Jamaica is one of the largest Caribbean Island in the Greater Antilles. Jamaica is known for its warm weather, high mountains tops, agriculture, broad diversity and of course their Rasta's. The population of Jamaica is 2,709,300; with nearly a half-million living in Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. The people residing in Jamaica: 90% are of African descent, with the other 10% are mostly Caucasians, East Indians and Chinese (Barrett, page 3). Their mainstream culture is heavi...
The word literacy has many meanings to different people. In the traditional sense, literacy is considered to be possessing the ability to read and write, or more the ability to use language to read, write, listen and speak. In a more modern definition, literacy could mean having the ability to participate successfully in a particular society. However simple this may seem, literacy has evolved into having the knowledge and ability to absorb a cultural group into harmony with another, or assimi...
Language can be defined as an organized system of arbitrary signals and rule-governed structures that are used as a means for communication. Language engages itself both receptively and expressively through reading, listening, writing and speaking. In order to attain optimal functioning ability in school and society, children must learn these elements, rules, structure and conventions of language system (Brandone, Salkind, Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pasek, 2006) A language system encompasses five stru...
Thirty years ago "nerd" "jock" "prep" or "rebel" could probably summarize just about everyone in western culture. For better or for worse it was a system that worked. People understood each other. Our economy was booming, national lampoon was making a killing. The movie industry was exploding. Then the damn internet happened. For all its benefits to business and "democratization of information blah blah" what nobody counted on was it destroying the fabric of society. Yes there were the star w...
Teaching situation in Jordan depends on two stages, compulsory stage which covers students from the age of six to fifteen, and secondary stage which cover students from the age of sixteen to eighteen, after that they allow taking a state examination, for those who pass can leave school to attend to the university. University graduates weren't qualified to enter the labor market and the fresh graduates were lacked in language, practical, analytical and computer skills. According to a study by ...
Bouton (1996) notes that the development of communicative competence should be the goal of language teaching. He proposes three major directions that researchers can take in order to further contribute to the theory of communicative competence: (1) the refinement of the study of speech acts as they occur in different cultures, (2) an investigation to determine the extent to which explicit instruction can increase the rate at which nonnative speakers develop different factors of their pragmati...
There have been few studies devoted to the speech act of suggestion in the area of pragmatic language acquisition and most of these studies have had their main focus on production as opposed to acquisition. On that account and in an attempt to broaden the scope of interlanguage pragmatics, this study was conducted to compare the effect of implicit versus explicit instruction and feedback in the development of pragmatic competence of Persian EFL learners of English. To fulfill the purpose of t...
Plagiarism, a controversial issue has been discussed for decades, now arouse the particular concerns. According to Martin, a professor comes from University of Wollongong, he stated that plagiarism which means the use of someone's words or ideas without getting proper access, is only one of general problems of cheating. (Martin, 1992)and this phenomenon spreads rapidly in the whole society, especially in collages and universities. The increasing number of students tend to plagiarize and they ...
In the current essay we will critically discuss the statement: 'It is more important for HRD practitioners to facilitate informal learning than it is to provide formal training opportunities'. The current statement reflects the formal and informal learning, advantages, disadvantages and the reference to the theories that describe the process of learning. Formal, as well as informal learning may represent the fundamental knowledge that will be essential for the rest of the life. Facilitating t...
AEvaluating semantic similarity of concepts is a problem that has been extensively investigated in the literature in different areas, such as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, databases and software engineering. Semantic similarity relates to computing the similarity between conceptually similar but not necessarily lexically similar terms. Currently, it is growing in importance in different settings, such as digital libraries, heterogeneous databases and in particular the Semantic W...
