institutions all over the country. In the Philippine setting evidences revealed that 2009, 2010 and 2011 NAT results exemplified that the second year students struggled much on reading comprehension as shown by the three mean percentage scores in English subject. In particular, the mean percentage scores of Macario B. Asistio Sr. High School—Unit I for the school years 2008-2009; 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 are 43.11, 36.57 and 36.60 respectively (Department of Educational Testing and Research Center
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English and Englishes in the Philippines: A World Englishes Approach to MTBMLE Isabel Pefianco Martin, Ateneo de Manila University Abstract ! In the past two years since DepEd Order 74 (series 2009) was implemented, teacher training sessions have been conducted that focussed on the development of teaching strategies and the preparation of instructional materials for teaching in multilingual settings. One area of utmost concern among basic education teachers, and often a source of anxiety
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_____________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Education University of San Jose-Recoletos _________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Bachelor in Secondary Education Major in English By: Albino, Rey Jee Dagunan, Maeflo Fariolen, Amilou Ace Saga, Alyanna Mae S.Y. 2014-2015 CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE Rationale It is unquestionably that language plays a very important part in people’s learning process and of course
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(Bilingual education). English has been playing a central role in the cross-cultural communication as the common international language for linking people with different native languages. For children living in the 21st century, it is necessary to acquire communication abilities in English. The educational standards of new century Japanese government objectified in the Strategic Plan to Cultivate “Japanese with English Abilities” and later in Action Plan to Cultivate “Japanese with English Abilities” (Chapter
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Head Start 1 Running Head: HEAD START Social Policy Study Improving Head Start Act of 2007 Kristin Sancken University of Minnesota Head Start 2 I. Introduction Head Start is a beloved program and one of the few social welfare programs that continues to garner strong support from both sides of the aisle. It has seen very little shift in public perception over the last 44 years since it’s creation as part of President Johnson’s Office of Economic Opportunity, and politicians
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research design used was a combination of a two-way survey for the evaluation of the student leaders’ proficiency, effectiveness, and efficiency for the environmental activities. It was found out that not all student leaders re both effective or efficient. And most student leaders from Dela Salle are more effective than efficient. Based on the aforementioned findings, the following conclusions were drawn that the evaluations of the student leaders at DLSU-D has the rate of 3.84 based from the guidelines
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seems to me the three types of discrimination that may be considered in this situation are gender discrimination, cultural discrimination, and language discrimination. In this paper I will look at all factors involved from both sides and come to a conclusion on whether the company was in fact in the wrong. First let’s take a deeper look at Maria and her offenses in relation to her gender and her culture. Maria is a
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“Attributions of high achieving Thai university students perceiving themselves as failures in English usage” by Dr. Kasma Suwanarak School of Language and Communication, National Institute of Development Administration and Asst. Prof. Dr. Sureepong Phothongsunan Faculty of Arts, Assumption University _________________________________ Abstract The study investigates the attributions of English language learning of 125 Thai undergraduate students in the last year of their study in International
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________________________________________________________________ Math Anxiety among College of Tourism and Hospitality Management Students of De La Salle University: An Illness or a Psychological Mentality? In partial fulfillment of the requirements in English 102: Information Literacy (A Research Paper) By: Bongcac, Francis Dianne De Jesus, Alyssa Marie Pialago, Mary Anne Solayao, Elizabeth Viesca, Jr., Rolando NON07 September 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page.......................................
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1. Introduction: Now-a-days global economy, businesses cannot ignore the importance of communication. Businesses are finding that it is in their best interest to learn about national, cultural and ethnic groups they need to communicate with to grow their businesses. Communication is so important in business; in fact businesses want and need people with good communication skills. Effective communicators are, therefore high demand besides not surprisingly there is a high correlation between
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