a Chi square test. The results showed that there exists statistically significant difference between conceptually oriented and algorithmic pupils at the p= 0.10 confidence level. It came to light that majority of pupils depended on rote learning than on learning for conceptual understanding. Recommendations are, therefore, made for improving the teaching and learning of science in the primary schools. Keywords: Basic Schools, Basic education Certificate Examination, misconceptions, perception of energy, conceptual change, high order cognitive skills, algorithmic and conceptual-type test, rote memory skills.