...also very good with a good use of the literature being evident. 77 PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 8 PAGE 9 PAGE 10 PAGE 11 PAGE 12 PAGE 13 PAGE 14 PAGE 15 PAGE 16 / 100 RUBRIC: OB3 - LEADERSHIP RUBRIC VLEADER (40%) Student comprehenshion and understanding of course material in relation to the vLeader experience CRITERIA (0) CRITERIA (25) CRITERIA (35) 77 / 100 85 / 100 No attempt made at this part of the assignment or evidence of plagiarism. FAIL No serious attempt to address the requirements of Part 1, and/or manifests a serious misunderstanding of the requirements of the assignment. Acutely deficient in all aspects. FAIL Anything which is inadequate in most or all of the following: length, content, structure, analysis, expression, argument, relevance, and presentation. For example, not utilising lecture material or other resources when expected to do so. Work in this range attempts to address aspects of Part 1, but is substantially incomplete and deficient. Serious problems with a number of aspects of language use are often found in work in this range and often there will be incomplete or missing referencing. Adequate work which attempts to address Part 1 with limited understanding & analysis Some integration of research using lecture material and/or texts sources with reference citation and presentation according to convention. An attempt to follow directions regarding organisation, structure, use & flow of language, grammar, spelling...
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...knowledge and many skills for your future career. You will learn how to write a marketing plan and how to implement it, how to import and export products from and to Asia and how to do business with people from another culture. In this way you will lay the foundation for a career in international business. One skill you will certainly need in Asia is a good command of business English. These courses will help you acquire the specialised vocabulary that you will need. The words and expressions that you are going to learn are different from the words used in everyday English, so most of them will be new to you. Furthermore, you will develop your reading skills through reading texts in business English. In order to be able to express yourself in proper English you will also spend some time refreshing your knowledge of the English grammar. You will do all kinds of exercises, both in class and at home. Both Part I and Part II of this course are the equivalent of one ECTS study point each, which means that you will be required to do part of the work outside class. In week 9 block 2 you will take a written test on the vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills you have learned. In class you will use Business Result, Skills for Business Studies Intermediate and at home (self-study) you...
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... I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. In today's modern where the technology has been proven to become more essential on a day to day basis, grammar has been proven to be one of the most crucial business skills required by many cooperation’s today. Nevertheless, Kyle and Truss has made it a priority to not only test for those whose grammar is a weakness, but to ensure that those who do qualify for the job is not only punctual and precise but must be an exceptional writer. For the brand he has built, he tests every department as a part of his 'zero tolerance' rule for bad grammar. Not only did he discover that those who are actually great at grammar not only write good but they tend to be extraordinary at irrelevant tasks and tend to pay keen attention to codes , which is very prose in every aspect of life. He also stated that he would pass on a great processor who cannot write. This is a prime example that depicts that not only grammar is one of the most vital and possibly lucrative skills to obtain but , everybody's different and for some, it’s the little things that matter. Devaughn Kelly Larissa Redman English 0309 Summary Good Applicants with Bad Grammar In today’s society grammar can be looked at as judgement. The author stresses grammar can be looked at as a judgement of skills, thus meaning the better you are in grammar, the more “intelligent” you may seem. But...
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...What is grammar?, a question that seems plain to answer until somebody asks it. Dictionaries usually say something like the rules in a language for changing the form of words and combining them into sentences(Oxford dictionary). This is seriously insufficient; grammar does many things besides sentence-building. The definition also says nothing about the reasons why we need such rules; as if one defined a train as a ‘large vehicle’, without mentioning its use for public transport ( Michael swan, 2008) . For linguists, grammar is a fixed set of words and rules of usage. They consider "good" grammar is synonymous with prestige forms of the language. Therefore, Eugene. J. Hill defines grammar as a description of certain organizing...
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...the writing skills of their employees. One would think if a person made it all the way through college they would have good or excellent writing and grammar skills however, that is not the case. Employers when they are conducting an interview they are more aware of how the person speaks which will be a good indicator that their grammar and writing skills are up to par. Recent College graduates that are pursuing a career in the literary world do not have the writing skills that are need in this profession. According to the National Commission on Writing, they collected data from various large corporations located within the United States. Their finding is that 64 out of 120 corporations which employ’s roughly 8 million people spend over 3.1 billion dollars just to reeducate their employees on their use of grammar and writing skills. Employer’s today whether it is in the literary world or not are looking for individuals that have good grammar and writing skills, the inability to have these skills will result in poor communication and that means businesses will not be able to thrive if they cannot effectively communicate with others. How did this happen that students do not have the proper writing and grammar skills? There are many arguments on this and for decades teachers were using what is known as a rule base or traditional school grammar. In was proven in the 60’s that using the rule base was an ineffective way to teach students especially in writing. In...
