Your search
Results 6,132 resources
-
Le present travail tente de donner une explication aux difficultes que rencontrent les apprenants gabonais dans l’apprentissage de l’espagnol, langue etrangere. Dans son developpement, cette these dresse un panorama sur la situation socio-linguistique du Gabon, sur les concepts langue maternelle, langue etrangere et sur les modeles d’analyse: Analyse Contrastive, Analyse des erreurs et Interlangue. Cette these donne aussi une vision des trois langues, l’espagnol, le francais et le punu comme...
-
The success of any educational organization largely depends on sound management practices. Following demand for service delivery over the years, organizational and management styles have had to change accordingly. One of the significant management reforms instituted by the Kenya government in recent times has been the introduction of performance contracts in public institutions including Primary Teacher Training Colleges (PTTCs). This study therefore sought to- investigate the...
-
Mathematics plays a crucial role in technological development of any country; attainment in the subject determines the rate of adoption of appropriate technology and industrialization. In Kenya mathematics is compulsory in primary and at secondary school level. Use of scientific calculators was introduced in Kenya secondary schools in the year 2005. However its influence on students’ attitude towards mathematics has not been established. The purpose of the study was to investigate the...
-
Proficiency in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) skills is now regarded as important as basic reading and writing skills. This technology is designed to enhance the flow of information and communication; it’s a means to access information and knowledge. It opens up education more widely, and creates a valuable opportunity for all those involved in education to reconsider their practices, and in so doing to develop a more reflective approach to their educational activities....
-
Abstract Parental involvement in schools is regarded as critical to student success in Australia, Canada, and the USA, the world’s top refugee resettlement countries. Refugees can be disadvantaged when they are unfamiliar with the practices and when their own cultural beliefs conflict with expectations in their new communities, or when they are consumed by other pressing needs. As part of an evaluation of a nonprofit US refugee agency’s liaison program, three groups of refugee mothers from...
-
We examined success rates and complications of obstetric fistula (OF) surgical repairs in association with patient and fistula characteristics, including sociocultural and socioeconomic determinants of health. A better understanding of these associations will help guide surgical management and prevent predisposing factors. We reviewed the medical records of 86 patients who underwent OF repair at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kenya between 1999 and 2007. Women with OF presented for...
-
This narrative chronicles the reflections of an American Professor and Ghanaian social work students at the University of Ghana with the development of a collaborative teaching/learning model of instruction on how to provide social services to the vulnerable, particularly users of Ghanaian welfare services. The purpose of the model was to teach students from their self-identification of indigenous social problems, proposed methods of assessment, and incorporation of philosophical...
-
Pacific Island countries are the recipients of considerable education reform projects, many of which are sponsored by various global donor agencies. These agencies have become partners as part of foreign aid for international development in the region. Research cautions that such projects may have detrimental influences as their designs and delivery ignore the economic, cultural and social contexts of recipient countries. This paper explores issues impacting on the capacity of educators to...
-
This study aims at identifying some of the factors that have a bearing on the reading achievement of ESP students. The research questions were: (1) What are the factors which underlie the students’ reading performance? and (2) What test tasks influence their reading achievement? The findings of the first question indicate that there are three factors which underlie adequate understanding of texts: (i) lexical knowledge, (ii) coherency, and (iii) comprehension. The findings of the second...
-
Desegregation of South African schools has presented teachers with new challenges. The inclusion of multicultural education in teacher education programmes is essential to equip teachers in this context but multicultural education tends to treated as an elective or a topic in a particular course. This article examines this problem through a case study of selected initial teacher education programmes at the largest national provider, the University in South Africa, using qualitative data...