suggesting social learning theory as a potential theoretical basis to guide research in this area. Social learning theory posits that an individual’s behavior can be predicted based on two factors: an individual’s expectation that with the performance of a particular behavior a particular reward will ensue and second, the value that the individual places on that particular reward. McLeod performed a series of focus groups in an English-speaking and a French-speaking location. This study looked more
Exploring Your Theoretical Orientation As I have now explored theories, I have identified myself currently to be congruent with person-centered theory. With resources of information provided by Halbur & Halbur, I have been able to dissect parts of the theory. According to the Institute of Professional Counsellors, an organization training in multiple theories, “The humanistic approach views people as capable and autonomous, with the ability to resolve their difficulties, realize their potential,
“Vocabulary form the core of the four language skills; listening, speaking, reading”. Therefore, special emphasis must be placed in teaching vocabulary skills, as this will increase student ability to master other areas of reading such as fluency and comprehension. Conversely, other finding indicated that certain basic vocabularies do not need instructions. Especially speaking vocabulary, it was estimated that about 8,000 basic speaking vocabulary words do not need
The most influential theory was set forth by Flower and Hayes (1981), who proposed a cognitive model of recursive writing consisting of three major elements: 1) the planning stage, in turn subdivided into smaller processes such as generating ideas, organizing these ideas and
In light of the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), Abdullah Al-Harrasi , in his article "Ideological Conceptual Metaphors in Arabic- English Translation of Political Discourse," (2003) focuses on the filtering techniques governmental translators of National Day speeches of Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman used to handle the ideological implication of the conceptual metaphor OMANIS ARE SONS OF OMAN (the FAMILY metaphor). The study aims at highlighting the importance of recognizing and understanding the
Faculty of Education Department of English Effectiveness of Dramatization in Teaching Speaking on 2nd Year English Students’ Oral Proficiency in the Faculty of Education, University of Aden A proposal submitted to the department of English for the fulfillment of Master of Applied Linguistics By Amal Farhan Supervised by Dr.Khalid Al-Sabaee September , 2014 1.0 Introduction Speaking is the productive skill in the oral mode. It is more complicated than it seems at first and
context of the modern living and increasing risks, and the influence they have on the established bases of civil liability. Key words: civil liability, corrective justice, risk, principle. Two dominant theoretical approaches to contemporary tort theory are corrective justice and the theory of law and economics. While the idea of law and economics is the latest expression of a broader group of rivals to corrective
REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK This chapter consists of a literature review, where the seminal work done within the field of media and think tanks relations is presented, as well as the theoretical framework on which this thesis is built. The literature review introduces distinctly different theories of media power that, without being able to capture all scholarly contribution within this field (Thune,2009), do provide a useful departure for better understanding “the central theoretical positions
This field of inquiry needs further investigations as the issue of destination competitiveness is an emerging field of study, results are not conclusive and the literature is not rich. This study makes important theoretical and methodological contributions as it adapts the existing theories and models of competitiveness to develop a suitable framework for measuring and enhancing tourism competitiveness of a region. In addition, questions remain unanswered regarding the role of tourism in promoting
Incentives will also encourage employees to make an extra effort to achieve their goal. Incentives are most likely related to some motivation theories and approaches such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and other related theories. For example, Maslow’s theory clearly described about the different stages in employees life, what they needs and the way the employees can be motivated with different ways and approaches. Meanwhile, Perry, Mesh and Paarlberg