characteristics on the chance of being employed. A total of 3,025 Malaysian graduates involved in the study and data were analyzed using logistic regression analysis. The results show that the employment prospects of graduates with a good command of English and who possess leadership and technical skills are better when compared to those without these skills. These findings suggest that steps should be taken to improve soft skills among graduates. The results also show that Indian and female graduates
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Integrated School namaste_db@yahoo.com Abstract The purpose of a multilingual education program is to develop appropriate cognitive and reasoning skills enabling children to operate equally in their community language, the national language and English. Driving both preservice and inservice teacher training are sets of standards for setting the qualifications and competencies of teachers. Within MTB-MLE these standards should reflect the fact that teachers are prepared to successfully educate students
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given by English, “the most potent weapon of the colonial government” - It was therefore easy for Americans to bring English to Philippines because of the “positive attitude” of Filipino towards Americans and the incentives given to Filipinos to learn English in terms of career opportunities, government service and politics. II. LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING (LPP) 1974- Bilingualism in the Philippines was introduced, wherein two Media of Instructions were used. English was used in
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CHALLENGES STUDENTS FACE IN LEARNING ESSAY WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MANGA DISTRICT, NYAMIRA COUNTY, KENYA BY NYANG’AU BENARD NYASIMI E55/CE/14078/2009 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION KENYATTA UNIVERSITY JULY 2013 * DECLARATION This thesis is my original work and has not been presented for degree in any other university. Signature: ______________________________
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presented to them. This result recalls the findings of a study in which Langer (1989) asked native English speakers to speak on familiar and unfamiliar topics, either with or without planning time: “Thinking about a very familiar topic disrupted their performance” (p. 21). Similarly, research investigating the relationship between background knowledge and performance on discipline- specific English for academic purposes (EAP) tests suggests that learners are not always advantaged when tests include
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Skilled labour is any worker who has acquired certain skill in their job or may have attended a college or technical school. An example of a skilled labour job is carpenters. Unskilled worker is a worker who has not acquired special skill or proficiency. If there is a shortage of migrant skills, the immigration restores the difference among labour supply and demand with no affect on local pay (Shah & Burke, 2005). The purpose of this report provides the reader a better understanding on the impact
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Job Application Background What is your citizenship status? Are you willing to relocate to the Washington, DC area? Are you currently living/working outside the United States or its territories? Are you planning to travel outside the United States or its territories in the next year? Do you authorize us to share your resume with other elements of the federal government for employment purposes? How did you learn about this web site? US Citizen Yes No Yes Yes I went straight to the CIA website
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and environmental health literacy targeting low-literate groups (NIH.gov). In addition to cultural differences in the healthcare field, language barriers between patients and healthcare professionals have become a common occurrence. Although English is the predominant language in the United States, a study done by the 2010 American Community Survey revealed that in the total of over 13
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Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff School of Management MBA Epidemic of dropouts in Collegiate Level In Sri Lankan International Schools By D.M. Apsara Gunarathne UWIC/MBA/MT/03/53 10005365 This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA). Acknowledgments I wish to thank my friends, and family who assisted my attempt of writing this dissertation. First, I thank my dissertation lecturer
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The Influences of Lexical Approach on College English Teaching in China I. Introduction 1.1 Background In recent years, college English teaching research focuses on exploring more effective teaching methods to improve the students’English proficiency and self-learning ability. China's college English teaching find itself caught in a dilemma of time-consuming but low-efficiency. The undesirable language teaching situation drives the teaching researchers to make great efforts to innovate present
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