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...and the English Language", he discusses how good writing "has nothing to do with correct grammar and syntax, which are of no importance so long as one makes one's meaning clear." In many ways, Orwell is exactly right. The purpose of writing is often times to convey an idea, to relay information, or to make a point. "Correct grammar and syntax" are of much less importance when the purpose of writing is simply to tell of an idea or defend a point/main purpose. I agree with Orwell in which he has stated writing is not all about the wording and strong use of grammar. What makes good writing is the idea behind it and the detailing put into it. In his essay "Politics in the English Language", he explains how dying metaphors, operators or verbal false limbs, pretentious diction, and meaningless words are all just space fillers and are unimportant to the essay itself. He believes they are just a way for the writer to stall and drag on their work. There is a "half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.” Words are meant to flow “naturally” and at ease. Instead, modern-day writers, and past writers as well, have made the mistake of forcing words and jumbling them together defeating their purpose in the process. Now, although it is true that the way it is worded doesn't really make up the point of the essay, the wording is still a strong part of the writing. "Correct grammar and syntax" show proper writing skills and...
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...Can Grammar or Phonetics be taught through Games? Table of Contents I. Introduction ……………………………………………………………………..……………1 II. What is Grammar?……………………………………………...………………………………2 III. The place of Grammar in the language teaching……………….…………...2-4 IV. Games and Grammar teaching/learning: A.Background of Grammar Games……………………………………………..…..……4 B.The function of Games………………………………………………………………4-5 C.The roles of teachers and learners………………………………….………5-6 D.Factors affecting Grammar Games: Age……………………………………………………………………..………6-7 Ability in the target language…………………………………..7 Motivation…………………………………………………………………..7-8 Size of group…………………………………………………………..8-9 Time…………………………………………………………………………....9 V. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………...………10 VI. Appendix……………………………………………………………………………….…11-13 Introduction This paper aims at discussing the issue of teaching grammar through game activities, which derives its importance from the pursuit of excellence in language learning and teaching. At this point it is probably a good idea to start with some definitions of grammar, followed by the place of grammar in language teaching. In this context, researchers speak of the grammars of a language rather than of the grammar. Therefore, different methods of teaching a language will be presented and two of them will be discussed individually; that is to say, structural and communicative. What I would like to take into consideration...
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...Example Writing Answers for the ieltshelpnow.com Academic Practice Tests Below you will find example writing answers for all the writing questions in the ieltshelpnow.com Academic Practice Tests. Some of these example essays were written by IELTS students and some were written by an IELTS examiner in order to give an example of a good answer. Please refer to the question papers while you are reading these answers so that you understand the question that is being answered. After each of the example answers, an IELTS examiner has written a short commentary analysing the good and bad points of the answer. We hope this will give you an insight into how the writing answers should be written for IELTS Academic module. Academic Writing Practice Test 1 Task 1 In this report I will describe a bar chart that shows the estimated world illiteracy rates by gender and region for the year 2000. First I will look at male illiteracy for the 6 areas shown. The lowest rates were in Developed Countries, Latin America/Caribbean and East Asia/Oceania with rates of 1% (approximately), 10% and 8% (approximately) respectively. The rates for the next three areas were much higher and quite similar to each other. Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab States and South Asia had rates of approximately 31%, 29% and 34%. Female illiteracy was much higher relatively in each area except Latin America/Caribbean where it was only slightly higher. The lowest rates for female illiteracy were again Developed Countries,...
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...considered to be one of the most influential linguists of the 20th Century. His work, 'Cours de Linguistique Generale, mentioned in when is syntax studied, is one of his best known works, compiled after his death. Which is generally thought to be the start 'structural linguistics'. Viggo Brondal (1887-1942) Viggo Brondal, a Danish Philologist, alongsde Louis Hjemslev founded the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. Hjemslev also went on to found the journal 'Acta Linguistica' in 1939. Noam Chomsky born 1928 As noted, Chomsky has been responsible for countless syntax theories and influential work over the years. These include Universal Grammar, Transformational Grammar, Generative Grammar and many of its developments. His book 'Syntactic Structures', first published in 1957 is known to lay down the foundations for transformational grammar Roy Harris (born 1931) Roy Harris is currently the professor...
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...Gerel: Gerel knows a lot of words. She completed reading the books The True Story Level 4 and 5 to expand her vocabulary. Although her speaking skill is not as good as her listening skill or grammar, she is a very good student. I was impressed by how determined she was. Federica: Her grammar is very good. She always takes her time to make sure that she is speaking grammatically correct. She does not have much problem with sharing her opinions and talk about variety of subjects. She really wants to work on her pronunciation. Yukiko: She is very quiet. She seemed to know the materials (grammar and new words) that we have covered in our classes but her speaking skill is not very good compare to other students. If she takes her time and writes...
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...BECOMING A WRITER January of 2011 was the beginning of a special adventure in my life as a student. I took an English class 0890, at Utah Valley University. Now, in the last days of this class, almost four months later, I can look back and see myself with a lot of problems in my writing that needed to be fixed. These four months in this class have helped me solve many writing challenges. I am far from perfect in becoming a good writer but I have learned that hard work and perseverance can produce wonderful results. Even though I learned many things, the three man points that I want to talk about are the following: quote analysis scaffold, grammar, and research online. The first month of the English 0890 class was intense, the students had to do a special analysis writing exercise called “Quote analysis scaffold”. It is the developing of many skills in one exercise. It helps develop reading and vocabulary comprehension. After the quote analysis scaffold is made, it can be used in the essay as a hook or concluding thought. We ended up doing around ten of these exercises. After writing the quote, provided from the teacher, this analysis was made from the following steps: The first thing was to do a research online about the author and make two to three sentences, on average, about who he was and what were his major contributions to society. Second, the students had to look for unknown words and their definition in the dictionary. After this, the third part was for the students...
