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Problems faced in oral presentations and ways to overcome them

ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION -Problems faced oral presentation ways overcome problems Sales Marketing staffs. Many a time sales and marketing staff members are required to give oral presentations to existing and potential clients.

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Systemic functional linguistics and academic literacy approaches in EAP teaching

English for Academic purposes (EAP) teaching and research have come up. These are the systematic functional linguistics (SFL) approaches in Australia and other parts of the world (for example Lee, 2010; Hood, 2006; Woodward-Kron, 2009) and Academic Literacy approaches in the United Kingdom and…

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Gender and performativity in Rochester's and Behn's impotence poems

Literature of the English Restoration offers the example of a number of writers who wrote for a courtly audience: literary production, particularly in learned imitation of classical models, was part of the court culture of King Charles II.

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Managing the transition to primary school in England: policies and practices

Education for the English child is compulsory from the age of five through the age of sixteen. This compulsory primary education consists of two cycles (i.e., 'stages') which are identified as key stages.

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Hispanic-American Acculturation: Language, Depression, and Political Trust

Examines Hispanic immigrant acculturation across three dimensions: English language acquisition, depression risk, and political trust formation using New Immigrant Survey data.

Social Issues

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Double Class Time for Low Achievers: HSPA Score Impact Study

Examines whether doubling math and English class time for low-achieving NJ high school students improved HSPA scores under No Child Left Behind accountability standards.

Education

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Alternative assessment methods in bilingual science education

Demographic changes in the general population have created a situation in which many children do not utilize English as their first language.

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Teaching specialized vocabulary through word elements in ESL

Educators that provide instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) must provide students with the primary concepts of English in the early stages of language development.

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Spanglish as a hybrid dialect in Hispanic communities

Spanglish is a combination of Spanish and English, with each of these two languages having more or less of an influence on the final product depending on the circumstances.

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Swift's use of satire and irony in Gulliver's travels

IRONY/SARCASM UNPLEASANT/ADULT DIFFICULT CONCEPTS ENGLISH CULTURAL REFERENCES CONFUSING ELEMENTS OF GULLIVER’S PERSONA “Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions” (Swift, 58) Before arriving at Lilliput, Gulliver…

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