Codeship: Financing growth: Case study and Teaching note

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

A study of students' metacognitive beliefs about foreign language study and their impact on learning

This article reports on an investigation into the language learning beliefs of students of French in England, aged 16 to 18. It focuses on qualitative data from two groups of learners (10 in total). While both groups had broadly similar levels of achievement in French in terns of examination success, they dffered greatly in the self-image they had of themselves as language learners, with one group displaying low levels of self-eficacy beliefs regarding the possibility of future success. The implica tions of such beliefs for students' levels of motivation and persistence are discussed, together with their possible causes. The article concludes by suggesting changes in classroom practice that might help students develop a more positive image of them selves as language learners.

Innovaciones didácticas en la enseñanza de la lengua china

La innovación en la didáctica de la lengua china es un campo de estudio que debe aportar continuamente nuevas ideas y perspectivas para mejorar el aprendizaje de los alumnos que estudian la lengua china. Según el programa general de enseñanza del idioma chino para extranjeros, los componentes de la competencia lingüística son los conocimientos lingüísticos, las destrezas lingüísticas, las estrategias y la conciencia cultural [Xu Lin, 2009:3]. Si aprender chino es más difícil que aprender una lengua más cercana a la nuestra, entonces necesitamos herramientas más especializadas que aumenten nuestra constancia en el aprendizaje, que agilicen tareas cognitivas monótonas pero necesarias (como la memorización de caracteres) y que nos motiven a seguir adelante. En la actualidad se está ampliando de forma considerable la gama de recursos didácticos: DVD interactivos, tarjetas de vocabulario, material especializado para profesores, paneles auditivos, software, etc. Esta serie de materiales ayudaría a mejorar el proceso de aprendizaje de los alumnos y dinamizaría la clase de lengua china, facilitando la adquisición progresiva de las habilidades lingüísticas

Sentence combining and thinking : a study of adult ESL learners

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Brock University, 2003.

An Hebrew grammar, collected chiefly from those of Mr. Israel Lyons, teacher of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge; and the Rev. Richard Grey, D.D. rector of Hinton, in Northamptonshire: To which is subjoined a praxis, taken from the sacred classics, and containing a specimen of the whole Hebrew language: with a sketch of the Hebrew poetry

as retrieved by Bishop Hare ...