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...can be understood because communication skills is essential to job success and growth. Over the years educators have argued over how grammar should be taught that differed from the traditional method that teachers taught grammar.In the 1960’s there was research done to show that using traditional method(Rule based) to teach grammar was ineffective.As the traditional method became less popular,the context based approach became more popular.This approach dealt more on contemporary writing skills which involved the student,the material been written about and the environment of the work that was been discussed. Grammatical errors were not often time discussed until it was made and rules not discussed until it became necessary.Studies done on this new learning method showed that lesser grammatical mistakes were made with this new approach.Even though they were many support for this new style of learning grammar,many opositions cited that the new style relegated grammar to a myopic view instead of the broad knowledge of rules and regulations that comes with writing correct sentences.Although the change in grammar learning styles,employer’s interviewed by NCW stated that there was no change in writing skills of employees in the last 15-20 years,the summary in the two reports by NCW stated that “if educators distinguish betweeb teaching correct grammar and mechanics and teaching...
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...Study Session at Alicia’s Transition: General Description: Alicia is finishing cooking while hosting a study session with our Student, Gabby and Quentin. She’s a bit nervous, as the in-laws are coming over that evening (on short notice). They talk about the challenges of writing for college courses. Dialogue: Alicia I’m so glad you all came over. Thanks for letting me cook during our study session. My in-laws told us at the last minute that they’re coming over later this evening, and I can really use your moral support! Gabby No problem, Alicia. Everything smells wonderful; I’m sure your in-laws’ visit will go just fine. Quentin Yeah, and I really needed this study session, too. I’m a little anxious about my current writing assignment. Maybe I can create a computer program so that my paper writes itself! I could really use some help like that. Student Text Bubble Writing for college courses sure is challenging. Gabby It’s challenging, but the reward is well worth the effort. Quentin, you should take your assignment seriously. I’ve found that, in my classes as well as in my marketing and communications field, the quality of your writing really matters. Alicia Gabby’s right. Lots of people fear the writing process, but as long as you’re enthusiastic and positive about it, you’ll be successful. And Quentin, if you need help, just use the CWE. Student Text Bubble What is the CWE? Alicia It’s the University’s Center for...
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... 194–214 © Centre for Language Studies National University of Singapore Effects of Using Facebook as a Medium for Discussions of English Grammar and Writing of Low-Intermediate EFL Students Thanawan Suthiwartnarueput (noiloveshome@gmail.com) Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Punchalee Wasanasomsithi (punchalee.w@chula.ac.th) Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Abstract The present study explored the effects of using Facebook as a medium for grammar and writing discussions of low-intermediate EFL students. The data were collected from the students’ utterances asking for explana-tions about English grammar and writing that were posted on Facebook, their gain scores in the pre-test and post-test, and interview responses. The findings showed a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the pre-test and the post-test (t = 6.65, p = 0.00). Most common topics of discussion involved sentence structures, followed by word meanings, parts of speech and then relative clauses. It was found that English grammar was worth promoting for discussions on Facebook because there were correlations between the gain scores in the grammar and writing parts at the significant levels (r = 0.399 in the pre-test and r = 0.859 in the post-test). The students also had positive attitudes toward using Facebook as a means of learning grammar and writing. As an alternative learning tool, Facebook provided them a convenient and attractive means to engage in discussions with the teacher...
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...2. Grammar 3. Vocabulary 4. Fluency and Coherence * Notice that Fluency and Coherence are grouped together although they are different things. Each of these four carries equal value. The examiner gives you a whole-number sub-score for each of these and then calculates the average of the four. * Both whole number and half band scores, such as 6.5 are given for the Speaking test. * No separate score is given for each of the three Parts of the test. Example 1 Pronunciation | 5 | Grammar | 4 | Vocabulary | 5 | Fluency & Coherence | 5 | Average = 19/4 = 4.75 = Band 4.5 | Example 2 Pronunciation | 6 | Grammar | 5 | Vocabulary | 6 | Fluency & Coherence | 5 | Average = 22/4 = 5.5 = Band 5.5 | Example 3 Pronunciation | 7 | Grammar | 7 | Vocabulary | 8 | Fluency & Coherence | 7 | Average = 29/4 = 7.25 = Band 7.0 | SUMMARY OF THE MAIN POINTS ON THIS PAGE Pronunciation * Overall, clear and understandable pronunciation is the main thing. * Secondly, the correct use of the following features will determine the pronunciation grade: 1. basic word pronunciation; 2. linked speech sounds; 3. correct and appropriate sentence stress (i.e., which word or words in a sentence are stressed more than others); and, 4. appropriate use of intonation (rising and falling) to emphasize meaning. * Slightly inaccurate (= unclear) pronunciation is usually understandable if the correct words and grammar are...
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