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Fluency and Comprehension: Master of Science in Education Research Project

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Millions of students struggle with learning to read, and in response to this challenge a panel of psychologists, scientists, teachers and school administrators collaborated together to research the cause of this problem as part of a government initiative known as the National Reading Panel (NRP) (2000). The NRP (2000) identified several factors […]

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What do we need to do to create an effective classroom experience for adult English language learners

ABSTRACT Objectives: The purpose of this project is to inquire with university and college students who recently completed courses in English for Academic Purposes (ESL) about their experiences of the ESL learning environment.  The learning environment consists of both the traditional classroom and the virtual (online) classroom.  The study seeks to inform ESL lesson planning

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The Export Compliance Impact of Adopting Cloud Computing

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study Introduction              According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (2011), Cloud Computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal

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Manufacturing Discriminatory Ideology through Mediated Discourse: Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis of Politics and Ideology

Abstract Words have the power to influence society, especially when those words are delivered through the mass media and consistently used in a certain way. Since mass media has a great role in shaping public opinion and influencing collective attitude, it is worth asking how such tasks achieved only through how the language is presented

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