简介:IntroductionWritingisoneofthemostdifficulttasksforlanguagelearners.ItisverymuchthecaseinlearningEnglish.ManystudentswhohavebeenlearningEnglishformanyyearsareverypoorinwritingatthesentencelevel.Someofthecompositionsareevennotrevisable,becausethesentenceswrittendonotmakeanysense.Ontheotherhand,fewstudentscanwritewellinEnglish.Why?Asurveyonstudents’studyhabitshowsthathabitsoflearningreallymakeadifferenceinstudents’writingproficiency.ThosewhocanwriteusinggoodEnglishusuallyhavegoodstudyhabits,andgoodreadinghabitsinparticular.Theypaymuchmoreattentiontoideaswhilereading.
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简介:CriticalthinkingabilitiesarenotsufficientlydevelopedacrossthecurriculumofacademicprogramsinChile,neitherinschoolsnorinuniversities.Consideringtheseskillsaresoessentialforeveryhumanbeinginallaspectsoftheirlife,itisanecessityfornewprogramstobecreatedandtaughtfromschoolthroughuniversity.Thepurposeofthisstudywastoanalyzethedevelopmentofcriticalthinkingabilitiesin109first-yearcollegestudentsatAndrOsBelloUniversity,andtoevaluateiftheirinstitutionoforigin(private,public,andsubsidyschools)wasasignificantfactorintheirskilldevelopment.Todoso,thetestforcriticalthinkingwasapplied,measuringthelevelofagreementthestudentsshowedwhenaskediftheyapplytheseabilitiesineverydaysituations.Thistestincludedtheexplorationofspeaking,reading,andwrittingabilities,whichweredividedintwodimensions,substantiveanddialogical.Theresultsshowedthatthereisnodependencebetweenthetypeofschoolanddevelopmentofcriticalthinkingskills,althoughtherewasasmalltendencythatprivateschoolsshowbetterresults,whichiscoherentwiththefactthattheseschoolsconcentratethemajorityofdebateandcriticalthinkingprogramsinthecountry.However,theseprogramsarestillinsufficient,whichisprovedbythefactthat,accordingtoourresults,thevastmajorityofstudentsdonotreachadesirablelevelofdevelopmentintheircriticalthinkingskills.ThisresearchwasthestartpointfortwoveryinnovativeandimportantacademicprogramsinChile:theCenterforCriticalThinkingandDebateDevelopmentthroughgeneraleducationatAndresBelloUniversity(mandatoryforallstudents),andtheDebateandCriticalThinkingProgramacrossthecurriculumprogramatLincolnInternationalAcademy(insertedinthecurriculumforscholarsfrom5thto1lthgrade).
简介:Suppose2bagsofpeanutscost59■.Howmuchwill8bagscost?Youcananswerthisquestionbysolvingthefollowingproportion.
简介:The20thcenturyisacenturyinwhichhumanmaterialcivilizationandmedicinedevelopedthemostrapidly,manycausesofdiseasesunknownbeforewerefoundmolecularly,manydiseasesorterminaldiseasesuncurablebeforewerecuredwithnewtherapeuticmethods,manyfatalcontagiousdiseasesthathadcausedcorpsoverthewildernesswerecontrolledeffectively,cathetertechniquesandoperationscouldbeusedanywhereinthehumanbodysolongastheywereneeded,andnewdiagnosticandtherapeutictechniquesemergedoneafteranother;medicalprogressmadeanever-lastingcontributiontohumanhealth.
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简介:Ifyouarelikemostpeople.yourintelligencevariesfromseasontoseason.Youareprobablyalotsharperinthespringthanyouareatanyothertimeofyear.Anotedscientist,EllsworthHuntington(1876-1947),concludedfromothermen’sworkandhisownamongpeoplesindifferentclimatesthatclimateandtemperaturehaveadefiniteeffectonourmentalabilities.